CONDITIONS IN EIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 95, 24 April 1939, Page 6

CONDITIONS IN EIRE.

Yonr correspondent "Sheelah." in stylin? the 28 Counties "Eire." or Ireland, refutes his (or her) own argument that I am in error in calling the six Northern Counties "Ulster." There is no more inequity in cailing the six Counties "Ulster"' than there is in calling the 26 Counties "Eire." And one might ask who

gave Mr. de Valera and his Dail the authority to take it upon themselves to give the name "Eire" to 26 counties? The Government of the Xorth owes no allegiance to Dublin. and never shall; the British Government hae not sanctioned the Dail's pretensions to legislate for the whole of Treland. Then, as to sih assertion that the Ulster Volunteers were rebel, to Great Britain, this I point-blank deny. There k no need to reiterate what I hav<» already proved. I wonder what "Sheelah" thinks of the men in Dublin who. when Britain was at grips with adeadlv enemy, started .' rebellion in Dublin at Ea>ter, 1016. and ?hot down British soJdiers with guns and ammunition manufactured in Germany? He would probably class them as patriots —British law classed them as rebels. 1 acTce with "Sheelah" that, when bigotry and hatred are removed from all parts of Ireland, then, and only ihenwill there be hope of a United Ireland. ConU "Sheelah" , help to bring about that day by being a little more charitable In his or her opinion of the people of the North ? G. W. BLAIR-