PEACEMAKER IN IRELAND.
MR. O'BRIEN'S TRIBUTE, ,
WHO WAS BEHIND THE ACT OF
(Rcc. May 10, 10.25 p.m.)
London, May 10.
Speaking in London, Mr. William O'Brien, Loader of the Independent Irish Nationalists, 6aid that, the lato King's title, "Edward tho Peacemaker," was a prouder one than.any amount of military conquest could havo conferred. . Nowhere had,-King Edward been a truer peacemaker than in Ireland. AVhen the story of tho great schemes of national reconciliation in 1902-1903 were fully told, it. would bo found that if those benign, measures of national justice and reconciliation • had not blotted out the last trace of' enmity to Britain in Ireland, it was not through the lack of delicate tact on the part of King Edward nor of his bravo and generous trust in the aspirations of the Irish people. [Tho Unionists were in office l'n 1902-03. They passed the Irish Land Purchase Act of 1903, enabling Irish tenants to purchase their holdings. Tho present Liberal Government has legislated to extend that Act, and to strengthen its finance.] . '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 5
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