‘HAIRSHIRT REPUBLIC’
De Valera’s Dreamland , INEVITABLE SUFFERING London, August 2. The Dublin correspondent of “The Times” says: “While the Irish Free State delegates at Ottawa are fraternising with the Imperial delegates, Mr. de Valera and the remaining Ministers are touring the Free State, fomenting opinion against the so-called ‘British tyranny.’ “Neither Mr. de Valera nor Mr. Connolly, the Postmaster-General, his chief abettor, deny that everyone will suffer in the de Valera dreamland, which Is irreverantly described as the ‘Hairshirt Republic,’ but they regard such suffering as a privilege for an almost holy cause. With pathetic faith in Mr. de Valera’s superhuman powers, thousands of unthinking supporters are cheering him at scores of meetings. “Meanwhile the I.R.A. is preaching a complete breach with England, its leaders declaring that they have no sympathy with Mr. de Valera's policy and demanding the declaration of an independent Republic.”
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 265, 4 August 1932, Page 9
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