FREE STATE LEADERS
YOUTH SACRIFICED' ON ALTAR OF VANITY.
LONDON, 25th February. President Cosgrave, writing to Pierce, a rebel leader who surrendered in Kerry, states lie is confident that by a manly facing of the situation most of the happenings of the last few months can be forgotten.
This is regarded as a fresh appeal to tha irregulars.
Mr. Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Home Affairs, states: "For the first time the irregulars have surrendered on a challenge from the Free State troops. Nevertheless every day sees cowardly assaults upon defenceless civilians. Eight thousand young fools, male and female, have been rushed into this criminal outrage. Boys and girls in their 'teens, utterly incapable of forming an opinion on conflicting issues, have been rushed into this holocaust to gratify one man's vanity and one woman's hysterical egotism."
The man alluded to is, of course, Eamon de Valera. It is not certain who the woman is. Most probably she is Mary MacSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork, who died after hunger-striking in gaol. Possibly she is ths Countess Marcievicz, or Maude Gonne, two women long connected with the Sinn Fein movement.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 7
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