A GROSS LIBEL
IRISH POET'S COMPLAINT
AWARD OF £2500 DAMAGES
(Received November 23, 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. Augustine Joseph Clarke, an Irish poet known as Austin Clarke, was awarded £2500 against Cassell and Co. and Newman, Flower, Butler, and Tanner, Ltd., respectively publishers and printers of Arnold Bennett's "Journals." Clarke, in the King's Bench Division, complained of Bennett's reference to Clarke annoying all Ireland by his truthfulness and his quoting an acquaintance as saying that Clarke wrote "Oh, Irish girls, are you as dirty as the holy water wherein you dip your fingers?" Clarke gave evidence that he had written nothing like those sentiments, which were repulsive to him as a Catholic. The Judge, Mr. Justice Swift, replying to counsel's contention that the damages were excessive, said: "It was a gross libel; I agree with the verdict."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 12
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138A GROSS LIBEL Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 12
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