THE IRISH QUESTION
(MIR RHDMOND ATTACKED. «y Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. LONDON*, May 20. Thor "Sinn Fein” newspaper savagely attacks Mr John Redmond, leader >of the Nationalist party in -tho Houso of Commons, declaring that he has ceased to bo a leader of tho Irish people. “Stun 3ffl4n" (a phrase equivalent to "OurWives alone") Is the watchword of the Gaelic League, founded in 1893. Tho objects of the League, of which Dr Douglas Hyde, the well-known Irish historian, poet Sd folk-lorlst, has been president since Inception, or© stated briefly as follows: It Is preparing tho mind of tho country for that supremo effort which will lead to the final triumph of the Gael. Although a non-political organisation and acting strictly within tho ©listing law. it ia steadily creating the conditions that will make a free Ireland possible.” In 1906 the league established tho newspaper “Blnn Fein,'* to propagate Its ideas and aims. Tho jourgal, a penny weekly, is published In Dub-
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6219, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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159THE IRISH QUESTION New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6219, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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