IRISH PEOPLE
HATRED OF COMMUNISM AUSTRALIAN’S VIEWS LONDON, April 5. “The poorest people in Dublin are among the bitterest foes of Communism,’’ said Sir John Kirwan, of Western Australia, describing the. nnti-Connmuiist riots witnessed during his fortnight’s visit to Dublin. “Ireland is still intensely religious, and the Communists’ efforts will never succeed.” Sir John Kirwan met Mr Do Valera and other leaders, and listened to debates in the Dili I Eircann. Tho speeches, he said, wore tinged with bitterness, and there were fewer interjections than in Australia. A member of the Farmers’ Party, deploring tne economic war with Britain, declared that the farmers would soon be so poor that they would have nothing left but. their eyes to weep with. The Fianna Fail members’ persistent contention that 11 majority vote of the people was always right provoked Mr. Burke, a brilliant barrister, editor of tho successor of tho historic “Skibereen Eagle,” in his maiden speech, to retort, “Then what about Barabbas. ’ ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 2
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