'PECULIARITIES OF IRISH NATIONALISM'

New Zealand Tablet, 16 November 1916, Page 41

'PECULIARITIES OF IRISH NATIONALISM'

A correspondent writes:—Under the above heading, you published quite recently an extract from the Manchester Guardian alluding, amongst other things, to the Nationalist views of the Hon. Albinia Brodrick, sister of Lord Midleton, who is one of the most persistent opponents of the rights of Ireland. There was an allusion in the note to Miss Brodrick's recent poem on the present state of Ireland under martial law. The following is the poem, which appeared in the London Herald —• IRELAND, 1910. Silent we stand. The iron hand has graven Print of torture deep on heart and brow. Beloved, once our own, our thousand treasures, We may not love ye now. Silent we stand. The iron had has smitten. Brushing our trembling lips to peace again, Vein of our hearts—forgive our wordless weeping We may not voice our pain. Silent we stand. The iron hand is crushing Our hearts that burned for thee with sacred flame. Rose of the world—thine own in deep devotion, We. may not breathe thy name. Silent we stand. The iron hand baptises Eire, afresh, with blood and tears thy sod ! Martyrs! one holy place is ours. Unconquered Our souls are safe with God.