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11. Me. —We have never seen it in Hansard, nor do we read that interesting publication very closely. —The National Schools of which the learned Professor Dickie speaks with such brazen disregard for the truth were designed to kill two things: Catholicism and Nationality. It was expected that the children of mothers who died during the famine should learn to sing "I am a happy English child"! The Professor is right in one sense. If the schools had been successful there would have been no Irish Question, because there would have been no Irish. P.P.—Sinn Fein is not a revolutionary society. The Gaelic League was formed with the object of preserving Irish customs, language, ideals. Apparently the Irish bishops are also "dangerous" in the eves of the British Government and the Denbighs and Howards. But the Government has not yet officially said so. No doubt as to the fact that it would like to. J. McM.—Yes, we were amused to read the nonsense about union between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family. The U.S. are certainly more Celtic, more German, and more Latin than Anglo-Saxon. And there will never, never be an alliance between the home of the refugees from the evicted farms in Ireland and the people who drove them out until John Bull has done penance in sackcloth and ashes.
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New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 39
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