SINN FEIN AND THE NEW HOME RULE ACT.

New Zealand Tablet, 28 April 1921, Page 21

SINN FEIN AND THE NEW HOME RULE ACT.

Our special correspondent (says the Manchester Guardian of recent date) , interviewed Professor A. J. Rahilly, the Registrar of the University of Cork. The daily record of, violence, he said, was enough in itself to show how ridiculous was General Strickland’s claim that he had broken up the organisation of the I.R.A. It was less centralised, but it. appeared to be as effective as ever. Sinn Fein was never more united, the country was becoming habituated to terrorism, and the attempt of the Government to break its spirit by violence had only resulted in increasing its determination. Many Sinn Feiners who would have preferred the methods of passive resistance had had their minds changed by the force of events. There was not a Unionist left in Cork. In the event of an election under / the Government of Ireland Act he had no doubt that Sinn Fein would be returned with a majority even larger than at the last election. Sinn Fein was as far as ever from accepting the Act.