In 1918 the Irish electorate in its wisdom buried Redmondism and its mindless war-mongering.
The event, but not its date, had been predicted in June 1916 by General Sir John Maxwell who wrote that the 1916 Insurgents had achieved more in a week
than Redmond’s and Parnell’s party had in 40 years, that it was impossible, as he wrote, to differentiate between a Nationalist and a Republican, and that at
the next General Election, what he described as Sinn Feiners would wipe out Redmond’s Party. At the time Sinn Fein was not a republican party, nor had it
as a body organised the insurrection.
Shortly after Maxwell had written his comments C.P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian in his diary noted the despondent John Dillon saying to him that if Sinn Fein found itself a capable leader, it would sweep himself and his party off the board. Dillon was part of the Triumvirate, with Redmond and Joe Devlin who led the Nationalist Party.
Sinn Fein found that leader, Eamon de Valera, who himself took Dillon’s seat and the rest is history – a history ignored, misread or deliberately distorted by
those paid to do so.
In 1937 an Irish electorate enacted a Constitution affirming their country’s devotion to the ideal of peace and friendly co-operation amongst nations founded on international justice and morality, and also affirming its adherence to the principle of the settlement of international disputes by international arbitration or judicial determination.
These principles were adhered to by de Valera throughout his public life. It seems to me also, that in accordance with our Constitution, Charles Haughey
stuck with them during the argy-bargy in the South Atlantic in 1981
But, like the “Resurrectionist”. Burke and Hare, John Bruton has dug up the warmongering John Redmond so that Ireland should again shed her blood in
aggressive Imperialist war. He seems to have support from serving and former commissioned officers in our Defence Forces. Soldiers have no business in
directing national policy. That business is for Dail Eireann.
(Even soldiers implementing Government policy, such as Captain James Kelly in 1970, risk being Betrayed, Framed and Libeled by Government, Opposition and media)
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