The piece below was inspired by an article with the above title by Joe Horgan
a columnist with the Irish Post in London and was addressed as a letter by me
to its excellent Editor and personal friend of mine Malcolm Rogers.
Unfortunately pressure of space did not allow for its publication this week.
I believe the point I am making should be seen and heard and, while I do
not claim infallibility, deserves an airing.
The Irish electorate sent no mixed messages to the Government and Joe Horgan’s article reminded me of Bertolt Brecht’s 1953 poem THE SOLUTION –
After the Uprising of 17 June
The Secretary of the Writers’ Union
Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee
Which stated that the People
Had squandered the confidence of the Government
And could only win it back
By redoubling work quotas.
Would it not be simpler to dissolve the People
And elect another?
Perhaps Joe Horgan thinks that Brecht and Lee Anderson were brothers under the skin?
Donal Kennedy
London
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