Sir,
Your front page (June 2) shows an ecstatic young woman riding on the shoulders of a young man wearing
a “Repeal” T-Shirt in the middle of a smiling and applauding crowd. The picture was one of many similar
illustrations beamed from Ireland. On the same page Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described the “Repeal” vote
as a “Quiet Revolution.”
I suppose the Taoiseach will be remembered by posterity as “the Real Liberator” who actually won “Repeal.”
Poor Daniel O’Connell, hailed as “The Liberator” saw his Movement for REPEAL (of the Union with England)
fail when Prime Minister Robert Peel concentrated 30,000 troops at Clontarf to suppress his projected
peaceful “Monster” meeting there.
This time the Monstrous Regiments of Repealers are congratulated by the British Prime Minister, THE TIMES
of London and other such Hibernophile organs. This time “Repeal” confers on mothers the despotic power to
have their living, unborn, children destroyed, without trial and without the prospect of appeal.
There was as much reason for rejoicing in Ireland when the potato blight arrived in 1845. For the record it
should be remembered that the effects of that blight were welcomed by THE TIMES.
Donal Kennedy
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