I remember when Sinn Fein’s UNITED IRISHMAN would not print the words “Talbot Street” but referred to “Sean Treacy Street.”
They reasonably hoped that the patriot killed by enemy gunfire there would be officially commemorated where he fell.
Since that day in 1920, thousands of Irish people, militant resistance fighters and non-militants alike, men, women and children, have been killed by the same enemy.
They have been ignored in the “Decade of Remembrance.”
Yet the streets of the capital of our sovereign republic retain the names of overlords who have never won the love of our people.
Those overlords were never celebrated by our poets, rhymesters and ballad makers.
Now we have a campaign to insult Russia, a nation which has never done Ireland wrong. Indeed, at the request of Irish fishermen it has decided not to exercise its right to exercise its navy in international waters in the North Atlantic.
Sinn Fein today is reported to trim its policies to opinion polls. It is a course which has its pitfalls.
There was an American whiz-kid (the first person to be so described) who became the boss of an automobile manufacturing business. Prospective customers were asked what features they would like in a car. Then a car was designed with each and every feature desired.
An unprecedented advertising campaign was launched at enormous expense. Few people wanted to buy the car. The company’s distributors were throwing themselves out of windows and off clifftops.
The Whiz Kid was the President of the Ford Motor Company. He went on to be JFK’s Secretary for Defense, and later, President of the World Bank.
It might be said of his career that nothing succeeds like failure.
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