Reading that Sinn Fein has deleted from its website thousands of statements from its spokespersons uttered these past twenty years, I asked a friend if this Orwellian episode had been sanctioned by an Ard Fheis, or a British or EU Army Council.
He suggested it arose from the fear that American,or Irish-American contributions to its Party coffers might dry up.
I think it was Disraeli who quipped that a young man ought to hold principles, as he might get a good price for them later..
But Sinn Fein is not a new party.
It is 117 years old and achieved great things for Ireland and subject peoples throughout the world in the years following 1913 when W.B.Yeats wrote the following lines in despair: –
Was it for this the Wild Geese Spread
The grey wing upon every tide,
For this Edward Fitzgerald died
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone
All that delirium of the brave?
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.
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