I might explain that I passed it for re-publication because Micheal Martin is proposing the erection of a statue of Michael Collins in Dublin. Cromwell sought to be painted warts and all. Collins won the hearts of the nation during the war of independence. In the last months of his life he failed the nation and buried rather than sustained the democratic republic.
When in 1921 the British mooted bestowing a Catholic Lord Lieutenant on Ireland, Cardinal Logue (not a Republican) said he’d as soon welcome a Catholic hangman.
Dail Eireann’s Irish Bulletin of 6th April devoted its 4 pages to
THE APPOINTMENT OF A CATHOLIC VICEROY
“The appointment pf Lord Edmond Talbot as British Viceroy in Ireland is one more attempt to evade the issue and deceive the world.,,,,,,He is appointed not because he has any reputation as an able administrator -for he appears to have filled nothing but the most obscure and insignificant offices – but because the (British) Coalition Government to turn his name and religion to successful propagandist use in foreign countries, and also create by his appointment disunion among the Catholics in Ireland”
The Bulletin explains for world opinion the real nature of society the centuries old non-sectarianism of Irish Republicanism and the presence in prominent roles of Protestants in the Dail and its agencies .
It concludes that ” Lord Edmund Talbot is to the Irish people what Lord French is -the chief representative of a Usurping Government – to expel which the Nation is prepared to sacrifice everything”
The Rum Parliament – a Rump of Dail Eireann assembled in Dublin 9 months later, summoned by that Usurper, and calling themselves the Parliament of Southern Ireland, presumed to elect a Provisional Government under the British Crown, chaired by Michael Collins.
From It emerged a British Vassal State, falsely labelled Saorstat Eireann.
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