THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI AND
ONE WALL IN ENNIS CO CLARE
Forget Ebbing but the picture shown of the wall in Ennis
showing posters for the 1923 General Election is worth examination.
All the posters are for the same party two for a Monster Public
Demonstration for August 19th to be addressed by Pres. W.Cosgrave.
The public are urged to come in their thousands.
Another says “Vote for McNeill” and asks:-
WHO LOOTED YOUR SHOPS?
WHO ROBBED YOUR BANKS?
BETRAYED THE HIGH?
MURDERED YOUR SONS?
TWO POSTERS IN BLOCK LETTERS
are headed
THINGS WE WANT TO KNOW FROM MR DE VALERA. but
have tiny indecipherable printing underneath.
On the 15th of August, De Valera presented himself in Ennis apparently
willing to answer questions, but troops serving Pres.W. Cosgrave’s Regime
fired shots over the crowd, held Dev a prisoner whom they would not
charge before a jury, nor murder him as they had done to many of his,
(and formerly their) friends during the previous year.
De Valera’s Parliamentary career was uninterrupted since first elected for
East Clare in 1917 and 1959, during which he headed 10 Irish Governments before doing two laps of Honour as the Elected President of Ireland (!959-1966 and 1966-1973).
Cosgrave’s Cumann na nGaedheal party won the 1923 General Election
while it had a media monopoly (eg that Ennis wall), opposition candidates
imprisoned and continuing armed intimidation following the unconditional
cessation of armed resistance by Republicans.
Dev held his Clare seat from 1917 to 1959 without a break.
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