DENIS PATRICK MORAN

There are certain things which the average Irish mind will never allow as debatable.

We can never beat England, can’t even remain long in a fight with her on her own terms. All we can do, and it should be enough, is to remain Irish in spite of her, and work out our destiny in the very many fields in which we are free to do so.

Ireland is a place where conditions are never normal—where class is distorted by race and an alien aristocracy.

The Irish nation is de facto a Catholic nation

[Describing the Irish Fenians:] … prating mock-rebels

[Describing the Irish Fenians:] … prating mock-rebels

The Irish nation is de facto a Catholic nation

There are certain things which the average Irish mind will never allow as debatable.

We can never beat England, can’t even remain long in a fight with her on her own terms. All we can do, and it should be enough, is to remain Irish in spite of her, and work out our destiny in the very many fields in which we are free to do so.

Ireland is a place where conditions are never normal—where class is distorted by race and an alien aristocracy.