1922

Blood and tragedy

Few lovers of Ireland will weep for the passing of 1922. The footsteps that it has left on the sands of time are imprinted in blood and tragedy.

Yet had all our sons caught the magic of the hour, great opportunity, the first steps in untrammelled progress, ultimate national unity were ours. We failed.

Peace – internal peace and good-will amongst our own people – must be secured in the future if the nation is to live. The tragedies and sorrows of 1922 will leave their scars for many a day. It might have been better that these scars were never written across this page of Irish history.

We must, nevertheless, face facts not as we would have them, but as we find them.

The people of Ireland at the last elections voted for peace, and have persistently, amidst every discouragement, clamoured for it ever since. It has not been vouchsafed to them, and it would be merely to delude our readers to suggest that it is near.

The elections on the new and enlarged franchise will be held in midsummer of 1923. At these elections all the people of Ireland will have the full and free right to say the kind of government they desire. They are the real masters in any country run on civilised lines.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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