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February 10th, 1940FROM THE ARCHIVES: A year after WB Yeats’ death someone with the initials ERW penned these reminiscences about the poet.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: With communism and fascism the rising political stars in the 1930s, both derisive of parliamentary democracy and free-market capitalism, the leader of the new Fine Gael (United Ireland) party, General Eoin O’Duffy had this to say in his speech to the party’s first ardfheis where many delegates wore blue shirt “uniforms” and gave stiff-armed salutes -
JOE JOYCE