Clare and the Great War by Joe Power

Author:Joe Power
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750965569
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Deptartment of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Clare Journal, 15 February 1917.

A few months later, Bishop Fogarty addressed an audience in Birr, reminding them of his pastoral letter, saying:

This universal war … came only because man has become unnatural in his devices and has defied Heaven … as a sign of this witness the cry of the suffragettes. While they might be otherwise bonafide, the idea of educated bejewelled ladies attacking policemen and being dragged along the street in a manner which one was accustomed to associate with the most abandoned of women, was a clear indication of how wrong Ireland was going.

The world was in a terrible state and no one could tell when the war would end. The present was no time for running around spending money at cinematic exhibitions and such like. It was no time for wasting money. A drunken man was now an unthinkable anomaly … for before twelve months we may be faced with famine, at least a bread famine. Women in particular, ought not to be wasteful of money, it is sacrilegious to spend the money wrongly … above all, women should never enter a public house! The present was a time for patience and charity. The employer should understand that the workingman could not live now on anything but a very substantial wage. He could not possibly exist on 14 or 15 shillings a week. The present was a time for sharing burthens. I hope for an early close of the war, it has caused great suffering here, but I am told it is greater in England than in Ireland.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.