Markievicz by Lindie Naughton;

Author:Lindie Naughton;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785371639
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)
Published: 2018-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

To Eva

Cork Jail.

1 September 1919.

Dearest Old Darling,

I do hope that you are having the lovely weather over in that most awful country that I am having here. This is Sunday and I spent most of the morning sitting in the sun without a coat.

Are you writing any poems? I’m enclosing a ‘comic’ I cut out. Did you get the caricature? I am still raging at the paper [Daily Herald] – without a policy and wondering what its use is. [George] Lansbury ought to know how to run a paper by now. If they can’t work out a principle to live for and a policy by which they can hope to attain it, they had much better leave things alone. The English labour leaders are just like so many children with lighted matches and fireworks playing about in a factory where new and unknown explosives are stored. Some day someone will start off something and then God help them all! And in the meantime, everything goes on as if they did not exist. Their silly strikes and bluster are just as ineffective as were the ‘Blockateers’ or any of the poor south of England labourers who were just brave enough to break machines and nothing more as a protest against enclosing the commons. Some got hanged and hundreds transported and the commons were all stolen by the landlords and enclosed.

I advise them most strongly to sit tight unless they develop a little more nerve. Never start a racket unless you are prepared to face a revolution ought to be a wise man’s motto today.

I do long to see you darling, it’s always such a rush and such a gasp when I do. I can’t of course make any plans for sure as you never know what’s going to happen from one day to another if you have the great privilege of living under the Union Jack. The leaders are so like a lot of old cormorants speaking over the carcass of a dead whale. Do you think Italy will become a socialist state with a king at its head? Such funny things do happen these days, they certainly were effective in controlling their rulers lately, they got their hands off Russia anyhow. English labour wanted some of the Liberty Hall crowd to go over and speak for [Arthur] Henderson! They were quite surprised when ours quietly reminded them that he was a member of the cabinet when Connolly was murdered – they did not publish this in the Herald! The fur would fly if ever I met that man – we’ll leave him to ‘T. P.’ and his like.

I should like to make a bet that we’ll soon have a Labour government with a Northcliffe or a Harmsworth person as prime minister. Will someone explain why the English love those that they are always tripping up in lies? I never want to talk to anyone again if I catch them out. It’s so dull to be deceived. Now I ramble on,

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