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Arthur Griffith

Published in Issue 4 (July/August 2016), Letters, Volume 24

Sir,—Colum Kenny’s interesting article on Arthur Griffith (HI 24.3, May/June 2016) is marred by an implicit assumption that because its subject supported Zionism he could not have been an anti-Semite. In fact, the ranks of gentile Zionists include a number of anti-Semites, notably Arthur Balfour (of the Declaration), Hilaire Belloc and Anthony Eden (endorser of the notorious Second World War ‘Wailing Jews’ memorandum). The Zionist anti-Semite seems to be quite a phenomenon in the USA.—Yours etc.,

D.R. O’CONNOR LYSAGHT
Dublin 5

On this Day

April 20

1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.

Arthur Griffith

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