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Anti-Semitism

Published in Issue 5 (September/October 2016), Letters, Volume 24

Sir,—Having read D.R. O’Connor Lysaght’s letter (HI 24.4, July/August 2016) with interest, I can only concur wholeheartedly with him that Arthur Griffith was an anti-Semite; this is fairly well known. However, what is less well known, if known at all, is that a number of others who espoused nationalism of the separatist variety were also anti-Semitic: Thomas Ashe, who died on hunger strike, believed that the First World War was instigated by Jewish profiteers; Maud Gonne McBride, daughter of a British Army colonel, frequently aired her anti-Semitic views unashamedly; Seán South (of Garryowen) regularly wrote letters to one of the local newspapers in Limerick of a very anti-Semitic nature. With such anti-Semitic beliefs as these people had, one can only wonder about the Ireland we would be living in today had they succeeded in their endeavours.—Yours etc.,

TADHG MOLONEY
Limerick

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.

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