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Excerpt from Education in a Free Ireland Ship. Hatred of England is all very well in its way, and so long as it keeps its head we cannot have too much of it while England rules us; but we cannot propose to build an Irish Republic upon a vacuum, nor yet upon half-a-dozen different foundations at once, without catastrophe Side by side with our efforts to expel the enemy we must be at work thinking out how we shall fill his place; we must contemplate no makeshift interregnum in Ireland, but have an ordered plan of a commonwealth to put into practice at once. The old vicious circle, that without expelling English rule you can construct nothing, and that in order to expel it you must construct something, can only be solved by aiming to do both together. It would be a sounder and a nobler thing to fight for a Roisin Dubh of żesh and blood whom we can clearly visualise than for a will-o'-the-wisp, a phantom clothed in a tricolor of whom we do not know whether she may turn out a beautiful queen or a hide ous grinning monster, or worst of all perhaps a colourless and vapid suburban lady. Reconstruction for us must mean more than grants-in-aid and salaries to innumerable fat Controllers, or a discreet burying of the Labour tomahawk. In Ireland we must have not alone a reconstruction of industry, we must not alone disguise Tweedledum as a benevolent Tweedledee in economics and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Education in a Free Ireland (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Michael Tierney
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104
• EAN: 9781334677090
• ISBN: 1334677093
• ID: 15611701
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 152 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. December 2016

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