Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — The New Ireland [ARTICLE]

The New Ireland

Justin McCarthy, the eminent Irish parliamentarian, brings new hope to his people by declaring in an article for Collier’s of September 17, his belief that Ireland is soon to be again a free and prosperous nation. Among other things he says: “The Irish people are especially qualified to enjoy life on th sir own soil if only allowed the chance, and to bring out in fullness the intellectual as well as the material resources of the coming Ireland. There is a deep undercurrent of the poetic ajnd the artistic in the Irish nature which tne stranger can easily discover for himself, even among the Irish peasantry, if he enters freely into conversation with them and encourages them to talk about the memories and legends still haunting their lakes and streams. Such a people could indeed create for themselves a new Ireland, and there is no extravagance in the hope that the new Ireland would become, before very long, a modeLUand of material comfort, of mental growth, and or tranquil and brotherly Order.”