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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER VIII
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CORK, _Thursday, Feb.

23d._--We left Tralee this morning.

It was difficult to recognise the events yesterday witnessed by us at Glenbehy in the accounts which we read of them to-day when we got the newspapers.
As these accounts are obviously intended to be read, not in Ireland, where nobody seems to take the least interest in Irish affairs beyond his own bailiwick, but in England and America, it is only natural, I suppose, that they should be coloured to suit the taste of the market for which they are destined.

It is astonishing how little interest the people generally show in the newspapers.

The Irish make good journalists as they make good soldiers; but most of the journalists who now represent Irish constituencies at Westminster find their chief field of activity, I am told, not in Irish but in British or in American journals.


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