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The Open Secret of Ireland

CHAPTER VII
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It is lamentable that ministers of the gospel of Christ and leaders of public opinion should so inflame and exploit the superstitions of ignorant men; but not by these methods will justice be intimidated.
And if "Ulster" does fight after all?
In that event we must only remember how sorry George Stephenson was for the cow.

The military traditions of the Protestant North are not very alarming.

The contribution of the Enniskilleners to the Battle of the Boyne appears to have consisted in running away with great energy and discretion.

Nor did they, or their associates, in later years shed any great lustre even on Imperial arms.

I have never heard that the Connaught Rangers had many recruits from the Shankhill Road, or the Dublin Fusiliers from Portadown; consequently the present situation disgusts rather than terrifies us.


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