A chara, - Mr W. J. Murphy (18 Samhain) tells how, observing the numerous branches of English shopping chains in the new Jervis Shopping Centre, he felt he was in just one more UK provincial shopping centre, and asks was it all worthwhile? By this he means, I take it was the attainment by the 26 Counties of political independence from England worthwhile?
I am afraid the answer must be in the negative. For over a century the Gaelic League has been preaching to deaf ears that Irish political independence, without the restoration of the Irish language, is meaningless. We have now had three quarters of a century to confirm by experience the truth of this view. - Do chara,
Baile on Teampaill,
Baile Atha Cliath 14.