The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13

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 lows a definite plan of exposition and presents Tt only events but the results which followed as . consequence to them. It goes back into the mythological period of Ireland's life; carries down through the ages the tale of the intending struggle of the people to throw of the tyranny of another race; recites the deeds of OCon. nell the Great Emancipator and the tragic story of Charles Stew art Parnell: and stops just short of the beginning of the latest Great War. It Is a fasclnsting book but one which I would ad- vize all sufferers from insomnia to avoid. Mir. McManIS has done e scholarly and orderly bit of compilation but as sleep lnducer his work Is Q complete wAsli-out. However, 1t haS It's compensation even though snor Is not one of then.. l. throws blinG!ng, but disillusionizins, light on the rea- son why IrelsEd was unable to escape from ths clutch of the SaSsenaca for so many hundreds of years. It also explains the cause why IrlShmcn and Irish women as we'll as their descend ants, have q certain trait of char. ncter.
 Clear
 It is clear not only from MT. MacManus but also from a host of other writers that 1t was not the valor or the intelligence or the spiritual steadfastness of the Irish people as . whole which failed to achieve the realization of the na. tional aspiration for freedom and self government
 
 Three Reasons
 It was the thwarted ambition of Q certain type of Irishman which England managed to play of against his country's good. It was the social snobbery of the Castle Irish" which the Tory English succeeded in capitalizing to split the solidarity f the Irish nation by making Irish liberty Q class Is. sue. And worse than either of these 1t was the willingness, nay eagerneSs In some instances, of the most despicable kind Of Irish. man to assume the role Of . trai- tor, to sell to the common enemy vital secrets of b military or po- litical nature for money or posi- ton. The names of the traitors are burned in letters of unquench- able fire on the pages of Irish his- tory. The betrayers are held to this day in the most loathing con- tempt by the sons and daughters Of the betrayed. Rightly and just ly SO. And with equai justice and equal right hatred of treason elth- CT Q . country, to . cause, to . party, or te friends is an ineradic. able trait of the Irish character. Medieval Viewpoint
 one of the characteristics which marked medieva. Europe was that it differentiated between the sin. ner and his sin. That was because medieval Europe was soundiy Christian and the differentiation vas then, as it is now and must always be an essential obligation on the really Christian soul. Sins against God and crimes against man were always sins and crimes. There was no blinking on that score. But the sinner could be forgiven provided he sincerely re. pented his sin. The criminal could be pardoned once he paid the price of his crime to the so. ciety against which he committed 1t. There were explanations, ex. cuipations, and excuses for both sinner ano criminal There were none for the sin and the crime as such.
 UnpardonabIe
 Now the Irish were, and to a great extent remain, medieval Christians in the particular I have mentioned above for which the world at large owes them . debt Of gratitude. They can appreciate the motives which prompt human beings to do wrong. Conscious Of their own imperfections they are ahia fn viAw khA innnerfeetionR of