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A few months before the war, walking through Cork one morning, I saw a poster with these words on it: ‘Hitler mentions Eire twice.’ I had just been thinking of the effect England must have had on the Irish consciousness from Henry II down to Lloyd George, a brutal, powerful land just beyond the horizon always about to disgorge ships and troops upon its weak, poor neighbour. The poster showed me the other side of the Irish situation, how galling it was to Ireland to be ignored when it was not being laid waste, and what pleasure the nearest modern equivalent to Cromwell could give by casting a casual glance in the direction of Drogheda.
New Statesman and Nation (London) (4 Jan 1941) pp. 10–11.
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Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) was a British novelist and biographer, whose works include The Return of William Shakespeare (1929), Samuel Johnson (1933) and D. H. Lawrence (1938).
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Kingsmill, H. (1977). Meetings with Yeats. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_27
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