Galway In Days Gone By

1922

Religious atrocities

Feeling in Ireland at the moment is so tense that anything that makes for goodwill and neighbourliness amongst Irish men should be cordially welcomed and eagerly encouraged. The attitude of the extremists of the North-East has been largely responsible for reducing the country to the condition of a powder mine, which a spark might ignite.

The murder of the McMahon family was well described by Mr. Churchill as a crime that was cannibalistic in its fiendishness, in everything except that the murderers did not eat the flesh of their victims.

There are dangers elsewhere, too, which unity amongst Irishmen and a better feeling amongst the people of the South and West as a whole would do much to ameliorate.

Already the non-Catholic residents in many counties have declared in no unmistakable language their abhorrence of the new religious war in the North-East and have testified to the good feeling and friendship that has already existed between them and the majority throughout every other part of Ireland.

In no place has this feeling and friendliness been better demonstrated at all times than in our midst. We do not think that anything is ever likely to occur to drive away this spirit of Christian friendship, common citizenship and mutual goodwill.

Many non-Catholics in the West are honoured and trusted officials in our public boards and are amongst some of our best citizens. We have hitherto refrained from suggesting to them a line of action which seems to us to have been obvious, as we shrink from introducing into our columns matters bearing a sectarian aspect.

But we think the time has come when all non-Catholic communities in the West should send round the world a protest against religious atrocities in the North-East and should proclaim to all peoples that they live in friendship and amity with their neighbours, that there are no religious tests and no pogroms in any part of Ireland except amongst the extreme followers of Carsonism, who have summed civilisation, and disgraced humanity.

It is time the extremists of Ulster who do these terrible things in the name of religion should be isolated in a moral Coventry.

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