The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 32

A very coherent article entitled ‘Perish, Empire!’ by ‘A Scottish Artisan’ deplores the rise of warlike empires and praises the achievements of small nations. On the origin of the war it says:

“It is folly to urge that the guilt of starting the war should be laid at the door of this or that particular Great Power, when all are equally responsible for those military or naval preparations, persistence in which over a long course of years was bound to provoke those mutual reprisals which have turned Europe into one immense scene of destruction and bloodshed.”

In a book review ‘P.H.P’ (P.H. Pearse) says that the British education system in Ireland “along among British schemes for our amelioration, has been adequate to its purpose. Its purpose was and is to make us British. How well it has succeeded recent happening show”. He speaks of the considerable falling away from national tradition “especially in the ‘middle’ and ‘lower middle’ classes”.  

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