Divided Ireland
Apr 17th, 2012 | By Ian Poulton | Category: IrelandBrendan Behan is alleged to have once said that the first item on the agenda of a republican organisation is ‘the split’. Behan’s comment reflected the propensity towards fissure within the ranks of Irish nationalism, but perhaps also reflected the tendency towards division within wider Irish society.
The featured letter in last week’s ‘Irish Farmers’ Journal’ was a polemic against those whom the writer described as ‘yuppies’, city dwellers whom the writer believed had treated agriculture with disdain during the boom years, but now talked about farming as though they …