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THE EDITOR 12 about tradition, but, in the end, it is surely what we have done with it that tests it and us ? That was, I believe, what Pearse himself had in mind when he grew weary of the disputations of the Traditionalists and said : * Our love of disputation sometimes makes us indecent as when we argue over a dead man's coffin as to whether he was a Nationalist or not ; and sometimes makes us ridiculous as when we prove by a mathematical formula that the poet who has most finely voiced Irish nationalism in our day is no Nationalist/ (Here he must be referring either to Synge or to Yeats.) ' As if a man's opinions were more important than his work 1 I propose that we take service as our touchstone, and reject all other touchstones/ Finally as to who can dare to try to say what is, or is not, * service '—there will always come the tug-o'-war. It is inevitable and it is a fine inevitability. It is the stir of life in a people. It is where the test of leadership comes in. It is where men group together to sort out what is dead and withered in tradition from what is alive and full of seed. That is, perhaps, the whole point of the thing—that Life does not seem to be able to do without help, and demands intelligence. Have we not seen it happen ? Whenever something backward and exhausted gathers to itself an assortment of men to serve its reactionary purposes we may be sure that it will always reach back for the oldest and deadest traditions to make out of them a crusader's banner. And then, Flash!—as in 1916, and we may hope and believe, as in 1941, and as in every generation—genius will kindle somewhere and the Traditionalists will roar and wave the poor old battered flag, and the fight is on again. It is on, to-day.
BEAGLES W. R. RODGERS Over rock and wrinkled ground Ran the lingering nose of hound The little and elastic hare Stretched herself nor stayed to stare. Stretched herself, and far away Darted through the chinks of day. Behind her, shouting out her name, The whole blind world galloping came. Over hills a running line Curled like a whip-lash, fast and fine, Past me sailed the sudden pack Along the taut and tingling track. From the far flat scene each shout Like jig-saw piece came tumbling out, I took and put them all together, And then they turned into a tether. A tether that held me to the hare Here, there, and everywhere.
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Page 33 and 34: A HUNDRED YEARS OF IRISH FISHERIES
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STANISLAUS LYNCH 62 get at it he wa
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STANISLAUS LYNCH 64. half-length aw
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ERIC CROSS 66 bawn. Ask him, will y
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ERIC CROSS 68 A slide advertising a
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ERIC CROSS 70 are better looking—
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ERIC CROSS 72 He said it so impress
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LESLIE DAIKEN 74 ritual as old as M
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LESLIE DAIKEN 76 Auld Granny Gray,
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PLAYS FOR THE COUNTRY THEATRE MICHA
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MICHAEL FARRELL 80 compartments. La
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MICHAEL FARRELL 82 Three potentiali
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MICHAEL FARRELL 84 commandeered emp
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FRANK O'CONNOR 86 **** of his own e
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TWO POEMS 88 MIDNIGHT CHANTICLEER C
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DENIS JOHNSTON 90 Many of us will s
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DENIS JOHNSTON 91 more it brought b
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BOOKS 94 advantage over the convert
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BOOKS 96 SOME MEMORIES OF W. B. YEA
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