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Mon 04 Apr 20101916 wording on children 'misunderstood', says judge
THE PHRASE “cherishing all the children of the nation equally” from the 1916 Proclamation is much misunderstood to literally mean young people, Supreme Court Justice Adrian Hardiman told the Parnell Spring Day Conference at the weekend.
The Easter Proclamation was referring to citizens generally rather than children, and “the reference to children has been gravely misunderstood”, he said during his presentation on the document at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow on Saturday. “Many people believe the phrase is from the Constitution and not the Proclamation, and some people foster this mistake for reasons of their own,” he said.
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