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Fri 03 Mar 2009Despite the mess, we still sneer at Dev's speech
The ‘comely maidens’ caricature is used to dismiss ideas contrary to our ideal of progress, writes JOHN WATERS
SPEAKING IN public recently I’ve taken to floating an idea I ceased promoting over a decade ago because you cannot argue it with success: that Éamon de Valera, when he delivered his 1943 St Patrick’s Day “dream speech” was not wrong about everything. For years it was impossible to say this without being run out of town.
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