In the Silence

Abstract

Only a few months ago the Irish situation was so exceedingly complicated that one could scarcely look on it and preserve one’s sanity. But since the recent rebellion it has been simplifying daily, and is now so lucid that even a stupid person may look at it and understand what he sees. This emerges, that so far as England is concerned we are no longer a thorn in her flesh nor a drag upon her wheel. We do not count any more and there is peace between the two islands. That the famous Irish Question is settled can be seen from the fact that Roger Casement has been hanged, for if Ireland had been really disaffected he would not have been hanged. Into the rights or wrongs of this execution I will not go — such a thing happened and such another thing followed as its sequel, so logic is satisfied if nothing else is, and as for death we will all some day be as dead as our fathers are.