Relief for oppressed homeland, please

I have read all of the articles which you published in respect of the Mahon Report.

And then, by the waters of the Lee, the Liffey, the Corrib, the Shannon, the Boyne, the Feale and unaccountable streams, I sat down and wept.

As I wept, I was accompanied by Verdi’s great chorus from his opera, Macbeth, with the haunting title of ‘Patria Oppressa’ or Oppressed Homeland!