Forgotten statesman

WB YEATS once admonished an Irish theatre audience “for disgracing themselves again”. By neglecting the 2004 centenary of the birth of Seán MacBride — our most distinguished statesman — we’ve done it once more.
Mon, 10 Jan, 2005 - 00:00

Why is the prophet always ignored in his own land? Why the tyranny of mediocrity? Shame!

JA Barnwell

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