The first president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State Arthur Griffith was an anti-semite. Tom Clarke, the 1916 martyr, made jokes over “Niggers” that he had lived amongst in New York, calling them odd folk. The greatest Irish hero Patrick Pearse welcomed World War 1, just as the young Hitler did, “to purify the Race”. Irish senator, the poet Yeats waxed lyrical in favour of Fascism.
Michael McGrath, author of “The Wisdom of the Irish Druids” now turns to writing about the political history of Ireland since the Limerick Pogrom of 1904 in a book that will trace the story of the Far Right in Ireland to the present day.
It’s to be titled, “RIGHT SO FAR”.
THE KILKENNY JOURNAL 