It was no less outlandish and surprising than if Finn MacCool, his long-legged self, had turned around in the middle of his runnin' lep from the Giant's Causeway and said: "The Sassenach are a fine, fair-minded and glorious people."
"As far as England is concerned," declared Prime Minister Eamon de Valera last week before the whole Dail assembled, "it is a matter that everybody must regard as wonderful the way in which the British are denying themselves to see that more supplies will be available in Europe."*
*But just to keep the anti-Sassenach franchise, the Irish Government in the same week...
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