Is It the Dawn?

Issue No.

515-2

Date Released

11 Jul 1921

Stories in this Issue:

Story No. within this Issue: 2 / 4
Summary: [SUBTITLE]: "Though refusing all interviews De Valera asks ‘Topical’, Exclusively, to issue his peace message to the whole world. THE MESSAGE ‘Ireland is fighting solely for the right to live her own life in her own way. She loves equally all her children and she needs them all’. 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 ‘And Oh! it were a gallant deed to show before mankind, How every race and every creed might be by love combined - Might be combined, yet not forget the fountains whence they rose. As, filled by many a rivulet, the stately Shannon flows’. [Signed] Eámon de Valéra July 4 1921." Message from Eamon De Valera [titles only].
Keywords: Politics and government; Independence movements; Newsreels
Length of story (in feet): 39

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