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The Hunger Strike in Ireland
November 21, 1923 issue

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Recent history in Ireland will do nothing to soften that bitter Irish humor which is an evolutionary product and which stimulates without sweetening lives. A humor without bitterness playing on politics and personalities might have saved many souls from becoming immovable images of pride. Nothing is more destructive of rigid mentality and emotional obsessions than laughter. Failing that dissolving laughter one can only treat the problem of the hunger strikers seriously. It is a policy which, like the abandoned policy of civil war, occurs to people who do not think and who have only an abnormal and inherited capacity for suffering.

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HUNGER strikes; HISTORY; WIT & humor; PERSONALITY & politics; EMOTIONS; CIVIL war; IRELAND
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