The totalitarianism in the proclaimed Irish Republic

This totalitarianism, as befits the claim of the proclaimed Republic to have been Sovereignly Established in nationhood, if initially not quite in a republican form, by God and the dead generations, to whom the insurrectionists appealed, excludes the possibility, on pain of being a traitor to God and the dead generations, for any Irishman and Irishwoman to think otherwise and remain Irish. For to think otherwise is to be a traitor.

Meanwhile within days of the solemn, public rereading of this proclamation in totalitarianism the irony in the Republic’s Foreign Minister, Charlie Flanagan, following on a meeting with the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, urging all of the Republic’s citizens living in the United Kingdom who (unlike other EU citizens living in the UK have the right to vote in the coming Brexit referendum) not only to vote but to campaign for the UK to remain part of the EU.

It was back to business and the interrelatedness of these islands – a very unionist position.

W A Miller, Belfast BT13