Life — June 16, 1921 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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The most dramatic, the most unconventional story of Ireland. Written in Ireland by William Hard. ILLIAM HARD was with Michael O'Callaghan, Sinn Fein leader of Limerick, the night before he was killed. Hard tells the most vital, most stirring story of Ireland thus far. You will get a different side of the Irish situation in this article from anything you have heard or read before. We sent a proof of this article to Booth Tarkington Here is what he wrote us: “ This is one of the most dramatic magazine articles ever written, 1 believe, And somehow, in spite of his naturally intense feeling, Mr. Hard contrives to remain, if not wholly impartial, at least wholly Christian in his understanding. The state of mind in which he has composed so tragic a narrative is as interesting as the dreadful thing he tells.” We think you will agree with Mr. Tarkington when you read William Hard’s article. Here is part of what lard writes: “At Exeter, in the southwest of England, I had recently sat in a large audience of people listening to a speech on Ireland by General Thomson. He had been in the British General Staff during the war against Ger- many, and had served as liaison officer between the British headquarters and the French headquarters in France. I remembered that the audience quite shook with astonishment when it learned from General Thom- son the indisputable facts of the British Government's military method in Ircland. It had not known these facts. Learning them it was outraged by them. It was ashamed by them. That audience in Exeter, like every other British audience that I heard getting instructed by Labor Party or Liberal Party speakers on the nature of the war in Ireland, was first clearly taken aback by what it learned and then obviously sincerely distressed by it and indignant about it.” Then—of Michael O'Callaghan “Michael O'Callaghan, Sinn Fein leader of Limerick, I said I would not forget you. I said it when you in answer could not any longer say anything to me. You lay in wrappings of rugs and blankets on the floor the foot of the stairs in the hall of your house, all still.” “T tried to remember what you had said to me last on the night before. But out of that night before I could then hear nothing. I could only see the scene of it—as if back through a long dark tunnel—a fixed, bright scene: you and your wife in the light from your fire- place—and in the light from being together—your lips parted in talk—in snatches of talk that kept twining together—a story of yours finished up by her—a se tence of hers carried on by you—each of you so quick to interrupt and so quick to yield—your voices altering so fast. But I could not hear your voice: “Then in a moment I did hear hers. Out of the morn- ing I heard it, with the sound of her hands beating on her body, and she was crying: ‘They fired across me. I struggled all I could. They fired at him over my shoulder. I thought God would give me strength, I tried to get the bullets here—here—here. I tried, I tried” But you will want the whole story. It is in June Metropolitan. 25 cts. per copy. $3.00 per year. Metropolitan H. J. Whigham, Publisher 432 Fourth Avenue New York City The Meeting Place of Business The Hollenden is the natural meeting place of discriminating people who travel for business or pleasure through the Midland of America. It is at the Cross- roads of the trade routes of iron and coal. Here the ship-owner, the iron-master and the distribu- tor have a habit of meeting to do business. THE HOLLENDEN CLEVELAND Double - - $5.00 to $7.00 Twin Beds $6.00 to $8.00 , f Ag To Improve One’s Mental Poise Learn to Laugh at the Proper Time. A subscription if the magazine of laughter, means a com- plete education in sanity and cheerful- ness. A sure laugh in every issue. Try it yourself fora year, or Obey That Impulse, and for a trial trip, avail yourself of our Special Offer Enclosed find One Dollar (Canadian $1.20, Foreign $1.40). Send Live for three months—twelve issues—to Open only to new subscribers; no subscriptions renewed at this rate. LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York. One Year $5 Canadian $5.80 Foreign $6.60 “0 PETER J. CAREY & SONS, INC., PRINTERS comicbooks.com