Famed account of Gaelic poets showed riches of a starving people
Daniel Corkery’s ‘The Hidden Ireland’, published 100 years ago, will be celebrated at a conference in his native city next week
Source: irishexaminer.com
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Daniel Corkery’s ‘The Hidden Ireland’, published 100 years ago, will be celebrated at a conference in his native city next week
The late Billy Naughton, College Road, said he spluttered into his cup of tea, when he instantly recognised the upper-class, nasal drawl, of William Joyce reporting continuous Nazi victories on Radio Hamburg, Reichsrundfunk, during its English-language broadcast in October 1939. He was ridiculed as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ and was the butt of Musical Hall jokes, yet he was listened to and despised for his clever mix of fact and lies.