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lfr Freedom for which I and my liking to the women of the Irish gwhich theyhave not no\v,” de- 'O'Kelly,Vice-President of the end of that delegation to the '- E €l'erice when interviewed in his H er, Ottawa, by Tan CANADIAN

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so. is simply because of the ‘ ‘e always enjoyed a perfect I “men in matters pertaining to (4 rights of citizensh him-ea State can be elected to members of municipal councils Dublin there are four women on fa total of thirty members. ducation for the Irish Free _ lmltterlpertaining to education I. _‘ _, ,1 V-i (are are no municipal boards of "M" H, W " ' " Woman is heard and heeded, hie number of women actively dust of this department." lllymant insurance and com« inlurance are in force in the .t' 0'Kelly informed us in ‘The compulsory health in- f workers except agricultural Ill employees who are over at necessity insured. It works it e insured pay seven peace I leven pence per week. and F lubsidy payment to this ‘to the calls made upon it. 0 Kreat a boon to women ‘were put in force by the I Ireland had no legislative 93' are good laws and can- t: repealed by the Irish

tions are open to the

‘r -, , ‘ i , , . O'Kelly continued, ’ ln ,, mu . , tathem. We have our ad there are quite a

cellful. The Irish Free

rl some of whom are

medical knowledge. zeoos. We have. I

, except engineering, ,0 or two chartered

I O'K¢Ily, Vice-President of The Irish Free State

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“If there is one profession in which the Irish women excel it seems to be that of teaching, for as teachers our university graduates are demanded for some of the ﬁnest teaching posts available, not only in their own country but in others as well."

Mrs. O’Kelly, it was interesting to learn, is a graduate of Cambridge, and also of the National University of Ireland, in which University she was Professor of French when she married Vice-President. O’I(elly. It was Can- ada's loss that the wives of the Irish Free State's Dele- gates could not attend the Conference with their hus- bands——Mrs. O'Kelly because she is a semi-invalid. and Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Lemass because they both have young babies. Dr. Ryan, who is Minister of Agriculture in the Free State, is the brother of Mrs. O'I(elly. “|___|AVE you ii bi-lingual problem too?" we asked Mr.

0‘i(elly.

“We have indeed." he agreed, “Gaelic and English

both are taught in all of our schools and are official languages of the State . , . " There was a pause, and one ltneiv, although few words were spoken concerning the trials of that Green Isle of beauty and of strife. that the man whom many claim as the greatest living Irishman; today was visiuning the thousands iipon thousands of little Irish "eollcens" and strapping Irish lads who in the years past had learned to speak both tuirgiic-s,lrut whom, because there was not a livelihood for them in iiltlllslgliil 3/ limited Ireland, had gone forth to other lands, an ‘ha never come back again to scclthe mothers who iore them, or the shainrock-covered hills of their own country. " F TI-IE penal duties are cnforct-_Ll on Irish agricultural

produce by Great Britain, willhiti\liiiv§tn!:Y7'fll,‘ﬁ$ll: eﬂect uponktl:le]\i;'0ri2)erxi((o1iiytlie iris « ce H e

Tr ~ . Jouflddlwlﬁinelt avoid doini! so?" ‘he asked sadly. "Sixty pa, cent, or the people or the Irish Free ployod m ngﬂcultum Them me Ilrmny we other wit)’ of running their own farms and who now High‘) mrcrmcc “min: “ Hvnlilmudl H’ urmd rL9m0f”tE‘srlIZentY illlercent. is wrldlddvitliﬁielll [will lihge to sell our agricul- a r . Wm’ I"°""°° “” “ '“‘“" 9" “°f“"‘ "r’,i."h5,".'.‘lTi"‘rlJ.iif'r‘§f we in in agriculture and every woman whose husband is

d will sulier." on lygddgesult of it will be that we will lw8l1Y;‘° f"’§l"“"“’: industrialiylz" hi;"?yplli)ili,ni!.;r‘.l!IIV::lItl:)“Eﬁsiﬁild Ave Emmet cannot ma I: m ed d, afford to buy our machinery and manufactur :00

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of The lrish Free State and leader ol his country's

delegation at the lmperial Conference . .

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from England, and so we will become more industrial than we are now . . . and late agricultural." ATTEIRS which will he brought up at the Con- ference were not discussed, nor was Mr. 0'Kelly anxious to dwell on the subject of the present iiissention between Britain and the Free State.

"Your Prime Minister and your Government. as well as the others, have been so very kind and so cordial to US that the least we can do is to leave our individual light at home," he said, smiling.

“Have you many unhappy amrriaiia in the Free State?" he was asked.

"Doubtltse we have some, but we don't hear very much about them," he said.

"What is the cure for them, there?" we Qlieried,

"I'm afraid there isn't any cure," admitted Mr. 0'KL,ll‘VA “The Free State is almost solidly Catholic, and we have no divorce law there."

“Not at; all, for any reason?"

"No. We haven't any dirurcr at rill. And," he added, "the announcement ol a legal separation would create a sensation. I do not doubt that there are maples who are unliirppy in their marriages. but they realize that marriage with them is for all time. and they make the best of it and say little. Tliere have been cases, I believe. where Protestants of the Irish Free State have gone to England and secured divorce. but such divorces have, of course, no legal standing in the Free State.

" N SPEAKING of vocations upon to your women you didn't speak of journalism," wo reminded the Vice» President.

"'Tliat‘s right," he admitted. “I think tliore are about twenty newspaper women known to me in Dublin. As for writers of fiction rind what you term lcaturcs . . . well you see the total population of the Island is only about four and a half millions, and when you count in that the very large number of children who cannot be rated (E reading public. you will see that we have not the mechanical scope for the development of magazines, particularly women's magazines, as you have in Canada and in the United States." ‘

“Our women are deeply and sincerely interested in politics." he declared. “Our women are among our best workers in all parties. They have a clear conception oi the political situation, ‘they are good thinkers. 80°F!

speakers. good allies. . . In (not, we gathered lrom our delightful and lnlurmal

chat with the Vlci.-President of the Irish Free State, that he and his conirerss considered women to be the but of “good companions". too . . . and no blarnsyi