Show so NO STAGE IRISHMAN t IS TRUE TO LIFE Rev V. V Hannay Protests Against j Absurd Ports Portrayals alb of Race I iO LONDON DO DOM M May 12 The U-The The state t Irish Irish- min ha hu has been beon io 10 o long the tha the public arid and hal been has been eo so z generally lIY accepted ac sa the the real reel thing that It 1 IB la refreshing thou though h 8 somewhat m bewildering to learn from brie I e who know that he is IA but but buta buta a a. piece of after all I. I The Rev J. J 0 O. Hannay better known known to the read reading and play going public as aa George G Orre Birmingham rec recently gave give ve a lecture o on The Stage Stare Irishman at the Manchester Playgoers Playgoer society Mr loIr Hannay ea said Mid id that were a little tired of 01 bel being caricatured by second rate writers and when a particularly odious instance of 01 th the thing thin came to their noU notice e they protested protected very f strongly ly He had lived Jived a long JON time in the wee ve west of Inland Ireland but bt no one had yet wished im the top of the morning or more mora power to hit hIa elbow and ana even his his' most fervent admirer admire had Md never called him a a. broth brot of ot a a. If It anyone anone did did- call him that he would think he was an n Englishman tying trying to m make e a joke Irish I DO Not Sing Slug Irishmen n do ao lo n not t drink with careless bonhomie with a a. Jest jen on the lips Up and la Ja laughter liter In the eye era h he eald They do it t with d a certain shamefaced deliberation and arA the they do not sing Ac At a rule a. a drunken Irishman staggers a er flUently home and in if It be he- opens his tits mouth at all It la is to talk I serious speeches about politics or religion ion ton Irishmen do occasionally borrow I money but not with the genial renial air of or conferring a a favor ta on the lender The They do it with n a. a groveling servility Nothing cart can b be further from the truth than than- this absurd Irishman who hO IB la presented over o and over again In Ut literature and the tle drama Ab Absurd nd How stow did did this creature come to be posed POled before the world aa U an n Irishman and wh why did they object so 0 strongly u as a they did to the caricature Answering thea the secand Je sec second sec sec- and ond question first Mr dr a Hannay Hanna said uld that th other who were c caricatured did dd not z set get t angry about It Irish people 01 ob objected objected ob- ob because they thel had not such ouch a a. good opinion anion of themselves An Englishman assumed that if it a a. man who mocked him was waa serious in his bin mockery he must be bean bean beart an art Imbecile and if Sf there arose in Ireland a 8 man who ho caricatured the people there thereas as Harry Lauder caricatured the Scotch the whole universe would ring with de de- de The only cure tor or that vice o of national humility was waa to laugh back again rather louder than th the other man Replying to the first question Mr 1 Hanney Han- Han Hannay na nay ney said that the caricature ture must correspond correspond correspond cor cor- respond to om type which had once ex exIted existed ex- ex exi fisted isted for tor the stage Irishman was no not noton on only an unprincipled inebriate He lIe had some acme better and there was as a subtle charm about him He H. talked well 11 lie he was a generous ane and he had courage One looked in m vain aln in the ancient Irish literature lit er elJ ture for traces of the t type Pe and the Jacobean Ja Jo cobean cob nn Irishman about whose whore head there was a n h halo lo of or romance was far removed from It lt |