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| Cartoon of George Orwell by famous American political cartoonist, Pat Oliphant |
George Orwell wrote that the execution of the Easter Rising leaders was "a crime and mistake". He believed that the dispute over Ulster was caused by "the expansionist racist nature of modern republicanism." In a review of Sean O'Casey's autobiography by George Orwell in the Observer, Orwell wrote in 1945:
"Why is it that the worst extremes of jingoism and racialism have to be tolerated when they come from an Irishman?"
