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Mac-Talla: Ni-Eigin Nach Robh Ceart

Mac-Talla: Ni-Eigin Nach Robh Ceart

Posted by Andrew on Monday 26 September 2016
Mac-Talla frequently reported the news simply and without romanticism, such as when they said the man attempting to cross the Atlantic in a small boat had little chance of success, or the hundreds of news items about accidental deaths or murders or suicides. From time to time, however, they would report things in an entirely different way. It might even be said they were euphemistic at times, reporting news in such a way as to avoid telling bad things. This item appeared in 1898:

General Sir Fred D. Middleton died in London recently. He was in charge of the Canadian Army during the crushing of Riel’s rebellion in the North-West in 1885. He lost his post after that for something he did in the North-West which was not right. After returning to Britain he became guardian of the crown jewels, and he held this office until his death.
 
The ‘something he did which was not right’ was to steal property and furs from the Métis Indians who he was fighting during the rebellion – and why they wouldn’t say that plainly? Perhaps because Mac-Talla was highly in favour of the British Empire most of the time, and didn’t want to admit that some of its worthies had done anything bad!
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