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Everybody with a heart that beats with the love of humanity at large, no less than the Irish themselves, will find joy and refreshment in this demonstration by our author of a theme so unconsciously daring as "Why God Loves the Irish." His treatment of the problem involved amply relieves the Almighty of making the slightest mistake in His well-known preference fo the branch of the Celtic race which made Ireland its home and a fresh point of departure for capturing the esteem and love of good things of the rest of the world. [Originally published in 1918.] Humphrey J. Desmond was editor of the Catholic Citizen of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.