Had a discussion to-day about Bernard Shaw’s play ‘St. Joan’ which is coming next week. Dr. Scannell told us several interesting things about it, amongst them that Shaw wrote some of his play while staying at Parknasilla and Glengariffe and that he got the Catholic point of view from a Cork priest, Father Leonard. He told us also that the people of St. Joan’s time could not be blamed for believing her a witch, for consider what everybody believed of the Germans during the war. He said that taking into account the man Shaw himself, and knowing some of his ideas, one would come away deeply impressed by the play, and that though often criticised, it was in no way harmful, if not beneficial to the Catholic Church. – The Riff and French and Spanish peace conference is evidently falling through. It will be terrible if poor Abd El Krim will have to fight it out. Yet he is stronger than we think. – After school went to see about my new suit, but will have to call again. Our census was called for by the Civic Guard. Mammie was very pleased with my piano lesson to-day. I am getting on quite well at violin.
