John Bull's Other Island a comedy about Ireland by G. Bernard Shaw 1904 who was born in Dublin. The play is about Larry Doyle from Ireland who turned his back on his heritage to fit in with the English and Tom Broadbent, his English business partner who run a firm in London, they go to Ireland where Doyle was born to develop some land. Doyle long ago disillusioned with Ireland while Broadbent is romantic about it. Broadbent becomes a favourite of the people and will marry Nora Reilly a woman waiting for Doyle, who is happy to let her go, while trying to become the local candidate for Parliament but after Doyle refuses enabling Broadbent who has called in' all his loans given "so easily" to the locals against their homes and intends as he planned from the beginning to make the area into an amusement park. The local defrocked priest Father Peter Keegan, the political opposite who sees through Broadbent from the outset warns the people against him. The play premiered in London, 1904. It was a huge success and the theatre went on to produce many Shaw plays. Dealing with the Irish question of the time, the play was seen by many British establishment figures, with King Edward VII who laughed so hard he broke his chair. Shaw's name was made in London.More than a hundred years later and a couple of revolutions in Ireland little has changed since 1904. "But crucially, besides the fact that republicanism has been defeated and disfigured is "the devious way that it was all brought about" as Brendan Hughes bitterly complained. Obfuscation -- or 'creative ambiguity' as it is branded -- has been central to the peace process. (207) Professor Roy Foster writes that "the British quickly learned linguistic ingenuity; Orwell would have appreciated the way ‘an "agreed Ireland" ‘turned out to mean the very opposite of a ‘united Ireland’, while ‘power-sharing’ came to denote ‘separate spheres’, not reconciliation." As Jim Gibney reminds us: "If there is one big lesson coming out of the peace process...it is words like 'certainty' and 'clarity' are not part of the creative lexicon that conflict resolution requires if it is to be successful...Give me the language of ambiguity...It has oiled the engine of the peace process. Long may it continue to do so." (209) Or as Bernadette Devlin McAliskey puts it more bluntly, peace has been bought by "perjury, fraud, corruption, cheating and lying". (210) Brendan Hughes was on solid ground when complaining that "the process had created a class of professional liars and unfortunately it contains many Republicans". (211) As a result of this, the legacy of the ‘peace process’ for republicanism is not only defeat but also far more serious, the relinquishing of the moral position of the republican struggle." - Pensive Quill They didn't mention child rape or blackmail.