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May 13, 1916,
The Saelic: Cmenican.
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PATRICK H. ‘PEARSE’S EULOGY
OF THEOBALD WOLFE TONE.
address. which follows was de
Patrick H. Pearse, who, li ne, has
given his Hfe for the, cause a Trish
vei
we stave come to the holiest piace in
holies han’ the
tion’s soil is the sed where the greatest
of her dead Hes buried.
I feel it difficult to‘ appeal to, you to-
day; dificult to speak in this place. It
peak by the grave-
rather keep to oneself.
ten to me’ partake in my emotio
hie falth, sharing in his hope still un-
realized, sharing in his great love.
have, then, only to find expression for
the thoughts and emotions common to
vs all; and you will understand even
it the cxpression be a halting one,
ere nol merely
gz
a@
under som: metaphor
a Geoffrey Keating, hinted at by a Swift
in some biting gibe, but clearly and
do, to the memory of '98, we ove
tat there is any manhood left in ire
nd.
“tl have called him the greatest of our
time; and he was greater still in spirit.
It was to that nobly-dowered mind of
his that Kickham, hiniseif the mos
nobly-dowered of a later generation,
pald reverence when he said
“Oh! knowledge is a wondrous powers
'Tis stronger than the wind
ee ee
And would to the kind heavens
‘That Wolfe Tone were here to-day.”
it greater than that full-orved. in-
telligence, that vide, gracious, richly-
n’s 20a was a burning
rdent, so generous,
@ into communion
8 set our
math ‘that les before us, brings
s fresh life from this place of “seeth, |
a new remurrection pf patriotic grace |
in our souls! :
r the spirit of Tone, |
soldier spirit,
as ‘Thomas Russell knew him!
Michael OF Tanagan. formerly
Mrs. O'Don n Rossa and daughter,
, Seated pene ‘Mr, Clai
Eileen, now ‘Mrs, John J. McGowan,
Freatly ‘stated by Wolfe Tone, and not
Reding now ever to be stated anew for
lowing other volves that ring less true./
then, is the first part of Wolfe
as!
roae's sshtovementhe made articu-
ces of the centurtes
te rave, retard Y clear and precise and
worthy concent of Nationality. But be
aid.more than’ this: not only did he
define Irish Nationalism, but he armed
his generation in defence of it.
er and doer,
such a thin,
Tish Natlonalism, and to the menor
Of the deed he nerved his generation to
Russell because Tone so’ loved him.
es, this.man ¢ould love well; and
8 from euch lov ve a this he exiled
hiinse if; with 81 his crushed
in his faithful neart ‘that he became a
weary but Indomitabl
courts and camps; with the m
eas this, with the little hands
of his children. plucking at bis hear
strings, that he lay down to die in that
cell at Newgat:
Such is the hig hb
and sorrowful des-
pean athe and their
to th ind their eyes to
the fair ‘hinge of ate ‘0 stifle ail sweet
music in the heart, the low voices of
dren, and to
call that leads them {
follow only th: » faint
‘0 the *
Pe and the laughter on hale chil
aitle or |
to the harder, death at the foot ot a st
* bet, .
noon of Tone. Think of his boy:
ood and young auhood in Dublin and
in Kildare, hi
tans, hi: ly
glorious failure at the bar, hi
conte for
wig" and gown,
Sreten hink of
into the Catholic movement
m
olfc helots, how, as he worked “amon
them, he now and to love the
real, the bistorle Irish people, and the
just be brought into amity wit
alte, and that Catholic, Protestant, and
HIS PRISON
~ EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF SOME OF MARTYRED IRISH LEADERS.
"THOMAS J. CLARKE’S STORY OF
EXPERIENCES. -
Thomas J. Clarke,
dered by
who was mur
while residing in Brook:
sudjoined
ve ech or ‘ha prison hife.
sleep torture."
torture in motion ¥
dous nofse. The trap. itself
sighteen, Inches square, a
cell
that I
Portland convict prisons the
silence” rule was rigorously
During the fifteen years or upwards
spent in Millbank, Chatham and
“strict
enforced
azainet the Irish Patttteal Prisoners:
with rivets and bolts
wished to open the
ward on its
hinges. No hey
quired to shut it;
. THOMAS MacDONAG
. One of the martyrs for
H,
Irish “Liberty.
waken the soundest sleeper.
were, two of th
intendent Littl
The authorities set the
y simply. Gover-
it| “A short time after seeing you I
iron bound and studded
When the officer
simply
turned a key and it feil down and out-
was re
the officer just took
in the celi, and would
Once every
hour during the night that inspection
er and Alf. Whitehead (Murphy)
While the “no sleep’ a a
full force the Governmen
jechild, of Scotland “yard,
to Chatham to try and get som
us to go up to London to give evi
dence at the Times-Parnell trial. Little
child did bis best ry
2 must have been
same as the one he
this answer
teri w
has thoughtfully preserved. This letter
is before me now; it is on the ordinary
English prison letter form.
thoritfes when scndinz it to her aia
not go to the trouble of putting it in
envelope. -The letter was simply
d
or Harris (we calied bim Pontius
Pilate) issued orders that the night | 7° op eet 4 keen male’
patrol in the penal cells must insp 2 . ‘
the passage in
child's visit
it referring to Little
the ‘questionable honor of @ visit from
Detective Inspector Littlechild, of Scot’
land Yard. His object, he explained to
me, was to me an opportunity (°
figure as an {nformer in some
commission of inquiry that
held in London, My answer
a single word of information would get
{s ‘being
If
Day of Judgment: n't
think he wil trouble me again—at Teast
1 hope not,
¢ savagely severe treatment of the
Irish political prisoners ran right
through the length of thetr whole im-
prisonment and was decidedly different
0 that of the ordinary ¢rfmin
same prisons, which was mi
The
other hand, I have
sinning to vety ‘nei riy the end ot my
prison 1ife—memories associated with
she staunch friendship of and
the successful oreration of the tortere, | SoUurascous comrades like John Daly
for it was the direct cause of dri and James a jose cheery and
hatf our number in: bulky notes every means of
our “underground mail” as well as their
“defiant rebel” gave me such
and e' ment that a
bring wnreel? to write ev
this fragment of prison life without
mentions their names.
Tromas J, CLARKE,
g
38
dered by the British Governm
. Althou:
The service of hi
Disienter mun ‘ities to” - icheve® Tree:
aetna came the United Irishmen, and
exiles of Irish history, a second a1
greater Fitzmaurice, one might say to
him as the poet said to Sarsfield;
“Ag deanamh do ghearain leis na right:
hibh
Is gur fhag tu Eire’s Gaedhil bhocht’
claoidhte,
Och, ochon!* -
was no “complaint” that Tone
orn with impa-
ine—he saw his
loved Ireland, could nea the houses and
the people on shore—how the ficet set
tall, that deed undone that would have
freed Ireland,
net ie the sup!
e tribute to the great-
small ships renter Lough Swilly.
The ‘pnalleh follow them. Tone’s ves:
sel fights:
a glorious six hours for Tone!
tered hulk, the vessel struc!
yed “by
‘men of To this spot they bore him,
and here he awaits the judgment; and
we stand at his gravesi: em:
ber that hfe work is atill unaccomplish-
ed after more than a
hen men come to a graveside they
pray; and each of us prays here in his
But we do not pray for Tone—
men who die that their people may val
free .“bave no need of pi
not onte
of us permitted to speal
prisonel
The Treason Felon eteoner
officially k:
suppor
Ir
ting al’ those yeat® was on Le
to another, or ,
for the matter of that lo speak to any.
s were
the prisons as “The
Special Men. "Those of us who. were
ish organizations in America received
That ta enough: for
| MacDONAGH’S TRIBUTE
TO ROSSA.
following stanzas were written
Grieve not for him: speal
hia eves anw not his country's glory,
His name shall be ‘@ watchword in our story.
by Thomas MacDonagh, mun
ent last week, on the occasion of the pub
Ue funeral of O'Donovan Rossa in Dublin:
k not a word of sorrow:
shall make our
Him England for his love of Ireland hat
This flesh we bury England's chains. Shave bitten:
deed now he walt rom ey
ur
With Emmet’s ist his epitaph | be written,
with 1 wer
MAY. DAY.
By THOMAS MacDONAGH,
today on the hill behind the wi
wood,
Shannon river,—
ude
When the winds from Slieve Bloom set the branches there a-quiver.
lay
mder on every hedge:
there so that My eves on the brown tog there and the
special system refined brutality Behind the wood at home, a quickened solit
wuld be the more conveniently and ef-
Jectively applied. .One @ features | ~:
3 The wi here now and the ereen of 3
On every "eatery tree-bougl
ree, Over the tos-helds there larks carol to-
ai
My brothers, were
pheh!” “To complete the
‘one!
And let us make no mistake as te
0 do, it
what. Tone sought t
mains for us to do.
state sour programme: Tone h:
it for us:
“To br
political evils, and to
3
og
my objects.
ple of Ireland,
We neat “not te
5 stated
eak the connection with Eng:
land,-the never-falling sotrce of ail our
it Here a country warmth
Here sings no lark, and to-day
By Tuomas MacDoxacn.
Most Irishmen have
find here fe implict® all the philosophy
ot Trish Nationalism, all the t
e
° them, the love that
his the definition of Irelai sickness to the heart with the fear
> To that definition and to that] of exile or of death. It is not
Programme we declare our adhesion} merely the love of the sod of Ire-
anew; pledging . ourselve: ‘one| land, the love of nature here. It
pledged himself—and in this sacred} {a not merely the love of liberty,
lace, by this graveside, let us not| . of the rights of man.
pledge ourselves uniess to| merely hatred of the agelong op-
ur pledge—we pledge ourselves} pression suffe q
to follow in the steps of Tone, never to] springs not merely from economic
rest, either fay or by night, until] grievance, or from grievance
his work be, accomplished, deeming it] agalnst the administration of alien
jot or tit ‘le of our mNInthright, holding trayed by every man end
spira-
tion of Tone, and accounting ourselve:
to_the memory and the ins)
roeven against the denial
of native law, It'is the knowledge
be rved and served in
and served still though it be be.
woman
of us but oF
8 While the fire of this: cau se
base ai we endure the evil thing urns in one Irfsh heart, the
against which he testified with bis] . tion lives. It is our doom an
blood. dower. Fail in its service has
ee
“This’ Nation, under God, shall have
new birth of freedom, and government) V!t®
ty the. people, for the
people shal] not perish from the earth.”
of the people,
raham Lincola,
brought upon us the calamities of
a] our history, Adventure in its ser-
slorious. reward
unsought, and has tor-
bidden the end. is not
governed by terial advan-
tage. Those who make the great
THE IRISH- VOLUNTEER
IN 1915.
“| good:
And a cuckoo is mocking them out of the ‘woodland’s edge.
js quiet on the rock: ,
‘That alone makes never a change when the ‘ey is duly come;
no cuckoo. mocks:
Over the wide hill a hawk floats, and the Icaves are dumb.
Journeys guide their course bythe
stars.
have anxiously
that when their destined
vrives their eyes may be
made ‘clear that they may
it, and their hands made cunning,
that by some wild luck they may
be skilled to serv
meet it, prepared to bring
ee ee
The Irish Volunteer in 1915. 1
‘is
taken up in his. generation the
traditional policy of the Irish peo-
“to battle, to sacrifice and to vice
tory.
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Send us your nd you or
your friend our Gacsie Awrnicax for a
year. The paper will, we hope, do you
the money, we hope, will do us
so harm.
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