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. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
Vol. XIII, No, 21, Whole No,
662.
INDEPENDENCE NUMBER.
GREATEST IRISH MEETING EVER HELD IN NEW
YORK DENOUNCES ENGLAND'S RUTHLESS MURDER
IN COLD BLOOD OF PRISONERS OF WAR.
Twenty Thousand People, Unable to Get ‘Into Carnegie Hall, Fill the Streets Ouiside,
- Clamoring For Admission, While Five Thousand Pack the Building---Justice Gavegan
of the Supreme Court, Introduced by Victor Herbert, Presides and Great Speeches Are
Made by Bourke Cockran, Bainbridge Colby and Father Duffy, Chaplain of the Sixty-
Ninth Fngland Arraigned at the Bar of Civilization For Her Savagery, and Her
Victims Eulogized as Noble, Self-Sacrificing, Pure-Lived Idealists and Patriots
Whose Names Will Live Forever, Not Only in the Hearts of the Irish People, But
in Those of Civilized Men Throughout the World--The Proclamation’ of the Irish i
Republic and. the Presentation of Its Green, White and Orange Tricolor Evoke a
Scene of Great Enthusiasm Resolutions Demand For Ireland.a Place Among the
“
Nations,
y far the greatest and most impres-
use Irish demonstration ever rtnessed
in New York was the Carnegie
meeting on last 3
the big building was a filed
of humanity surged around the hall and
reached.” for” several ~ block: every
direction: AL ‘Feasonable estima’ te was
that more than 204 000 people were un-
rable to gain“adi
“Carnegie Hall vente 3,500 people, wat
placed close t:
‘came to the meeting to show by their
presence their detestation of t England's
infamy in putting whos ose
only crim love count. ary, -
side and ‘outaide the Shall the. crowd
ed t in a high state of tension
and cheer/after cheer and shout after
blocks away.
PRESS FORCED TO. TAKE NOTICE.
The daily papers in their reports bi had
to drop the absurd claim they have been
king ‘since-the war. began that ne
Irish have to call. for Ge! id to
Ail a in, New: Yor! ad-
and characteristically ‘Irish. ‘The 7:
dune said:
“It was throng overwhelmingiy
m,
r e
est réverence
JAMES consont,
Commander -in-Chtet of, the Irish Reedy pie
nm thigh b
ith the 20,000 “people outside, this
de the crowd. fully 25,000, by long
aes the largest Irish gathering ever
vew
City ‘Administration
Need uch cases is “No Irish
. ot gRear DEMONSTRATION.
the platform, boxes, and
wiioed throu the audience were the
Trig, Brom men and women of the
ah Face in New ‘York, while man
Americans having no Irish affiliations ’
who, fering | from.
opped up Sata shot by the 2 Britis ih.
for Erin's few short days as a Repub-
lie >
The makes special mention of
the ila plates. which greeted “Die
when the audience
Irish meetings all 07
- In its opening sentences the
Sun's report
‘The sort oe hair tear applause
Tri
‘And all the other Bapere made alm
ie admissions. The fact that the vast
majority of Irishmen here are against
England in war has at last to be
admitted, Mut it required the wave of
anger and indignation set in motion by
the cold blooded murders in Dublin °
force the samission from New Yor
Anglomaniac pres
HAIL THE IRISH REPUBLICS FLAG.
were no decorations, with the
f two American
Irish Republic, suspended gt
on the second tier: Just . before “the
eeting was. ¢ alied to order a large
sized Tricolor was brought on the plat-
orm,
spread over the Chairman's
table. The fight of this beautiful flag,
the flag that w:
Rosen's coffin while the body was lying
in
created great enthusiasm, the audie
tandlng up and cheering for severa
min
any well known Irish leader
arrived on the platform he received ai
ovation. The mention of thi
the patriots who sacrificed their lives
on the altar of their country, brought
the people to their feet
‘The band seemed to ‘have caught the
spirit of the occasion and such airs a
“Whi 's to Speak of 'Ninety-Eight,”
ed
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carry the fight for Irish freedom toa
succesetal conclusion.
GREA! SPEECHES MADE.
‘ators Were also worthy of
and from Victor
the
‘The or:
‘occasion, Herbert's
mpted
thackles or an alien tyrant elicited the
applause of the His spe
embodied the Sninloas. of intellectual
and independent, Americans who have
no Irish blood in their veins and who
3
e
have no grind on the latest
phase of English savagery in Ireland.
uffy represented . the - Sog-
nunclation of the
st of Irelands sons had a visible
ote on his heal
. Alfred J. Talley read the Declara-
tion of Trish Independence, which was
proclaimed by the insurgents in Dublin,
and the reading frequently inter-
rupted by, ‘storms of a]
Bour'!
fine fettle and in thuns ndering tones he
arraigned Great Britain before the bar
of, Civilization. He- said the patriot
martyrs were the noblest of the Irish
Pe 8
uprising against Englan
race.and the most unselfish patriots
thet any country, including Ireland hers
NEW YORK, MAY 20, 1916.
self, had produced since the dawn of |
creation, He completely ‘sotvatel the
immense ently the
people jumped to thelr feet and cheered
the great orator's fiery denunciations of
Ireland’s ancient enemy, ani other
times his hearers were carried tear by
his sublime pleas for the refgn on earth
of Christianity, Justice, Humanity and
Civilization,
HERBERT INTRODUCES CHAIR-
MAN.
ence,
Victor Herbert, President of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the
Friends of Irish Freedom, introduced
as Chairman Hon. ard J. Gavegan,
Justice of the Supreme, ‘Court
JUDGE GAVEGAN’S SPEECH.
Shows That England's Legality
Is the Very Essence of Il-
legality.
Justice Gavegan, who ‘was warmly
welcomed, said:
This is a meeting of American citi-
zens overnment is at peace
with the world. We have gathered here
tion the co-operation of
press, in such newspapers as the Man-
chester Guardian and the London
Chronicle.
The fullness- of American freedom
had left no room in our hearts for such
a thing as hatred for any government
earth.’ For ‘forty years many of. us
couraged and aided Ireland in
in the City of Dublin on April 24. At
the British Parliament had connived at
n open defiance of its authority In the
northeast of Ireland and
through th pty form of making
unenforceable promise to the south of
Ireland, the armed and disloyal north-
east remained at home while the youn:
f the rest of nd were
called upon by weak leaders to die, not
in Ireland's but in En) '3 war, as
they had been doing for -generations
and centuries.
t there were those left at home
who had heads 1 as hearts and
Ba
ass
ment undertook to
with the result that we have seen,
aR
. | Pa
tience had ceased to be a virtue. Sick-
ives for what?
in order to qualify Ireland a
a "peltigerent .and thereby entitle that
misgoverned intry - toh day in
court when the great tribunal of the
Powers now at war should meet for the
As Heve in a just God, we must
lool d,in return for’ the
horrible sacrifices’ which being
made in that awful confifct, and no stu-
dent ‘of clirrent events can fail t
that one result .o:
will be the lessening, if not ‘the d
clas: land, rather than the Eng-
, Who are respon-
ongs and are op-
0 her “independence. > Is it vain
hope, under the conditions which ex-
ist, that Irelan y successfully pre-
her claim to the world tribunal?
Irishmen for centuries have been fight-
ing England's battles and yet at the
very outhresk of this war- when
land w: x for more Irishmen nt
fight her patties, instead of granting
even the promised measure of Home
Rule the English Parliament . Handed
een “
eck without-a It was as if a
sure should crane an application from
¢ Bench and then refuse to. sign tl
order making: it, cilective, Tt was
plain denial of justice.
Let the English . people. Took to ‘the
great heart of America for art example.
ae
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Entered
New ¥
second-clans matter, Oct. 1, 1909, at the Post Office at
NN. Xo, under the wet of Congress of March 3, 187%
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FACTS OF THE REBELLION BEGIN TO ARRIVE
The Treacherous American Warning Enabled The British Government To Intercept
The Arms-Laden German Yessel, To
Save Galway By Sending A Warship
Into The Bay And To Pour Reinforcements Into Dublin In The Nick Of
Time—But It Took 26,000 British Troops, With Artillery And
Machine Guns Seven Days To Overcome 1,100 Irish Volun-
teers Armed Only With Riffes, Shotguns, Six Machine
Guns And Pikes—Boys
And Girls Butchered By
English Soldiers In The Streets.
The latest news about the rebellion in
Med—or the Censor interpolated the lies
into them—an hief facts of the
On the part
fighting were concealed.
had ever seen war. The men of Dublin
have won imperishable glory.
0, 1, 100, men turned out in the city,
having been
faly tnvetieated, canaot be fully stated
now, and most of the country remained
quiet ‘for the same reasons—that fs, the
men believed that the orders had been
Irish political ‘prisoner, who was elect
JacDermott.- Messrs. Clarke an@ Mi
Irish Declaration of Independence, and both were shot by
British courtmartial.
John Daly’s nephew, Edward Daly, was another of the victims of British
“vioof lust.
signers of the
order of a
of the rebels it was the finest fighting
any Britfsh army sent agains
is the rosson ‘ot the latest irish renek
lion, ai in living knows it better
than the tough old Scotch soldier, Sir
John Maxwell, who is now in comm:
of the army of occupation.
FINEST FIGHT IN IRISH HISTORY.
It is only possible now to deal with
The Battle of oe
ry as the har
and best conducted ever fought in
Tend. Clontarf was great, the Yellow
ndid, Benburb ¥:
ce]
3
8
ds wi
nificent,
but all
fought by traf
erals and experienced office
most of Dubli
countermanded. Had this not occurred,
even without the shipload of German
e
vented from landing by a
warning from America,
probably be now in rebel
Ireland would be fighting 8
CAPTURED “DUBLIN CASTLE
. TWICE.
These 1,100 men, with only stx ma-
chine guns,
against an
it time, but wei ry,
driven out by overwhelming numbers
and General Frie: ad relonzed. They had
eld tt for several hou
fause OF THE SURRENDER:
surgents continued t
thet Post Oftce and several buildings in
Connell Street, several breweries avi
istlleries, Jacob's biscuit factory, the
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v
an English army, with odds of eighteen
to one against- them, were only half-
trained. Land ° had only-one officer. who
Office was set on fire and demolished by
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