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“June 10, 1918...”
The. Gaelic Gmenican. ~
“MASS FOR THE MARTYRS.
“st.” Patrick's. Cathedral; New
leans, . Thronged , ~ Wi
iends’ of Ireland—Father
Carra. in Scholarly Sermon
Lauds the Men Who. Suffered
Died «for Ireland—Says
and
Opposition to’ Tyranny Is Sus-
Gatholio Theology.
tained by
saint, St. Patrick's Cathedral Yyesterda!
morning was the’ scene of special
“Bass for the men and: women of Ire:
land who lost thelr’ ves in the memor-
sble Taner rebe
R the cele brant, assisted
yy Father Torres, delivere terly
end scholarly address, paying a-gloving
tribute to the Irish dead. <A large, fash-
e and appreciative congregation
He tool
will conquer thine enemfes for thee.”
A choir of mixed voices beautifully
rendered “La “ Hache's Mass,”
Giorza’s “Regina Coelt”
tory. Mrs. 0. J. Brenaai
exd Miss B. . Cavanagh had charge of
the program
Patrick's is no longer a typical!
irigh oat ish, its cosmopolitan consre-
gation being-drawn from the feshion-
able all over the city as
fioating botel population, owing to its
central location.
But at the Mass for te isle “Patt
h
Cee
Father carra’s 's sermon follows:
“Strive for justice for thine own soul,
and fight for e even unto death,
and God will conquer thine enemies for
thee."—Ecclestzsticus, 4, 33.
rong”
eems to
exhortation’ of « the
me to describe very
the’ character
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Blood of - Christ:
oman
ask the merciful Saviour, who pro-
His “pre-eminent blessing on
ives | for their
all to do, whatever
or sympathies; but Ss it ate
ing for a Catholic Priest to appear to
o mn against established
- 0 Iris!
ld
ngeful . tho’
me t
peclaiy in {ts modern phases; and that
ed-me that it is fitt-
mer rely to mantl tle them in the charity of
silen
ere not rash dreamers; they
. Without
poses,
urch; especially in a churc
duilt by Irish generosity to Ireland's
Apostle. and cee where libert
Sprang from re’
al According to the
English Jesuit authority, Father Rick-
aby, aforetble resistance to these evils
_a government has
habitually’ ost | “Might of the common
cod, pursuln;
paces ant of ,not entailing still
“and
Now, with the possible exception of
ns were pres:
ent when Padraic Pearse his Catho-
lic co-signers of their noble Declaration
Independence summon heir com-
hate for the English
people, on the contrary they mani-
fested bigh admiration for the many
noble men that England has given and
is giving to the
as love, not, tate, that dominated
thelr “ives, and that love was for
land, its Catholic ideals, its Catholic
civilization, and their only ha
for the system that alametrcaly op
posed it, solida-
ted by Henry VIL, when he “onelt fed
the Vicar of Christ and therefore th
‘acraments of the Christ and therefore
Eritish religion and British pol
Church and State Ssentical and
es the Church was without a
(‘The first result war a
or sacrificed every pri
grandizement, favored
the’ worst “might prosper. Times, cir
cumstances, personal influence,
modified that olicy, but the polley F
mains. 8 evel
no matter what its profession or plat
form, ‘onsistently favored the Pro-
testant ecepted its
ideals and disregarded or trampled ‘on
the Catholic majority that did not.
This year
tenaries and ° tercentanaries,
jacks thirteen years -of the centennfal
f the beginning. of oti and religious
grant thei erits, not of
grounds, of ri but admittedly’ be-
cause their denial entailed revolution.
religious establishment of
the Pr otestant minority, and pay in
and ta:
the Protestant landecracy and. £0
ernment, even though they starved to
ite
Did pacific means redress their griev-
rrest,, pees
its population not only redut
ere “re
it was violence, not the pleadings of
reason, that it. Irish Cat
in resistance;
years ago the
Protestant establishment was lifted off
the Catholic neck, Gladstone declared
he had done 0, only because of the
Fenian ae tio!
resources of Ireland were still
drained by. ruthless landlords ) who
spent thelr extortfons outside of it, and
peaceful pleadings ensued. Again they
S tuiile, and it was only lawless vio-
Tenee that’ won people some
ownership of the lands,but, at heavy
prices,-and on: loans that brought the
Government . profitable in!
stitutional
‘ment followe rt
when they wer to
diluted form that exclided the peopl
from all contr
the ‘potstant minority formed
an otganization to resist
Government nt of the land.
majority, greanized te defend it,
happe!
What
jovernment aystem gave
every facility to their Protestant rebel
opponents to arm, placed every ‘obstacle
in the way of their Catholic defenders,
and! when toey. enacted mo Soule
f Rul Irish
Bishop fteseribed tt provided nat tt
should come into operation only at
in such amended form
2
mand:
nd and turned it into a despotism
ruled by the leaders of the Orange
burden was intolers
sult ike the famine of "47 In again re
moneys remained | §
the set days ot Arrth the Orange Gov-
ent’s plan to disarm the Catholic
Volunteers, 0 arrest thelr leaders and
leading sympathizers, on one day
with one stroke, ead in the Cor.
poration of Dublin. “Then Ireland, Cath.
ollc Ireland, would be again a corpse
on a dissecting table, and the Orange
despots, the haters of her creed and Ib-
erties, wou! erciless dissec
to then, “and then only, that
the journ deter-
en
mined “to. “ent ‘tor Jastlee even unto
death.”
Was there present the final sreatilre
ment of reasonable hope? is
lare ubjective and therefore nat
edsily evaluated. Nor is suc e8-
sarily im te. Present failure may
be the seed of ultimate trlumph. This
we 1 from Crucifix and
from story ‘sacred and | profane. Was
there hope for the immortal Maccabees
one by one
countless foes, a glorified
Scripture. The words of Judas Mach-
abaeus to Ms little band, might have
veen used draic Pearse: “Gird
yourselves ana te valiant men—for St
is better for us to die than to see the
our nation." «Had the Volun-
re Eeasonable. hope
sent
st the, legi-
of success? Had Pius
forth hie little army. again
of Victor Enianuel, and gave it his
bendictfon? the men of Concord
and Bunker Hl reasonable hope? Had
Why 4
Because
rcumstances when “it is
better to die in battle than suffer the
evils of our nation.”
There was a hope. These men held
e in
"
seven centuries that the Irish peopl
wert posseasion of their own capl-
tal
very fallure they rec!
success that, triumph of failure which
marked every effort for redress of Irish
grievances.. One. man died aie the
‘enjan_ insurrection, im of
“One true n dead ‘Tor Tbe
hath eand men” The
en
lin Castle when the abolition of martial
d the restoration of civil rishts
is announced, and
which on Easter. Day was « shadow
now being hurriedly vitalized into a
substance anda fact. Not yet. can w
e true Berapective, ut all signs
foreshadow that in the blood of these
will be written the epltaph of Rob-
ert Emmet,
Whether rash or whether of
the weak and foolish that confound the
strong, ‘they, were of a nd cha
‘acter. worthy to break the bonds of a
spiritual nation, The fourteen men
0, having surrendered in honorable
warfare, do under ie
same -ruthless system that hed hanged,
bugned and shot countless Catholics of
ngland and scholars,
bone teachers, whose lives ‘and work
ble, whose
writings. were
Totliest expression of ‘Catholic rine!
ples; ‘who hated Hono but loved their
land and_ people, yearned and
strove for. the restoration of the lib-
erties d the spiritual
traditions mph
the spirituak ideal over the unright-
eous’ materialistic system
strangling who” bravely’ died
that their nation might Itve.
The bio od of such men
ood ‘of marty’
dof Ghristigns, the .blood of
patriots is the seed of freedom. It was
shed not, without hope, and it left hope
bebind the om it | wil
spring the resurrection of the spirit.
that St.
ational ' ideals Pate
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&
HAND GRENADES.
John” O'Connor, the self-
the frescoes
in the House Commons, were as
ready to fight for Ireland a§ he was to
wallop his fellow Corkman, ‘Tim. Healy,
the other day, “ Cork would have
some Teason to be proud of him,
When the Irish showed a tendency to
abolish the British Government in Ire-
land the British Government announced
its Intention of abolishing the office of
Lord Lieutenant
The British have prohibited the im-
portation of bathtubs, which Indicates
that the Empire is going to have a
arty Snish.
if “Long
constituted protector of
of
Teddy reminds’ the public that he
was in the Spanish-American War,
was, but that colored ‘Fesiment brought
him out of ft all
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King George has a wrist watch which
cost seven and shepence, If he hadn't
cut out the boore he might have had
fo be content with « dollar Ingersoll
The story that a United States naval
Notncer poured ice
hese were th
fronted thia year the thinking men of
Trelan You can ge whether their
grievances meet ology's require:
ments for armed resistance. They were
immeasurably wore than the griev-
ances “recited tn our Declaration | ot In-
dependence. . But there was more. In
that appeals to bis little “tummy.”
My dear Mr, Devoy:
“UNROLL ERIN'S FLAG.”
The Green, White and Orange
Tricolor-of the Irish Republic
Should Float Over Every Irish
Home on Martyrs’ Day. »
1016 Park Avenue, Hoboken, N.J
June 4° 1916. ~
I would like to supplement Seumas
MacManus’s suggestions for Irish Mar-
tyr’s Day, other, r, and that’ is
in regard to the flag of the Irish Re-
public.
As one, bose | proud privilege it was
0 know every one of the men who sign-
ta ‘the, Declaration Indepen-
dence, I can well imagine the flerve Jo.
in their hearts, and
eyes, whe:
eager hands 7p
bloodstained-rag,
beautifulsLanner, the Green, the White
and the Orange, high up over Dublin
Town.
) it was, and sacred, our
hearts. thrilled just vo think of it flying
here, and thrifled ached in strange
exaltation for the ad dream come true,
and
up everything to be there,
jast. what patriotiam
id then came the
the world, that
really meat
a that horrifed
made men
row's sun
again, so surely, that flai
over all Ireland.
‘and loss of
there ‘stands one lvtos truth,
must and shall be fre:
Ireland
Matar Hastis
(Mrs, Francis P. Jones.)
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TRIBUTE TO IRISH WOMEN.
(Continued from Page 1.)
guard with rifies,
Volunieers,
nidnn ha mBan girls did practi-
ly the despatch ‘carrying; some: o
them were killed, but none of them re
turned unsuccessful,. That was a point
of honor with -them—to succeed or be
kflled;* On-ore occasion in O'Connell
da Volunteer captain ‘call
or volunteers to take a patch to
Jamies Connolly,
heavy. machine. gan fire. Every. man
Present sprang forward,
and he chore ‘a young Dublin woman,
a well mown writer, whose relations
wFelleving worn-out
and st
cross rain ot bullets from Trinity Col-
lege a ‘om the Rotunda side ot
Connell Suet
the front oor of the
wish her good Tuck | as ne he ook hands
with her before sh ‘eckles:
dash to take Conncil 8 aespatch back
to their own headquart
BRINGING n a ouxDeD POLUN-
“This ont instance, ‘but
typical of a hundred that, Tsaw of the
part played by women duriog 2 the fight-
ing week. They did Red Cross work—
L saw them going out ‘onder the deadii-
est fire to bring In wounded Volunteers
—they cooked, catered, and brought in
supplies; they food to men under
at barricades; they visited every
Volunteer's home to tell his people of
‘are as thelr men.
already reterr ed to an
who were lucky enough to™escape ar-
est, have shown, I hear, equal courage
nd daring in helping rebels out of the
country, destroying papers, disposing of
ammunition in ches.‘ Many girl
hi
ple by the soldiers is so inflaming
udlic opinion . here men ai
women who never before would allow
wen the name of Feiner
ore bitter among
they are beginning to make no secret at
all of their opinions, In spite of threats
and cautions,
THE WORK OF PRIESTS.
“Another feature of the fighting little
ed to the building held by the Voiun- |
teers under the heaviest
unusual sight to see
heeded Volunteers,
na mBan girls
rifles in thefr hands, knesling In the
ring line while thelr priest gave them
the last battlefreed absolution of the
Roman Catholle Church,
¢ and firstaid work w
carried out under extraordinary difficul-
ties during the rising. During, the
3 days the rescue of t
wounded could only be effected at the
risk of the rescucrs' lives. On Easter
Wetncaday the hospitals refused to
send embulances, and many
Sounded and dead lay. im. the streets
for days unattended. On Saturday the
body of a mau killed on n Tueiey still
lay iu Marlborough Str
“TI Co:
only woman who held : girect ‘nilitary
command in Ireland. 8 cressed
in male Volunteer attire, and led her
men with Gash st the
College of Surgeons, where she was in
command f the other women
were also uniforts,. but noze Lore
¢ Red Cross symbol. as they were
practically all doing more active war
work.”
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NOT STAGS OR SKULKERS.
Canon Murphy's Noble Tribute
Irish . Volunteers — They
a Clean and Gallant
County
Canon Murphy, Kilmenagh,
h poble
Kilkenny, raid following
tribute to men who fought, died,
fered for ireland:
To the baltor of the Kilkenny People.
ould your srace be not
ready overcrowded, 1 would wish we
state that [ have had a letter from
niece. a Sister of Mercy in the South
Dublin Union Hospital, in which she
informs me that the conduct of the ve
whilst
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3
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5
‘8 made a clean and gal-
There were no stags or
skulkers amongst them. They stood by
each other to the last. Hence a great
wave of sympathy has gone out to their
inemory from every true Irish heart.
dv relish the denuactia-
tory Terolutlons published in the Free
man every day. We should leave these
things to the bitter enemies of Ireland.
teers were
They loved their country
not at all wisely, but too well. I would
then again the
good Bishop of Killeloe—May God
grant rest, Heat and peace, to our fall-
en Voluntee
Caxoy MURPBY.
Kilmanagh, May 18, 1916.
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