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The Saelic: Amenican.
Jane 17, 1916, .
ENGLAND'S SHAMELESS BREACH OF FAITH.
Most Rev. Dr. Cohalan, Assistant Bishop of Cork, Who, With the
Lord Mayor, Induced the Trish Volunteers to Surrender on a
_ Distinct Pledge of Immunity, and by So Doing Broke the
aC.
ernment for Breaking Its Solemn . Agreement —
Men Gave Up Their Arms, T
England As
The Most Rev, Dr. Cohalan, Assist-
ant Bishop of Cork, in a letter t
press, scores the English Government
for breaking a solemn agreement enter-
ed into between the Cork military com-
inander for the Gover mment and
Cohaian-and the Lord Mayor of Cork
for the Irish Volunteers. This breach
of faith is characteristic of England and
9
mn
I am perfectly’ familar with
the negotiations for the siving up of
the arms. The Most Rev. O'Calla-
ghan, Bishop of Cork, was aon il to
take part in these negotiations. and I,
as his Assistant Bishop, took his place.
T will state what occurred in the form
of a diary.
“Monday, April 24.—This was the day
* of the rising in Dublin. In the course
abroad in
ris.
rd
that we should visit “the Volunteers ani
counsel peace.
there
of the Volunteers ani
We were assured that
would be no offensive on the part
‘ing was)
held by appointment in my house, there
Lord Mayor, a mili-
man’ and myself. The ques-
‘ tion of giving up the arms was discus-
sed. The military position was, that if
arms were given up to the Lord
Mayor or to myself it would b ict
ent; that the military authorities would
not demam
where t!
olunteers and to submit the
military proposals to t! em.
“Friday, April 28.—The Lo
and [ su! tted the military propose!
to the Volunteer leaders.
teer leaders considered the proposal. aad
asked for information on these points:
—(1) Whether if the guns were give
up tn the manner proposed by the mitt
tary authority
tated or would remain the property of
the Volunteers, to be returned when
crisis was over; (2) Whetber the vor
a
&
t
the Irish Volunteers while other volun-
tary to retain their
arms; (3) Whether the peice would be
instructed not to be annoying and irri-
Voluni teers, “)
of the pr
authority in our adjourned
etini ame Friday, night,
there being present the Lord Mayor, the
military representative and my: hi
ilitary representative replied to these
lows:—(1). The milt-
the papers should not
handing in of the rifles; (3) The Coun-
ty Inspector of Police would be spoken
to in order to check the indiscreet zeal
of individual policemen: (4) A permit} sn
al
Volunteer lead-
and other
correspondence w!
day night, May 1, was fixed a: the time
limit for handing in the arms. These
terms were accepted, and tt was a great!
relief to us all to be assured that we
should have no trouble im the city.
turday, April 2:
leaders visited the centres referred to.
was unfortunate that they left the
city, tecause in their absence the milf
tary proposal could not be submitted to
The! ts
id suggested
‘k of the Rebellion in Munster, Scores the British Gov-
en. the
key Were Forthwith Arrested—
erfidious As of Old.
was danger that the agreement arrived
at would not be put to the Volunteers
severally. undertook to attend, with
in the Vol-
d on this understanding
the leaders agreed to call a meeting and
to submit the agreement to
body of their followers.
the early afternoon the Lor
Thad a
resentativ tained
erecment
in already. I pointed out that accord-
that,
dress the Volunteers
the tim
should be extended to Tuesday night.
d that such a thing| ti
th
Mayor
y| Wednesday, May
c
©) Many Volunteers
@la special chaplain
county jail. The priso
ck
29.—The Volunteer
Peace were creating trouble in the city.
onda. May 1—At mid-di
Lert’ Mayor and-I met the Volunteer}
leaders. They were angry ‘that faith],
had not been kept with them, and there
the] attested by a witness.
meeting of
the general
Meanwhile, in
meeting with ine military rep-
wert t kept,
that the arms “should have been “handed nce of the
This was conceded by the military rep-
to do bind the military prison, was sent
for to att med prisoner. And
he unfertunate man. w ¥
been tutfering torture during ‘his. sus
pense, “and who was refused the console.
ton om relgtn {uring that trying per-
at las wed the ministra-
ton of a priest ‘shortly before midnigat
preceding the morning of his execution.
The ques tons a once suggest. them-
selves: — ere auch restrictions
put on the” ‘prtesta who minister to the
interned Germans in England? Do the
Germans in Germany put such restric.
tions on the prieste who are minister-
ing to Catholic prisoners?
“Monday, May 8—The police are
searching the city for the remainder of
the arms which would have
Lori
inte rithout deta:
“The one bright feature of the grents
of the past fortnight was our
resentative, who was most reasonable ‘representatives | gether, they
-| throughout. In the interval, betw ‘ould settle their differences in a r
this afternoon meeting and the night zona able and satisfactory manner.
meeting in the Volunteers’ Hall, the mil- ugh “Daxter Comatax,
itary representative telephoned me that ‘Assistant Bishop of Cork.’
Il guarantees were This is a moral for Irishmen in thi
would make it impossible for me to ap-| latest exam) lish treachery.
the ek mould keep a firm hold of
they should place no
bd in ‘Enelish promises. .
a
of advice or ¢
us, and they all should be inquired |
experi
0 a
. fitted upon her
THE VOICE OF WATERBURY.
Big Hall Crowded to the Doors
‘With Friends of Irish Freedom
—Mr. John J. Splain Ridicules
the Cheap Advice of Pro-Brit-
ish Editors,
WATERBURY, Conn, June 4—A
mass meeting, under the auspices of the
United Irish Societies, was held last
evening h
an pledged fealty to
the | cause of Irish freedom an de-
nounced England’s latest atrocities in
Ireland.
foile was ‘chairman and Mr. John
Splain was the orator of the evening.
Mr, Splain safd in part
“Here and
and that step taken in Ireland, written
y editors and others whose interest in
Ireland is as great.as it is for
in Timbuctoo, But
y this. revolt,
and throughout this broad land of
ours contributions will be raised that
6 may not suffer from the | wrongs in-
by Englai
“No Irish man need be she med for
speaking for Ireland on soil -which was
wrested from England. The way of
happiness for Ireland lies in complete
ond absolute independence trom
What ‘Old Hickory’ andrew
Jackson did in 1812. Sir Roger
ment tea to 4 16, AL
he. his followers failed, are they
less ‘peroes for this reason? Are they
any less deserving of reverence than
se
8
Corporation Counseb Francis P. Guitl-|
.| that the name in SS.
Carson and Pearse... The former had
elevated to he Lethe the latter
Peremptority shi
On Monday, Suse 19, at ‘s: 30
mass mesting will be held in the Au
torium, St Charles Borromeo, One Hun-
and Forty-first Street, near
Seventh Avenue.
OMAHA MAKES PROTEST,
Speakers Gondemn «Murder of
Trish Prisoners As an, Act of
Savagery.
. May 29.—Before an audi-
ence 2 which filled the council chamber
the City Hall’ yesterday afternoon,
three speakers delivered stirring talks
S
a
2
‘ on the but bject of Irish ae
an; ex-Senstor John M.
hurston er the Rev.
Platts smouth. The tmeeting. was hel
under auspices of the Friends of
Irfsh
Mr. L a Duan, who presided, said:
n American citizen. So are all
of us here. We take po sides in the
present European struggle, and what
we say elsewhere regarding
Irish freedom has no bearing on or con-
nection with that conflict. we ro:
vere the memory of the martyrs who
died in this cause, and before the whole
civilized world we protest the outrage
of their gxeeation.
Ex-Senator Thurston. sai
The mice rebel is alway
triot. It is only to the rebel who fails
When the Civil
War was ended, not a single man who
up arm!
rule they had willingly subinitted.
believe in the Declaration of In-
Sere with fon the angement —_- + Washington, Jefferson and other heroes dependence. ane from hat im ‘ortal
r ’ , of the. American Revolution? Robert: and from the example of the
ae re 2 eee ae ST. PAUL'S 8 BIG 1 MEETING. Emmet and the long line of. Irish mar.| Victors in the Civil War, I believe Enz-
failed and ti land may well take example,
savor and 1 atended the necting of/ Judge O'Neill Byan_ Says Op. the sweet anurans that they will ve Father shine
ee veitiiy calm ead orders, By e| rising in Ireland Was Not al torerer in the he ts of the men and], ect to express your sorrow for
very large rit, are elution was| Street Fight But a Revolution, the women of the Iri ” ne ‘yatriot dead. Bul, ra e than that.
ssed accepting tht ingement} Referring -to the insincerity of. the| YOu meet to protest wi at Your souls
1 ithe the militery. represen: * 1A bh ting] men who denounced citizens not in| 9eainst their execution as traitors, We
tae ish! "3 vuider.| T&S held last evening in the Knights) cvmpathy with England in ‘this war do not bel hey were traitors. They
ative. the same night a co! of Columbus Hall, under the auspices! ifn Splain sad: | were soldiers fighting for the freedo!
oe ergpertion tein fnformed thru of the local Branch of the Friends of). f their native land, d bya
~ irish Freedom. ting was call-| py. U S stronger power centuries ago, and al-
telephone by the Lord Mayor, our mili- ed by the Irish element in the popula- sphen in mine ‘Gv rar fen ot hen quered fi nis, yet never
friend telephoned his congratule-
ion and said that ew was splendid,
‘Tnesday,
“Tues: May ‘Notwithstanding:
the guarantee of 3
earlier stages of the negotiations and
ni
hi given before the final
meeting of the Volunteers, eleven of the
Volunteers rere arrest esday.
More were ti e been arrested, but
at the Temonstrance of the Lord Mayo
rests breach of
a cel b:
faith created a ad feeling end a very
dangerous excit Th
Lord Mayor
ement in the
and I visited ae “County
had he any objection to.the immediate
release of t jlunteers who were ar-
had no objection,
to:the military azpority at
Queenstown ‘representing how danger-
ous to the peace of the city it would be
fo keep the men in prison, e
tion of the city
murder by
| of war, and ti
the the cause of a i depen
D. Chairman of the
meta ‘was sntrodaced by Mine Thetotry
Suaze O'Neill Ryan, the orator of the
evening, said there is no use in minc-
The United States has not,
r the guise of
German Generals were
There was
Siegel and other G
Ph
There was no Irish hyphen when Gallo-
mays in the
@ statement that fully one-half of
thoee engaged in fighting for the Amer-
ican war for” independence were of
Irish birth.”
in conclusion, Mr.
time “with sland beaten and wit
America to back up the claim, Ireland
can, through the help of Germany, gain
lace
Splain said ‘he
United States
have disgraced itself by..a
mockery of neutralit
The speaker declared his belief that
the United States was on
entering the war to aid the Allies until
conference of ‘Irish-Americans was
in New York to protest against
ach action. “The voice of that Co
vention was heard in Washington and
still is rumbling there,” he said.
Judge Ryan paid his respects | to John
e verge of}.
n-| And the time is also
hep independence and can get 4 place
inthe Peace ~
> Attorney Thom: 3 Devi vine recited with
wonderful feeling ‘the “Sword S: Deer, /”
Totter
wing this with a brief addre:
Miss ‘Charlotte Molyneaux Holloway,
New Lo: don, said
“The time is coming when England
will ‘te wiped off the face of the earth.
coming: when Ire-
Jand will be represented in the Con-
ress of Nations. England hes talked
answer that the men would te
immediately berated We went to the! & Redmond, Irish m e Eng: oF ins selena Hom ue. 5 ike
county jail to meet tho men on theit| ign Paritament, who, without. author ‘hich has been daneled in front of
release, and to counsel calmness and] ity, pledged the fealty and loyalty of crying child and atch id Must as
rbearance. After a long delay they Ireland to England shortly after the) j¢ ws within snatched away just as
rent released. | ee ‘it: — thatl began. “He Hed when aid 1 The Mowing contributed to the
nly Tumored in the city since that| jand 1 to England,” declared the
after the prisoners had left the jail a| spe; a he foveal 5 musical rogram me: The Concordia
Counterorder was sent to the Jall dl | "He declared thet the recent uprising con a ae, ts. Ch oes a ack:
Fecting that they should not be releas| in tretand was not a street fight, but a| torr wady, Mise Batth, Erevtean Thomas
q
—Notwithstand-
z the guarantee and assurance that
the military authority would leave
he Lord Mayor, that
they. would accept our word that the
arms were given up, rms were
taken from the Lord Mayor by order of
the military authority on the night of
“Thursday, a nd . following
lays.—The mailitary authorities turned
thelr attention to the country distri
Cork in relation
ms to the barracks and prisons are:—
is no wholetime military chaplain, bu '
one of the priests of the parish attends
to the military barracks, while there is
prison
and on. Sunday the prisoners were not
allowed to Mass, though Mass was sali
th: ms. Knowing that
that the affairs of the conscience’ should
not be left over to the excited moments
flowing the mouncement of the
death sentence, that the chaplain
should te allowed to see all the prison-
tion was to be signed by the priest and
T have kept th
declaration, but 1 Atrected the ciupin
10 refuse to a the ch
lain to the barracks, who hes ‘otbiag
ft) as temporary chatrman.
made,
on the| Gri:
rev
titled, under the law of nations, to be
elven at least a trial instead of being|*
“shot down like
Tn conclusion he declared:
Irish-American,, and the man who
brande one hyphenated American, who-
he whatever position he
holds, rands the best type of American
citizenship.”
Resolutions denouncing the execution
of sixteen Irish patriots and declaring
“Tam
ts. that Ireland was entitled to indepen-
were wiarrested and| di
ce were ad
“Th Star span angled Banner,” and
“God Save Ireland” were sung.
soloists ere, ‘Miss Mary Keegan, Frank
Re i and John White.
Paceetaae-llasioaae
MICHAEL MALLON BRANCH.
Tuesday evening, June 6, the
Michael Mallon Branch of the Friends
ym was organized in the
irch, a Can-
seventy
members pledged themecives to support
the caune ot Irish Freedo:
. Christopher Dunleary acted
Several seirit
Se eeches were
eso anoney and Richard J. a
Pp
every
ing now to the aid of the Motherland.
The officers of this new
Rev. Christopher Dunleavy,
Owen McElroy, Vice-President; Stephen
fen, Treasurer, and Philip Looby,
Secretary.
333
33
be held on Tuesday evening, June 20,
m 8 o'clock.
ROBERT EMMET BRANCH.
Robert Emmet Branch of. the
The
Friends of Irish Freedom will hold
thetr regular
: Sonne and Patri
‘The next meeting of this branch will! ©
ick H. Bow
ST. BRENDAN'S BRANCH.
The St. Brendan Branch of: the
Friend of te Freedom hela a very
enthustastic 31
Gemen’ 's Hall, Ninety- .etghts "Street and
tdam Avenue, New York, Twen-
new members were enrolled
bringing the total membership to the
century mark. @ first contribution
the Branch has turned over $100 to the
National Counce
e|' Practical work seems to be the motto
of what promises to be New
leading branch,
hi
tices to the Irish Relief Fund Commit-
AB joard of Directors was appointed
at the Tas meeting, comprising the fol
lowing mem er Mrs. P. J, O'Sullt-
‘van, Miss Margaret Kane, Miss Mary
Moriarty, Mr. Danfel McCarthy and
This commence is already
active, having secured the services: of
Mr. John D. Moore, National Secretary,
to address the next meeting,
* Members will pléase note that the
next meeting will be hel
evening, Juns 16, at
Ninety-efghth Street and Amsterdam
venue, at 8: . Sharp. A full
attendance fs ‘neat desirable.
PADRAIC PEARSE BRANCH.
A meeting of the Padraic a are
m June 4,
his recent expert-
cneoe in Stilo ‘nd Philadelphia, and
sh
soul im the movement for Irish free-
“Commissioner John Murphy spoke of
the pressing need of help
uel oe Femoved, conditions must be
er mi make dre
ers who are interested should |
feend this meeting.
Se » Mars EL Lease contrasted the
treatment meted out for rebellion to
House of Commons, made} ¢
y’s,| © Fae!
-|Celtic cross which reached from
owed how those cities were heart and/ er:
means of re-|as
thou, ue!
willingly submissive. ~~
men who were martyred at the
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Irishmen live,
their names shall be revered. .
HOLYOKE SPEAKS OUT,
Speeches by Ex-Congressman
O'Connell .and Dry,Relly..En-
‘thuse Big Audience, ‘
HOLYOKE, Mass, May 2 ass
meeting under the auspices of mine
Friends of Irish Freedom, id - last
sympathy with the cause of tsk free
Mr. E, H. Cullen, Springfield, pre-
sided, and ex. .
O'Connell, Boston, and F.
Kelly, Pittsfield, ‘were the ‘orators of! G,
the e
Mr. Ml said England's savage |;!
tepoeition towards Ireland hae at loeet| ©
this country as to her ves and has
at one blow recalled to us that after all
she is the same old arrogant bru-
ym ecl,
d independence for sine "ovidences co!
f misgovernment fi
o
Why should. the. Irishmen fight for)”
the freedom of Belgium when there is
no freedom in Ireland? he continued:
Why should Irishmen fight for. the in-
lependence of Servia when there is no
hi
je who needs help.
You will no more find Ireland as a na-
and of
the Irishman
as an individual Taring to assist his
neighbors in time of troubl
iy said let it be clear about
means. Ireland will die if
wat Uberated from England, and Ire-
land can only be treed by beating Eng on
her
“potolutfons pledcing support to the
cause of Irish independence and de
nouncing England's brutality 1
dering Irish prisoners of w
pass sea
vi se! Jections were rendered by,
stepuen Driscoll and Daniel Kennedy,
being accompanied. by Miss Teres:
+++ *
ASTORIA IRISH IN LINE,
mass meeting, under the auspices
of the Thomas Prenels Meagher Branch
of the Friends of
held on Suna ¢ crenine june 4, in une
Mount Carmel Lyceum, Astoria. - Moré
‘an 1,200 a wedged themselves
into the hall.
‘acing the assemblage was a white
4
be
floor of the stage to the files above, on
which were inscribed the names of P;
rick H. Pearse and the other Irish
American and Irish
Agnes “Carroll ira are at
Spangled Banner” and
Treland ‘appeared on the stage and en-
twined the American and Irish flags.
Sheriff Thom: FF. Quinn a
guecas presided, and “introduced Mr.
| Bugland’s Ferocity
Ho}
Shine o “i
the| were electe:
sed
Incle Sam and a irl Tooreceened|
' CHICAGO'S ‘BIG 8 BIG MEETING,
Had Ended
All of Alliance With
United States—British Naval
Defeat a Hopeful Sign of Irish
‘reedom,
CHICAGO, June 4.—The ‘Auditorium
Theatre was packed last night with
friends of the cause of Irish Indepen-
dence. Long betore the time scheduled
for the opening of the proceedings
every seat in the building was. occu-
ied, and large numbers were unable to
gain admission,
Bourke Cockran of New York,
and Judge O'Neill Ryan of St. Loute,
were the orators of the evening.
Mr. Bourke Cockran said the butch-
ery of vi Patriots by Enalist tero-
d the hope of this coun-
Ya ever forming an alliance with
England, The time has come when it
is the duty of this country to end the
misrule of rela nd as it ended the mis-
rule in Cuba ii
England's only excuse for butchering
the sixteen Irish patriots was that it
could not maintain its government. in
fa
England is not a civilized govern:
ment, but oaly a perversion of govern:
ment, and if {t can not be maintained,
except ty butchering men Iike dogs,
en In the name of God, let that Gov-
ernment end
he audience shouted its approval,
3 feet, then, when the ap-
ed,
the men and wom
as a
Dopett ie of Trish” freedom.
Irish valor “on
Inlen soll may sive Ireland her Place
a fhe sun-as a’ republic among the Re-
PRacotutions Pee support to the
cause of Irish ce and de
nouncing Bnelien savagery in Ireland
were unanimously adopte
PITTSBURGH 4 Fons BRANCH.
". England Denounced for Sage Execu-
ish Lead
prrrseenen 5 .» June 10.—Five
hundred Irish citizens of the Pittsburgh
district gathered
ment that tends to bring about Nation-
al. Independence in [reland.
nai it tl Roger ent
Branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom
of Pittsburgh. e local organization ©
is to co-operate with the national so-
ciety of that name.
Attorney William H, Lacey was elect-
ed* President. |
Seven Vice-Presidents —
nM, Kelly; William “J."
CG
M. F. Creaven and J. B. Sheridan.”
William J. Cunningham was elected Fi-
nancial Secretary; Martin J. sonnel,
n| Recording —Serretaryy and UF
O’Laughiin,
ne speakers were "Samuel Byrne, M.
Gaughan, J. .Moran, Attorne:
Lacey,
Fitz erat, Miss margaret
McQuaide, State President of the A. 0.
ey “No civilized
untry fighting in the present Eu-
‘opean r has beer 10" to ce
It required
28,000 British troops and two gunboats
more than
Irish ritemen.
know it to be a fact—you would im:
would
made more headway against the enemy
than they have
ene
BRONX IRISHMEN PROTEST
A meeting will be held in St. Anselm's
School, One Hundred and Fifty-ffth
Street and Tinton Avenu , The Bronx,
Sunday evenii organize &
| Irishmen in Dublin.
Dwyer, Profess ee Lonergan ‘and
P.’J. Moynahan will speak.
onary
FOR IRISH FREEDOM,
‘ A branch of the Friends of Irish
Freedom, named after William Pearse,
was ‘ormed Monday... evening,"
dune 5ye at ‘the Scheol Hall
St. Pius’ Church, Brodx.” The
treat majority of those in the hall be °
bers. James L. Devine was”
Addresses were delivered
gan,
stirring poem:
: Honorary Pres!
Francis M. | Fagan; President, Hon.
james Devine; Treasurer,
Mulroy: Secretary, Leo Hynes; Trus-
tees, ary, James L. Lyons,
Michael J. McGrath.
Denis Spelliss:
the evening.
Among the other speakers were Mrs.
Elizabeth Moer, ident of the Col-
'y, who was the orator of