Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Next Page
OCR
F : A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF. IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE,
Sprered as eecond-claas matter Oot 11908, at the Post Oftos at -
New York, N. ¥., under the ect of Congress of March 5. 1678
INSIDE HISTORY OF THE EASTER WEEK REBELLION, [2 "82% 222%*/THE PLOT TO PARTITION IRELAND IS KILLED
Authentic Information From Ireland and Personal Narratives of Men Who Took Part th tee wy af abe
in the Fighting, or Were Eye-Witnesses, Give At Last a Clear View of How the Tae Coe ca
Splendid Plaas Miscarried and the Dublin Volunteers, After Fighting Heroically for aj'moe ‘wom is vows" fr yb
Whole Week, Were Overwhelmed by a British Army Thirteen Times Their Number | rcwa.” ‘tor “eovioue Feteas thet
eeSit Roger Casement, Misunderstanding the Situation, Went to Treland to Prevemy: mane, Suet
Bloodshed and Induced Mac Neill to Issue thé Order Countermanding. the Easter). ssoster svaaay wornine there was
Sunday Mobilization--A Great Opportunity Thrown Away---Many Irish Soldiers; Scr saeatog a Yee oF |
warring section!
Vol. XIIL, No, 31. Whole No, 672, NEW YORK, JULY 29, 1916, PRICE FIVE CENTS. ‘
Redmond, Forced To Make A Show Of Independence By The Indignation Of The
People At His Acceptance Of The Exclusion Of Six Counties Of Ukter, Attacks
Asquith For Changing The Terms Of The Traitorous Agreement Aad
The Whole Scheme Is Dropped—He Was Tricked And Treated
With Contempt By The Ministers, While He Was Packing ‘
+ Conventions In Their Interest —Asquith Threatens Dis
solution And Redwond Fears To Face The Augry : i
And Thoroughly Aroused Irish People, ©
STORY OF AN EYE-WITNESS.
The plot to soit Ireland into twoyasserted that it was to be permanent
two rival} and th th Times at eee published
a . ae . 5 edes durin; is Easter, “owing to present | governments in ‘tne country and to call| the statement that Sir Edward Carson
Joined the Rebels and Thousands More Were Ready---Two Hundred of Ther |sotteatsitsaton the monptrosity "Hfome Bale” has been |had received from Lloyd George wit.
hep was a meeting of the staff hela | Killed. "The formal ceremony of exe- guarantee that Exclusion was to be
‘ cution was performed in the British | permane at rantee was sud- .
rouse of Commons on Monday, July 24,
but the senteace of death was pro-
Now in Wakefield Prison, While Irish and English Regiments Have’ Bloody| at Liberty Hall on Sunday afternoon.
ae yep Was a large crowd of nounced in Ireland, where the vast ma- t the a George proposals.
Fights at the Front England Seriously Afarmed Over the Situation. . . * foutstde; and the armed sentries of the | jority of the people insisted that the| But Redmond, Devitn, Dillon, O'Connoi
21 Cc monster must be choked to death. and the rest of the gang pretended to
death having already|
‘The interest of the Irish péople In) 60, and he received tom trusted friends the front on _furtough joined ‘the insur
nd ts pronounced in Ireland, the dis-| Were familiar with every tittle of it,
‘America in the Easter Week Rebellion|m Kerry: and Limerick the news that] gents a: an ‘active part in the| drawn up in batch
the German ship, with her cargo of| fighting 1 ther exe were station : and went on assuring the Irish people
in Ireland fs still fatense. This Interest 7, “hag sunk. Sir Roger Case| diers deserted during the fighting and/ about the.Custom House and credited and disowned ease pe tig | of the good faith and friendship of As- -
has been enhance the desperate ¢f-| tent, before his arrest 7 Kerry on hundreds ret fused to fire on the rebels. /qv At about 5 o'clock a number of \ Lloyd George and the rest of the
and tried to stuff it down Ireland’s|@uith,
throat, was compelled to make a show English tricksters. .
of spirit end to pretend that he—the of the points made by Carson is Il
forts of the British Government to keep! mriqay, April
21, had, sent a mesa, off a Munster garri
aching the out-| to MacNeill,
and - after nls! arrest he ihe Colonel doubting the men’s loyalty, | Hall
side id to minimize their im-| sent for st and asked him to rc-| addressed them on parade, stepped out|nolly came out and appeared to inspect - “
port: Bi Government| ho, Ry Tralee has| and declared that he desined to fight|them. At this time a man rode up on tnt itl not commen tthe 2. the '
knows enough to realize that its rule in| since written -a letter-which has been| his own countrymen, and his example| motor cycle and gave a telegram to one changes on it-and Redmond accep it.
Ireland was in serious danger, but it] canted to America stating this fact suo-| was promptly followed by forty-eight of. the police officers, who, thercupon, but they all insist on coercin, Tr
does not know by what a narrow mar-| stantially. = soldiers. There are now hundred | {ssued some orders, and about five min. Pen Derry Clty, an all of
gin it was saved from disaster. er Casement did not know the Irish soldiers ‘in we efleld Prison, jn|Ntes later the police marched off over which there is a Nationalist majority. .
situation in Ireland, Yorksh
ire, becau:
ing the rebellion.
of their action dur-| the bridge
and disappeared. The Cit!
-| Their delegates voted against E:
xclusion
were in the confidence of the Republi- ~ '|zen Army then marched up along the ;
very He admitted to Father Not one Irish: sol y . ed things at Asquith. e the Beifast Cony vention and Asquith
can leaders, while they knew enough to) pan and later admitted to others,| dier , has been shot. quay towards O'Connell Street, turned | nor at the close of his falsetto speech, | has received a ver: strong protest from
guess very accurately, were uneware| Yam and later admitted to others.) Tors Osis afraid to shoot. them, fear. back to the Hall and dismissed, These Bt the teadag Sat ve
suntil within the last few days of the| 4! > vere the only events I witnessed on the | fo" (n his pledge to support England |the feading Mationsliste ees
rebellion,” and in the war and his adherence to his| settin
cactual reason Wh:
inces did
s they should: They know it now.
whole inside story cannot be pub-'
y the whole four prov-
not rise as it Was planned| ¢
knew. that Ireland’ was yery| the front in France
fe gave reasons to Mzc-| ing the consequences in. the army.
- i mm there have been Sand
aghte between Trish
ie Is, Sad It
d Eng:
and Indian regiments at
,.and England . is.
STEPHEN'S. GREEN OCCUPIED. ~
+ On Monday at about 11. A. MT went
cut out of Ireland until some time or
other after thé close of the war when
against Exclusion. That document \ will
another column.
PEOPLE FORCE REDMOND'S HAND.
Dw
lished ‘at present, but enongh alarmed about Ireland a3 aho has not On Sunday last there was an open
8 s and he wanted to prevent nd as she has not| neni Streot.. My friends recognized’ aj they might be left out altoxether. Ire-
made public to-clear up the situation| | saiess bloodshed. He did not know ot| been for half a centur; Volunteer, Ww! land’ had already repudiated that cor-| S17 mectize of the ltizene of Dublin
for the benefit of Nationalists: in Amer-
held in the Phenix Park—the first al-
tea, "We eiready Koow that the betrayal| the favorable conditions fa the Britiea[ With that feeling none the tres antforen shen 1 ter |rupt “bargain, The Irich people. will) jowed since martial law was proclaimed
ane cto ie Britian Governinent-by-anomctal| EAFTISONS.-DoF ofthe Govern en a Oe ee a ay Dok. 40k yelands rotent-<againet-.the » Partition: of -~
ot rete hn nid of 6 of the! tne Irish Volunteers and arrest all thelr would have had . “elena chance of! until about 11:45 A. M. I then noticed acknowledge os on 1 fanient” ee ihe neces cheet to cay that
trae ae on ite way to irel mee -| 78 oF 102, members of the British. Par-lit wag attended Dy 6.000 people pret,
the English eet to > oreapt ihe vessel ao : , Moment ficcied ee a and whol ably a deliberate Untruth—and that it
and that she was sunk by cre’ ten toe “ ne he don tr 2 e e Hie reasury| passed resolutions pledging opposition
‘That the most serious set-back to for doing England's worl to Partition “by every legitimate
the insurgents. It left the Munstermen REDMOND PACES POLITICA | means." If It was called by the right :
without the eupply s necessary t people all Dublin would bave. tu:
enable them to strike an effective blow|” That te, the fal “hie which Red-/ out, but it was evidently big enough to
which would have brought to their si mond tried to side-track, but he failed.|serve as the last straw to force Red:
several, thousand Irish soldiers of the The rosuit {a the British Ministry ts| mond’s bi é
‘British army, it enabled the Gov- tottering, all Euroye knows Ire- ENGLISH ae oad AND
ernment to concentrate o1 tin dis a “small nationality” demand- !
army thirteen times as numeroils as ing her rights, and Redmond, contemptu-) aside trom the met st te ction '
the Insurgents who bela ost of the aly thrown overboard by Asai has!the debate in the Hou! ‘omamoni :
city fora at hard, cruel to face the angry Iris! ple who are! jast Monde; night sh ea th ft Aequtte,
blow, but st would net shave ‘been fatal determined that their rights and lber-| nq George had treated Redne
but * for otter edreum: les shall no longer be made a matter) wien contempt, believing, ‘trom long ex-
REBELLION. FAILED. of barter and sate in London. Asquith] perience, wou n
- Dubiva could have been easily ‘captured,
iH a te Irish Volunteers had turned
out Easter Sunday, as arranged,
Redmond it means political death, e
if the lection is held while martial lew
is in full
now. THE CRISIS cae.
Leading up to the incident in Parlia-
submitted to him in writing and de-
clared to be final, and then, after”he
had hopelessly committed himself, mak
AO A OE
ment last Monday evening, er
many more or less iroportant events in| faith and trickery, which made the Red- :
Ireland. Joseph Devlin, Manipulator| mondites yell, “scrap of paper” at him
General of the Redmond Machine, got] and taun with having betrayed }
together a packed and rigged “conven-| Belgium. Attor having’ helped bi .
tion” in Belfast at which « “resolution betray Belgiu: send many
a
was passed endorsing
after ate terrific fight. It could
not have been carried in any properly
constituted convention of Ulster Nation-
jes governing the rep
thousands of Trishmen to de slaughter-
ed uselessly, it was rather late in the
m|day to remind the British Premier of
erimes in which they themselves had
hand.
THE REDMOND WORM TURN!
ba? is how the cable reports the de
phe the House of Commons opened
ern “
resentation which had prevailed for j
ond quickiy. turned into’ submarine Been. yearn were aritialiy ‘altered Mr. Redmond asked Me. Asquith, amid }
joud cheers from the Nationalist
hi d by the order xpress purpose of excluding °
sine oy, zee eee OY aterwand: practically all the Catholle carates uf | benches, wh the Government had
a ane eo etlieacion the six counties, who were known to be| @ecided to depart from the terms of the \
mt order was not understood in ainst Exclusion. It was a Pyrrbic| *8teement arrived at by the Irish Party
America, but everybody gave MacNeill victory for Redmond tra Bared upon the proposals made by '
credit for goad intentions, while admit- So frightened were the Bosses of the|the Secretary: for War; ther th
creat } Mile ad he Party at the ferce resontment aroused | Government had determined to insert
tal effect of his action i Treland by, thel a tn the Bill new proposals at variane
itsurrection It demoralized d actlon that they decided to bandos | With the agreement without consulting j
into. confusion te Volunteer | Se a=aT To INSURRECTION MAP OF THE cry oF, puBLiN : jou abandon i
force outelie at en aed it kent & . or Pointe, of. Prominence tm the *sinw Fein Rieing. «| thetr loudly trumpeted project of a Na- the eee and i wheter the Ree 1
large number of Dublin men from turn- “PAB. Thas Janction ~of -Pemabroke + and 746” Wyk Cotlegi of Bureeoce, jonel: Convention to pase‘ upon the] ie ae a eeeved would Seal 1 ne
ing out. Later, they wanted to Hoa Nortnumberiand Roads, . ] 19. Shelbourne Hotel, le scheme. lin, past master in igorously
rer et Maaalnaten’ nd’ | 30. Wertand Row Hallway Staion, crooked police, could park tas he a opposed by the Nationalists,
Join the fighting men, they could not
Sar bear them and could only eat thelr
earts
6. Four Cour 12a BU Stepheors Green.
Daity Expresa Office.
sult Pactors.”
a
a5. ciaweiltines Howse Glaaltis Place
Ue’ Portcbetic Brides:
7, South Dublin Valo
fbatland Rosd. 23, Harcourt
22, Rrosdstone Ta
26 Stagucine Port, Phonte Pask,
y “Sa6 Roland's Bakers./
face a Convention, and got the de-
func Directory of the dead and damne
PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT.
“ Responding, Mr. Asquith pointed out
that the agreement was subject to the
approval of and revision by the Cabi-
leaders, which would effectually prevent, success.
romptly joined the in-) 1 chance of striking In the immediate] even one Atlantic
they were turn- future. ‘
c 6 1 all that can be said at present
The capture of Dublin and of numbers of Volunteers. and Citizen
port would give in-} Army men vas to’ 8
means of obtaining|, Green by tw
and would| When I reached | se ha
marines to so Citizen Army marching in. They closed | angrie more determined to pre- tions of the Cabinet Unionists and t
the supply of munitions and food t vent the ‘Partition of Irelan:
KNEW IT WAS TO BE PERMANENT.
During all this time while Redmond’s
Machine. was getting fake resolutions
passed ‘consenting to the “temporary”| be Pvought in ‘nto Ammediate > apatteation,
United Irish League to pass the resolu-| | wo main points bave emerged fr
Thi
Sl the agreement,’ continued, "and
both
MacNeill.
d he thought on Saturday that the
gountermand would stop the rebellion
bloodshed “which they
thought would be useless:
'ASEMENT CAME 10 STOP THE
was sentenced wards Harcourt Street.
: had done bis . .
Ing a rebellion which he ad caetnine there and’ numbers of thea| ide. the Green were. tearing
best to prevent would surely be sunk. This
bring the war to a speedy close.
Be
483
es
IRISH SOLDIERS IN SYMPATHY.
How mistaken both he and MacNeill] . n't the remotest idea thet gnrthing Suclusion of Antrim, Down, Derry, Ar-| while the Home Rule ne agreed
Maew til aan for tesa wore in regard to the chances of suc-| NARRATIVES OF MEN WHO SAY. | particularly unusual gol! faagh, ‘Tyrone and. Fermanagh, every| that the six Uleter counties shall not be
the etil had two. ane al issuing cess 1s shown by the facts that are now AELIC AMEBICAN presents to its} I continued: to walk on outside the | mother’s son’ of them knew it was in-/ brought in without their consent.
rder. He received ‘urday, readers this week an account write perman Tory pa-
Aor 2a communtention from Str
leaking out about the British army fe in
eer Casement, requesting him to do
a en e
Ireland, . Several soldiers home ym - by themselves, of the experiences of six (Continued on Page 2) -- ~ pers-in Ulster and in Dublin constgatly (Continued on Page §.)