Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Next Page
OCR
penne
Vol, XIIL, No. 85. Whole No.
676.
NEW YORK, AUGUST 26, 1916.
Entered ne second-clans matter, Oct. 1. 1908,
=
Nel a
i
k,N. X., under the ect of Cong:
the Post Office at
if Maren 8, 1873,
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE. .
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WIDOW OF ODONOVAN
flad Suffered From Slight Indisposition
Anticipated When She Was Fowud
Womea Who Are Boing Such
Cause—A Gifted Woman,
Mrs, Mary Jexe O'Donovan Rossa,
_ widow of the famous Irish patriot who
was laid to rest in Glasne’
Dublin, a little over a year ago and
whose funeral was the greatest
tinalist demonstration that Ireland
had seen for more than half a century,
meetings,
wome!
the ‘ater ‘util two days before her
deal
On » puseday evening, August 15, she
was to have spoken at.a meeting of
Cumann mBan at’ Tuxedo. Hall,
Fitty-ninth: Street and Madison: Avenue;
but did, pear. jaushter,
McGowan, who is as active in
2
a
But on Thursday mornin:
miah,.on going to her room to call her,
found her dead.
Friends were at once notified by tele
s
&
been affected and that she died of
heart disease,
re was decided at once to take her to
which
was taker
where it remained until t the
pool, for final inter-
arles A, Cassidy;
OLearys sub-deacon, Rev. James Far-
Mes Daisy Crandall, organist and
Sholr director; Miss Jeannete Kenna
Mrs. Barbara Manley and Mr. Arthur
Foley.) soltsts! ars. ee O'Donohoe
. Gillespie, violin
Mr, ai
Mahony,
aertek Harte, Miss Nano
-na-Gae Long Island,
Padrate Penree rant Friends ot Irish
Freedom, Mr. Mrs. J. Barr;
irs. W. J. Dunne, Court Genevieve
Failure—Aiter Life OF Useful Work For Ireland, She Died At Time When
/ Ber Wise Counsel And Keen Insight Were Most Needed By The
Sacrifice And Devotion Was Left A Noble
Example For Mer Countrywomen.
vin Cemetery, | J
° ot the Untted States,
| a. sister,
was | Who. could afford to
a| Where she recetved a a {porous training.
ae poet!
t|the world would call ras
Peautifut 1 fora nieces were, set mt by | anc
‘Mr.| dition that they should go to America,
ROSSA DIES SUDDENLY
For Two Days, But Nothing Scrions Was
Dead In Bed—Succumbed To Heart
Splendid Work For The Irish,
Whose Fifty Years Of Self-
MeAleen and Miss Geneviere McIntyre,
ho: be:
Edward 1. Row .
Hon. J. Harry Tiernan, Seumas
MacManus, Stephen Dunleavy and John
D. Mo re,
Ban, Inc., and Daugh-
ters of Isabella sent large delegations
to the funeral,
livered at cemete Mrs. Mar-
garet Moore, who was a schoolmate of
the deceased. The casket was pla
land, Cal.
Several ci
were received trom “ire
‘ams of sympathy from varfous parts
"Donovan Rossa is survived by
Miss. Toabella M.
daughter, SI
MacIntyre; a daughter, Ellen, married
rs,. Isabel ° ant
O'Donovan Rossa; and by Mary jane
O'Donovan Rossa ‘ana Isabel and
mary, MacIntyre, grandchildren,
AN IDEAL PATRIOT'S WIE.
Mrs. oo at Bosses whose maiden
me was e Irwin, was born in
Clones, ‘cont ‘Cork, in 1846. Her
father iccessful business man
give his children
all of them
Roscrea, County Tipperary,
ome talent
eighteen
good
time,
town of Skfbhereen, which 1s
ing half a
that she never regretted the step, which
new GIRL TO maTRONEY WOMAN.
writer was introduc er by
her husband in Abbey Street, Dublin,
few weeks atter the wedding, with some
other men who are now
whom later uttered imprisonment, and
was struck with her girlish appearance.
2
together
of
s
3
Irish protestant Churel
‘Act—and he hed
soba already made up his mind to
release the Fenian prisoners, on con-
Six years of active life an ex-
Rose
» Mrs. McMahon, srs, Maurice
tended reading tour in the
United | wi
"het had “disappeared, ' exce
charm of manner, whic
het through Ife and seemed to increase
with the years, and she w:
level-headed and ‘clear
of the world. Yet ‘she was. only: tyenty:
four years of a
LIFE oF “SELF. SACRIFICE. °
riage her life
and self rabnegation, but she fill ed
with the highest Irish ideal: wand
enthusiasm carried her through overs.
thing. The Fenian leaders were most-
7
ing kind. - But during most of this time
ay. He was’ running
through the country, gnd North, South,
East and West, and in England and
jand, hi gf in men dy
the scores candtnsting differences and
3
bringing es of hope and of cheer
to the wath “An id he made one trip
to where the seeds of the
Ameri
Split "stich ruined
People office, cot mfigcatod its printing
Plant, selzed every serap of paper
poles could find, and arrested a number
} including practically all the
, Charles
ther: who,
captured a few weeks
ig those arrested
tzure.
Uke a
e8)
Miss vy
Ladies’ Committee to provide for the
defence prisoners and supply
hel oe to thetr fanaities
unm
nee rapidly increased as vern-
ment pi ied with the srresie. At
one period in 1866 there were 3, 00 men
was be:
muteh sickne:
Mountjoy. they supplied many
with wholesome food trom the outside.
Mrs. Labs President of the
Ladies’ Committee and Mrs. O'Donovan
Rossa was Secretary. It was the first
women's organization in ‘modern Ire
land and probably the first in Europe.
There was a Fenlan Sisterhood
Lad’
wi 1
America, and the ies’ Committee
3 had made a remarkable change
‘vir. The
mi
in Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa,
pt for the tes
h remamed with
eof the
the very moment ‘of he may-|Cpmann ni
‘was one of ‘est sncrifes in
'¥| vices”
“| through
how- | all
ber of famtites requiring |
Gover
shy and i Ireland while nearly all the chiet
‘many’ of. the * Socal - ones
"2 in orion they-earri wrted 6
Faiction "between Dublin’ and ‘tke
outry.’ Later ‘when the Rising
of. March, 1867, was‘ decided on- they
were largely the despatch: “bearers. They
e Ladies’ Land
League
inno country of the world women
of the people done such splendid politi-
cal work as in .
GAVE: READINGS IN AMERICA,
we
ie ‘Trend, decided to come to America
arn an Independent living, leaving
er little boy, w! ir parents in
akilty. arriving, in New ‘York ave went
a purse, of a tid:
bisher, the most: famous elocutionist of
fine collection of poetic and prose Irish
readings which were a great treat to
the audiences, Her work was the best
‘kind. of. Irish propagends Possible at
ims
Feniantem were) that The Fenian organization
even beginning to bring fruit. was hopelessly woite during thoce years,
SECRETARY OF LADIES’ COM- -|but doth sections, bitterly hostile to
MITTEB, each other, as they. were, could meet in
On Sentember 15, 1865, Dublin Castle] peace and harmony at Mrs. O'Donovan
middenly. swooped Trish | Rossa’s readings and remember for the
fo serve and
land and in England and Scotland. Her
work had a splendid effect.
Feil fupsry MOVEMENT.
Amnesty agitation, under
tne testership of Isaac Butt and George
Henry Moore, but really ‘managed dy!
the. reorgani through
“amnesty Sohn” Noam, vad Been going
on im Ireland from 1868 and growing
in. momentum a
series of gatherings almost ae Dig a
Orcoonell's “sfoneter Meotings” ta 1843
eld all over Ire-
fe Irish in England were
making Amnesty a test
relia, whe
wart come me the rele:
celved we
angered the Bri
made it decide that the next
should only be liberated on condition
of tearing the country.
‘K TO AMERICA IN 1871.
te December,
prisoners were 0
tish
released on that
red
condition. Gindstone was willing to re-| pi
(Continued on Page 6.)
ev J
e | of “Charles
| ketts
in the Parlia-|j
‘mentary elections, so, the English Gov-| ¢,,
A
t
870 all the civilian
STATENENTS OF COUNT AND COUNTESS PLUNKETT ©
Parents Of Joseph Plunkett Subjected To The Most Barbarous Treatment By Eng
land, Arrested Without Cause Or Warrant, Their Home Looted And Money,
Jewels And Papal Orders Stolea By
itary—Thrown Inio Filthy And
Verminous Cells Without Food Or Sanitary Regu‘ation, Refused
Change or Clothing And Compelled Te Sleep On Boards—
Not Permitted To Sce Their Sous, Who They Were
Brutally Told Were Shot—Countess Muskett
Suffering From Weart Trouble Denicd A
Doctor Or Nurse And Treated Savagely.
The following statements are not the
imaginary vagaries conjured up in the
seething brain of some Russian novel-
ist, nor are they the record of the treat-
ent accorded the unfortunate natives
ot the Congo; no, they are the recital
of what: England “the protector
small nationalities," ts doing to-day &
fountess Plunkett of
unbridled barbarity,
the country, and wi
are riding rough
ith the in:
relatives of the pen who ai
inflict upon the: e terrible pun-
ishment watch they alone know so well
how to
The Plunketts who are the most
prominent
Co
and
jong, and _ituctrious Ine
ot patriot Irish, and that wil! serve
whet England's ree. and ‘hatred against
emt all Oliver Plunkett,
was later admitted to be false, and it is
now quite evident that the England of
to-day will be litle behind the England
vin: dealing with the Piun-
of our time-as whe old England
dealt with a Plunkett th
pmtess Plunkett, who
firet order of intellect and
of fe highest Hterary aud artistic a
tainments, e an
fuvent end would shine ia the high:
est cirples of any country." But in Ire-
land, under the benign rule of the Eng:
and treated minon felons because
And now, pie their oldest son Joveph
shot to death, their two other sons,
se
who are little “nore chan rors. sent to
le gleven soldiers.
he
we do not heal
people we sit idly
pass with. impunity, then have we fall-
ir indeed,
* mot prohidit it, batten itself upon the
Count Plunkett had re
: The Cri
t
ligh, they are proscribed and banned
as co
blood of our people, turn’ our Bother.
land into a shambles and by
every inhuman agency to “orig about
the destruction of our race.
STATEMENT OF COUNT
PLUNKETT,
Count. Plunkett. was in his house in
Street,
preduced neither werrant nor order, al-
hough they were under the comman
of officers.
ey burst open desks
ai
of which he had not the keys, and “hey
flung the contents about. They stole a
large sum of money and a quantity of
Jewelry, and the Orders which
ceived from the
Holy oss of Commander
of the Holy Sepulchre, the Grand Cros:
ribbon cy
all
they took’ openly was the
appertaining to his uniform as Director.
The police tried to get the Count to
acknowledge that he had a revolver and
other weapons in the house, but h
none, Then Countess
Plunkett returned home, and the police
said the Count had better go with them;
and the military and police took him in
an fron:
said that he (the officer) had nothing
more to do with pe matter.’ No war-
rant or order was produced, as far as
the Count kne?
s then ‘Dvening, and Count Plun-
watt rought, with about twenty
others -(including some poor wretches
jooting), and they were
night of horror.
them had eaten nothing from early tn
the previous day, and none got any food
until the morning of the 2nd, when
some beef” in tins, hard bis-
Richmond Barracks, being subjected to
insult by the military and the disrepu-
table camp followers o1
Richmot
ed several wounded men
Senn who recetved no special consider-
ation then, Thelr food was bully beef,
5233
brown biscuits (the Count broke. three
teeth trying to eat them), and bad t
without milk or su
‘The sentries locked. these’ men into
had to sleep on the dirty boards with.
lo
(Continued on Page 7.)