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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH ‘LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RACE, mate
Vol. KIL, No. 39, Whole No. 680,
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916.
Bx
tered as second-class matter. Oct. 1, 1909, at the Post Office at
New York. N. Wa under the act af Congrens of Maren 3, 157%
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE BATTLE OF ASHBOURNE
Told for the First Time by a Young Dublin Volunteer. Officer Who Took Part in it
And Who Escaped Arrest After ‘the General Surrender of the Insurgents---A Fight
- Which Showed What-Would Have Happened Had the Fatal Countermand. Not Been
“Issued and All Ireland Had Struck on Easter Sunday---Forty-Three Rebels, Imper:
“fectly Armed and Many of Them Mere Boys, Defeated a Force of a Hundred and
Sixty-Five Policemen, With Nodera Rifles and Plenty of Ammunition, After Seven
Hours of Desperate Fighting---Forty-Eight Peelers Killed and Wounded and the |*
Rest Made Prisoners, the Volunteers Losing Only Two Killed and Four Wounded-.-
Superior Military Skill and Courage Won the Day---The Best Bit of Reading That
“Has Come Out of Ireland
The Battle of Ashbourne was a small
affair in a military, sense, but it was
ant.in the fact that it dem-
isol
ops and several
would have been
the nucleus of an
thousand Constabul
verwhelmed and
k
Irish army put in the field before re-
1d have been sent from | Py
inforcements coul
England.
» These : reinforcements, composed
rely of raw men, with incompetent of-
-ors— proved themselves to be be
fortes the week's fighting in Dublii
ot have bi
ern port Ww
captured and the submarines, with this
norm tage. would have be
sabia to Play havoc with the Britis
nition and food ships
ped “Amer! Th rmand of
the Easter ‘Gundey mobilization, brought
gent by eircumstancet need not
ssed now, and the capture and
Satine of fl e Aud, with her precious
cargo of Germ: ms and munitions,
prevented th al movement which
had een sey planned.
4 MEMORABLE
ht on
ver and mad a
The cable
hes -and newspaper reports at
the time-gave the number of Tnsurgents
as 400 and th that of the Constabulary a:
60, @ deliberate English Me.
The Potoe numbered 105, as the cap-
tured rifles proved, and the policemen
whé testified at a trial a little leter
put gents at about 40.
ut: th
actual number was 43—four offtvers and
39°men. Many of these
boys. Eleven
fng one Liverpool ad ti
in the
days "of: the Dabtin titiog
st
mn} ing chau
kel
| cided to pay a visit to Belfast.
of ine ioe a includ.
ql
Since Easter Week.
vantage of the terrain, which was
preatty in their favor, were able to con-
ceal their infertority in umber and to
setually und the enemy and pick
them eful “toot ‘ing. One
strong stone house which enabled them
both bodies of police w:
pluck won a! even
fighting, when eleven Insurgents made
barge. and finished it in
ercauaee oe “the. P Paley includ-
ffeurs, led and
wounded while those of the Rebels
wound-
‘The 2 Rebels who were Kills
rere. J of, seventeen,
od. is
an
thet own casualties, putting the total
z
etonirracs OF THB VIOTORY.
rish Constabulary is composed of
men at splendid physique, who are well
trained in company drill and get regu-
jar target practice, but, of course, fight-
ing insurgents 1s a thing they cannot
Easter Monday morning, April 4,
ant doy, visite
nineteen, ‘whos Feckless ‘courage |
e their heart in. But that a little’ wo}
FRON THE POST OFFICE TO ASHBOURNE.
‘band of 43 Irish Volunteers, nearly half
of them boys, were able to defeat 165
Policemen by superior
and courage, and make
military skill
prisoners of 117
of them 4s @ lesson that will have due
and munitions, and led
Generals, would be able
v
e
a
yt be pent against them.
son of the Easter Week
Irish people
explains thelr resolute
othe Horr of thé Battl
written ng
it it, with an account of
English army that
ave learn
man who too}
by! expertenced
to hold Ireland
This is the les-
Rebellion, mee
ed it and t
and etormined
le of Ashboarne,
K pat
the experiences
Ma the little Dyblin ‘contingent defor
mend is. herewith pi
a junction. with ahene's com
it is the
‘bee c vnoane uid
best atnry. thet.
since Easter Week.
sons some names are’
detention camps or ere
Ireland} 50)
For @ obvious: rea-
mitted. Com
ced to. im-
i
still at liberty,
and the publication of their names
wuld therefore
ttoned, as -having met.
de injuriou
the qua}
on ys in-
formed me as to the outbreak and told
O'Connell Street, and seemed delighted
ery railroad bridges
could tow
along the ‘quay. and up O'Connell
Street, wehlen was deserted e!
groups
windows.
was stopped by a Volunteer sentry. ts
my ‘excitement I threw this man aside
shoo
ce
B
R
and rushed {into the Post Oiees ee
aide, the frst people
Connolly and Sean MacDermott sltting
upturned mal baskets. My brother
ae own on Sein Mac.
Dermatt’s, ‘et ‘hand side agd. a8 soon
as he saw me he jumped ug and grip-
ping my bende, ‘shouted: cB _—
——, I knew get hi
1 2 turned to Sean
and told them brtety where I had come
from and the er of men who were
holding > “Amiens, Street Station. T
aoked Connolly for-a dozen men to take
is place, but he sald he did not con-
ser it oh, importance, as the bridge
ad jestroyed.
train
ran home for my rifle
uniform. My mother had m:
Fevolver loaded for me by the ‘tm
put my uniform on. She handed them
to me, saying, “ 1, take no ury
necessary 11 ’
OPERATING ON | THE
aad. Connolly
10 HOLD MONSTER BAZAAR IN AID OF IRISH RELIEF
Griatet Irish Function Ever Witnessed in This Country to be Held in Madi-
son Square Garden From Saturday, October 14, to Monday, October
23—United German Societies to Co-Operate—Former: Manager of
Barnum and Bailey’s Circus to Put on an Immense Show of Which Two
Performances Will Be Given Daily—Vast Number of Prizes, Including
Automobiles—Most Prominent Irish Men and Women in New York in
Irish Relief Fund,
A great Irish Bazaar is to be held
Madison Square Garden, beginning
Sanna, “oct ber 14, and ending
23. The Bazaer will be known as
the “ten Relief ‘Fund Bazaar” and it
wal ee onducted under the auspices
New York Committee of the
Trish ‘Relief Fund
The pi roiect | has recetved an enthust-
astic reception trom every portion of
the city, aad it fe coufdently expected
that the Irish Relief Fund will net
$1004 000 clear a8 a result of the Bagsar.
the duisactivences of the
NORTH rR: cireu! it on” one of the -biggest
shows New York has ever se ‘0
Returning to fhe Post Office 1 was| performances will- be given y,
then put in mand of a party: of|and it is expected that the general pub-
twelve men sod “ret to the North Cir.
cular Road. rried hand grenades
and our instructions were to report to
Captain Sullivan, who was holding two
point. the
we this station we met only a
soldiers and did not even
bother, chellenging them.
Sullivan and found he had a
4
bridges, one of which crosses fhe North
Circular. Road end the othe:
ately in the rear of it
| Covered the Hues fins into the Broad-
ai
‘oad Stat
gz the: gn we destroyed ‘one
ot those. bridges by Bown Ing it up with
stone
across bot! ges
My except the challenging ne ferutiny of
ese | Patrick J. Conway, President of ‘the
civilians who wished The:
were interfered with mae How-
e they were riding a automobiles
re took the tr cars and added them to
pLOcE SD THE ‘MIDLAND RAIL-
Very early niestay _moring I -went
with two other. men déwn on the rail-
road and walked into. the “Brosdstone
Station. We made the switchmen work
the points-and ran an engine and ten-
der on te "ie incoming track, ‘We coal-
e to “capacity and swung
the lever to full speed ‘ehead and then
before she had gathered speed jumped
ere ot the ‘Ninety-Etght Rebeliion: I
y row Trish
In Belfast there was fo
* gevotatton that day, and I mt
arriving “in.
He with the ustal
profane entalhents of the English
of sev
—— Sin
and effected @ junction w: ‘Tommy, her
Volunteers, who formed the bulk of the be} Fein Repelion’ tn ‘niet et it
Ins Ashbo’ arae, and w ere was a
had nireaay A apured or invested: "Yes, by of St; there
Police barracks to the County Dv?
The Rebel commander was
Ashe, the 1 wall ienown Gaelic
8 Kerryman, wh
tn North County Dublin .
The English news| 's_and
cette desptaches me ‘the tales were
also a falsehood.
had time to disarm the policemen, elgh-
teen a with six or seven
Ucemen tn. a on bicycles,
who had m Slane, nine miles
to the north, fasted a ths | real fight
began and the bad eur-
rendered i ismediatly “opened fire on .
their ca;
Won Ors BEIDL: AND COURAGE.
m were, they
°f seasoned ‘veterans, “ They took’ ad
ic Leaguer, | #01
10 was teaching school
wi
.;are dead men lying down there,”
in pumber,
I then left the station, pasaing a police-
man and two railway officials at the
gate. Then making my way down Barl
Street passed other policemen
sem ising in
‘Turniny street,
I made aomn lowers saberty Hall.
which. I dese:
streets ‘were practically
ea oat I met one civition
quays was, first, to seo if I coul
any assistance to Connolly, but .w
it
the promptness, skill and cores. fo
ind Liberty Hall deserted I intended
os to the Volunteer Headquarters
on Saweon ‘Steeet. The tviiion I men
SOENE OF THE BATTLE OF ASHBOURNE,
(Traced From the Ordnance Survey Map of Ireland From a Sketoh
made by the Writer.)
Citizen Army,
Stephen’s Green.
Hearing this I ran as
f
I]at the. success of the Volunteers and off. Our Ide
who’ were occupying
fest as I could
a was to block the line
against any Ancoming troop trains.
(Continues on Page-2) .
reached | by
y | of the Executive
tlonal body, and acted favorably on the w
.| Project, an
show and anpreciattvely help the re
ceipts of fhe
anagement. of of the Bazaa:
so shaped the financial condittons of
it that entire. receipts
the Fair with seneceiptone, whether
le or raffie, nded to
Irtsh Relief Fund sitnout nthe feduc
tion of a single cent for expenses, an
the management “points with
pride to this feature, that not even the
two ve German Boanars
such is, as
Booaae the Sxpences were $22,000 and
18 Secor pa ao ermal
BS
in Bazaar the expenses oe
were $65,000.
The’ Local Cot mmittee a the
York fommitice of the.
oe . reek” int
Mr: George es cultespie, the Chairman
Committee of th:
New
project: \- Justice - Daniel alan,
james K, McGuire, and others ins at:
tendance were strongly in favor Of the
a five wa:
jazaar to see the| 00
ot} of
Charge—Entire Proceeds, Not Deducting Expenses, to be Donated to
The German-American, organizations
will do their share in making the Fair
a success by taking anywhere from
to twenty. bootha
‘he United German Societies at their
last meeting on Friday asked for six
booths, the ican pop
lation of Greater New York is gotng to
take active interest in thi
Bazear.
It is worthy of note’ that the Chair-
in Societies
rt make it a success in every
onse G. Koelbl le, who planned the
day,
fet ermen Bazaar, which netted $340,-
p eixtcen lays, and was the mov-
ing nd, which netted
$800," 500 “in ‘inistece days, will himself
age the German
from the German booths wil! be no less
the| than $20,000,
It is proposed among other things to
azan
rably reduced.) i665
“The Cathollo cleray are expected to
appointed to act with power in the mat-| were
ter. It consisted of George J. Gillespte,
Irish. American Athletic Club; - Hon.
James , John J. O'Leary and
Thomas Hughes ‘Kelly,
‘Treasurer.
Mr. John. J. O’Leary..was chosen as
tt
the Manager of the ar, and Mr.
0" i lately on assuming the
responsibilities of the @ mad “
quick canvass of the City of New Yor!
and by Sunday r ment had the promise
of close to’ thi
‘proposition ot the project. was
recefved everywhere with enthusioam
an tre mendous finauclal and me
success of the ‘aar is assured beyond
thi t.
ary and hie fellow commit:
teen an are convinced that the
maar depends absolutely on n the
the National
from. ai
relfet funds for over two years; so that
it is believed that the ‘nancial 2 result
of the Irish Bazaar will exceed the ex-
Pectations o of the originators.
The the _iish Darsar
would be aind get in touch
Tadlos or organizations who riety to to
have booths, or who wish in any way
to assist as workers in m
Bazaer a success. Write or phone to
Mr. John J. O'Leary, Manager of the
trish Bazaar, 52 Broadway, Phone
ens ro ad.
is expected that’ approx! amatohy
zat ladies will be active on the floo!
stor ot ‘the la the amphith
this time “ine following ladies whe plaus of the Bazaar have
have aceured drawn by August. P. Windolph, . who
ss Sarah Mel drew the plans for the two German
am Dantel MeCarthy of the Cumann
“vary ‘Meveteh, Secretary of
Brooklyn branch of the Irish Retlet
earES
Friends of frist Freedom,
#
Madge
Buse Sloan,
Jennie Naughton. nd the Brooklyn
teachers, four booths.
mes K. McGuire, and Mrs.
Timothy A ae end | Miss Finn, one
or
Miss M. Me Roem, } Red Cross booth:
Miss Conway, daughter of the Presi-
dent of the Irish-American Athietic
Club, o1
ne dooth.
se Helena J. Kelly, 0
Mies Mary A. Doonalty, one 2 toh
its. Daniel F, Cohalan, on
It 13 expeoted that
Chapter of the Knights of Columbus
Will take five booths and have a Knights
of ‘Columbus Day at th
Knights of Columbus Dailaing fund, of
which William in fs ‘Chalr rman,
was een powe to set. ‘in this matter,
In addition to these booths, the for
lowing organtzations will be asl
c. Neguinness and Miss
an
the New vere be di
Bazaars.
There will be three platforms in the
e| centre of the amphitheatre, each 22
by 30 feet; one for music and the other
two for the show.
booth o Ddooths will be
butit around this centre.. The city will
these two rows of booths of over 40
feet, ee ee th of the Garden, so that
tl more room on the main
bere wil
foor Sn Tuner of the two German
een suggested that the main
promenade ts be
named after Irish-Amertcan heroes and
the booths themeclves be named: after
ooths themselves will be paint-
with a
the colore of of the ish Fe ublic—Green, +
White and Grange. 6 boot
some 1 000 feet of shelving will be
firepros
The “inales in chara of ae booths
witl be oo ved th securing or
decoratis ant the
City of Boothe | ts constructed, they will
are expected to take other booths: only have to bring their articles and
The "anclent Order of Hibernians, prizes,
The Ladies County Seer ettons Among the first prizes secured fs a
The Danghtere of Isabel Pord lie, ich Mrs. A. @.
vane Wom ste “penevotent Koelble will dispose of on chances; an
ion, and various Councils of Friends
of an Freedom.
rs, Thomas Hughes "Kelly is to be
aaked to accept the honor of Chair
woman of the Ladies Committea, -
while
among the Gorman-Americans enough
_ Wontinued on Page 8.)