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. A JOURNAL DEVOTED To “HE CAUSE OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE, IRISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE IRISH RAUE.
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“Vol. XII, No. 46. Whole No. 687. _ 3 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, 1916, Dplernd an eecond-clang mattar Ort: 1108 at the Pout Ofica at: PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HISTORIES OF THE EASTER WEEK REBELLION
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Complete Story Caunat Now Be Writtea, But Numerous Personal Narratives Of
Participants And Observers Supply Much Useful Material For The Future
Historiaa—Book Just Issued By The Devin-Adair Company Pays High
Tribute To The Insurgent Leaders, But Lacks Accuracy— At.
+. tempt OF Some OF The Writers To Plead For lretand’s Retea-
_ tion In The British Empire Out OF Place Im Such A
~ Work—Criticism Of The Leaders’ Plans By A '
Civilian Founded On Nisieformatioa—But
‘There have been more than a score
of” bool ete pamphlets, magazines and
en those
ful
mer Nnsurre tion in
the | actual fighting,
leader survives to tell of the
prisons or int ting. The ritish drag-
net was ver and at no for.
mer period. in ors “History “was its
early impossible for a political sus-
oes ‘to reach safety abroad.
these reasons: no real history of
te Tatest Irish Rebellion is now pos-
fble.. There are a few men in Am
‘rho could give a partial account of the
plans and produce ithportant documen-
lary evidence, but the time has not yet
making Ireland @
f considerable: proportions.
A
than any of t
ed to, entitled “The Irish Rebellion’ of
936 ‘and Tes | Martyre: Drin’s: Tragic|”
been tscued by_the
rood, and typographically and’ other
it is a my creditable piece of,
ebook “is aiviaea into two parts,
five. Par
er remotely, with the causes, which
the Rebellion
g
2
attempts
coals with “Personalities ‘and Ideals”
contain 8 fine sketches of the lead-
‘omen, who kne
the by
_ GEORGE RUSSELL'S SALUTATION.
noble ‘deals of the
of these tributes is the ciation a
deautifal poe! @ W. Russel ell
whieh loses nothing by the fac
that ‘the author does not believe in ve
did not je
bellion and ay
Rebels. He apostrophizes Pearse, Mac-
Dons ma Connolly" a a ntess:
Marki new—
fiving ‘them high ‘alse "tor pe atiity ot
motive and then inoludes the, wi
Uttle Rebel army thu: .
“Here's to you, men I never met
But hope to meet behind the vell,
Thronged on some starry parane’
That looks dow pon Jnisfail,
And see the confluence of dreams
That clashed eae in gurmnieht
One river born .
Roll in one blaze es ‘inding Tht:
_ THE FOREWORD. a DISAPPOINT-
‘| The frst fast re stead, ot the
Rebels— ore
ero} whe an “yet tore aster W eek
will tind with ihe tre. is in the Fore-
word. Editi
“Either Ireland is “To become an in-
dependent nation or sbe is to remain
rop of, stories| sen:
| shoul
7| cloud his judgment.
fuck spade. W
IL] 4
th
fntimately. The is the best portion of
fo!
There Are Many Fine Chapters,
within the British Empire. Some of
those whe tow
to see overelsn Sta
not velteving: that possible, or, perhap:
desirable, think she well remain
y| loyally within the Empire, if that is} 6)
BS
a
destiny she w! main in
it as a partner ani
se’ of politi
the writers of
opinfon, some the
ical actualities. Among
k some hold one
e Editor
e-|has allowed each writer to express his
ely.
opinions fre¢
Why should a book, written as a his
wholly sie ent fr
Rebels sought?*. Why shou!
ea| acquainted with the plans
Rebels, except through public sources
of information, w write si
a history at a time when Inside “know?
edge is not available to them
portic t the book which eat with
the Rebellion iteolt are written wholly
such men, gvith’ the result that, in
vehicle for even a very Imited defence
of John Redmond, and "tor crediting ae
arly, wwe
mor
announcement of the “nat batch.
with achievement
VERY” iva ‘cconare STATE-
is meet “intortanat that
tus first chapter, “The Political
it} Alignment of Treland” and the chapters
which deal wi
have been writ
dissident
ith the actual fighting
‘itten by one of the
Nine-tenths of his
description of Ireland's political alten:
ment is | geen rate,
men'
sertion “phat the “have
often ‘gone too far in their denial of
Party have done,
need of healthful criticism, is very far-
fetch hod. He ot bvtously confounds the
it Party, wbich Bho.
= ite nothing, sian the erty ¢ that was
whose work was not
Sinn Fein His
has done
cried by the
emient’ that
js absurd.
lone more
dig the grave of Irish Nationality.
Passing over some intervening chap-
ters and coming to Mr. Joy's “General
Narrative of the Rebellion,” we. find
most of the statements of fact to be
correct. It is mainly.a ‘ummary of
no of the principal points
te very cai yobtainal able.
DECISION TO FIGHT.
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gf
z
fomented from
shadow of foundat ation.
om decision to fight vn Easter Sun-
as taken in Dublin i January,
with frout any one in Germany having® the
{ notion that it had been
fred at. The information reached the
from Dublin early in
ited States
re cbruaty, with a request that it i con.
yeyed to the
Gene i Governme!
decision was not
Goveringeat on
German help—though Merman help was
asked after the blow had been struck—
nor was the advice of anyo!
lectsion
statement fs preontrovertibte and easily
susceptible of p:
ASELESS cartictss OF PLANS.
Mr. Joy’s account of the actual fight-
ing {s as good as
command would
t
eupying Stephen's Green, and does n
see! know that they made an at-
tempt ‘Trinity College and failed.
They were defeated he Officers’
Training Corps, wh “ad a. machine
un, This fact was published in some
of the personal narvat ives and General
rial franks to the
1¢ certain
Fairyhouse races, or me obeying
the countérmanding order. Had all tl
urned out those tel
d all the well-laid plans
and brought confusion and demoraliza-
tion where previously there had been
perfect order and ‘co-ordination. . In.
be | dinate oicer | and
“| and desperate, and in m:
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stead of a general rebelifon all over]
Ireland on Easter Sunday, in which all
the Irish Volunteers would have taken
Part, there was on ter Monday @
partial uprising ordered by a man who
a subo
who was, so far ai
they knew, contravening an order of
thelr Commander-ia-Chiet.-
Plans had to be changed in a hurry
un-
availing, e'
home. Thfs
m y large measure of success int
possible, but action had to be taken to
prevent disruption and disarmament
and to stri jo
urged by Pearse at a meeting in Dub-
in Easter Sunday evening.. “Ire
lend ts dying. he said sand {t {s-neces-
sary for to die to save her.”
Tt was this vapecch which brought about
the Rebeliion on Easter Monday, in
spite of MacNeiil’s countermand
WHat MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED.
Had the plan to strike on Eas!
day teen ‘carried 0 a shines would have
ich would surely have come. Dublin
had only a Httle over 2,000 raw men {
7 Galway
~all Irish, not half ti
single competent ofne:
three cities or in all Ireland
r statement in Mr. Joy's “Gen-
eral Narrative’, that is incorrect is that
"Eoin. MacNeill not only threw
fluence in against rebel-
lion, but issued an order countermand-
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at which Eoin MacNeill took any such
action, The order countermanding the
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- FINE MEETING INF PHILADELPHIA.
Academy of Music Packed With
Honor to the Martyrs of '6
Jeremiah O'Leary of New
United States—Herman
sides.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov 5.—The
in
meeting held here under the auspices
the Cla Gael at
Suste on-Thursday evening, November
, to do honor to the memory of
Manchester Mai met
the Easter Week Rebeliion,.was one o}
the is est and “most enthusiastic ever
hela in ‘Dhtladelphla, ng before the
meeting stai mense Acade}
was manifested
Man: he men who were go brutal-
ly murdered by the command of Max-
well after we were well
iawn in Philadelpbta, and the Irish
omen’ of the city eagerly
to the Academy to do honor
0 thee nlemors, and to renew their al-
legian devotion to the cause for! when its leaders put the interests of
which they so. herotcalty The| England before those fea, an
Committee in charge of the celebration when the President without an atom of
had worked unceasingly for weeks pre-| justification d ci sloyal the
vious and the fruits of their ‘aber ms Irish citizens of the Republic, who did
one of the finest and most representa- to save the’ country whenever
tive gatherings ever here. it was in danger and without whose al
pany of Irish Volunteers and | and sacrifice ft is very doubtful if the
company of German Uhlans paraded to| Republic would be 4
eademy accompanied by the Irish} 4
th
Volunteer Band, and took their place
a
at the back of the stage. There wi
splendid representation of the Germs:
of Philadelphia, who’ are working in
tifully decorated, we ot stars and
str ‘ipes an White and
Orange of the Sieh Republic. “anere
musical programme, same of
1 American, Irish, and German National
Anthems the entire audience stood to
an
attention.
CITY SOLICITOR coxwouny PRE-
he meeting was presided over
sie Sot P. Cor onnolly, “City Saltctor,
wito splendid tribute to
Banehester Martyrs and to the men
"LEARY ARRAIGNS WILSON.
People and Resents Slur Cast Upon Their Loyalty to the
Ridder
of American Press—City Solicitor. John P, Connolly Pre-
ns tne ‘Sta ten
of,
real Americanism. The hall was beau-
ees .
Inntnense Audience Who Pay
7 and Those of Easter Week
York, Pays Tribute to the Irish.
ondemns English Control
.
to the Manchester Rescue in 1867 and
having eloquently eulogized the Man-
chester Martyrs, Allen, Larkin and
O'Brien, and the men of that heroic per-
jod, Mr. O'Leary severely ‘ arraigned
President Wilson for his offensive r
flections ‘upon the naturalized ‘citizens
of this country, particularly those of
referred contemptuously to the various’
people who come to this country as
ing immigrants of the
“meaner so!
Mr. O'Leary sald that su noueh “he
had always been a Democr:
phat a 80 lusty termed the pro-Brit:
erican press of
DER ON GERMANY IRISH ALLI-
AN
Mr. Bernard igor of the New ror
Staats-Zeitung spoke at length o1
been aeromplished
great good that had
by the bringing together of the Irish
and Germans in Am Thanks to
the camps ed
Americanism he said, that it would be
impossibt Tort the pres
ent day,
papers by Great Britain, because of her
power over the export of samuel print
aper.
Resolutions were passe: cd pledging the
e
adelphi: parate Irish
Nationhood, their untiring efforts
to bring that about, aso ounc-
ing the intere: e@ present
Democratic Ramtnstration in Washing-
e
whieh had been scheduled to leave Gal.
‘0! ment, and had the effect of doubling the
had noja
. Conscription i it cout be carried out
-| London
IRELAND IN GRIP. OF
ENGLISH MILITARISM
Attempts To Sabdue The Indomitable Spirit Of The People Include Hampering And
(DUBLIN, ct. 23.—Militarism in a
ery objectionable and Serie form
still * prevails in
holding of eae athletic matches is
red or forbidden by
proved a boomerang for the Govern-
attendance at the football match.
COxscRrPTiON STILL LOOMS UP.
talk of Conscription for Ireland}
presists, According to the
don Spectator, the
abandoned, and
clear in a speech in the House of Com-
mons “that the Government had not
idea has not been
the recruiting
ir.» Redmond’ cannot
claim all responsibility, since he was a
power. at Dublin Castle during ‘the hey-
Coneeription is not taken seriously b}
the English Governmen' London
Daity Heit, referring to ‘the stage play
of Redm
“The Nationalist Party does not al-
together Ike being in opposition: They
are, brandishing _ the oratorical ehil-
h and advancing to an
Government with the object of cap-
tiring the Irish le. As
Nationalist ‘Ponty have
shown sufficient violence to satisfy the
Irish character, the Gove!
mond hae proclaimed pobitels
that it is the duty of Irishmen
the yawning gaps in the Irish Divisions
there seems not to.be mud ference
the Irish race, and he cited many pass-| between him and the Consctipt¥onists,
ages from President Wilson's “History| and the Daily Mail ts probably correct | ©
the American People” wherein he| in saying that “an *acceptable recruit:
che
other name—will be put in force with
the consent of the discredited leader,
REDMOND HAS LOST HIS GRIP.
Evidently the Irish Divirions are in
Redford, writ-
ing in the London Moraing Post, critt-
cisee the Government
ernment w not hesitate to, enforce
without dloo:
it would take m Smmenee army to
certainty that
only bere
+ an is barrier is
to save the remnant ot the Irish
8 8. pro}
gainst Compulsory military service
d has no respect in this coun-
CRIME TO SPEAK IRISH.
It is a crime to speak the Irish lan-
guage in Ireland or in England. It ts
already known in
ence inet MP., was
" imprison! cient
street “pale Court,
ing Soa a
Boo!
£100, or
vs the Bow
lon, for writ:
ch ‘a the Visito
here
baa a the aie Tottleal prisoners
were Getsinet
ain!
the tppeal came up for
Session
ed the previous conviction, but reduced
the fine to £5 ’ en
In. announcing’ -the .dect
sion, Sir R. Wallace said no one would
deny the right of aman te be re bis
“ ton as being antagonistic to the best in-| n:
ites,
Having traced the events that ted up terests of the United Stat
sme’ translated into
ni
Mr. AsQuith made it
Keown in
‘S| of how
‘on|—in the same m
me"--Conscription under some ber o!
in|
ies army
~ | tior
as lost his influence with ple
Americe ae Laur},
Forbidding Gaelic Athletic Matches By Order Of Butcher Maxwell, Only Bring
Out Greater Crowds —The Threat ‘Of Conscription. Still Persists And
‘The Recreant “Irish Party” Us Expected To Yield—Speaking
Or Writing Names {a Irish Now A Recognized Crime—Emi-
gration, Tillage And Crops Steadily Decreasing—New
Book By Padraic Pearse—Redmond’s Stage ’
Play In Parliament Deceives Nobody— .
: , Irish Bishops Agaiast Him.
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which the law knew appellant. Ae
cording to this English Judge's ruling
Irish {s outside the Jaw and it is a
crime for an Irishman to is
Mr. Ginnell said he would
been very afer the | ottary eee
y res frictions, tthe fron hand of penny of the fine, but he was allowed
es the Geman ar bln nd emia tore’ wan tera |T"Eaibeeaotgh'te Si ro
eachments of ‘half trained toon aa weld an end on Octobe 2, sive ball, TC is believed tat be will
easily defeated, thousands of polic running of special trains | rrotted In @ few days end that he will
serve three weeks rather than pay the
fin
a xot alone is it a crime the
in oagiend. but it ts
y to make use of it
istration book of his ‘odgings at Tour-
he police stated that his
-| spite of ir, MacKeown’s 51 and un-
sailable defence the magistrates fined
him £1.
wnt prosecution and conviction of
Ginnel
SLIGHT DECREASE IN-EMIGRA-
TION.
T istvar General reports that
tne number of .emigrants, natives of |
Ireland, who left Irish ports during’
was 1a0e 148
males ond 1,157 females—as comp!
aith 1,373—742 males and 631 females
month dest 9
decreas ase of 7f. 7
rants for the ars nine "months of the
present year
riment may | mal
han acceptable re-| 2
9 fil | thes
i .000, it is well known that th
t reach $0,000.
taking 80,000. a8 approximately correct
the
is the worst kind of emigra-
” TILLAGE STEADILY DECREASING.
acres to 127,008; that under r
and green crops from. 1,372,603 to 1-
mn-| 025,406, were and that under flax from
140,536 to 49,253 acres.
worl ere
men and till
IRELAD NDS FINE wriourIxo te
While various estimates hi
amy ot two million men. r
@ great problem, military
taining Is pretty general and even the
azes, but Ginnell was. the" "tame
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