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The Gaelic Amenican.
December 23, 1916,
PART PLAYED BY THE IRISH
Rev. Father O'Donnell Delivers a
1
“Trish Factors in the Evolution
of the American People."
St. Gabriel's Parish Hall, 307 East
Thirty-sixth Street, was filled to capa-
city on Wednesday evening, December 13,
to hear the lecture by’ Rev. P. J.
nell, Pa.D., on “Irish Factors in the
Evolution of me
The lecture was given und
pices of
Friends of Irish Freedom and the meet-
by far the largest and most
enthusiastic that rapidly growing
branch has 90 far held.
c. e, President of the
Branch a jided and {introduced Mr.
Peter G a
eedom and me workers in its
very patriotic and urgent cause, and
hear from definite authentic
sources of the vast amount contributed
by the Irish people to the evolution of
Am tmerica as a nation, and the great part
y have always played in tts every
line of spiritual and” Intellectual em
the
speaker said,
insidious,
underhand
r.
late years,
ganized, the complete Independence of,
Ireland wa: reat
‘with mere! ood humored
tolerance as being tomething in w
no one believed except + few fanatics
amers; but, he said, it was the
lace indeed. eland, he said, always
had dreamers, and with God’s help al-
ways wou
r. Golden then outlined in brief the
present conditions in Irel: and the
1
t would undoubt-
edly be the most crucial period of Ire-
Tana 8 Bist tory.
vere piano solos by Mr. Robin-
Ther
son and wittia jam Harris, the well known | M0
vocalist, sang several Gaelic songs.
Th e < atrman then introduced Father
O'Don embodied all
the iene traits of his renowned an-
cestors and he said the Irish people of
were forty in having
‘ather O'Don.
at
times ‘when other:
and afraid was never In declar-
ing bis belief in the principles of Irish
Independence.
Father O'Donnell,
who spoke for
about an pour detiverea what was pro-| 4
nounced by be by far the most
interesting and ‘Intellectual lecture on
the subject they bad ever fistened to.
FATHER O'DONNELL'S LECTURE.
Father O'Donnell commenced bis 1 lee.
worked on no such groundless theory
at all as that.
ST. SAENDAY FIRST DISCOVERER.
O'Don-| Ami
| point, was by far the
Among the umerous instances of such
men he cited James Logan from Lur
gan, who accompanied ‘illiam Penn,
became later Governor or Pennsylvania,
and the bequest of , whose library
Philadelphia ‘wae probably the first of
a kind in America,
e principal tsset, the speaker sata,
that ‘ine Trteh tm grants were to ti
Colonies was the. sterling character
with which were endowed. Their
splendid idealism and lofty sense of
things spiritual which became inter-
woven frame work
erican life, though een bat rte
consideration
write of life
they
Troma “netera “hand:
ost invaluable
part that any people could contribute
to the country’s structure. The speaker
dwelt particularly upon the endurance
‘n and we
said the genial and social Characteristics
which are native to the Irishman were
invaluable indeed ‘a moulding into a
homogeneous unit the various elements
as-}of which the American Colonies were
al then composed.
her O'Donrell dwelt upon the
great need of knowing at the present
he
time what a potential influence t
Irish were in moulding and shaping the
life of the United States. Every pos-
sible effort, he said! was being
e and make it
cause of which the Irish people should
weep § it in the foreground
dry or uninteresting
moment during “ene Tee cture, and the
dience would have been glad if the rev-
erend lecturer had spoken twice as long.
Mr, Lee and the other members of the
Bra 0 be congratulated on the
fulccess of the meeting which wi
doubtedly be Productive of a great deal
bute was paid to the
aelic League of Ireland because of the
spirit which it brought Into Irish life,
the spirit that was responsible for
3
s
-| a revelation of real Nationalism as the
Rebellion of Easter Wee!
Thomas Kent Branch of the
Friends of Irish Freedom meets the
ny and third Fridays of each month
the Heleyon Halt, 587 Third Avenue.
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AUSTRALIA'S HEAVY BURDEN.
Imperialists and and. Tricksters Had
Bled Commonwealth White
fore’ People Turned: Then
Down. oo
The final Dgures of the Conscription
referendum in Australia have bee
nounced. majority against "con.
scription ts bL000. The vote for Con.
scription was 1,035,000, and neainst 1,
of | Branch of the Friends of s
at Eagles’ Hall in the Metropolis Thea-
-| He
Metcalfe, @ youl
| cuit
BRONX MEN ORGANIZE.
Rousing Meeting Held in Met-
ropolis Theatre to Start Branch
of the iriends of Irish Free-
dom — Stirring Addresses by! ¢
Father Metcalfe Judge Shiel
and Thomas Lonergan.
one thousand men and women
the eeting of the. Bronx
Irish Freedom
ily
attended
tre Building last Sunday afternoon.
Municipal Court Justice Peter A. Shiel
presided. In his introductory address
x Jurist recited the story of
ied in the fact that his
Bronx, an authority on Irish
history nt literature, Mr. Lonerga:
told the story of Ireland's long night of
of the | Emerald Isle enlist in the Brit-
ish ai
rarnee METCALFE’S ADDRESS.
8 followed by the Rev. Fathel
ng Cal smells priest of
Dublin, who was an
scenes enacted in the reat, ‘ot Dublin
during last Easter Week. Father Met-
man in‘ all that the
Father Metcalfe's remarks were lis-
tened to with rapt attention, The rev-
erend speaker waa sent, to Jacob's Bis-
Inister to
wounded patriots whet held that estab-
Ushment. asuint
He aroused gr
said that a British officer told him that
he deprecated the fact that such gallant
men as the Sinn Feiners were not with
he British a1 in France, as their
bravery and military skill were the
wonder of their opponents.
er Metcalfe saw the burning: of | tu:
sacktilie street and the shelling of
ho sees bela aby the Rebels by a British
gun said all avenues of
ewe wore "tosed to ‘the people of Dub-
d that the wildest rumors pre-
vailed, .
IRISH BOY'S HEROISM.
Of the gallantry of the Rebels Pather
feteaite spoke in the highest
Re
fe said that 152 dead British soldiers
were found in one street and that one
Irish la a of fourte m threw hand
nades ‘oof among the Brit-
ish “poops, for three days, killing many.
British off.cers were at a loss to
know where the death-dealing grenade:
146,000, | Up to the time of the Snail were coming from, but finally located
the spot, and caught the brave young
hoping against hope that a majority’ iin poy, Father Metcalfe has not
could be secured for compulsory mili- ye k ip at
tary service. This defea mat uch respect for the marksmanship o
¥ : the British troops who were sent
The Irish vote has been alfenated by
the events of Easter Wee ireland,
and the solidarity of the pitt ish En-
perialists, will
alized. All the newspapers
that cater to the Irish population of
Austral pave given Getatied accounts
of the x Week Rebellion. The de-
votion of the Tish Volunteers to the
ideals of Irish liberty, their
and chivalry in an almost hopeless fight,
\d their calmness and fortitude in face
minds o! from
henceforth and for ever they will be
determined enemies of the British Em-
pire.
Premier Hughes is more of a Tory
than any English Tory, Like many
other adventurers who “climbed © to
Power on the Labor vote, he wo nid
tralia
° Hateerers, the English “yunkers” ” rar
to secure compu ulsory military ser:
. he is using his powers to harass
and “irritate a young men “who refuse
to sacrifice themselves fn the service of
the Moloch of British Imperfalism. Al
ready several young men have been sen-
tenced to terms of imprisonment, vary-
tne m ower to six months, for re
The voyage of St. Brendan, the Irish| fust roll under the proclama-
saint, had been a matter ‘e than tion Salling "single men for home ser-
ere rumor or gossip on the continent} vice.
of Europe for at mi It But this petty spite will defeat its
was pretty well established that St.| own purpose. Imperialism has ru
Brendan in his voyage had really dis-| course in Australia. The people have
ver new country, and the authen-/ at last realized that Australia was be-
northern European sconntree wherein it
waa referrec
and “Greater rela ind.
Columbus was born, there were several
works relating to St. Brendan’s vey-
age, and his seafaring exploits were a
was
on a mer
well fortified by the as
auch a country did exist that Columbus
set sall
Father O'Donnell then gave a detail
gave a list of the Irish names by which
riod vartous rettle-
called, as
ing bled white by the Impertalists who
have piled up Ot National debt to over
$900,000,000. I
stasgoring and it a genet t if the Peo
tbe soe to e burdens im-
posed 5 the tickers who
held the. vine of “Govern
A TURKISH NEWSPAPER.
About the only one of the many for-
eign communities in New York that bas
no publicity organ of
rkish. The last fe
othe: 0 feeling their tsolation,
and thelr inability to reply
jst and Se ee to wench
T
hav. subjected since the bi
oe the war in the prolly
have decided to bring out @
wn.
It {is intended to appear at the New
Year and will be published in English] arm;
and Turkish, The t: wil! be The
+ Hie the Crescent, and it wu ener
ekly. The editors, we
e
foremost rank in every walk of life.
of taxation is| G
3 own is the| H
hout
terrific fire from a regiment of British
‘oops.
"Seated on the platform were
Peter Donovan, political editor of the
North Side News, and National Organ-
izer Sugrue of the Friends of Irish
Irish Freedom. The latter’ made
brief address, in which he expressed
y
bout the bloody work done. by tl
wen fot in the Irish Capital ast
Easter Week Rebellion
the toverend ‘speaker said, was the
¢| of Ireland's independence
TORTURING PRISONERS.
Alderman Byrne asked the Home Sec-| ™
ons on
continually making
unfit to
be mi
his suitablitty to be in charge ot
unarmed m
Mr. Samuel had nothing, however, to
add to previous replies to similar ques-
tions, Alderman Byrne pressed for an
answer to the last part ont the question.
du
satisfactory.
cetnteymen always to be treated like
Will he remove the Prussian
ers?
600 Irishmen were being. tortured.
+++
MURDERERS TO GO FREE. :
reply to Mr. Ginnell, Mr. Duke,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, said in the
order in
Messrs. Sheehy Skedington, Dickson
"Int;
and M’
AMMUNITION TO BURN.
People who set great store by names
are saying that the Teutonic GoLtatH
for Davip now.
an
will
But what England realy needs is
the standard
rate of 1,000 dead ‘enerales to one jaw
bone of ermans would
€lto prevent the
g| of the Dublin
to] £3,764 ¢:
Cardinal Farley
e
‘on.| on behalf
THE CONSCRIPTIGN AND
PARTITION PERIL.
(Continued from Page 3.)
een weeded of all the corner “boys, loat-
rs near-criminals
tervent prayer of the people that they
ay never return to the land of thei
birt on which they have brought ais
grace.
An order has ver issued by the Chief
retary for Ireland enforcing the
Military Exercise and Drill Regula) |
which prol the practice of
military drill by anyone outside the en-
listed men, unless under the authority
of a permit from the mil
authorities. The object of
rish Volunteers from
drilling and probably to prevent mili-
young men of Ireland will find
by rea-
in the way
a of those who desire to learn the soldiers je
the Trish Prisoners are treated badly
Frongoch Camp and in the other
prisons in Swit they are detained. Of
ourse it would be something wonder-
tol if they treated them halt fecenthy,
Made ‘yy aide
with the reports of harsh treatment ap-
Pear statements that the Irish prisoners
will be released. The London Evening
Standard says it is intended “to release
considerable
to ‘be
applied by stages ana degre
the interned Irish-
men will be released sounds strange
view of the fact that the prisoners are
brutally treated, that the men go on
Brave O’Hanrahan and Plunkett,
Both in manhood’s early spring,
Gave their lives a willing tribute—
Eire, Eire, their voices ring.
“Raise aloft those gleaming rubles,
Consecrate our lant
Crown her with the Hood of martyrs
These must form a
Circled by the shamrock
Then Sinn Fefn, Sinn Fela, for ever;
whet in vain our heroes died
hen we stand in full possession,
vor our Fiehts = long den!
*A storied Hill in Ulst
+ Near Killaloe, in Clare, ‘site of Brian
Boru’s Palace in Munster.
gAncfent name of Howth (Leinster).
$A headland in County Mayo. (Con-
nacht).
—_+-»+——_
Would it be unkindly to suggest a
g of Longfellow's “Evangeline”
st NOW over th
unfortunate Belgians who have suffered
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completing the ater into ist ‘ot
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ish
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RDID Ri
mong the contributions to the Trish
National Volunteers’ De-
endent's Fund is the handsome sum of
led to Archbishop Walsh by
New York. peo-
He of Kalgoorlie and Boulder, Austra-
la, come next with £331, Then comes
£285 from the Most Rey. Thomas
Hickey, Bishop of Rochester New York,
of the p ‘of the diocese,
A further Tntatiment of £120 was re-
cotved from a samen of Sydney,
New South ws
The Irish rations! Ad and Volun-
teers’ Dependents’ Fun
released, are still without employment.
SINN FEIN, SINN FEIN.
By S. M. G.
Eire, land of martyred heroes,
orrow wraps thee in its fold,
And the rubies of their life-blood
Add new jewel: old
rave, true-hearted, faithful, fearless,
Future years the tale will tell,
they dreamed’ and died to free
Loved not wisely, but too well.
s|Ia them lived the grand old spirit
Of the proud Milesian r
| roby fAghting when outsumbered,
Never fearing death to fac
Poet, dreamer, warrior, “utettain,
Youth's fair promise, snow of years,
For Sinn Fein, Sinn Fein they gathered
And they climbed the path of tears.
"Twas a dream. Oh noble dreamer,
Thou hast gained “Thy Ivor;
And thy name O brave MacDonagh
Ranks among the good and great.
With thee stands S a's hero,
Who in childhood rome b
Consents to thee,
f his death might mot ees free.
Mallia, hero, like great Brian,
is God, his land—
‘tender’ father, kindest hunbend,
Christian of the type most
Hours he sald for him were numbered,
Nearer @ drew to God.
Eire, Ete = his life blood
It thy shamrock sod.
Jobn Mepride and Edward Daly,
Connolly and Thomas Clarke,
kith, oer Kinsfolk,
On them shines undying
Colbert, too, the youthful seas,
e who died bis friend to save,
OF auch deed the Gospel tells 38
r love no man e’er
Heuston, be, that boy #0 puresouled—
Aloysius of our di
Eire, hold these nemes most prectous,
Love of them must live for aye.
Kent, O'Rabilly, MacDermott,
Willie Pearse, of ares soul—
t
goon be disposed of. And there’s no
will de students at Columbia Universi
trouble about munitions—Evening Sun,
These were men wi red not failure
Faltered not at it ‘8 Test goal,
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