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The. one a-Gael lournal
0L. xxlv
PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 24, 1912
IONE DOLLAR P131: YEAR
ne Hundred and Thirty-four.th' Anniversary oflthe Birth of
R.obert‘Emmet, under the auspices of The Clan-Na-Gael of
V Philadelphia, in the Academy ‘of Music, Broad and Locust
' Streets, on Monday Evening, March'4th, 1912 -
Hon. James ll. Hilillilill
i Hon. James .i. iiamill. llriii-r-aontatli-e
lroin the Tenth di-trirt oi xeu Jersey,
is one or the moat proniineiit young men
he is not tlllht)-llV'l) years
errant metuui-es iii C0lIgr(!7G. The one
hat is of most general interest is a bill
ow pending providing for retirement
ensionslfor uiiil euiniuyoa oi the Fed-
ral Government, ii-lnth i-eooived the eni-
Lntic approval of the coiivention of the
'nited States Civil Service Retirement
1F90('ldtI07] held in
f2U liiur
Mr. llnmili nas horn in Jeraey cit
i Marcli 30. 1877. He received his
zuration at it. Pt-tcr's college, Jersey
ty, from lI‘h.ll'll he u-as graduated in
‘$07. receiving the degree of A. B., and
the subsequent yenr that of A. M. lle
Inpleted the regular i-ouiao oi lecturer
the New York Law SI‘ll0Dl, and in
M ohtained the degree or LL. B.
as admitted to the hair at‘ New Jer-
y in June, 1900. In Im he was
eezuti a uieuiber oi the New Jersey
ouse of A: mbiy, where he served
.ur Lunseullt e ne-leer terinr, during
1e last tiio cl" ll-liicli he “us the Demo-
“'ashingtori on J
., e . . .e. .
no the Sixtieth and
rty-nrst Congrenaes and reelected to
2 Sixty-seeonilr In the latter election
won a notable rir-tory, receiving 20,-
6 Votes to 10,104 for Seibel, Republi-
iz, and 1051 for Ciel-t, Socialist. ‘While
-3 Tenth district E: Deni atiu
onghold, Mr. Ilamilra personal popu-
tlea .
on the ground that the House of
resentatire-s forms art of the conv
- The
dent will hold good and Mr. Hainill
ritly follalretl it up.
the course of his speech ML Bar-
undertook to rpealr for the Irish
9 of the United States and claim-
t the great niaiority or them up
the treatiea. And he used Inn-
of the insinxiution that they are
rd in their .-lint-riean political no
"European hoiitngoo" and that
nine by an Englinli Ministry at
hind wanted her ’arhitration treaty as
the lirst step to an allianre ior
against a third power-I He i-eaentod, an
y transatlllntit: heritages,
t Ameriran reasons, and he
iiitiuenned in the slightest degree hy the
grant oi Home Rule to Ireland, or by
any other European consideration.
Hamill roniesoi good old Irish
The liainilln are said to he an
oiiahoot, or nnholan, oi the O'Neillu,
and his lather was a native or the coun-
ty Antriln, nhooanie to this country in
early lite and settled in Jersey city,iir
took part in the old rennin inoi-erueiit
and later-hecalue an native ineinhor oi
the Clan-na-Gael. His son is true to the
family traditions and is always at the
call or the xationnlist organization for
any service it may demand oi him
is a frequent speaker at Iriah rueetiiigs
. has a lane grasp oi the Irish ones-
nona.
Rory of the Hill
That rake up near the riiitere,
“by leave it there so long?
The handJe of rho hest oi ash
s smooth, and straight, and airong;
And. nrother, n-ill you tell me, ,
wh niy ather a
When. to niake the hay in summertime
1 oh ed‘to take it d wn. '
ii ii r ltsuband’s eyes,
--nil‘-ii a‘iif;fii"y“'i‘:a‘.:’i."‘tii'.“’::a;‘L‘i "il‘.;,. --
said Rory of the Hill. ’ ’
The midnight moon is lighting up
The slopes of sliav.na-nian-
Silglzse loot atrrighta the startled hares .
so long belore t e dawn’ -
He rtoppe just vrhero "the Annei-‘:4
ea - .
Wind up the woods a-near,
Then whistled low and looke around
o see a non. o ear.
Alsliielil-lg data‘ llevl: opehn- d
n e steppe wit ri l: ‘lie
“God save all here, and EleSsK;:Ill'n“'DI'k,"
said Rory of the Hill.
right hearty was the welt-oraa
-‘That greeted him, 1 vreen.
For years
(9
5“.
who grasped him y t r hand
One who through all that weary time
itoanied on a ioreign an ,
He brought them news from gallant
iriends
That made their heart-strings thrill-
“.l[y‘soiil.' I never doubted them!"
said Rory oi the iiill.
Till dawning oft a day,
And yet no aong nor ahout I heartl-
xo revelera were e .
some hroiva flushed red with ladnes-,
w is some were grinal, pali-
But, pale or r , from out
Idaslied aonlr that never
“A pin on now nh
The aware tor to liI1iill"-
“You’l read it yet in history,"
Said Rory of the Hill.
Next day the arhen handle
He took down trom where it hungi
The toothed rake, inll neorniully,
Into the tire he drug;
is: .
3
o
c arge, ii-oat, point, ad-
Vance!" -
Cried Rory of the mill.
She looked at him with woman‘: pride,
With pride and woman's earn;
she have to him, she clung to him,
away rtears;
He feels her pulse hr-at tnily;
w ni-nan Iiind him in
"Na od he praised tor your‘stoiit
ea
Brave little wife of mine.“
e nwung in . rsthorn in the air,
While Joy his heart did hil-
"You'll be a Freeman yet, my boy,"
-Said Rory oi the Hill.
ohl knowledge is a wondrous power
ndatronger hantha win ;
Arid thrones shall tall, and despot. bow
Before t e nugh of mind; ,
The poet, and the a or '
e eort o ii can away.
And would to the hind hravena
That woiie Tonewere here today
Yet ti-uat me, irienda, dear Ireland’:
i-tren ,
iier truoiit atrrnrth, ityntill
The rough and randr roving hoyr,
-By “K.lC‘KH.-Hi."
. Foreign Secretary, that Elig-
Lilie Rory oi the llill.
THE llllll0Rl‘AL illllcliills
oiliillllli
Glancing along the sky oi Irish hia-
tar)‘, studded with the luminous stars
at geniur, shedding their radiant, luster
on green Iunisiatil, there is one ecperial
luminary noiv arresting ‘our adinlring
- Rpllert riiiinet,
e was sacrificed in the
holy cause of Irish freedom.
Eimziat inherited his patriotisin troin
his parents. e tirsmnrntion oi t is
nohle nttrihnte was while yet a student
in Trinity on'listening to
I
the "Uothereen Rua,” to which he (the
’
lkll I-
lt’lIlE1[ll7eI the Days of Old.” ‘'0! thiit
I were at the head of twenty thousand
men inarahing to that air," he cried,
while a patriotic enthusinem thrilled his
soul. Douhtless he then hoped at no
distant day to realize that grand aspira-
tion. ranch of the "United Irish-
man was actually iornied in the college,
50 the authorities were convinced,
an investigation l'oIlowetl, Emmet
resigned and l t 0 the Continent.
While there his dying father bequeathed
' He with other compatriots
interviewed Napoleon regarding an in-
viision of Ireland in his expected war
with England.
Emmet returned to Ireland and laid
on the altar of his country's freedom
all his fortune, and hesider H1500 from
n llii-. a patriotic nierrliant. This
money was expended in providing an
armament wlierewith his expected force
oi nien re to seize Dublin aatle,
where there was 50,000 stand or arms
stored, together with 6 on non T
Possession oi this armament would he
iziilficierit to win irniandsindeprndenoo,
and ii the men irorn Kildare and other
places responded, as was promised, the
task oi the capture or nuhlin Castle
would he a easy inatter, and aurh neirn
spreading through the land would rouse
the men o Ireland in overwhelrning
iiumhera that would rrns Whatever
farce England could muster to oppose
them. .
Emrnet'ti armory in liars Lane coil-
tained 30,000 hall oartridg s, 9000 pikes,
scaling ladders, eto. For tour month.
there were airty nien working day and
night in this arnia iaetory, and there
was no traitor found
re
was no direct information reached the
castle till Mill: Woulfe hurried there,
telling of Lord Kilwardin’s death at the
haiida of a hody of insurgents, Ernniet
issued a special proclamation that no
one alioixld be killed in cold blood, hilt
imprudent nien dinregarded the orders,
untortunately, and lilanted the crime of
Irecdoin. But it is sorrowful to ‘relied
tint indiscretion Ind lack of discipline
on the part of those men was the ciiuse
of the failure ol no noble an enterprise
and hringiiig I<:iiiniet’s bend to’ the
block, instead of having it crovimed
with triumph, which with a little ragna
ity and precision rouid be surely and
easily aoooinplniiiod. Two liiintlred men
were her uho rrrpoiided to
Emmet‘: call, anll EV?!) these were
broken up into ainall parties, but with
ture of the castle.
of the South, einhalming in their sad
beauty the llIt'lIl0V‘y of her dead herow
and their "lost ciulse," '
chiefs oi inniaiall in shrincd in the hrii.
liant muse oi Moore and Southey an
the sublime prose oi EllIeI'SOn, and,
ahove nil, in the gratriiil and hero-n-or.
' Emmet
hlo-is as his memory an
will be cherished by Ireland's manhood
from generation to gellemtioh, as they
' “oli tho-e principles
that t-onipolli-d through “’eIlingt0n’s ad-
vice the British gorernnlerlt to grant:
Catholic ernanripation in 1529; it W is
through the intennity of these priori-
ples that the “eiztahlished church"
overthrown in Ireland, and land reform
the defense of tho Pupal states in 1850,
when hmoricere said that "if all his
soldiers fought aa hravoiy as the Irish
he would have won the hattlef’ it is
the same principles that still terrorize
England and tliwiirt her nefarious “ar-
hitration treaty," and her
ears of peace" when she tremble: in
abjett tear or (:rrniuny's oi-erivheiniing
power. It in the men in whose ‘breasts
hurn those prim-iplea who have hurled
from the desoorntcd stage the vile and
iilthy ilmmlzitic vilitiorr niid deiainrrs of
Ireland. oil): I‘. DAVIN.
-4
A cuisla Gal Ma Croldhe
The lontzi long v3.3a for hour had
com
Yet conic. nui ntor, in vain,
And left tlieo hut the wailing hum
t‘ sorrow and o ‘ruin.
My light of lilo, my clnely lore,
or ‘on Film uiur c,
)Ian'a avorn i-ovv, iloira wrath ahove;
Cuiala gal ma oroidhe.
’Twl:s told of thee, the world around,
"rwas lloperl iroin thee hy all,
mat, with one gallant onwnrrl hound,
liou'dFt hnrsi thra i.
it ' at and those
ior thee
and l)l‘IlIl(l(‘I‘l as thy foes;
iaa idii inn croitlhe.
?
we
3‘
what fate in thine, Iinlizippy Isle!
at even the trusted raw
should ay thre hni-ii with hate and
gni e,
moat they should be true‘
en .
Twas not thy ntnngth or epli-it railed;
And there that I)ll'Cll for thee,
And love thee truly, are not ouuiied;
A Cuisla gal inn rrnidhe.
I've triven tllco m.-inhrlo<l's rarly prinir,
.-ind manlIrlod’a unning yea ;
I've hleat thee in thy nnnniest time,
An. shed with thee my tears;
And mother, tluiugli thnu'rt cast away
The child vi o’tl die or thee.
My latest iicrcnts atill Bllnll pray
For oiisln gal ma rroidie.
I've traclzod for then the mountain sides,
n slept within the rd 2,
More lonely than the swim that glides
' 'iy lake
The
have npurned nie h-oni their
001';
Because I'd art thee tree: ,
Yet do I love their more and more,
isn gui Inn oroi is.
rich
l’ve run the oiithiw's hiiei ‘career,
And home his In '
’ rou lod
:4
ning wi ;
Ami should his his! dark chance befall,
l-ran that iihaii welcome
in death I'll love thee moat of all,
A ma rroi e.
BY "DOlIE.‘<'Y."
MICHAEL DWYER
-T x
“But only Mich
.l nu-
Through the Iianln
. , i- iii oh.-
0ui.nir."
Above is an authentic pirturo oi‘
clmel Dryer, the noted v.'iihlou- rm
taiii, whose name in hDDlll‘Ld and ne-
leied wherever an Irish e, e wait-lrra.
The stirring ballad that relates how I)Wy-
er escaped from the Glen ni Imniail,
nhen surrounded liv Yon.-..ci:, has done
this blillad has creat ml
some authentic information an ‘.0 the
like-‘of this notetl charazter. ‘ " V ’
After perusing a large umnlu-i or rol-
lield, nntl
to New South Wales in Deceiiiiier, lsl.
the writer liaa gathered the lolluwing
account, which appears to lie illllllfn->
tit‘. .
Mil-line] Dirrer was boln ii: (ill’lllJ'Y-
5
7‘
He was R
ten or eleven inches high,
thing of a stoop about the aliaulili-rs.
He had at ruddy (Wmpleslon, with liv i
penetrating eyes, and use sziid lo
wonderiully patient oi fatigue .uid roar-
loss of every kind of daiigri. llnyvi mar-
ried in the early part of "JS Mil-y lkvyle,
daughter of a small rat-inei. lie was on
his "keeping" previous to ‘its, dntl ivord
was sent to his father tlurt. lllllc‘: his‘
S
and kept them hrteen uer-ks or host
This action of the govt-rilzlitlnt, In-
stead oi rousing yer to nllrrvziidcr,
only served to make him redoulile his
eilorts in the field.
lliiohaoi Dwyer was the only one or
the family who took an until-a purt in
the Rebellion. He had the in 1; e u-
ration oi the country boy, having gone
to school at Busblieid. He muiil “rite
a ia.ii- hand and was a good rradi-r.
Dwyer was one or the first to Like the
field in Wiclalow and wits oritlt-htly ii
captain under Holt, though llo:r in his
memoirs does not to state. Dlvur’:
hmther, however, atatrs in his sturyytrr
Madden, that, “On the eve oi the lmttls‘
of Ilaelretstown he saw Du-5
rnuid of a part of the Rebel Army,"
and r dospntoh printed in tho Dullljn
Currier of October 25, '98, states, "Tlint
on Thursday last>In engagement Liiol;
place Ibout three miles from Rotlitliiiiii,
between a large body or lh-hr-in and
part of the Irmy under General i:us.
teur. Tile general had only eighty nien
tr
and General Eurtenr, in ronaooiirnre oi
the great inieriority at his orrr, WI!
ohliged to retire."
It is rlther atrlinge that Holt milk.-s
(Continued on Second Page.)
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