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VDL XL, No. 3. Whole No. 540.
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NEW YORK, JANUARY 17, 1914.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO ‘THE CAUSE OE IRISH INDEPENDENCE, I‘RISH LITERATURE AND THE INTERESTS OF THE 1
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547$
RISH‘RAUE.,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ill!
lnsirliciionmliecruiting For
[special to Tire G.ir.r.rZ AMEIKICAN.)
,pl'i;l.l>:, Jon. 2.-The volunteer
mprelnent in ireland continues to inalie
imp, progress in every port or the
ooiililry. The response which the initia-
lion ol the movement hssevolred hes
prnonstrated once again that the Na!
ilonll spirit is Is v e as ever in the
Wit. It has proved that, however the
my 0! the muiority ot irlshmen h
been distorted Incl side-tracked hy the
name Rille movement, the spirit is there
slill and is as strong as ever.
‘perry or the English politicians have
stained, and some lrishmen have as-
l-illltd that lreiondg was tamer,‘ more
reconciled to English rule than she was
. generation ago and that the lierg-'e eu-
ihasimm that marked the Fenian moves
nleut WM gone, never to return. Those
nan think thus do not know irelsnd. it
It true that the irish people tor eomo
years [last have been quieter under Eng-
lish rilie than they were, but that is only
Maude they have heen misled ink) ii
‘lonsliluliunal" agitation that demands
“it their loathing at English rule has
not rhlingeti and shows no Sign 01
rnrgur . ,
rronr ilmrlnl to Cork and (ram wen.
ntesr conipanilzs
re in r
e
A further sign of progress
weekiTDn17el‘ to he
called The Irish Vollmtrer and-which
u ive y..to u liab-
with the Volunteer
e lirst number will be
it is indeed 8. great 1-!-
ullce to have 3 National paper devoted
ininitrurting ll-lshmen in the use or
trail Ind in military suhjects and teach-
rliieru to rely upon the armed
“length or irelnnd to
iieatth B: were expected as proved a
vital lallure s tar as getting Irish rev
mill: is concerned '[h ll of the
ar-
W aw endeavor-lng i
, llaeat literature, or other literature
Mk "Y may deem “seditloils" in the
"H That will avail them little. how
if .
it Iliideoerred the English Govern-
i
I’! IIO l'l‘l0l’5
“S In recruits than
the DI" ,
3
:er
if
er
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n.
to
IHE SPIRITZIJF IRELAND REMAINS UNBRUKEN
3 Dream Of irish And English Politicians That The People Had Become
Reconciled To British Rule Has Been Rlidely Dissipated By The Volun.
tear MoveinenimMilitary Organizations springing Up ln'Every Part
Oilrelond And All Organ Has Been Started To Give Necessary
Almost Completely Slapped-England Jarred By The
i Break Q1 The Quaonsiown Boycott.
Both Army And Navy Has
vious ellurbs that have been made in
the some direction. I
Wlilmllt men the English navy is only
scrap iron nnd'the shorlsge or men
do
I.
End young Ire-
o intention or helping the
Enlnlre out at its dime ties.
Led lrlsh>A.meri<'an socletle
hint lrom Duhlin that their assistance
would bi: v nhle
British Government in
are now sleeruliy lending s sn .'
' The muddled Briton candidate that
American citizens are “.iisloyhl"
e
iiilles: they tell lnlwltll nnglish plsns.
Th
that probably already it has
(‘Ellie rmtrsi r of the model school in
school stre t
I
e
r- . .
rl the various sketches of him there
B Nntionil teacher for Several
olil airs nliivh would have ill-dd with
line liinllinga had he not colievliid tilt-ni.
ill-. hrougiil. thern to Dr. Peiria who no
oltiilzed them at once he Bin! that hlri
rlnrl-r been cnilofttd Ind "Jill! lliry Ienl
Petritsglenlh no can-
. u .
Unlike his hrother. Dr. Robert nwyr-r
Joyce, he Wu not a Nationalist, hut he
ind rat-ill pride and love tor irish litera-
turo and music. under Keenan sud
slreeliy, who were w one or the
nr.-auest type. the atmosphere or hierl.
ue Eng ,
it hlld very little etiect on either learn-
ers or pupils, very merry oi whom i
an active pair in Fenlaulslli oil.) l:lLt>r
ed by the English Ambassador in
to. e German Government that the DE PATRICK W my E
English would consider it n i-rlendly act , ‘ C '
the ' ‘ r" line were dis-
suaded irom touching rt In irish port. years, entered the Queen's college, Cork. in the Land League. Under Joyce the
If German shipping ilrlna should ct-tzsti
Lo inierpht Ll‘-emsalvw in Ireland in the
future this will be the explanation.
It 9 now entered on the year
when all the promises about Home Rule
promised it they won
Home Rule Bill is not law ins
1 they dont there will he nir-
ring times overhere.
iaunares nonsoy.
, PATRICK W. J(lYCE DEAD.
Gaelic Scholar, Educator, Collec-
tor of Old Irish Music and Au‘
that of Soverzti Works on Ire-
land, Passelt’Away at the Age
of Eiglity-Sovei1. ,
.A oailllt rlt-lsilstch trorn Dublin airfew
dnyh R50 reported the death of Dr. Pn.t- >
at giro, ago of s7 years. '
. Robert Dwyer Joyce. the
past, who was tor innny yam I “Si-
dnrrt oi nostall. died ccverlil WW5 3‘ 0
utter returning to Duoliu in hrnkou
Joyce was the author of
v be liiul Air: which. but for W“-
""m’ 3“ m at Ea.ilY-
..
'2'
flag: in other pnru or the country. he
was placed in i-llnrgc oi the lnnlor do
pnrlmeut oi that Mhooi (which the W!‘
and went through much priraiion willie
there. often having to live on bread and
wetel: still is student he mil-
(in whlur. so s of Charles .1.
earlier writings appcnred) sad also in
the Nation and Irishman, as he later
did in the Fenian organ the Irish pro.
P 0 s
D. P. W. Joyce had great nlllllty ms
an eilucetor anti won
e was sent back.
old name at
tendent. n Doultlon held ivy Sir Pahrick
Keenan while Joyce was in 3 liiIimrdi-
note place and by a man named shee
retained the place tor many years. t was
while lllling theso onerous position that
he iouud time to do most of his literary
writ. it was then o well known ioct,
hut now unpare gotten. th t
while in charge or the Training School
he collected most or the lniol-rnatlon tor
his great And very useiul work on "irish
Names or Places." it I most enters
tsinlng worn, in which
eat so interestingly as to have all
the uttracriveneoe or a stirring norm-
'9.
Every historic-spot In lrslsnd has its
origin and history told‘ through lu-
name, and th‘e record of the digging up
or old wespons and human remains in
mails to give wondertul eorrolrorntion
to inlrto; or hsttlos which has be
riasscd as mere legends or myth
teachers’ in those iii)‘: t-eme largely
lroru districts w-here irish mud
spoken, or trad lvoenvslroken so recently
that tho old tradition: were still known
to the (maple. it is sate to ssy that no
teacher with any such ‘store or knowl-
edge or legendary lore escaped gt us
sll or it to Joyce and he
note or it.
the spot and hxexamlnatlon n
no rcmrds he verlned his no
arnlrd the wuest rroni the ohm. The
result is a hook whose worth will he on-
lvrrrrsd in time goes 'ml.
‘ln- ovl-e w x boy prarti.-ally
evpryiroily in rural Lilnerlrk and across
on. I-lnrdvr in 'c k Ind Tipperary.
sliult-. irish. liis tether was a mu: or
mm n ltverviga intelligence and wan
E. storehouse or ti-ad n und musieai
lore. rouv nirn ondiii-om the Irish
gpoaklnx people around. the young man.
who hurl iortrrnaleiy mrlrod u must
called "button: school": and '-W “V
‘ (‘all
training. txallected a mass or hesuulul'
lltniosyliiere was 3! least IYi!il nnii l'il)il‘l'
link was done lo undermine the rare
pride. But oil that has gone now and
these schools are training groilridn lor
nni.s. '
’l‘rarhing," published in 1863, continues
to he used hy teacher. up to the present
ills other -rm-lrs include -virvclont
. , "Old Celtic Rom
Mid several short versions or Irish ills.
tor)’. HP, also wrote I
riramrnsr," in which n in
lul inlarnlotlon ii put into a short iipnce
Ind made plsln lo the ordinlry reader.
The Joyees were me or very llus
e. Robert l:-wyer Joyro never
took the Fenlain osth, out he was 0
terms or intimacy with John 0'LL-nr
omen clnrlre Luby and other Fenian
leaders, was in tall sympsthy w the
movement and was prepared to do n
l1ian'a share then the time tor sruon
enm, d read all the milltlry
works he could lay his haurls on and
had tormulated many practical plans
tor supplementing detects in prepare.
tion (or war. one o thine contemplated
turning every blacksmith’! iorgs into a
srnnl csnnon oundry, getting sand
carriages.
versed all Ireland on root, Iworn rivrrii
is tint as end thus acquired n min-
ute linowledgs or every corner or ire
land and gave himself a
part or a military tmlniug.
writer. to whom he read all or "nelrrlre"
E
:7
h
visited. An untortun-to mIrrl-
srro hlnsted his lire wlrlie still in his
prim!‘ and led to In early dt=utiL
Wile WM not Irish. though hi: mrt Ind
niarrlml hor in Ireland.
At In gs when his mental power
would naturally have hem It its host
and ‘whim his friend! ilovcd lor Fllll
.l
was unshle
Iitiviml lo hln splendid ruediral prrwtil-e
er unr of the driest in Boston. it wits
prtliul to Me the utter hrenhdowrr at
tho great strong man an Jo II F63‘!
O‘RAilly, ralrirk A.‘cc-llins and other
Id ti-lelicilt put him on hoard n eteumcr
llml 5 fit ill rllir. inns Mlnro his
nltuni his brotl" r'lI house
aoth lvroltrers. in dllrerrut ilnurvlilollxh
P. “'. so I SWIIIE [Wd V091!’
rendered nod service to Irellud.
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HUME RULE MAliNlFlEll A THOUSAND Flil.ll
Bourlln Cockran, A! Historical Society’; Dinner, Sees " The Fighiing Race
Regaining Possession Ollis Own.” And Leading The World In Civiliza-
lion And Industry, Through A Measure Which Preserves ‘.‘The Su-
preme Authority Oflho Imperial Parliament,” Deprives Ireland I
Of All Control Over Her Vital Interests, Forbids Levylng
Duties On Foreign Goods And Preserves Absolute
English Control Over irish Finance.
Ever body knows that nourke (xx -
tor and cverybmiy er-
him every
ti o speslt. Al is
irish iunt-tion in Washington the writer
nu the grcniesl. orn-
oratorr. as lnsisnced by
something phenomenal. "lllh eloquence
, Mr. clam,
"that l have oiten round uiyncli wildly
applauding him when r.llJn't ngroo
with at single word he said."
There must have been many men at
[lie dinner or the Auierlrarrlrlnlr ills
iorlcsl society at the waldorthuorie
last Saturday evening who were in he
same position as speaker Clark (
vainly then: were some there who did
not ngreo or course Mr.
corlrran does not Slwnll new as he dirt
twenty odd years ago, when lie ('iL-rlrl-
i-led hut tailed to convillt-e til.-. homo-
t-rstic Nationn convention that it would
invite certain hy nominating
Grover Cleveland tor irrenldr-nt. Hut
lliill has is won er u mmand or isn-
gu and unrivalled power or lrnsirerr.
rind holds his audience apeilllouvid whl
E‘
o
lhem oi anything in yirticillur. ex
that Bourke Cochran is I grant nllahlor
of speech.
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Mr. Cochran is’ n rnry well road man
and Iain is thorough knovrieilgta or Ire-
land's past. ills desrriptiolia or that
post are pertect, hut it in whrn he at
in
rou
hosed his prediction
tn he expens trorn Ihe Home
ii and his ohservntlou oi’ prehe
out conditions in irelsnd. But he reads
ns wrong and he is In
in his ulclilztllonn
germs picture ot
Home R
rli utterlv ignores the terrlhle
conditions in the s Exo roilnuy can
he coiled prosperous vrh n its citlrn are
decay. In
one exception, on
BEES THROUGH >4 GREAT MAGNI-
' FIER.
Ireland's cities, with
to-dny.
At the very outset of his epwch .'lir,
rky tags are trans-
formed into glorious sullllght.‘nl?I the
l iiecrcnil legislative instrument
I to detnlis The a I
proiislons ol the Bill warm nothing to
I mention
His gorgeous imagination was units out-
tlrient tor the‘ occasion. And he
dently believed every word he uttc-red.
snid
Rhtills
vi tu rer moo a
portion between the desrrlplulm mad the
lunar described? The Home Rule lalli
explicitly nrovldeo tlilt t
tad inrlotosslhlo -ultnorlty oi’ xh
lierinl PIYlin.mi=lIt" nhlll remain In full
lovve; that the imperial parliament
may. it it ms at. continue to legisls
for lrellnd. over the head oi the little
Parllu-ll t: that the imperial
tlnuo
land; that all taxes.‘ whether levied by
London or the n Purilusmut
shall no collsrtsd try the English ux<
:
:
'9
niiiei-or um paid into the imperial
th
will
Tressuri, and the hook. kept in Eng-
land; yrovloles 8 Triple "via and de-
prives the Irish l>.-irlinnrent at any con-
[mi wh2l.ei'er over the lllail interests ol
the country, nd till‘ lrlisllguratlon of
lhls condition or shim .lt-pondenoe on
the will or England and inter powerlessr
ness to do anything tor the material in-
terests oi Ireland .'ilr. corlrrsn desc
as "the lighting race rt-gaining posses-
sion 01 its own."
THE PRIAIACI’ or t‘Il7ILllATl0.Y.
He sdmltted, however, that this do-
million which the irish rnre'wne about
to regain, wss‘ not in the wall or lreland,
gou-trninrnt
though boil: or these were pans
oi the larvae that rrlnhe (or human pm
ress." All irish Nnilullztilshs hope that
ill come in ilhso:
at me h st-nsm who knows the
provisions of the me Rula B I will
hg w- h Mr. 4Lli'in th tit will come
through a measure rlellherntoly design-
ed to prevent it and to ‘lCCp ‘lrelhnrl
crippled industrially?
Neither call any man who is in close
touch with actual renditions in lrelan.l
agree with . r. (toe 'nn's dt-scrlpiion at
the change in English sentiment sud
oi the heneti
etuihutes the present agricultural imr
pruvement "as II one In result 01'
English benevolence then were either
ct was a Tory stoernpt to
Whigs" Ind provide I la Ll
ome Rule. Like all other wholly’ in-
adequate reforms wrung from Lise Eng
ilsh Govanment. it 1:15 loudly proclaim‘
ed to be "a iinsl settlement or the Irish
ues it is Lnlc that the irish far-
mers have availed ihsmovlves at it iii
a tremendous cost in their sons and
grandsons, mi in mull:-rinll! lmv
proved their condition. hut Mr C
risers in connection with this land Act
which mnverleli Engliuill to Home
ltulc. '
li‘Y.VDIIA.Il Ldxb AC1‘ HAGNIFISD.
l-:rlglsnd’hss not yet horn‘.-orlrerted to
st-nurse liome Rule.
nd's irreronciishle
ireland a settlement of ten per cent. at
'r debt. And the l>uriisrn.-ntory
lenders. instead or rising to the accu-
"The irish in-01112 once more came into
possession or the soil on which they
lived, and trout the nlmilcnt thst Act
min a government in pent-u and nxlniln.
inter it in justice." .
One would think that England hnd
been waiting all these
interests of her own in
vlnced wee England by tho-, record
that Psrlisment or the industrial cap...
I at thelrish people. and by the rec-
ord oiirish etncieney in the United states '
Ind the British colonies or their pullb-
lcsl ability. that runs three-fourths or
the Present Home Rule Bill is taken up
' d prohibition: will-.'li
sirectnslly prevent that lndnstrlnl
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