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self cn the side seat of a1
they think ot | the Rebellion out there?”
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The Saelic Amenican.
September 16, 1916,
TOUCHING INTERVIEW WITH MRS, PEARSE
te
Mother of the President of the Irish Republic Talks Feelingly
of Her Two Sons—Not Permitted to See Them Before They
Were Shot—Proud That They Died for Ireland and Would
Gladly Give Others if She
Had Them for the Same Cause
—Love of Ireland Their Only Love—Had Premonition That
‘ Something Was Going to Happen—Will Continue Work at
St. Enda’s and Saysa Fire Has Been Lit in Ireland That
Will Never Be Put Out Until Ireland Takes Her Place
“Among the Nations,
By Bases | Moots.
n interview with the
Patrick Pearse, Fresitent “on ‘he ‘rn
Repudlic. Second of of a
cles written i the risk ‘Press and
ervic
UBLIN, ‘August 6.Balancing my-
n Irish jaunt-
ating sensation, I drove from Dublin t
thfarnkam to interview Mrs. Pearse,
the “mother of Patri . Pes id
- his younger brother William, who were
condemned and executed Imain-
May 3 and 4, for their part in the
Irish Rebellion. Rebellion
een successful, Patrick Pearse
would have been President of the Pro-
Vislonal Government of Ireland.
ore the pleturesgue ave.
Enda’s . College,
nue "esa
wi meet Mrs.
ot would gladly give them for t
tears rolled down her cheeks, and said
decisively: “If I had
ause—the Freedom of Ireland.
“But it is hard te realize that T shail
never see my continued
this dtish mother. | “spate ck used to sit
there—that was his favorite seat.” She
pointed to a chair near the open fire-
. Willie sat opposite to him.
was my
” she waded pathetically.
“Both my boys consulted me in every-
thing they did. was in all their
rets.”” :
is my toy, Patrick's, study.”
the way into a large sunny,
high ‘coltinged room, looking out on the
shadow © of trees
win-
5
3
rick’s piceture,
in o| eve.
je in a hoarse whisper, “A [ot of the} she looked “jouginaly. at the picture
boys came et {n’ from{ hanging on the wall. “Oh, he was so
prison in England. This place is fulljclever. I wish you could have heard
” “Are you trom Mm tectaring on John Mitchel. Tt was
prised that not
awer. How ‘aid he guess I was an
American. Have mericans a hall-
mark like old silver which distin-
guishes them from other 1 ations?
the famous college found-
St. Enda’s, t
ed by Patrick Pearse, is of historical
hood. Th
and his sweetheart, famous in song and
story, loved to linger, is pointed out
to the visitor. It is near a picturesque
waterfall surrounded oi shady trees.
Recent events have ited increased
Interest in the nutorieat ‘reputation of
the ola house.
ocked at the door of the college.
sign of life ate fhe
pulldtagtt seemed deserted.
knock several tim ere it was open,
ea by Mrs. Pearse } her:
Mrs. Pearse is a sel, slender, white
hatred woman of middle age, with large
blue eyes, and the revered cheeks of a
girl. She is »
Her first t!
oerwoulda’ t you:
your wide?” she as! “I
fckly. Tam all stone” —
her voice trembled a little.
Not wisht
a only wanted to talk. We
da’s had been
but fortunately for history, Patrick H.
Pearse's latest manuscripts escap-
ved through an oversight of the rafders.
+ Speak! of thi in reldent Mrs.
» Pear: > “Thank
work was ed. 1 nea ‘nldden his
manuscript in that be
it. e officer in charge thought
Wa sity to deetroy the bookcase, it was
valuable ani
cou
fo% The books in it
looked innocent, so the bookcase, was
not broken open and sea! am
busy getting my boy’s vk Sublisbed,
3 me from inion,” again her
voice trembled. Mrs.- OWS nO
st of the nervou ‘ust
NMon—the shoott of her son:
hat do they think of us in Al
fea,” said Mrs, Pearse. I started a lit-
jarve
me opinion cout
land. I as
Ble sympathized deeply with her in her
bereavement—that our news
pene ws had carried columns of sp:
about the Rebellion, the liberty end vot
which appealed to Americans.
“My boys loved America and Ameri
cans,” .gaid Mrs. Pearse “ ‘ic
thonght i the greatest country in the
fe had a imiration for
werm
George Washington, He modelled his
last. T was not there, but I believ-
a he surpassed hims ee,
“The Mayor of New York is a grand-
son of that same Sonn Suiltchel "1 in
terrupted.
“And they say the Irish are not fit
0 govern themselves!” she exclaimed.
he ere our sgese boys,
some of them were in You
know my son founded ‘hie ‘soles er
the making of Irishm wrot
f | cuted?”
“I
e- | reare
used to slip into hi:
y old. Besides the key | ag:
8. /{t for me?
mer-|ten by
ssured ber that American peo-| “Mo
He
plays in Geelie ond the “pova took part
in them.
power. The school * will shortly
opened.’ ” Then ‘the said these Tewari
able w
“freland. fs avake. She will vever
sleap again. A fire hes been re-kindled
which will never be extiagy Ire-
Jand will resume her place among the
nation
but Ireland?”
“Patrick’s love was called Ireland,”
ene we wn zo sad little smile. “It
He no fear of
death, “ail te feared was dishonor. And
ther tried to dishonor him when they
shot him and destroyed his body in
antec, and buried his bones with
erimin:
“Is it ‘true that you were not per-
mitted: see him before he was exe-
into a cell without even a plank bed
rtable, just as I did when
oy"
“Did you know on that Easter Sun-jd
day morning that the time had arrived
for decisive action?”
“I did,” she answered. “What is
more, I had.a premonition for a fort-
aca perore that something was going
laughter had the same
and their sister were aa here mi
te @ poem
memory of Aunt Kate, wl The died a short
time before. Somehow I couldn't write
an orevbomerine feeling ot a
wot glance at my be v8 and
Ty eyes would cloud with tears. My
daughter left the room to dress for the
Mitchel lecture which Patrick was to
deliver.”
“What are you looking so
about, other?" ikea ppatrie Kk.
“Noung ste to answer.
“Iam t ring ‘e rite 2 — m and the
thoughts 2 ont come. Will you write
Write it as if it were writ-
worried
me.
He looked at mé strangely for a mo-
ment, bot did not anewer and left the
My daughter
the lecture.
ther,” she whispered, “I have a
dreadful foreboding that something is
going to happen. I didn’t want the
Patrick was leaving the room, prior
going to the meeting, he sald, “Mother,
Tam going to write you that poe
“You kno tragic ctreumstances
under: whieh ‘thet poem was written,”
concluded are. Pearse.
4s called “A Moth
own course here on the American Revo
lution. But we hadn't a Lafayette, or vena. wp Omere ave the words: {t reads
&@ Steuben to step in and help us.” Tee re rophecy?
“Oh,” she sald suddenly, “I don’t wish
to tall boys, I want to keep| “Dear ary shou didet see thy first
Dusy, If you only had known them—
my brave lads whose only crime was Go forth to ale amid the scorn of men
“[ heard your son; Patrick, speak
once at a iheeting in New York,” I sald
gently, “He was a : brilliant orator.”
id ee dove father was
vee ares,
aes she continued,
land
their mother,’ when speaking of their
whom
Receive = St born son into thy
arm
also has one, forth to die for men, | A;
im by Thee "till 1 come for
And keep
Dear itary, I have shared thy sorrow
And soon will share thy joy.
No eaw Patrick before he was
shot, voxcopt the clergyman who attend-
arrest and deaths. was Broad to toled him.
hear it. She rose from ber
her large diue eyes flashed while ‘he
ison aske:
see him. After some delay bis request
Hie brother Willie, who was
in the same pri
was granted. On his way heard a
volley « of shots, the woldiere shout-
ed out, ‘Too late.
Mrs. se was dry eyed as she told
ie this tragic story. She drove the
ogth of the h ‘0 intro-
keeper, who in released
from prison that’ same, morning.’ My
last: memory her was seeing her
standing with the lodge heeper’s little
daughter fn her arm:
“THE DEATH OF FIONAVAR.”
New Poetic Drama by Eva Gore-
Booth, Illustrated by Hor Sis-| re
ter, the Countess Markievicz
Pyritings of Leaders of Easter
Week Rebellion Producing
‘Marked Effect in Amorica~
iterary Men Sympathetic,
Easter Week Rebelion, atiough
it “Taltoa as a military enterprise, hi
done much for Ireland, aide from its
Political effects, w eat.
The fine literary calibre of its leaders
as attr:
ary editor of a
York Times last Sunda;
Ostensibl
¥ ook, but in reality it is an
article suggested m the
lity of Insurgent Ireland.
it ig illustrated with cuts of Eva Gore
i
Had your son Patrick any other love
asked. a
did te see him. They threw him
th, uthor of » and
her sister, the Countess Markierice,
and of the illustrations of the
drawn by the latter. The article” ‘on
Ww
IRISH REBEL ILLUSTRATES NON-
RESISTANCE P!
(From the New York ines, ‘Aug. 10.)
There will soon be published ‘a poetic
drama destined to recelye an amount
of attention seldom .
important but unpopular sort it
ing. It f Hed “The Death of Fion-
avar,” and the author is
Booth. me oe Kk is profusely. justre
ted, every page having it ate
decoration, of landscapes, ower and
cabalistic designs. me inser iste
tions are the work of
ister, the Countess Merkin ve
incarcerated in an English prison for
her conspicuous share in the Irish up-
rising of last
The Gore Boothe” are an extraordin-
They are of
hi
lyn Augustus Richi ‘e-Booth, sixth
aronet. as erly Lieutenant
in the Fifth Battalion of the 1
unster Fusiliers. His 8%
eat is Lissa-
r Sligo, and it is said that the
clocks at Liseadel are kept running at
English time instead of Irish.
Without disrespect to Sir Josalyn, ft
may be said that the two most dis-
tinguished members of the Gore-Booth
family in this generation are his sis
ters, Cons jore-
Booth, the second daughter of the fifth
Baronet, has for years wn as
Poet, ot extraordinary power and
charm. verse was thoroughly
Irish in coi, and one of her poems,
8
“The Perilous Light,” (Ers-
kine, Macbonaid, London):
The grand road from the mountain goes
shining to the sea,
And pnere a ame in it and many a
But aie vie “roe of Cloonagh are
Ana the litle roads’ of Cloonsigh go
rambling through my heal
A great storm from the ocean’ goes
shouting o'er the hill,
And oer ‘s gory in it and terror
yn the
But ane ‘panned vale A twilight is very
The great waves of the Stents sweep
storming of their way
Shining green and saver with the
nm herring shoal;
But the. iene waves of Breffny have
stumbling through my soul.
Eva Gor re-Bootn * poner works in-
clude “Unses
obscurity.
Eva Gore-Booth’s sister, the Countess
t pictur.
nm whose
gt
tation and willfu!
faine went around the world lest Easter
br
d|in which his wife acted. One of
the editorial writer, who writes
ord
- The Iterary supplement of the New
Week. As Constance Gore-Booth ad
won the approval of connoisseurs
her paintings. An idea of her bold and
imaginative manner may be gail
from the illustrations to tae Death ot
Fionavar.” The exhibitions of
paintings have attracted cnaiaerasis
attention, and y
have passed h oo rices
hands or eatthy collectors in England
an Am
Constance Gore-Booth married som
years ago a Polish painter, Count Mai
fevicz. Aten studying a
u me to Irel
siatealy received Into w! at
“Castle set” a Dubl!
the’ Castle set to affillate cremselves
with the Labor Movement
tionalist Movement, and their former
friends knew them no more.
Count -Marktevicz and his wife threw
themselves heart and
r
wrote a number of tee patriotic piss
0]
And “tet ie ovina ef twilight are
deal h
EVA GORE-BOOTH.
was called “The Memory of the Dead.”
When war broke out the Count joined
the Russian Army and is now at
front.
The Countess Markievicz was promi-
nent in Sinn
e arms, and
0
jooth’s | forces as bravely and efficiently as a
now | man. b;
There is nothing in this volume at| >¢
hand (which will be published. in Eng-
he dedicatory poem by
rors Gore-Booth is of Srraordinary personal
interest in its allusion to ead
leaders of the uprising, and to ine poets
imprisoned sister. It is as follow:
Poste, Utoplans, bravest of the brave,
ate facDonaeh, . - Plunkett,
won
Dreamers vraraed fighters but to find a
Glad f for “ne dream's austerity to die.
And my on sister, through wild hours at
waite arderous bombs were blotting to
ars,
Little T Mthouste to see
I did yesterday through prison
bars. :
n .
d | Ob, Ditterest sorrow of that land of
Utopia, "Treland of the coming tim:
That Me fue citizens through weary
. can” ‘for thy sake but make their
grief sublime!
Eva Gore-Booth dedicates her play
“To the Alemory of the
Who Died Bas codon and oe One
Who biet or Pe of pre-
face she ster an ‘interpretation of her
interesting variation o! clent
Celtic m: She says that from the
got an impression
In
thie story, she believes, a rewle devel-
assionate sense of unity
e reign of the old warlike
gods is threatened by the fascination
of a new idea. e birth of imagina-
tion, the new god of pity, is symboliz-
ed in the outside world by the cruct-
Sxlon of Christ.
play is, it may be said, a ples for
peas a glorification of nonresist
a Goethelike defen:
‘ho with her ite. "bend of Agbiing
men helped hold the streets of Dubli
for days and nights against the Britten
machine gui
——+++__.
The London “Bobbies” are kept bosy
rounding up the slackers who seem
spend most of thefr time at the Mvten
Well it's pleasanter to sit in front of
a movie than it ts to sit in front of a
Mauser. }
m | tories, and
¢ you smile again, |!
ZEPPELINS GREAT HAVOC.
ed| Returning Correspondent of Irish
Press and News Service Says
Zeppelins Have Wrought Fear-
ful Damage in England—Arse-
nals and Naval Bases Chief
Points of Attack.
(Irish Press and News Service.)
By J. H. Doxyexuy.
NEW YORK, Sept, 5.—I was struck
| by the strange account to-day of the
invasion of England by thirteen nese
lins last night, as usual, “few Kill
injured, and no military damage done”
The claim is invariably made that most-
ly’ innocents, women and (callaren in
unfortified towns are the
D
The truth is the Zeppelins have kill
ed many soldiers and saflors in fort
fied towns, and have estsoet hun-
dreds of millions of property in ord-
nance shops, dockyards, enito jon fac-
their constant and bold ap
pearances, increasing | ma size and bomb
throwing capacity, the greatest
Possible terror for the “ petish People
and their defensive forces,
I spent much time in England recent-
ly and made careful ‘investigation . of
the men are
to
the caltors oe punished under the
Defence o f the t.
pelin alrohipe are bent sole-
ly on deen fortified towns, naval
bases or arsenals, The airship
ported * destroyed thi morning, was
flying in the vicinity of the great En-
field rifle plant, which has been attack-
ed four times by overhead airships
since the war. L was to a 2, o machin-
ist who had in London,
in July, that “Coneraerabie’ “gamer e had
been done the plant in the second raid.
CHIEF porTs OF ATTACK.
been many raids just
London on "be ‘Tha: ames. They
are directa at the Royal Arsenal, one
ot the largest in the world, where 60,000
working making almost ever:
cas of military stores. There is the
Is yal A: tery and a
naval A mili hospital. All night
S
a
j
g
5
a
3
enh
BUS
24
a
2
z
B
ag
men
through tear of the Zeppelins that se-
jamage has been causer
falling on plants, docks and
3
2
at the plants mand 0 on tl ds and
many wounded are still Yn the | military
jospitals, ioe news being withheld
from the publ
ese Zenpetia Taids have been num.
erous and require a large army watch-
ing the skies, ver; any ines
and guns mounted on points of vantage.
At night the towns are in s -dark-
ess, thus inviting the numerous ac
cidents, the wrecks of whi ie Bees
daylight. The ratders fly all the
the fearful effect of Zeppelin raids at
pat town which is about sixty miles
tro ondon and, like most English
sea sonst landings, now is a fortified
town,
IRELAND IMMUNE,
@ report in Ireland that a
Scotland
and
ity-two miles
ih fish-| of
orth Channel moving
in the direction A a Glasgow. Attacks
on “peaceful Surrey” have ven aim
the military camp of Aldershot.
With 7,000 munition factories t in active
m-| operation it would be difficult to find
an important town nd no
which could be held’ imi e from the
attacks of munition destrortog alr-
ships. As soon naval
town or harbor is attacked, the | Tocaiity
is carefully guarded and the casualties
are always concealed.
This course a perfectly correct, so that
the be informed as to
ne Toeation. or extent of the destruc-
7 ‘Visited the city of Hull and could | x,
i army ‘
working on transports and war machin-
ry.
hop workers trying to leave English
munition towns for Belfast are often
stopped and forced into the army.
this point I do not know how long the
English working class will allow the
Government to except
military service. My observ:
t Jutland battle, a1
to the subsoril
ed | Buvsinensy at toe oifva of Jobe A. Garver,
there until after the war. The wap
up the working class. to
has wrought
new feelings of hate and intolerance
and much of that element regard the
Irish who refuse to fight. for Bneland
as a race of traltors for whom no
ishment is too severe.
MPS TOO LONGI In LONDoy,
Bishop O'Dwyer Say Says the Air of
~the En glsh Clubs Too
Strong for Them- m—They Are
English “Byiondlies,”
As there has been no “election sin
Easter Wee k, the Cork Corporation fs
oun controlled by . Redm
2 august 25 a motion by Mr, Lane, seo.
onded by, Alderman Meade, to conter
the freedom of the city on Most Rev.
"Dwyer ‘was rejected,
r, O'Dwyer's letter, which the Lord
Mayor bed explained had been Opened
pefore be fF whos om he di
8 follow
“ay “Tord Mayor —I am informed
that some me of your, Borough
me from the unpleasantness of
having my name made the subject of
Pay disputes.
am not a politiclan. I am a mere
Irishman but, looking at the course of
Irish party politi
the oe cE
England's pata saline to the
ciples of Irish National
ft id not cone, c one extreme
t are sneaking
their oa geome of subserviency
to Botish Liber:
. “They are ‘eo fom in London; the
an ot “he National Uiberal and. Eighty
oo strong for They call
fromeanee Irishmen, bat they are only
England's ‘riendiles
e crawling slaves pasied
7
ave Fesaaton “regretting. the loss of Ad-
ral Hood and 5,000 men in the recent
appreciation of the magn’
e occasion of ‘Admirals alt.
‘man menace
civilization and freedom.
SINGING FIRES OF ERIN
ELEANOR BoceRs cox
“Miss
Cox-has a great repute
teries.— San Francisco
eader,
“Some the most, ma:
poetry tl has ever come out of
peaand "Miss Jessie B, Ritten
hot
“This spirited, and eloquent vol-
ume of Don Marquis,
Evening sun -
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|, 1916.
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ovased, to present the ern if
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