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IRISH AMERICAN CLUB
726 Spruce Street .
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i>A'rR1cl< HENRY PEARSE
Ireland's martyred president was no
cold in is grave until the tongue of
was busy in En land’
st trying to sprmd false report
of the College of which he was the
Head Master. The story runs ‘at
certain perional friends of the write
have been led to believe that in St. En-
das College the name God was
barred. ‘A less -vicious report was that
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da’s College Prospectus for l9l4:
martyred presillent, . Speaking with
some pcrsullal knowledge or I’:ltricl>:
earse, I believe he was one of ()orl's
noblest cllnracters, loving and tculler
as a child, bravo as the bravest, ‘lull
ivcd and be willing to die the ilcatl
he died! f his countrymen follow
his example Ireland will soon he mas-
ter in her own e.
CLAN-NA-GAEL GAMES
Tuesday, July 4th, at Point Breeze
ark. loxing, R ' '
Athletic Sports.
Irish-American Clll 1
and at the box office of the Park on
j:m- t
THE LAST PROCLAMATION OF
PRES. PEARSE, 3"
Headquarters, Army of the Irish Re-
public, General Post O$ce,' Dublin
April 28, I916, 9,30 RM.
The Forces of the Irish Republic,
which was proclaimed in Dublin on
Easter Monday, April 33, have been
in possession of the central part of
the capital since twelve noon on that
d y. L" to yesterday afternoon
Headquarters was in touc ' a
the main outlying positions, and des-
pite furious and almost continuous
by the British Forces:
' ' still being held,
charge were
confident of their to hold them
for a long tin-l
During the close of yesterday af-
ternoun and evening e enem suc-
ceeded in cutting our communications
wit our other positions in the city,
and Headquarters is today isolated.
The enemy has urnt down whole
blocks of houses, apparently with the
object of giving ;themselves a clear
field for the play of artillery and field
guns against us. e have enl>om-
rded during the evening and night
and mac ‘ re,
ters. and are determined to hold
while the building lasts.
I desire now, lest I may not have an
opportunity later to pay homage to the
gallantry of the soldiers of Irish Frec-
dom, vdlo have, during the past four
days been writing with fire an steel
the most glorious chapter in the later
history of Ireland. Justice can never
be done to their heroism, to their is-
cipline, to their-gay and urlconquerable
quar
it
' RELIGIOUS .TglAINING'-The
by His Grace e rc -
bishop of Dublin, The boarders
School opens
he
E
in.
the Sodality of the Sacred Heart
has been formed in the College in
connection with the parish Church
o the Annunciation, Ruthfarm-
Pupils are prepared at the
proper ‘age for oufessioni
, first Holy Communion, and Confir-
mation. Half an hour each day
is devoted to the teaching of the
Christian Doctrin and weekly
Catlleclletical instructions is given
by the Chaplain. .The sta
ance, fortitude, truth and charity.”
If the prospectus speaks the truth
spirit, in tile mlust or c l an .
Let me, who have led them into this,
speak, in my own and in my fellow-
commanders names, and in the name
of Ireland present and to come, their
praise and ask those who come after
them to remember em,
or four days they have fought and
toiled, almost without cessation, with-
out sleep, and in the intervals of fight-
lug, they llaie sung songs of the free-
dom of Ireland. No.man com-
plained: no man as d “why?”
Each’inilividual hal spent himself,
r ut his strength for
ublin from many sham
her name splendid among the names
of cities.
I . were to mention names of in-
divitluals, my list would be a long one,
I will name only that of Comman-
dant (‘iencrnl James Couno y, com-
mandiul: the Dtlblirrdivision, lle lies
wounded, lull: is still the guidinglvrain
of our resistance.
we accomplish no more than we
then the first report is false. If any-
one doubts the prospectus they should
apply to His Grace the Archbishop of
Dublin or to the Rev. M, Behan. C. CJ
B A., w o is the Chaplain mentioned
in the prospectus just quote .
Whether the report that the Chap-
' ‘sometimes remained un-
not prepar
n m
to state, No doubt the
ing alive can speak for himse
t is nown that Pearse had a
struggle to keep the
doors open a few years ago when it
‘ the h-!
own co-religionists of wealth declined
to do so. In the present disturbel
state of Ireland it would be unfair to
mention the name of this godd Pro
testant friend as the English govem-
men: would be likely to construe his
generous act as treason to the Empire,
VVe know of no complaint uttered by
' Behan, and,
e did
l
he:
t. Endas‘
president the burden he had to bear in
that spirit of self-sacrifice so char-
acteristic of the Irish priest- In any
case beware of se who would
spread reports. that can only eminate
from the enemies of Ireland and he
chaplain he’ ,
it speak further.
have accomplished, am satisfied, I
am satisfied that we have saved Ire-
land's honor. I am satisfied that we
sllould have accomplished more, that
we should have accomplished the task
of entllroniug as well as proclaiming
Republic as a Sovereign
arrangements r
simultaneous rising of the'whole coun-
' combined plan as sound as
':i-
(9
Sunday. Of the fatal countermanding
‘order which prevented those plans
m being carrlcrl out, I shall not
h Eoin MacNeill
I
and we have acted in the best interests
rela d
done in this. I am not afraid to face
either the y'udgment'of God, or the
judgment of posterity.
(Signed) P. H. PEARSE,
rnn-landant-General
Commanding in Chief of the Army 0
the Irish Republic. and President of
the Provisional Government
Pa, Pa, What is a Hyphen?
A German who sympathizes with
Germany in her struggle for existence.
What ' an American first?
One who believes the U. S, should
assist England to pull her chestnuts
out of the ore.
As for rny part. at to anything I have W
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‘CLAN-NA-GAEL JOURNAL, PHILADELPHIA,
THE IRISII REVOLUTION
Continued from First Page
any attempt to tlcprive them of their
national rights or to partition their
country. Then a typically Irish thing
happened. Orange volunteers an
Irish volunteers bcizmi to grow friend-
ly toward each miner, and both were
opposed to the English Government.
But the war came, an Wit ost
dastardly attempt at betrayal ever
a national leader, John Red-
mond assumed to pledge the manhood
of his country to the tyrant of seven
centuries. From that day the Irish
volunteers stood to their arms, ‘I’ ey
determined that if they died to defend
a “small nationality?’ that that “s
nationalityl’ would be Ireland. They
script them wo A
o the death. The Government tried
ces enlisted and 39,
th former were sent to France and
. n e Government foun
that recruiting had failed in Ireland
it planned to conscript the good fight-
" ial it c vcted. But there
men
hands They must be disarmed; that
done, Ireland would be helpless. o
the Government to arrest the
leaders of the volunteers and to at-
tempt seizure 0 nm. oon a
concerted effort would have been made
0 disagm all Iri men. 3‘bat is why
the volunteers struck on Easter Mon-
day.
Nothing could be more foolish than
'r courageous act
injured the cause of Ireland. Had
ha ey rrned,
they and all their fellows would have
een conscripted; they would have
died in a foreign In in a cause not
their Their un already
striking they have not mine
have saved their country. They
their lives and fortunes to do it, an
the heroes of mankind.
nal glory that they
trod the brave way of revolution and
proclaimed an Irish republic, Let it
be remembered that these men were
an organized body of soldiery, a nat-
ional militia, oflicered and disciplined.
V -A ru e in r ‘
and the customs of civilization they
should have been treated as soldiers;
when they surrendered. they should
have been held as prisoners of war.
But Erlgland-England has lined their
leaders against a wall and murdered
them in col bloodl How will an
English historian of the future: a man
of honor like ecky or Greene, come
to this passage of English history
without feeling that all chivalry de-
parted his land that day? And these
men who were shot, who were the
They were men of brilliant intellect
and pure character; they were educa-
tors, scholars, poets, historians d
or leadersl Tllc ‘ ilize
world stands shocked and shamed at
this English he revolution
while it lasted, was skillfully carried
out, and with the last degree of cour-
age. Previous to the inva-ltion
modern Field artillery it would have
succeeded. The patriots kept their
flag flying for seven days, while homes
and public buildings, shattered by 6-
inch shells, tell about them, crushed
and mangled tl
he alliance
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mm.
which the Irish rebels
made many is justifie
every‘ historic precedent. No small
nation has ever freed itself from a lar-
ger tyrant except by alliance with that
.tyrant's enemy, and in 1793-France
even went so far as to land an army in
Ireland to help Ireland in her struggle
for ree om from nglish tyranny-
just as she lent help to America at all
earlier date by a few years. The Ge
mans had promised Sir Roger Ca
meal: the great diplomat and patriot
who sacrificed wealth and honors to
serve his people, that if they came to
Ireland they would come as friends.
In a free Ireland,'foreign capital and
science would develop Ireland's great
water powerv mineral wealth and la-
bor power, while other nations would
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against struggling, bleeding Ireland
without even a protest? I trust not;
and I sincerely hope that Americans
wi ' as one man and utter a pro-
test in humanity's name that will be
heard around the world,
JUNE 23. I916
By Order of the lleall
The Murdered Bodies
War Prisoners Order
With England.
of the Irish
"No Peace ‘
With Tone and Emmet their Memory
'1 ’ ll England as Surely as
th es Again
The blood-dripping, severed head of
Emmet, the blcedin throat of Tone,
have today other dumb moutlls beside
cm to preach with trumpet tone the
cause of Ireland‘; lilzerty.
The shot-shattered limbs of the gen-
tle Connolly and the gentler and schol-
arly Pearse, taken from the hospital
and shot. the grave, noble
Clarke, smashed with English bullets,
after his long life of martyrdom '
ritish dungeons; enthusiastic
from the rostrum, where all
good and noble in Ireland preached
the doctrine of the rille,
-or many a year their work was in
thc pulpit of Irish nationality, and by
England they have been translated to
a more commanding sphere.
Their work of exhortation is over,
and their work of authority and com-
man egins.
When the coward, the wcakling and
the slave preached that the old Fag-
massacrei of lust
ypocnsy army
had died, and that a new England o
gentleness and mercy had mken its
place, they knew it was a lie.
ey w it with the instinct of
men who were to seal it with their
life blood.
They knew.it with the knowle
always belongs to martyrs, an
the sight of the dyins. who an see
what the living do not see, and r
' ves at are hallowed with
ethat
d with
handful of holy earth, over which a
candle has never ‘ y
water never fallen, but which are
m on! with the supreme sacri-
fice pf right and of justice, they preach
‘E
stice.
They exhort no more. They com-
S
E
They have risen from the ranks-of
Ireland's sufferers and with a verified
knowledge of the righteousness of
their claims and with the sanctif-ica-
tion of their martyrdom they are the
avcnging angels of Irish Nationality.
Every one of them knew that hu-
, l.:-<‘-dhjusteingland,-ge -
olls England, was a lie.
Clarke had seen the older England,
and half a generation in a prison cell
was behind his knowledge.
Connolly had seen every da of his
life the greedy, treacherous England
which spurned and trod upon the poor,
w ic t of the struggling lives
of lean; lank-breasted women and
wailing children distilled the lblood
ullich fattened the British vampire.
earse had seen the hypocritical
England,, with its Bible societies and
its rant of civilization, starve or try 0
starve the intellectual life of the Irish
people, and rom the descendants of
a nation of saints and scholars make
ation of ignorant and brutalized-
n
soldiers of Engl .
Colbert McDermott, Ceannt and all
the rest of them knew England-lZng-
t’ln(I. with its prcaching and its Par-
liaments canting of law and honesty.
while the servants of its preachers and
its Parliament denied any Iris man
the right to live unless he had abne-
galtc every sense of honor and jus-
tice and prostituted every principle of
nationality an ' .
They knew, every one of them
lulcw, and every one of us knows, that
when England made the famine, that
wllcu England murdered the Manches-
trr Martyrs, that she was acting from
no accidental policy begotten of blind
paxsmn.
Tlley lmew, and we lmew, that she
would do the same agairt That she
was still capable of taking out the
shot-shattered, dying exponents of
‘ freedom and propping them up
with crutches before her firing squad,
ley knew that she was capable of
the murder of her prisoners within
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meanest servants.
And they who have the proud heri-
tage of their work arid the glorious
cxample of their deaths must vow. as
solemnly as they vowed. their lives
to Ireland, to struggle for the same
old cause.
e command from their graves is,
“No peace with Englan "
The order of the dead
with England,"
Constitutionalism in Ireland may go
as it may. The threat of the ten
thousand rifles ,the sullen rage of four
millinn people, may wring petty co
ccssions from land-from murder-
ous, brutal cursed England-but we
re-bless the ancient hate.
No peace with En land: Until die
is "No peace
‘ations that fol
as! man of the Ins race has been
Tllli O'RAI-IILLY
First of the Irish Leaders Killed in the
Battle of Dublin
driven from the kindly Irish hearth-
stone of his sires, or mounts a scanold
or dies in English dungeons, there
must be no peace with England.
umanity makes no peace with the
rattlesnake or the wolf until they are
beyond the possibility of harming hu-
mam ml the murder of our war
prisoners must preach that lesson again
and again until the English nation is
a wilderness, like the victims 0 im
own tyranny, and peopled only with
the ghosts of its victims.
e ave endured the worst that
Fmgland dare do.to us.
endure it still, and the eternal
' et mak
rang cannot endure forever, and
the deer of it has never yet escaped
the Nemesis which follows upon his
tack. ‘
That is the order from the strangled
throats and bullet-shattered corpses of
our countrymen-that there is no
peace with England, and to the gener-
w after us we hand
down the same watchword as a sword
and shield.
-San Francisco’ Lender
ML IRl.S.l‘L,‘EiRESlDENT.'S." ,ADlEU
DECLARED REVOLT “RIGHT",
Pearse, on lav. of Death, VVrdte to
Mother World would Later
Pr ise Rebels
London, May 26-The Star prints a
farewell letter that Patrick Pearse,
president of the short-lived Irish rk
public, wrote to his mother on the eve
of his CXCCUIIOIL It is dated from Kil-
mainhanl prison on May 3 and reads:
“llfy dearest Mother: I have been
hoping up to now it would be possible
to see you again, but it does not seem
possible.
“Good-by, dear, dear mother.
Through you I say good-by to Wow
VVpw (a sister), Mary, Brigid, VVillie,
Miss B. Miceal, Cousin Maggine and
every one at St, 'nda's> ‘I hope and
believe “'iIlic and the St. EnL‘la's boys
will all e sa e.
“I have written two papers about
financial affairs and one a ut m
books, which I want you to get; with
a
said by you about me.
it, an is in Arbour Hill bar-
racks with o let
,‘‘I have iust received Holy Commu-
l'lI0n.
grief of parting from you. This is
the death I should have asked for it
Go givcutme choice of all deaths
People will say hard things
‘ now. bu latt n '1
pralseius. Do not grieve for all this,
bu of it as a sacrihce which God
asked of me and o ou.
-by again, dear mother. May
God bless you for your great love for
me and for your great faith, and ma
He remember all you have so bravely
suffered. I hope soon to see papa.
and in a little while we shall be all to-
cr- 1 have not the words to tell
you of my love for you and how my
heart, yearns to you all. I will call to
you in my heart at the last momult.
Your son, Pat"
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CLAN-NA-GAE.L GAMES
Tuesday. July 4th, at Point Breeze
ickcts farsale at Irish-Amer
pnlce Street and the
Great Boxing and Motor Cycle
unniug, Jumping. Hammer Throwing
Sack Race, 5-Mile ‘Race, Hurling and
Tugvof-War. Dancing all day.
I am happy exceptdoi rile great .
of the Park on July 4th.
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