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50 rfommioe teir An “oume uarat," yo no an
“-omne mop” rim. Sin e an pat A bruit an omeao
rom -oe mear A5 cum fl1AIC Asamn an pumaib
“satanca.” Sm e an pat A bruit A tan agamn
com cabae rom, nae pet-om Lmn, an nor na moan,
11t‘m '00 Congoait. mi mba gum e 50 nub eme gm‘:
ftomn as bgwtz ommnm. 1r map rom '00 mom-euro
'o’6meAnnAcAib. ’SeM5, mnanc omia as pLt‘ircAm-
eacr: teir na booacmb Go nae bptnt rptmtc ceitte
mt oeomin uairteacca ionnca. ‘Cam ’na ngiottaib
Aca-pan o marom so horoce. mt bA[tA!'l1AlL aca
Act A mbanmimit Cu). Ni perom Leir na booacmb
rm 54:1 an ceapc '00 belt ACA man CA mpgeao,
ciste mom, Agar Amp-ainmneaca Aca. CA na
-oaome rambpe sALL'0A fro ’nA n-aingub aca, mA'r
nun e 50 noeaneann flat) 411 na Lear-Gmennnacaib
rnagaca ro san rmuc na rmutc omia. Run eite
‘oe : CA re Ammg an na Saeoeataib nae gmitac Leo
A bpuit, ceapta ACA '00 cup 1 ngniom, re rm Le Mo,
nae sconiitionann rwo A nseattarima so mime. .
A5 Leigeat) rcame nAhGipeAnn nuinn, ciocean
'0t‘nnn so bruit pm 131011 pneirm. mo Lean! 1r
mimc '00 bmrea-0 omia pa nan cpummg rmn uite 1
scemm A ceite an an om ceapta. Cube rseat e ir
tem '00 sac emneac nae bpmt. Ctmm na nsaeoeat,
5411 toccait’). ‘CA re 'oe 1tlACCAt1A]‘ omiamn, no hem
mo tummme, 11A Locca ro no ppiomseamwo.
Deanamaoir rm agar new rain-tip ’r4 tin; asur
annrom bero nmrifm iomtan Asamn.
(Leanpm 'oe rec.)
"V-I
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Fenianism in Practice . .
AN IRISH-IRELAND Pm1.osor1n'.
X.-CONCLUSION.
“ The passionate aspiration for Irish nation-
hood,” wrote Mitchell, “will outlast the
British Empire. . . . The liberty of Ireland
may come sooner or later, by peaceful nego-
tiation or bloody conflict, bu! it is sure" That
summarises exactly the faith of those who
have at any time stood in the Bearmz Bang-
lzzzil; it summarises the prevailing spirit of
the present revival; it explains its cheerful-
ness, its buoyancy, its optimism; it empha-
sises its inevitability. For the third time
within recent times Ireland finds herself again
on the right path after a long will-’o-the-wisp
wandering, with the goal and the way clearer
than ever! VVe stand to-day in almost the
same position as the Young Irelanders in the
early forties and the Fenians in the early
sixties; drinking in deep draughts of a
nationalism which is old, and yet new, which
invigorates us, quickens us, gives us zest and
energy and a sense of beauty; puts us into
April 18th, I997.
touch with a past which goes back to remote
antiquity, back beyond English laws and
Parliaments, back beyond the Union of
Hearts and the Brass Bands, old and new;
back to the very beginning of traditions.
And if we face the future with a more assured
confidence in the end, with a more absolute
certainty that the end will come in our own
time, it is because we feel that through all
the struggles and throes of the centuries the
nation has at last forged its way, and that
nothing can stop the present movement. VVe
have set stones rolling which nothing can
now stop, not even the men who set them
rolling: the leaders of all sections might be
put into prison or killed, and still the move-
ment would go on of its own momentum,
would produce other leaders; this time there
is no turning back and no smash up; we feel
that we have got to the bedrock of things,
that the national instinct has gripped all the
roots of national life, that England's grip on
our vitals is already loosened, and that it will
never again tighten.
VVith the restoration of the old ideal of
Nationhood, we have regained our self-
confidence and somewhat of character; we
have regained our faith in ourselves and in
the destiny of our country. And as for the
men in Ireland today who think that the
Nation cannot regenerate itself, cannot stand
unaided, can look for existence only as a kind
of Buffer State, or Crown Colony, or Feder-
ated Province of the British Empire, who
believe in pumping character and prosperity
into the country from England instead of de-
veloping them ourselves, our anger is mingled
with an immense pity. Anger and scorn we
feel that Ireland should produce men and
women whose ears are deaf to the call of the
Motherland, men and women of. little faith ;
but pity we feel for them also, for are they not
shut out from the beauty and the magnificence
of the ideal for which we work; their lives
are dreary and monotonous, their minds
stunted, their natures petty, they have no
memory and no knowledge ; each day of the
Revival brings us a new sensation, a new
beauty, a broader mental outlook, a closer
appreciation of the facts of life, something
more of the achievement of the past to add
to our sense of historic memory; each day
reveals us to ourselves clearer and clearer in
