The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 32

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TAXATION IN _EXCELSIS !

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th-: t~rr.iGie ;gra1'. it): ,6f tne_ situa tion that now th;eatens !~eland's fin anciar ,a nd economic future is beg~n{1i,ng slowf~· to d '.lwn ()n peopl_e here and the.re, the country 1Yi1\ ·o l'i e no thanks to those to wh~m it has b een ta~ght to look for light and guidance . The country now knows thal:" -i t was deluded by a conspiracy of si,l ence abO~:t thb C6ai"itiori' of · British parties. The s~1~~ Coaliti(1h \~·hid~· no,v: is-.'i ii office. ~vas · in e~i s~ei1ce a:l1d Hz op~~atio;i at"· the beginning of J;st year. ~fnde'r 'the ·compulsion ·e xerc ised by rha_t· Coalition the' Ulster sutte.i1der was forced, and under the s·a:ine ·compulsioi1 tb"e Irish Vohmteer «::;ro-anisati6d · \vas i~vaded .ind enfeebled: 0 Every single b erid iri the who le rotind · of the sharp cdrve : nas' tke11 a con1pu1sory bend, forced by the t5)1i1bined i)r ess\.ire · of· the sanie

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B ut the ~-risi s Je'mands h nest · and outs11Joken ,rnrds ,' not ;il~'i-ice" or abs tentio~ . Ireland is now. 'threatened with a ruinous ~ddition to her already mort~l burden of ta:xafit {1 .-- As we ll as l can estimate, 'and as moderateiy, (he Imperial 1iabi.Jities already-incurred, if they are a llowerl to fall upon Ireland, will average an addi- · tional taxation of at least Three Pounds a year in r)e rr>etuitY out of eve ry household ) n the. t • count ry . One me1~1ber of Parliament alone has J~ad courage to speak out. Speaking near K il kenny the other day , Mr. Meagher, M.P . , warned the farmers t hat tbey were threatened with a new taxation which he estimated at five ;;hillings an acre . · And that .is onl y a begin-

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PL AYING WITH PENCE AND MISSING POU NDS.

A f e w weeks ago the Government proposed a n increase of taxat ion which would have

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SATURDAY; JULY 17, 191 5. diminished the Ol\tP,1Jt a nd the profit · Of Lre\\"ers" and di ·tirter..· ...:.... ;;1d, of.. the •license.d .....

• -· ~:'°". ., - ~ ; retail-trade, and "."·ou)'d . have reacted on I risb tillage . .-The Iris~1 . Par! iamentary P arty, under Mr. Redmond;' ~01~t~~t~d themselves with mere abstention from voting . Mr. Field, heckled about it at a public meeting, said that the Party acted unde r Mr. Redrnond· s orders- a strange discl 0sure ~vhich '· impl _i es tha~ whoever ":ishes to command the ' Irish Party ·has only to secure a ·personal 'ascendancy over Mr . Redmond . Mr. - D evlin · found an engagement- in Pads, · cementing "the histqric f rie_ndship bet;\:e-:ei~ I ~·eland ancf '.F.rance, ancl ~ura1;ging that M. Vi1j ani, ·who'"'i s able' to "pi.it out the lights of Heave11 " in the school of his own coun try, will in clue time put out the lights of Unionism in England a11d set old -Ireland free . But the Irish manufacturers of alcohol and, the retail t~aders were rtble in · a f~w days to organise a vigorous actiYe campaign, putti1?g the National claim in the forefront . Abstaining was not to their taste, and they promptly killed the poli cy of abstention under orders . They were supported by the Press and by the P.e ople . . _Compulsion is no t a Coalitioq morn?poly. _W ithin a week the abstentionists we re forced to " about turn " a ncl t9 -m.arcJ-i. qn J>arliame))L They had to declare war .on, the 1iq uo r. supertax, though_:· they prefixe d to their declaration a servile and truckling apology, expressing Ireland's eagerness to bear " Ireland's share. " Sir Edward Carson · was likewise compelled to resist the supertax, and obeyed, but said nothing about Ulster's intense desire to carry burdens ·for the Empire.

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.:\'0\1" the liquor tax p roposed by Mr. Lloy 1 George was a trifle compared with " Irel?-nd·s share" in the new financial burdens. Already since la st autumn Ireland has been paying additional taxation to an enormous amou~t, and her tried and experienced guides have not once opened their mouths to offer the mildest remonstrance , nor have the y ·sought in any way to brin g the facts to the knowledge of the pub lic. If the y dirl , l\fr. Birrell might ques-

Pric e ·o ·ne. Penny. tion their loyalty and frighten them by complirnen ti~g his ~oll~gue , Sir Edward Carson

for loyalty of the right brand. Say nothing, take £ 400 a year, and let Ireland pay-it is a g reat game. Mr. 0 1Brien and his colleagues do not take commands from the Coalition-, but they are ;10t much bette'r than if t hey did .

They opposed the liquor super tax, ·kx_x>wing the pow r·of an organised-interest, but they let the other taxes go without opposition, because the ordinar y Irish taxpayer is not organised or well informed . There is a marvellous discretion compatible with lof ty professions when an organised vote has to be reckoned with'. The ·Li lste r . D-nionist four. ·hundred pounders are equally dis_creet .

Capt~ in (now . Colonel) Craig, M .P., can afford the· in~me t~ out of his emolumen ts, but he won·t stand a superta.x o n D unville's whisky, and he will let his wise supporters be taxed on their incomes and their proper ty. Neither he nor his colleagues , nor their handsomely rewarded leader; will take undue care to enl ighten Ul ·te r Un ionists about what tbe tax-collector has in wait for them.

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THE B UDGET BOMBSHELL.

T he ne w Chancell-0J· of the Exchequer; whos~ father, by the way, was once an Irish H ome Rule me mber of Parliament, is K:eeping back his B udget to give the biggest War Loan in the When the world's his to ry a fair chance.

Budget comes along the silence will 'be b roken.

According to the "Daily Independent" the additional taxes required to pay the additional interest on the additional Imperial Debt will alone be equal to the entire taxation of G reat · Britain and Ireland thirty years ago. At that time " I reland'·s share, " it is confessed , was extortionate and oppressive . What will it be under the new Budget? How will the " T rade" come off ? Where will Ireland, in her eagerness to bear he r share, find the additional few millions? Will the farmers pay them? Will tlfe towns pay them ? . Don't ask your guides on the platform or in the Nathanal Press . Th~y are ·busy looking after Europe and have .no time for trumpery Irish matters.

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WHAT NEXT?

Unless the war comes to a speedy and unforeseen conclusion, the War Loan now a-fioating"will have to be followed by another War Loan. The present loan bears interest at 4§- per cent. What will the interest be on .the next loan ? What will the effect ·be on Ireland?

Only a nobody, a crank, a factionis t, a mischief-maker, can .ask such questions . . I may be deported for asking them, or prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Act for creating disaffection. It might even ;be held that such questions are likely to prejudice r<:cruiting in Ireland. The London "Times" has already pointed . out that the poverty of Ireland is favourable_to recruiting. That :being so, anybody who resists the impoverishment of Ireland deserves to ·be prosecuted. Surely here at last Mr. Tennant, M. P., has sufficie~t grounds for suppressing the "Irish Volunteer. "

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" TOLL FOR THE BRAVE·, THE BRAVE THAT. ARE

did not know about already, and they found a rifle ! Imagine their surprise at being led by this chain of mere accidents to find a rifle in the house of a: Citizen Army Volunteer. The imprisoned man: '·~n _the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, Old Style, 'i\1 as brought before the magistrate _a nd · charged under the Realm Act with ·being in possession of und~clared munitions of war. This ~eed . not alarm the various munition keepers of the Ulster Volunteer Force, for any wise magistrate may be expected to holrl that, Sir Edwa rd Carson being part of the Government, the Government has proper knowledge about his friends' munitions of " war " and will dispense The with the formal~ty of a declaration. magistrate took a serious view of the case and imposed no punishment, · but Mr. Birrell is keeping the rifle. EverY'lXxlY thought that the Detective Story was neai ly played out in literature , but Mr. Birrell has broken into a new vein, whi ch is as channing as it is original.

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Land Purchase is dead. You can't pay off a 4! per cent. loan by annual payments at 3§-, not ir you had all eternity to do it in. _ Town Tenants Purchase is stillborn, and the recent College Green Convention may be congratulated, has already been congratulated, on fixing a standard of statesmanship that can look with intemation~l ~isdain on. the mere Irish problems of Mr. Coghlan Briscoe, and can ignore the question- Where· is Ireland to find the few a~qitional millions? •

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BACKBONE WILL" WIN YET!

But let .us n0t"-forget that a little organisation and a few days' work, with the backing of Irish public opinion, not only converted: a retreat into 'a fight, but also converted a fight into a victqry-so that even a united British House of Commons, in the elegant phrase of Mr. Lloyd George, " quailed .b efore an enraged mob of Irish :brewers and publicans." No heaven-born leadership was required. The moral is obvious. Ireland can have that financial autonomy without the Home Rule Actput back for sentence- which that piece of Imperial legislation did not confer upon her .

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DocK. More housebreaking ! A member of the "Dublin Citizen Army, it is reported, got into trouble some time ago and was sentenced to imprisonment. When a man is in prison, Mr. Birrell's agents know that he is not at home in his own house . While this man was in prison two. women happened by pure accident to break into his house and have a look round. As there was nothing said about it in the "Irish Volunteer " and no general talk about it over Dublin, Mr. Birrell's agents did not forget this time to call at the house to make inquiry. When they called, they strayed quite casually through the house, not expecting to find out anything they

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AN EXPLANATION.

Cappagh is a village in Tyrone, about seven The local people miles from Dungannon. arranged for an Irish Volunteer meeting there on June 29th, and invited Mr. . Newman, of Belfast, and myself to attend. The account of the meeting_ given last week in the "Irish Volunteer" was inaccurate in many particulars, because there was riot time to prepare an accurate account and ·because I am compelled to have the paper printed more than a hundred miles from where I live, and my communications have again and again been delayed and interrupted by Mr. Birrell. I am sorry for this inaccuracy, because I want the people to see things exactly as they are.

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GROSS INTIMIDATION, AND .THE OLD GAME" DIVIDE AND RULE.

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When we arrived at Cappagh on Tuesday evening we found the village occupied by a large foroe of police armed with rifles and commanded by Inspe~tor Barrington. There were about fifty f>olice in uniform and others in plain clothes. From subsequent Press reports, it appears that the pretext for this display of armed force by the Government, a display that has been conspicuous]~ absent from other meetings in Ulster during the past three' years, was that " it had ·been rumoured that organised opposition to the meeting would be given by the Hibernian element. " It is quite as convenient, and much easier, to provide rumours as to provide housebreakers. In this case, the attempt is made to fasten the odium on the Hibernians. The game is too obvious. The time-honoured policy of the ancient Coalition against Ireland has been " to halloo Protestant against Catholic and Catholic against Protestant." Just at present it suits better to hailoo Nationalist against Nationalist.

If that could be worked up successfully, the Coalition would have little trouble in keeping

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Mr. Redmond harmless, and the blame would 'be left on the Nationalists. When a certain female .element were induced to make a row some time ago at a' Volunteer tum -out in the South, Dublin Castle took special steps to have the row prominently reported in the London papers. This was before the Coalition was avowed. Nothing would suit the Go;e~ment better or enable them more easily ·fo ~scape from their pledges than, by means of factious disorder in Ireland, to ruin and discredit Mr. Redrriorid and his party when the instrument had served their purpose, ~nd to shift the disgrace from themselves to the people of Ireland.

If the authorities had any apprehension of organ ;sed disorder' "rganised by anybody but themselves , and wished to prevent ·it-, Inspector Barrington would, of ( urse, have had instructions to make some represehtatiort; ·· to secure the preservation of J)Cace and ' order; to the chairman of the meeting or to · mys~lf·a.s repre.sentative of the Irish Volunteer org~nisation .

No such repn;sentation was made, riot was there any communication from iitst -to ·1as.t between the police and those resp<)nsible for the meeting. The rumours of opjiosition were invented in order to discredit the local B:ibernians and embroil them, if · that ·could be managed, with the Irish Volunteers·.

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The facts are : (I) that the Cappagh meeting was largely organised by leading' ·:H:iberniarts of the district; (2) that thi!; was w~lf':kri.own to the authorities who inve~ted · th~ lying rumours and then sent a smalhtrmy with~ifies; (3) that a meeting of ~rish Voluntee.r: . .officers on the same occasion was called ·befor~han d by arrangement with the local Hibern:iai'i's;· lo 'be held in the Hibernian Hall, Cappagh, "ahd was actually held in the !libernian :ijall, and there was a large attendance of the offi!'ers, rtot a: few of whoip are Hibernians; (4) that tlie rri~ti..ng in the open-air was absolutely:_,()rde~iy · ~11d unanimous, without as much as 'a syllable :or a gesture of opposition or dissent; though the audience, according to the 'BeJfast ,; :t{ewsLetter," comprised five · huridred - '".nonsyrirJ>athisers." I can only say .to our honourable Government, " Try aga.in,'; or . in . i:'iie popular Northern phrase, "TeH an()th~r while your mouth's warm ."

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The Government had · two. sporthand notetakers present, and Inspector Barrington holding a lantern to them. I could see them writing very hard, and I hope that the foll report will be sent on to Mr. Birrdl. Ile w~!l see thq.t I gave very little help to the game of provoking ill-feeling and dissension anq helping the Ministers pledged ~o Home R"(Ile for all Ireland to escape from their pledges on the wreck of Mt. Redmond. He will ~ that I stood firm for National unity, reviling . neither Redmondite nor Orangeman, though I hold my-

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T HE I RISH VO LUNTEER.

Saturday. July 17th, 1915. self free tQ criticise any party. H e will see that I advised t!.ie people not to break up the lrisli Pcrrty, .the pcrrt)' organisation or th~ party macMne 1 to make things ea~y for pledgebreakers ;, and pot to cul~ivate rancour towards their neigh0ours to :make things easy for pogwi:n ~!otters. :fie .will .find that r. can expound the policy of the Irish Vqlunteers without trespassinli( on the gosP.el of lawless.ness and bar:Oaric hatr~. preached and never yet rep1,1diated by_ his colleagues of the present Government. If ·~r. Birrell wishes to crush me he will have to .n::sort to the arbitrary powers created to fight Germany but used in Ireland. to fight Ireland .

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" REGISCRJPTION."

Con,scription is abandoned for the present.

Comp ulsory registration is proposed instead.

The underlying idea is the same, The working man and the poor man are to be used as munit ions to protect the aristocrat and the wealthy man and tpe clividender in the enjoyment of the g()(){! things. The poor man is to register the servires of his labour, which are all he has to live by and to make a liYelihood for those dependent on him. The poor man is the majority . Why shall he not demand that the property owne.r, the rich man, and the dividend man shall also be compelled by law to register all that ibey have an~ to say exactly in · what way they are willing to place it all at the disposal of the Government for the prosecution of the war.? Meanwhile, Irishmen can do no better than act on Mr. Asquith's advice-Give nothing and offer nothing but " the free gift of a free people-" Eorn MAc NEILL. 0

ILiy erpool Volunteers. I B Compa~y, which meets at j8 Puke Street, · Liverp90l, repqrts excellent progress. .~or the benefit of those who wish to join this Company, the . Secretary informs us that men will be expected to attend for drill at least once every week, and members should make it their business to bring in recruits .

Section Commanders should put their sect ions in good order, as a prize will be given ;;hortl y for the best-drilled section.

The Cumann na mBan have now a branoh a t the same address as the I. V., and excellent work has been performed by the members.

Volunteers should carefully note the parades. which take place :\.T DUKE STREET, on Tuesdays at 8-30.

Rifle Practice. Wednesdays at 8-30. Signal Class and Lecture.

AT ROCK FERRY-Thursday at 8-30 . Lecture and First Aid Class. _,,\,T GREENWITCH PARK- Sundays at +· Field work.

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(OF CORK), begs to · intimate to his numerous Volunteer friends that ·he has opened a magnificen t Tob'acco, Chocolate, Sweets, and · News ·. Emporium in Dublin at the corner .of Bless ing1ri!=<h goods a ton and Berkeky Streets. ;iiet·iali ty . ·

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"On Thursday, July 20th, 1848, the British Government issued a proclamation ordering the people of Ireland to sur+en\}er their arms ."

On Thursday, ]'11y 1st, t\;115, a stipendiary magistrate, sitting. in 'Dublin, proclaimed that. the possession of arms by a " free ': citi7,en of this "free" country within the cmistitution of that Empire, which is the origin and guardian of the Yery Testament of Freedom, was· an illegality, and oi'c,iered the sai9 arms to 'b e confiscated. Acts so nearly similar. in points of time and of nature suggest that an examination of the circumstanc-es which were the occasion and the result ~f the earl ier occurrence may furnish us with some idea as to the reaso~ ­ and objective of tli;; later.

In r848, after the people had been .cruelly reduced by the artificial famine, which the Government had engineered, John Mitchel seceded from the Nation, started the United Irishmen, and began hi'! fiery crusade for the liberation of this" small na~ionality. " He was arresterl, tried by parttsan judges and a packed jury, and sentence.cl to fourteen years' transportation beyond the sea. The Whig Government then determined either to crush or to cause a p remature outbreak of the revoh1tionary movement which, was sweeping . the country.

The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and \\'arrants were issued and executed for the arres t of the leaders of the confederation: The blow had been delivered timely. The country was unorganised, the han·est tmgathered, the confederation unready , and in two short months the movement, that of all since the inauguration of the United Irishmen was fullest of promise to Ireland, was dead; its insurrection stilH:iorn.

So much for 1848. ' What of 19:1 5?

Once again the Irish peop le are being ordered to give up their arms . Then, it .was with the masterful tone of the bi.Illy; now, it is with the ordered form and ceremony of the British Law Courts and with that masquerade of ·a debauched justice that befouls them. T hen , it was to repress a revolt ; now, it is to forestall one. · Then, it was to prevent us using our arms against: England; now, it is that we may be helpless in her hands. Then, we had few weapons and no military organisation ; now, we have rifles and organisation that will serve .

But we are now faced with a new dangerConscription. A " National R egister " is to be formed. True, the proposed measure is not to be extended to lreland~at least not by the ordinary forms of democratic government; we, being only recently emancipated, must be content with less. In England, the assent of the both H ouses of Parliament, of the three Estates of the Realm, and of the King are all essential to render the Act valid and applicabl e to the people of that country. To apply it to Ireland, perhaps, since our freedom is of the order that the Ri.1ssian serfs enjoy, the penstroke of \ an earl, or of an Ashantee baronet, or- who knows ?---of some understrapper whose office is in Dublin Castle and whose "habitus" i.n Kildare Street Club, or, perchance, in these days of gratitude and mutual service, in Upper ·O'Connell Street, will suffice .

Be that, however, as it may, it is intended to apply this "Natiopal Register " device and whatever else it may forerun to Ireland. F or . who runs, may read the signs .

A rifle is the surest sign of a free man .

Without arms we can ·do nothing; with them '"e are all powerful. \Ve saw during the Home Rule proceedings how powerful they are. The man who first appealed to them is· now a member of the British Cabinet, and the · f,11t .-t

otigo 9f all legal procedure iq Erigl.and. We seek no such' honour; for we .seek highe~ and 1,iolier thing-Liberty.

Yet, what ;Carson found needful, shall we d}sdain--;-0r, ~f not disdaining them, shall we, possessing anns, surrender them to our enemy? · Surely rn:,me could be so recreant! I . can promise for one~nay, as Mitchel did, "for two, for three, aye, for hundreds," for ever'y true-beating Mart in Ireland. · ·· This is the issue that shortly will be placed before us . For s01:µe of us it may be one of life or death. Yet be it so direful in the outcome, for every true Irishman there can be but one resolve now, and that is, meanwhile , L. K . to Hold The Guns .

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Th~ lrish .·Volunteer SATURDAY, JULY 1''.Jth, 1915 . ,, .... ·~

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IHeadquarters' BUiteiin'.' J 'The Central Executive of the I-ris-h Volunteers met at HeadquaJ.ie rs, 2 Dawson Street, Dublin, on Wednesda'y evening, Jurie 30th, Professor Eoin Mac Neill, President, in th_e chair .

Reports on -Organisation, Rec~uiting, Training, Summer Camps , and Finance were reoeived and discussed.

The splendid demonstrat ion at Cappagh, near Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, on June 29th, and the successful despatch of two cyclist columns from Dublin to Tullow, _Co. Carlow, on June 25th, were reported on.

The attitude of the Irish Volunteers towards Compulsory Registration for war purposes was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that Irish Volunteers must resolutely oppose the application of any such measure to Ireland, as being a form of Conscription-against which in any · form Irish Volunteers stand pledged .

Draft arrangements for the Tyrone Training

which ariy people might; be· ca'tle~i' ;~<)n to expenence. Those who J:ia,.ie·,..J.\tecf" aiid· worked . thro ugh the ' past six inonths ' could tell a tale of struggle against fearfuJ.·odifi i(they cared ..

What · had : we to fight? Th~ rhost perfect Iri1perial rnachinen- - in:· ex1stence/ tt~ 'hoitilftv and infidelity of. n;en -· who 'th~h-isehe's.

Irishmen, the apatny; and despair . and''t iniidity of the people in geb:eraL · · -- '2' ·' · Consider the first foe.;._rni.periali~rrif\vi~i~ its spies, its letter-open~rs, ·- its arms.·' 'acts; . its .. . .; . ). : ... . econom 1c p ressure/ its thieves ( who 'stole money sent through the post') , its slancl~: P ress..

With one newspaper, and that a weekly one_, limited in capital and in size: we faced the enfrre Press of Ireland, silenced through fea r, or hostile _through bribery. ' ·" · · · - · We _held to our purpose; ' a~1d~fought aga~nst the. S!J~p i cion of honest · so\)ls; ~gains~ the malice of dishonest minds; .. and . w.e are The Irisl1 people have been _taught by their vinqica,ted .

Merr are saying evei'y,w!fere-'-" Yours is the rulers to distrust themselves , al'l:B to be hypercritical of their o;vn. nation: . ihat is part of onJy .policy . You have be'.en sev;ei-ely . log_ical, the game . And it -is. desi rable t hat we should a11_d _you ha\-e won your ca.Se. Ireland -is. condo what we can to unlearn the lessons which vin~d." a. Go1·ernment inimical to Ir¢1 and has taught _ Aye, more than that: Irelarn:J :scents its danger, and Irelan'chs awake. us ..The demands upon the Vol uliteer ieaders Conceit is a good thing sometimes . · There frorri , all parts Of Ireland is a proof- of the is· such a thing as a healthr eonceit. · Let us be conceited for once and praise ourselves. sincerity and strength of Ireland's: determina\Ve need not go far to disco1-er evidence upon tion to be cheated no longerc Men came for forty miles around Cappagh which to base our praise of ourselves.

The virility of rhe Irish Nation is one of the to meet Eoin ·Mac :\"eilL At Derry on Wedmiracles which haye upset Imperial calcula- nesday, 30th June, there :were · 1 00· - ~en fo r tions: And probably · no ·more remark~ble every man :who attended the meeting a dd ressed repetition of 'the miracle can 'be cited than the three months previously by The O'Rahilly and \fr _ Newman. resurrection of the Irish- Vollli1teers .

The reports are the same from every q uarter.

Had the calculations of t he · Imperialists "We ire>getti1ifi' recruits every .night." . "The proved infallible, the Irish :v olunteer movement wou_ld h~ve passed away; arid wouid by men, are pouring i11," " We want . arms." _., ..

The last statement is the best of the three. this time have taken its place among other interesting historical · phenom.e.na _ But I m- And it is most consoling that none nee9 go ' · periali sm is out of fas hion now; the cards are away empty handed.

Th~! ''winter of our discontent" ha!> · been against it; it has backed the \~rong horse; all the metaphors of misfortune m_ay be apJ?lied to spent well; and the Director of Arms will it. And to sum up, we may say that Imperial-- welcome any man who hungers for a · weapon.

There · is no use writing for · a rifle. _Your ism has come upon its day o;f -reckoning, and is at grips with !he majesty of Heaven, ·whose letter will merely adorn the archives of Dublin laws it has so long been permiUed ;v.ith in;i- C2.stle. There' is much use. in commissioning a man to get you a weapon " when he is next punity to defy.

We are hard upon the .hour o(small nations; in Dublin. " Let this hint go home. And, and instinctively the Irish, as .·the noblest of above all, be satisfied with what you get. .

If you want a good rifle, be prepared to pay the small nations, feels itself destined to play a great part on the stage of a newlj: constructed for it.

Eoin Mac Neill justly complained of th{f world. / In varying degrees the Irish people feel that preposterous show of force · at· Cappagh. A mass of policemen armed ·\vi th carbines at a the future is full of hope.

To be hopeful with folded hands is almost political meeting where no host1lity could poscriminal; it is certainly a mad policy. And sibly be expected . In any case, the carbines what gives those upon Erin's watchtower con- were there merely to intimidate. If our Volunsolation is not merely the glitter of freedom teers in the district had suspected that they fa r over the hills, but is the knowledge that the would have such an exhibition of Imperialism citadel, on whose watchtower they stand, is a they would have turned out with their arms. As it was, the :Police, if they had cared to hive of industry , and that the soldier is sharpening his sword, and the armourer is toil- try a fight, would have found themselves hopelessly .outclassed. They had arms over their ing at his trade.

We have passed through the severest trial shoulders; and before thev coul<l ha..-e unCa.mp, \1-hich ~ta rts at Dimgannon cin Saturday, July 10th, were appr0\·ed of. The peri~ in camp will extend from Saturday evening, 10th, to tl:ie evening of Sl.1r;day, t 8th inst .

The week's course \\;ill embrace everv essenti'al . ) .·· depa rtnient of F ield Training. The training . "· force will march over a lirge pa1i .of the hill country of. Co. Tyrone , the route being by Pomeroy, Omagh , Fintona, and Donaghmore, back to l)unga nnon. The officer in charge will be Captain J- J- O'Connell, of the Headquarters' Organising Staff, to wh9m Volunteers who are joining the camp will report in D ungannon at 6 p .m. on the 10th inst.'

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Such attempts at intimidation merely stimuht<: our people; and 'the sooner Dublin Castle r~a)Jses · that the Irish will protect themselves from intimidation the better. , An _a~~tic pistol ·o r a good revol1·er is ~11 e xcellent -antidote to the wholesale exhiuition o f. Imperial carbines.

It is desirable that our men should understi1-11d this . fact; and it is desirable th_!J,t the wearing of small- arms on parade should bemme .the · rule: · Headquarters has manufaatured . a high-class holster which will accornm<:>date ' a11y reasonably sized weapon, and the w)1plesale distribution of these holsters is in .t,he hands of Mr. .L awler. They are sold.much below• cost, at the abs urd! y low price. ot sixpence. . A company of men wearing holsters will be.free f~om Imperial interference. We h.ave :de5c~ded from the general to the particular.

But in Ireland at this moment one, needs no excuse for. such a descent.

Mattei·s which seem small are in reality the very things which make all -the difference. · . England has held this land in subjection with a series of barrack blockhouses containing : half a dozen armed · me?i . It is time that Ireland should protect herself against such trivial intimidation; and she can do this when the pe0ple of Irelru1d possess, and allow the cuttlefish . to know they possess, effective lethal weapons.

We: hav~ no desire to attempt the impossible. that an. armed and determined Irel and W. e ·see . ·... .

-cail · lJe mistress of her destiny, and that Imperialism will hesitate even in the smallest de_gree to provoke her.

There is a side "to the arms' question which -every man · should take to heart ..

Eoin · Mac Neill has reve~led . the existence -of a well-matured pogrom plot.

We make it quite clear to Dublin Castle, to Mr. Birrell, ,and to Sir Matthew Nathan that -with the ·knowledge in our possession we shall interpret any attempt to disarm the _ Irish people as a certain proof that the idea of a pogrom· plot has not been · abandoned even in -the face of the p~blicity which we have given to it. And 'lfe shall simply say, and allow t he world to hear, that the English oligarchy ·-desires to disarm the Irish Nationalists in order that the carefully arranged and well planned pogro~ plot may be successfully -engineered, and a massacre of the Nationalist and Catholic population may proceed "at some not far distant date " in ·a satisfactory and workmanlike manner.

Forewarned is forearmed! Our warn ing is -directed alike to our enemies and to our friends . Let it be heeded in both camps ; for -o ur words are not idle words.

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large r: Divers writers ..hal'e expatiated on this theme.. Greece has told, and . still --relates:, a tale exceeding flatte ri'i1g ·, to· the Little ,.Peoples.

Rome was at its best before. it degeµeiat~d into an ei:l:1pire; at all events, there can be no :doubt that: as Gibbon ohseIVes, talen.t.im<ler: :the:-fater IMPERIALISM IS A SOCIAL WET BLANKET, AS Emperors sank to a very low ebb'; while the UNDERSTOOD BY THE ENGLISH MIND. . IT . i1werttive faculty of the Latin people .decayed STIFLES ANY PEOPLE. UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH so :greatly u·nder the same auspices that it is no TO BE SMOTHERED BENEATH IT. " A exaggeration to say that 'superabunda:11t wealth, SCOTTISH ARTIS :'U'-1.,, SPEAK:S EXCELLENTLY nower.; and luxury, eiitirel'y smiffed it om.

FOR THOSE UNDER THE WET BLANKET IN THE Then there were the republics · of , medirev'.a l FOLLOWING ARTICLE : Italy; . Do we not tum to the small S.tate of Some little tinJe ago the;e chanced to '£all Venice as to a light that . lighteneeLthe Gentiles into my hands a copy of the . London !11 orning at a time when sitting in darlfuess . would -seem Post. It .so happened that the leading article to.have been their' favourite occupation? Think in that number discussed the origin of the war, what an impettJs. the .generous .and enlightened from the points of view _of the various coun- patronage .of LOretfu> the Magnificent ga-ve to tries comprising the Triple Entente; and I the studv ... of .Art ; and Lett.ers; · ru1d to the remember that the writer stated .that the reason diffusion. of politeness;. yet'· ·~this .prince of why the Ru·ssian · bear was showing. fight was patrons emerged fr.om ·a ~e.pnbl~c that. 'you that he.fought to free himself from the tyranny could almost ha\>e· covered . ~: ith a goQd-sized of Germany . " Puir wee beastie !" I. remarked pocket handkerchief. 'Io the small kingdom to . myself; and I thought what a crying shame of Portugal the world is indebted for some of it was tbat the poor bear should ·be persecuted its· boldest . and most successful . explorers . in that .unconscionable manner. I had won- How greatly .is the science of n.a vigation, and dered since the war ·b egan what precisely the diffusion of trade, indebted to ,the ·l)utc):i. ?

Russia was fighting for, and I was; and :still Whose :bra ve~y i nd military address can be am~ grateful to the iVlorning Post writer for compared · with the martial_ worth of the Swis.s enlightening me on that subject.. · of .medireval Europe? Where is 'the land that But I have not come forth to chant the · lay can. surpass ·our own · iii a point · of romance, of the ;Big Powers, but to applaud t_he Little and: the reputation , for. probity and talent People-those greenclad, denizens of the poli- gained by thousands of her · sons, ·who sougl::it tical groves who sit on fences; and keep , the their fortunes in foreign climes? The E~1g­ ring, as it we're, whilst their superiors in size land of Shakespeare,_ Ben Jonson, Locke, and strength ·re'nd one another to pieces. My Niilton, a'nd Bacori was a: " Little England. " sympathies have al ways been with the Little That country had scarcely begun to "expand" Peoples, as opposed to the Big Powers. Mere in those days, yet I imagine that pusbful size .is nauseating. · '! .Bloated armaments," Imperialists would indeed ·be hard pvt to it to "Frightfulness" as regards warlike methods find in our own times intellects like unto these. or adipose tissue, empir_es on which ·the sun Fugitives flying ,b efore the irruption of . the daily refuses to perform one of its allotted northern barbarians, Leaming and Politeness functions, Dreadnought politics of all descrip" fled to Ireland, where, uniting to the native tions, inflated talk, boasting, bragging, Blatch- Celtic culture, these t_hree so cham1ing Gtace.s fords, Bernhardis; and Bottomleys-all these erected in the sixth anu seventh centuries that vulgar monstrous things are to me infinitely marvellous civilisation ·which is the delight and tiresome, tedious, and depressii1g. For my wonder of the civil historian . . A recent writer own part, I have always been a strong "Little in ·Tlte Scottish Review (Mr. William Diack) People " man. I believe in Peace, and Small quoted some of Lord Bryce's language tol,lching States as a means to the preservation of the the thei:ne on which I am writing·; and I crave same, which leads me to remark that I · think the reader's permission to reproduce that exthat our Peace advocates, the world ,over, perienced politician's opinion : should mend their methods and reform their " It is the fashion nowadays (says Lord propaganda as soon as ever the war shall be Bryce) to worship bigness and ·disparage brought to a close. What is the good of mildly small nations . Yet the independent city lecturing a militant universe on the 1benefits of communities--or the small nations, such as Peace ? You will hardlv induce the lamb to were England and Holland in the sevenlie down by ,the side of' the lion, or the dove teenth century-have produced not only to share the same nest with the eagie, through most of the best literature and art, but most the instrumentality of penny pamphlets or of the great men and great achievements gratuitous leaflets, no matter how young-ladywhich history records. National life is apt like may be your titles, or soft-soapy your · to be more intense and more interesting periods. They used to say, before the war where it is concentrated in an area not so began, that the ·b est way to ensure peace was wide as to forbid the people to know one to increase the probabilities of war. It is true another and their leaders." that that plan has not proved to be as successThese words will find a read y echo in the ful in practice as it was at one time thought by many to be sound in theory . . Nevertheless , heart of every sound " Little People " man; Peace should not be too proud to take a leaf and, I hope, in those of the many who, recogout of the modern Swashbuckler's book of de- nising the " frightfulness " of mere si~ and portment. If to me were committed the order- bigness, cannot but be open to petsuas1on on ing of these things, I would offer, in the name such a point. The craze for girth is the beof Peace, a mighty prize (each year or each ginning of vulgarity. Bloated and bewildering decade) for the most effective · invention for size is a menace to motals and manners. Even destroying mankind. We have heard it said many of those of whom s1,.1perior taste and of old time that people are not to be made better judgment might reasonably be expected sober or virtuous, bv Act of Parliament; seem somehow dazzled by the ample charms neith~r shoul d we ·be in haste to believe that the d isplayed by the Fat P eople in the political "The day of the universe is to be cured of the bloody distemper Peep-shows of Europe. that occasionally assails it by means . of ser- small nation is past !" cried the late Mr. Joseph mons, pamphlets, leaflets, addresses, co?ven- Chamberlain; and those in whom the habit of tions, and all the rest of the p .a raphernaha o.f thought is ever secondary to that of ut~era:_ice the angelic company of illusionists, both great approvingly re-echo the ill-founded pre1ud1ce. " How can a Small State hope to stand alone and small. nowadays?" quoth one of these. ready-made It has often •been remarked that the smaller objectors to me recently; .and .the _POOT dolt countries are more prolific of genius than the thought that he had floored me with his apology

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for an argument ! I presume that "Small Getmany; but the German is ·here but the States " ·are quite as capable of entering into ·-sp~es~n of his complexion . The superior alliances with a view to their own Erotection systematising power of the Fatherland, .joined as are larger ones. Some people appear to to that country's profounder knowledge as rethi1* that by quoting Belgium they exhaust gards the chemistry of ideals, if I may so objection. Out upon them! Some maintain express myself, has caused the doctrine of that that country cultivated an understanding Force and Culture to be indentified more parwith England and France, which, it is true, tic:ularly with the .Germanic States; but, to has so far failed to mature; but it may do so remQunt to first principles, what are militarism in the long run, in the which case that little and na,valism,, wherever they may be found, Richard will be himself, and more, again. But but twin manifestations-evil products of the if it does not do so, then plainly has Belgium same creed and the same spirit ? There are put her money on the wrong horse, and, likt> degrees of Cresarism just as there are shades others (whether great or small) that commit of any other form of guilt; but it is not similar errors of judgment, must submit to the "efficiency" in wrong doing, but the will and consequences. My own opinion is that Bel- intention to compass ill that constitute the gium had done wiser to stand neutral, since crime. Many a rascal . deplores the success neither France or England were in a position attending the exploits of those more dexterous to fulfil their engagements to her when the war than himself; but this happens, where it does broke out. She is now under the harrow from fall out, not because the wretch is inclined to which · every sound Little People man must virtue and respects merit, but from disgusts The big devoutly hope that she will emerge; but, in occasioned by a rival's tri umphs. any event, we should not allow shallow senti- States are saturated with these ideas of ment to steal the sacred fires of reason. I pro- " Q.ominance by grou1,; ·· and Germany has but test that the case of Belgium proves nothing, given a pseudo scientific turn to that worship save the supreme importance of looking before of brute force, and that craze for size, in reyou leap, and the shameless hypocrisy. of the gard to which the less efficient Powers are Great Powers. I condemn the action of Ger- equally blameworthy in a point of intention, many with all the vehemence I can command; · though they may be Jess engaged as to fact. but,· pray, is England in any better moral An able writer somewhere remarks, " .Mankind case? Who bombarded Copenhagen in time in general retain so111e vestiges of their origin : of peace, and, with the guns of her fleet, over- so the Roman monarchy, from its first institutumed buildings and severed heads from tion to its entire d~struction, is remarkable for bodies? England, in whose mouth butter was that spirit of rapine and usurpation which aninever yet known to melt ! Two blacks do not mated its original subjects, and which is conconstitute a white : true, but it behoves pots stantly visible in the midst of those borrowed and kettles to, be chary how they fall out and virtues with which it was adorned. The perstart charging upon one another that dinginess petual conquests, and what is more , the reasons of appearance which is their common charac- that were given hy their Kings, Senates, and Emperors, for attempting them; the continual · teristic.

The world has been too long dominated by pillages of the enemy's country; the partitions "big ideas." There are far too many empires of the plunder and the lands; the disputes and an<l would-be emulators of · Napoleon ·and insurrections that thence arose; all appear to Alexander buzzing around. A plague on the me but a mere continuation of the vicious prinpests that "think Imperially !" The fool who ciples and practices of the first founders of the is for ever fingering a pistol is bound to inflict Roman State." The same poison has entered sudden death on the bystanoer sooner or later. into the body politic of modem Europe, and is " Hvmns of hate," retorts in prose or Yerse now destroying Christendom. It is folly to that' are just as hateful, guns that cast shells urge that the guilt of starting the war should beyond a Sabbath day's journey and factories be laid at the door of this or that particular for the munitions of war that cover hundreds Great Power, when all are equally responsible of acres of ground, air-ships which drop bombs for those military or naval preparations, perby night on innocent and defenceless sleepers, sistence in which over a long course of years mines that blow whole regiments of men to the was bound to provoke those mutual rep risal s skies, militarism and navalism, and a thousand which have turned Europe into one immense other bloody and devilish . contrivances for the scene of destruction and bloodshed. No one des truction and enslavement of mankind- what who has the least acquain'tance with European are all these horrid products but the baleful history, and t;he slenderest knowledge of human fniits of Cresarism?

The total mischief nature, will contend that the multipliration of wrought by the most fractious and quarrelsome small States would infallibly put an encl to little States that eyer existed never, surely, wars; but for my part I ha,·e no hesitation amounted to more than an incousiderable frac- whatever in affirming that the adoption of such tion of the hurt inflicted by a single one of ·the a measure would undoubtedly conspire to Great Powers, when slipped from the leash. lessen their frequency, to circumscri be their If Europe had been suffered to resoh·e itself areas, and to render them less bloody and deinto those national communities, which regard structiYe. The safet y of Christendom. in fact. to race and language would early have estab-- resides in the num;ber of the ind~pendent States that const irutc it- not in the wealth of 1isbecl as her narural political divisions, hardly would the present unexampled scene of blood a few overgrown Kingdoms, whose inord.inate and desolation be unfolding itself before our power to work mischief on one another, and, horror-stricken eyes. At whose doo r lies the incidentally, to involve the lesser natiom i11 guilt of setting thi s monstrous war . on f?Ot if their own ~elf-seeking machinations and bloody not ;1t that of the Great Powers? It .ts the adventures const itute a >randing menace to Big, not the Little, P·eople whose "bloa.ted civilisation and progress.

Long live the Sm all Stale . and perish armaments" precipitated the existing conflict , whose continuan e is enti rely due to the same empire'.

A S COTTISH .-\RT[SAN. guilty cause, and whose magnitude is the rlire~t in · Tlte Scottis!t R<'v i c·;1" consequence of the unnatural size and strengtn of the arch-part icipants.

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In this tract Mr. Newr_nan seeks to aci:ount for the existence of a very remarkable phei:iomenon in Ireland: a whole class of men a:Qc1 women, apparently well educated, appa:r;endy gifted with ordinary powers of obseryatjon reasoning, apparently endowed with ordinary human sympathy arid emotion, and ye~ oblivious of the fact that under their. ·very IJ~S is a nation, ancient, majestic, faithf17l, agonising ; a nation to which they are h:mnd by more ties of kin, of sentiment, and even of interest than they are to the foreign empire \vhich receives their allegiance; a nation >v'hich the best among themse~ves have from time to time realised as in a flash of light, and realising, turned to serve. They are like blind men wandering in a glowing countryside; like deaf men sitting at a solemn music; like men who in lieu of kindly hearts have ;been given stones.

And Mr. Newman ac<X?unts for it by describing the education to which the inembers of this class have been subjected. T ri nity College has been called the only successfol British institution in Irela,nd . · One might exte11c1 the encomium to the British education system in general. It would be almost true to say tliat the British education system in Ireland_, alone among British schemes for our ;imelioraiion, has been adequate to its purpose. Its purpose was, and is, to make us British. H ow well it has succeeded recent happenings show .

While Ireland , as a: whole, has been true to herself in the present great crisis, it would be idle to deny that there has been a considerable falling away from national tradition,especially in the "middle " and "lower middle" classes.

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I am not sure that followers of the Sinn Fein policy will agree with Eoin Mac Neill that Daniel O'Connell's political position was the political position of Sinn Fein. O'Connell.ism may be summed up in three postulates: (1) a perpetual union of the British :ind Irish crowns ; ( z) a sovereign and independent Iris~ Parliament; (3 ) "constitutional .. agitation as tbe sole means of effecting political amelioration.

Sinn Feiners, if I understand them , accept only the second of these three postulates , The connection between Sinn Fein and O'Connell is that ·b oth - have taken thei r stand; on the Acts of 1782 and q83 as constituting a " cteliberate an<l _solemn national compact "- a treaty between Ireland and England still DANIEL O 'CONNELL AND SINN

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Which are rather poorly trajned. .H ow art thou fallen, 0 Constitutionalism !

Ln Parliament they taik for hours , P.H. P .

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All tli.e Volunteer~ who have taken up Cyclist Training _have done so after a considerable amount of civilian cycling. On this account there are"a number of things they must unlearn.

Still these pbints are not very numerous, and a little care will enable the Volunteer to modify his old habits and acquire those of the purely military cyclist. The chief differences between military and civilian cyclists are the following: . The soldier must pedal until ordered to halt: the civilian can halt or res t as he likes.

The soldier must ride the pace of the worst rider: the civilian can select the pace that suits himself.

The soldier must carry much extra weight : the civilian rides light.

The 'soldier must keep his file and go at a steady pace: the civilian rides where he Uke~ .and sprints when he likes.

The soldier must ride closed up and swallow dust: the civilian can avoid other · conveyances.

It is not very hard to commit these five points of difference to memory. Taken together the checks put 0~1 the military cyclis~ are .~imply points of discipline. It would be p~ss1ble to find' a similar set of checks put on the infantryman compared to a man out for a walk. The object is the same in both cases : whether the sdldie r rides a bicycle or goes on foot he is si'tnpl y unit in a large body. It is the interest of..the large body that must be considered. But on the other hand, a large body in which there is . no discipline for the units is far more trymg than a body in which the discipline is sound.

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Rudge. B.S.A. New Bicycles..

Cash. Easy Payments .

Repairs. Accessories. Secono-hand Bicycles from Is/-. Prams. and Gramophones Repaired.

LUCANIA CYCLES

Lower Dorset Street, Dublin.

ARE MlDE IN IREiLANO.

Phone 2902.

Best Terms (Cash Only) from

uortm.o.tl u.o. nu.o.c.o.tt.o.,

If you wa~t DRY FEET and PERFECT FIT -

I

· TRY -

LAH~EN,

REPAll!S Neatly Executed at MODERATE

PEOPLs.13

mU1$ nu dt>.o-o.

Bootmaker,

115 Emmet Road, Inchicore, 22 Stcneybatter and 23 Bishop Street.

CHARGES

Dunlop Tyres.

·

TREA 80N

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It is treason for IrishmcC1 to buy the Foreign eArticle and neglect Irish Industries.

LOUGHLIN'S IRISH OUTFITTING

is better than the Foreign Shirts, Hosiery, Gloves, Braces, Hats, Caps, Boots, etc., etc..

ALL IRISH. FA.IR PRICES.

IRISH OUTFITTING HEADQUARTERS, 19 Parliament Street, QUBLl.N.

Aungier Street.

The Volunteer Boots.

TQ . .

Measure.

DON'T FORGET

LITTLE SHOP for Big Value In Chandlery, Tobaccos; Cigarettes, &c.

And when they go for walks, it seems, They always use their legs ; And they calmly call a mendicant Merely "A man who begs."

Fitted with SWIFT AND IONA CYCLES. £6 15s. Cash or 2/- Weekly.

MURPHY,

7

1914

Specially designed for marching, and manufactured in . my own factory by Irish Trade Union Labour.

Post Orders promptly attended to.

JOHN MALONE, NORTH KING STREET, DUBLIN.

Don't Buy ·a Watch by the Case!

By all means let tbe case be as good as yo .i can afford.

But remember that a good case does not necessarily mean a good watch. Be sure you are buyin~ an accurate timekeeper. An excellent watch is our £3 3s. Silver Keyless Lever; whose average variation is less than a minute a month.

GANTER BROS., 63 South Great George's Street, DUBLIN.

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THE IRISH VOLUNTEER.

8 I

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A.ii Fes tive.I,

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Sunda.v, July 25th

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to 30th .

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TWENTY - THREE PIPERS' BANDS.

Competitions. Footi hlll and C:lmog uidh cach t

Contt:-.t~ .

Drama,~;=~~~:d~~:~h~>i;;~;c~.-.-- I

.

Tel ephone 222.

" Everrthing that is not Irish must be · Foreign,"

GLEESON .& CO.,

•Ris~~~~.oos

JOHN A. O'CONNELL,

St. Mary's Catholic Repository (Wholesale Religi ons Goods Depot);

CHAPEL LANE, ·BELFAST. ~ep. a q9,r ; ." 'Tract$ for the .Times." . ,,\. c l Dozen ossorted Post Free fo r.I / : .

KING' STREET, CORK. Monuments, Headstones, etc.

Hopkins & Hopkins' · · Manufac turers -of

GAELS-W here to get your News, BADGES FOR VOLUNTEER UNIFORMS, Etc:.

MEDALS FOR ·RIFLE SHOOTING Stationery, Cigarettes, General · in Gold and · Sliver.

F a ncy Goods, . etc., etc. -

ORIGINAL

.. Q Faolain,

DESIGNS.

CATALOGUES and QUOT AT IONS FREE.

35 LOWER ' DORSET .STREET. ·

Opposite O'CONNELL · MONUMENT, DUBLIN.

1915.

Telegrams: "Meyther, Dublin."

Ring Irish College. CITY CLUB CIGARETTES.

Telephon e : 3569.

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M 'a nufactut>ed ' by :

TWll'J~M

BROS. .. '· .

S . C. ROAD, DUBLIN. :

If you want to lea.m Irish If you want to get a thorough grip of 1he Language

1.0 for 3d.

P. CONWAY Bl. CO.,

in the shortest pos?ible time-

TOBACCONISTS,

If you want a happy, healthy holiday

31 Exchequer Street and lOa Aungier Street

RING IS YOUR PLACE.

· Daniel M·Devitt &

Established 1894.

TEACHERS. Ring is the best place for Teachers. Its teaching rnethods are renowned.

VERY SPECIAL attention is gircn to con,:ersa t ioo.

Beginne2·s ha\·e a special tutor alwa.ys with them .

SPLENDID ACCO.mlODATlOX

PROSPECTl;TS OK AP PLICATION TO

RING, DUNGARVAK, CO. WA'l'ERJ:'OIW.

Irish Tweed .an~ Serge Suits, .·. · . .·Specialities- Irish National Cos tumes and · · · Irish Volunteer Uniforms.

We :are .p repared· to carry ·out. the suggestion of" ,tiaIJsfolming dyed civilian suits into uniforms. - Dye your sui t, and we'll do the rest at lowest cost. l edp-.,m - '£P :'Olut uo <'.: lti

·Camping Equipment for Volunteers.

Irish Made Shir ts, Caps, Poplin Ties, r Collars, Hosiery, &c.

THE BEST VALUE FOR CASH I N LIMERICK.

Volunteer Tents, 35/· each.

Waterproof Ground Shee~s for these, 12/6 each.

S.UPPLIE D ONLY TO

p.&'()lto-1 5 6 11--0.ttmuR.&m , Draper,

VO L UNT L El~S.

A PPLY AT ONCE

10 WILLIAM STREET, LIMERICK. -

HEADQUARTERS, 2 DAWSON ST., DUBLIN.

- -USE

"Green Cross Night Lights."

MADE 11".f IRELAND. .

.&11 Smnredn.

IRISH VOLUNTEERS

IRISH :·fARM PRODUCE CAPE. 21 -KENRY STREET• .

-No Foreign- ·Foodstuffs.

TAR.G;-~-T

RIFLES

- ., ,. :, ··, ,..

Etc. · Gi·~e;1~r~ -~la~ti~i R:itles . . . .

22 cai.

REPAIRS A SPECIALITY. Senri your COLLA RS, SHIRTS, etc., t o

Su!Ts and UNH'ORMS CLE ANED and PRESSED IN Two DAYS.

· c-o~ ,

. . MERCHANT TAILORS, S RQSEMARY ST .• BELFAST (First Floor)

Stev-ef.i 's'FaV.Ou'1'ite ·R ifles :\1 ~rksnrai1 · R ifle : ,-, . . ,.,, .. ,, --G.r:ackshot Rifles ' . · ,, · . Littl.e .Scout Rifl es ,; . ... .... \Vi.nchesrer Single Shot Rifl es ,," · · H eavy Model Repeater Rift P.s ,, Heavy Model Hamilton Boys' R ifl es Britannia Air Rifles Adaptors for 303 R ifles . : .

T a rgets, 22 cal. Cartridges, C lean ing Rods , · All Sund ries.

First Session • July 5th to 30th.

Second Session • . Aug. 2nd to 23rd.

THE NATIQ..' IAL LAUNDRY, 60 _South William ,Street, DUBLIJ1.

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Support your own.

· TRY THEM.

\TOLUN.TEERS !

VOLUN·TEE-.R··SAUCE-•

: ' . " . N o. obj ectionable ,~ nglish Pape.rs stocked. ·

Ulster

1ot-Scol nd m um.An ,, 1 R mn 6 5Cu.1n.o.<'.:

Ask for

:. It,ish Volunteer Tailors ~nd i>rapefS', · u . UPP~ll o:.coNNEiL ·sTREE'i\ ·DUBLIN .

. M . .0'.B OYLE, Newsagent ,

$culptor,

Saturday, Jul y 17th, J 915 .

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DRINK Drf" <iin~er ·Ale. '...KE RNA·N 'S

55/ 'z.7/ &

'»h.· ' ,• 16/fi.

131& 20/ -

27/ 6 50/ 60/ 10 / 6·

37/ E 3/ and·

Catalogue& .Free.

L. KEEGAN, Gun & Rifle Maker and AmmunU.ion Merchant 3 INN'S QUAY, DUBLIN.

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Telephone· 257~. '

LAUGH AS 'USUAL' AND RE A D

WAR . HUMOUR · and.

Other Atrocities,

By Will E. Wagtail, Brian na Ban ban and'.

Myles Malone.

76 Pages of Genuine Racy Irish Humour-all with a War Flavour-Stories, Jokes, Skits, Songs, including-

" E ight Millions of Englishmen," "When the Pigs begin to Fly," "A Nail in the Kaiser's Coffin," etc.

Post Free for 6d.

Whelan· & Son 17 UPPER ORMOND QUAY, DUBLIN. Printed for the Proprietors at the N orthgate Printing Works, Belfast, and pitiished at the Volunteer Headquarters, 2 Dawson Street, Dublin.

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