The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 41

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A letter signed " Trav Her " in the Jrislt J'i111es makes some remarkal.Jle statements. The writer poses as a strong oppo1ient of militari ·m \1·hen it is German militarism. Like man;. others of the same school, he quite unconsciously endorse. the whole militarist programme, forgetting that any recognition of the right of militarism to dominate nations is a condonation of militarism in .general. If militarism is allo~ed to be a main factor in international relations, then the better organised and more. efficient militarism is worthi of the highest esteem. To my mind, such a doctr ine of ,~,oriel politics is sheer barbarism, whether it is 'p~aised

by Thomas Carlyle, preached by Bernhardi , or accepted by a . co~respondent of the Jrisl1 Times.

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lm]_Jer ial arts into the ·notion that their ad,·antage li es in sectarian strife, but they are not deluded so .far as to believe in the rectitude of British Imperiali sm.

Accordingly thi s "Traveller " has found that, " if the); arc nu t exactly Pro-Germau s, tfiey arc not enthusia st ic over the prese~t 11-a.r. " H e also" was mor~ than arnazed to find that s01~1e Irish Ca~holics in the east of Ireland were Pro-German in their sympathies." H e deprecates thi s attitude, because " Germany n~i .the r ]o,·es nor admires them, and, if they come under h~r militari st heel, their lot will be a hard and I.Jitter one."

Perha]_Js, if thi · traveller was less of a tra~·ell c r, if he \·vas more at home in Ireland, if hi s uut- · look on Ireland was less fore ign, if he '.could see the inward and · the outward design s and consequences of English rule in Ireland since ' the Union, he would not be so much amazed .

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experience has forbidden them t~ be ProEngJish, will naturally at !)resent be p roGerman. But there is a .saner bel ief abroad in Ireland , and a sounder pu rpose; and we may tha nk God that Ireland, am id tb is present orgy uf militari sm, is shaping her resoh·e to be no ma,,;ter·s l.Jondma id and no em1) ire·s ga!S- . way.

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T u "L'b 1· erta;; ·D.eo ju,·aute,"--the ausw:er is, nut till this time . Another correspondent writes to ask me whether _it is consistent with J rish ~ ationalist principles to enter the Civil Serv ice under the Brit ish Governme1Jt. I make no pr~te'.1ce to be the keeper of other people'spr_mctpks, and ' wheu a question of principle anses, it is clea rly every 1rni.n's duty to decide how his own conduct is to be governed. It is clear e nough to me that an Irish l\ ationalist ought not to make h~m self the servant and instrument of. <tny , G01·ernment · · · purposes · · · . for

"I ha,:e lived in Germany," be· wr'ites, "an.cl ·X· know what the typical German thinks. I in- which a1:c direct.ly cuun ected with keeiJin•t b * "A Jew days agu, " says tbi,,; curreopundenl, ,·ariabl y · fuunJ .that, while the Ge rman kLtcd I rcland in a state of ~ubjugatlon. H e ouuht b " 1 asked a very strong Irish Nationalist why the English' with a _perfect batreci aud rather nut tu accept, a position in which be must expe.c t be did not go in for an Irish RepulJlic "-the liked the S~o tch, be utterly desp ised the · tu be required to usc hi s uwn IJOdi ly and mental v.<.:r,y strong Nationa.list to whom su treasona\Jlc Catholic 1rish-·they wert: lazy, dirty, behind pu1n;rs in personal conflict \1iith his feJlo,~­ , . a question was propounded was naturally not the times, superstitiou" and very litt le irl cuuntrymen in their rightful efforts to keep the one of the not . very strong new Imperialist advance of_ primitive savag~s . " Did it e\-er Nat ion aliYe, and to make •it free, prosperous, Grand- " antl his brief answer was, ' Because oc.c ur to ·our traveller to inquire how, where, and honoured. ~f he fiuds that be is required J. fea r Germany.' .My friend mea1)t that if · through what channel the typical Ger!llan, .to act in that way, it i~ h is duty to refuse. He Englani gave up Jrel~nd, Germany. would li,·ing in Germany, acqui1:ed the~·e notions of ought. not to accept duties that involve ' spying seize the Gateway of the Great West, as I once the Irish? Whose interest has it ueen to keep and reporting on the rightful political actioi:is heard a Germ.an characterise Ireland. And he before the world this. picture of the lazy Irish, of hi s fellow-countfymen, applying the antithe dirty Iri sh, the backward Irish the national act ion of anti-national laws to them was right ." ' ·X· superstitious Irish? Whose policy and what or us.ing force or .oppressi911 to suppress their' ·X· ·X· Su, according Lu' tbi~ ant<iguni,,;t uf militaiiolll pol icy was· thi s pictun; of the Iri ·b qlcu la Led . rightful acti1 ity in the National inte~es t. lf (when it is German nulitarism), the right and· tu ju ~tif y lo the minds uf Contineutal peoples? . his duties an; of a vague and general cha'~·acter , natural function of Ireland is to be a gateway Of course, ju~t now the lazy, dirt'y, backward, I.Jut if he is called upon to do anyt[)ing· in parfor this or that Empire, to be held l.Jy force and su]_Jerst itiou s Irish have 1.Jecome the valiant ticular that he knows to be anti-.:\ ational , be only given up to force . Ireland is to be the Iri sh. will refuse to do that thin o· o* * * victim and the tool of one milit~rism or another. * * If most Irishmen are not absolutely and She i~ al ways to stand in fear of England or Apa~t from - governmental work which · Germany or whateYer other Empire ·may be in recklessl y Pro-German or Pro-Turki sh: .it is necessarily or . usually involves anti-N<1ti~nal the ascendant at the time . H er ·choice is not the fault of English domination up t~ da.tc. activity un the part of tl10se engaged· ·upon it, alway· to be between two lo,·etess ma~ters, the Our country 'has beei1 de]_Jopulated, our people ·_!here arc other cla~scs uf gU'l·ernmcntal ·wu;k <..:hoice that Deirdre rejected, choos ing death in degraded, our industries destroyed; .an which· are necess<uy for the transactiu.n uf preference. If Engl~1id holds Ireland as her incredible plunder, mounting to thousands of public business under any political system. It gateway, can any intelligent man be surprised millions sterling, has been exhorted from us; is true that, while the .system . in existence is to find that Irishmen who are not captives .in we have ~en set at each other's throa:ts. If anti-National, every pers.o n employed . in its soul look on English denunciations of H ell itself were to j:urn against English policy, administration helps in'. a way to keep it in us, we might be pardoned for as·1it is known existence. Bu.t th.e -same may be said of other militarism as rank hypocrisy? taking the side of Hell. Those Irishmen who people not in goYernment employme:nt. · In * * The testimony of thi · conversing and con- surrender to the prospect that the wixld must making use· of the machinery of governThe remain at the -mercy'of militarism, may-believe ment, · they help in a way to maintain versant "Traveller " lS remarkable. section, of Irishm.~n who have put Sir Edw:ird . that Ire] 3.Ild, like Deirdre; has no choice except the· existing system ._ ,E veryone who t'akes Carson in power are unfortunately deluded by between t\~O masters, and suth people, if

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.T HE IRISH VOLUNTEER.

Saturday, September 18th, 1915.

acliun at law, ur eYen wh!J · defends an services com1ected with salary and promohon ?. _ making no mi stake. The aYenues of work an; action at la IV, who sends a Jette r lJy ]JOSt, who But a: regards the political service of the titill contracting fo r young Irishmen, when, _pays taxes , who draws cheques , who joins an Government in Ireland, as . we know it, it is unde r any decent Government and under any insurance society , become ):o that extent con- infinitely better and healthier for Ireland that sort of -" atjcJ.i1~.l GoYernment, they would be tributory to t;he stabil ity and permanence of the ' that service . should be exclu si~ely staffed by expanding. Excep t a· few limited profe. s.ions, existing ystem of govern ment. In order .to those whose personal disposition towards this the Government"service, and emigration, will carry the principle of non-recogniti9n out to K ation is a: true and exact reflection of the anyone tell me what chance in -life is visible the full-as apparently the .'Signatori~s to the spirit of the Government- not of .this or that for t.he maj0rit); of young Irishrpen who have Ulster CoYen ant undertook to ·do in the event Mini try or Chie f ~e cre t a ry , but of the passed througi1 our secon(lary schools ? Moreof H ome Rul e--a man must either join in Continuity from the Union to the Famine, from over; the Intyrmediate School System, as establ i~bing an0ther system of gove~rn11e nt at the Famine to the L and War, from the L and administered a nd planntxl, opens a 1ra y to these once or become an outcast and an outlaw. ·war to "Parne.llism · and Crime," and_ from few professions, to -- emigratio1i, and tu tbe Since that is not what I adrncate, so also I Balfour to Birrell. It is a mi ·fort une for I re- GoYernment service. If it g iYes a. definite or cannot advoca te as a "J\ ational duty that Iri sh land when any phase of this Continuity is · indefinite lead in any other direction, perhap: peo1Jle who use the exi sting law should nGt enabled, by means of what are called popular Dr. Starkie and his colleagues would obi ige engage · in any work involved in the proper appointments, to masquerade before the Irish a nxious parents and pupils by issuing an administration of law; or t hat. Irish pe@ple who ' people and disgui e its burglarship with t he expla natory statement on the subject. *' .>end arid receive lette rs by post shoul d not take trapp ings of pat'ronage . It was thought by * * i can see one advantage that the GoYernment service under the exi sting postal authority ; or . some ·to be a great thing for Ireland when that Iri b people who pay taxes and make use O'H agan beca me Lord Chancellor in 1868 . sen ·ic-e and the prer ara tion for it can sometimes of the machinery of public order maintained That was one of the New Eras we hear about confer on youn g Iri shmen. It can give them a out of those t.axes, are bound to take no part in e,·ery ten or twen ty -years, and no more need certai n <legr ee of discipl ine. In spite of every d isadrnntage, Irish people ha,·e reta ined a hi gh in the collection of taxes-and so with rega r·d be said about it. of mental as well as physical energ)·. quality tu other go,·ernmental fun ctions which are of * * * A fur ther point is that Irish civil ser rnnts in They need development or training in two a kind indispe n sab l ~ to p ublic order and p ubl ic many departments are liable to be assigned to thing·, moral courage and ~liscipl ine. I am * * * bu,siness.

There a re government serv ices ·of a mixed work in Great Britain and separated from the firmly convinced that, with discipli ne, the Iri h · kind, indi spensable to the co.mmunity, and yet national life of the ir own countr y. Every youth peop le ha,·e no superio: and feiv equals. For occas ionally or incidenta lly hurtful to the c0rn- who proposes to enter the Civil Ser vice must thi s advantage among o thers, Ireland should l11l~nity a a ~ ation . ln regard to these , it is also recognise tha.t be proposes to surrender an look to the Vo J1,0teer movement. The Volunbard to draw the line. A po tman is a. ,·ery important part of his li berty as an Irishman . teers should a11swer their country's expectation necessary public sen·ant. The l)OStal reYe11ue . Even in branohes of National activity which are in this as in other respects, and should recognise may press unfairly on the :.\"at.ion , and if it ·not forbidden ~o him , he may encounter hostile that di scipli ne will make them bette r men and cloes, eYery. man in the postal service gi,·es some influences from anti-~ ational or servile official ·better Irishmen . lielp to the government in. do ing thi s injustice , superiors. Mr. Birrell has recently laid down * * * Mr. Dillon writes to a meeting in1i..oscomrnou yet I ca nnot pretend to lay down t hat every the la w that Irish Civil Servants must be postal official in ·uch a case is <ln offender " loyal. " As there is ·no definition of loyalty appealing fo1: National unit y. I am not going again t t11e K at ion. There are other · services known to .t he law, Mr. Birrell' s decree makes to rake u1J bygones . Let us see how Mr. ,\focb, though necessary to publ ic business, himself a political tight-rope wa lke~, and his · Dillon's colleague, the genius of the entangl eyet in volve duties of an essenti ally politi cal officia ls the aruitrarx judge- of loyalty' which ment of the Iri sh P a rty .in the Liberal net, My. charncter, and require tho ·e who disclrarge them at present means Jingo Imperialism. Several T. P . o ·corn]Or, understm1ds National unity. to becon;e' a bctents ' not mere])' of• the necessat)' of Mr. Birrell'ti official si:bordinates, _and ap- _ H e is writing at the same tim~ as Mr. Dillon , functions of all ·go,·emnie11t, but • also of the parentl y also the Board of" National " Educa- b ut not for the same readers. H e is writing particubr policy .of a particul ar go1·erpment or tion 1rhich is sa id to be independent of political for " R eynolds' Newspa]Jer," so as to provide ' system of go1·e~·nment . The person ,;,ho uuder- control , acting on some central inspiration , bave: food for scoffs in the "Belfast News-Lctter. :i takes :uch duties under an anti-National agreed to interpret this decree to the effect that H e is telling the readers of Reynolds about the gor ernment ·cau· hardly hold h1mself bla._meless Civil Servants and National 'teachers in Ire- · u ifficulties Mr. Redmond has to overcome. One for wh at the gon:n1ment does against the land h1ay without rep roach be mem ber~ of diffi culty is the want of sympathy in Ireland ·· General R.ichard on·s Volunteers, who, as the for what is called "atheistical F rance.'' There * * * :Nation.

It is argued that the abstention of Iri sh Jrislt T imes' " Traveller " tells us, " if they are is no ill-will in Ireland towards the French The sneer at the F rench as a Nationali sts frori1 service under the Englisl1 not exactly Pro-Germans, are not . enthusiastic nation. ' GO\·ernment of ·I rel and would result in great over the present war. " Though no Civil Ser- " decadent Latin race " bas come from the once injury to Ireland through the complete staffing vadt is supposeo to take an active part in boastfully T eutonic "Anglo-Saxons," not from of the publ ic servi c·e with persons hostile or in- . politics, Civi l Se1:rnnts in the RicJ1ardson rank:; the Irish. Another diffic~l ty is the " Sinn differen t lo Irish .:\'atio1w.lity. I will only sa.y may lJear arms in a force from which all .F einers," meaning the Irish Vol unteers. Mr. O'Connor backs up Mr. Dillon's eall for unit),' u~ Lhi ~ argument tha.t it e;tn lJe pushed to a Ca.lhu lics and all i\T a lionali sb are excluded, and 1·cry dangerous length. . ln the first .Place, it they are ass ured by their Commander-in-Chief by declaring th at the Irish Volunteers are can be u ed to justify perso.ns, wh ile still clai m- that their non-political p urpose under him is to " knaves that pretend to be fools. " ii1g to be K ational.i sts, in seeking and holding " send H ome :Rule to the Devil. " The same * * * This is a most interesting declarat'ion. Was offices acti,;ely a ~ociated with~ anti-National Government departn)ents, acting on Mr. political policy. In the second place, it can be Birrell\ lead , forbid jheir subordinates to be Mr. T. P. 0 ' Connor one of the resolvers of the used to · justify and facilitate the bribery of members of the Ii;ish Volunteer organisation . Irish Party resolution against the " sensele ·s weak Nationalists with offe rs ·of Government H ere we see the Continui ty ·undisguised, arid p rosecutions ?" No wonder Mr. Asquith and favour'. In the third place, in the case of the the ~ mount of liberty it allows to Civil Servants Mr. Birrell did not honour that resolution with :a reply. They must ha Ye winked at each. other m1paid magistracy, to whkh the admi sion of who wish to be loyal to Ireland. when they read it . If MF. O'Connor denounces N ational is.ts ' ori a hrge· scale has been advo~ * * * t cated, on the plea of securjng just treatment _:for I can see from the tenor of my correspon-· he I rish Volunteers as knaves ·to tbe Cockney. the majority, ·it is doubtfol -whether the loss has dent's letter what his real difficulty ' is. H~ is p ublic, we may imagine b~w he speaks of them not beeri ·greater than"tbe' gain. T~ere have cer- thinking of young men like himself who have: in his private interviews as go-between . . Truly , tainly been · many men ~v ho seem to· have come thro1:1gh a certain course and kind of unity is a grand word . But people in Ireland accepted' and to· :ch~rish t:he· office of ·J.P. as a education; only to discover that the Government have little regard for _Mr. T.: P. O'Connor's sort of minor- rank of nobility, instead of a service ·1s practically their ._ sole prospect ·of a oondemnation. It does riot surprise them to a uty to the public. If an unpaid service <:an livelihood . Wha:t a ·commentary on English 'find him thu~ vindicating dear pious Mr. H e is< Birrell for the persecution of Irish Voluntf'e rs. have thi s e ffect, " ·bat al'e we to expect from C 1· rnmcnt ;1 nrl Tri !ih education! ;111

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What · wi 11 interes t them is the innocent curn plaint against the lr.ish Volunteers that the y "pretended to be fools." Thi:s mea ns that l\1'.r.

T. P. O'Connor ha s discovered the Irish Volun teers to be not quite the fools he took them for, when he was finding a soft p la-c.e for hi s Ministerial friends to Janel on in their leap from ' the pledged position of Home Rule for all Ireland. H e thought that hi s friends would find it as soft a job ·to manage Ireland as he finds -it to manage the U.I.L ·of Great Britain.

He. now confesses that the~ Irish Volunteers a re not fools. They were on ly pTetending to be fools, just to · gire Mr. O'Connor a drop when he tried to execute \vhat he himself has named " the sharp curve." . Knave~ is what they are, good Cockney friends, and if Birrell acts. on the ~ uggest ion, who can blame him'?

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Mr. D illon has also writt~n m censure .o f some movement or other to set Mr. ,R~d mond aside from the cha irman ship of the Irish P arty.

This reminds us of what Col. Moore said at Omagh about ~ iffe rences , and of Mr. Redmond's ow n complaints about pessimi sts and Mrs. Gummidges. H erbert Pim, now in ja il, has wri.tten a novel called " The Pessimist,'' himself · being an incurable optimist, who l::elieves with .the Iri sh poet of thousa nd years ago that "God's design for Ireland's greatness passes the power of telling. " Where are the pessimists, the Mrs. Gurnm.idges, and the clis-" grunt led peopJe ? Last week, I was at an Iri sh Volunteer re 1~ie w amid tl)e glorious surroundings of Loch Goir. The young men assembled there remembered Limerick and Limerick's Treaty, and Ballyneety, and the last words of Sarsfield, but their hearts were glad and their faces were to the future,. and their vo.ices ra ised the confident chorus of Horo ! se do bheatha abhai'le Anois a' teacht an tsamhraidh.

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Next clay, I read that these men are kna 1·es, accord ing to the gospel of unity preached by Mr. T. :P. O'Connor and paid for by .the Brit ish Democracy. They will laugh to hea r it, for noth ing of that sort will be able to stir thei r resentment.

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I have received for the · Irish Vo\qnteer Prisoners' Defence Fund, up to the encl of last EoIN MAC NEILL. week, £z7 4s. 6d.

St. Enda' s Tournament The fo llowing a re the results of the various competitions at the T ournament held at St. Enda's Coll ege on Sun day, September 5th: DRILL DISPLAY. "1st Prize- A Coy., 4tli Batt., ,Dub lin Brigade, Iri sh Volunteers.

211d Pri ze- Irish Citizen Ai·my, No. T Section.

TuG-o'-'vVAR. Set nf Meda ls won by E Coy. (Rathfarnham) , 4th Batt ., Dublin Brigade; Runners-up, ~ C Coy., rs t Batt.

T u G-o'-WAR (FINAL 0F .19:r3 CoMPETITION).

Set of med.als won by Cloughran Team; Run ners-up , Ba.llyboden Team.

SHOOTING. Medal won by Vol unteer J. Bolger, E Coy. (Rathfamham), 4th Batt. Score, 28 out of 30.

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The importance. of thi s ri se li es in its bea ring o'n the es timated tota l for the whole year: Irish Volunteers.

In May Mr. Lloyd George ass umed 'there might : , Prisoners' Defence Fun~ . ~, be r, 132 mill-ions due to an un<J..er-estimate of We would again remind our readers that the a million (1 da.y. At the present rate the figures Central Executi1·e of the Iri sh Volunteers has wi.11 be 1, 500 mil l.ions as agai~st 270 million,s. . .

I .. , ,_ ·. opened a fund to defray the expenses incurred Of revenue borrqwings thi s year will account in defending the Irish Volunteer prisoners for 990 mill~ions . .. Out of the new War L~an arres ted under the Defence of the Realm Act . 452 millions_has alre.a dy been spent. General These men were. ordered by the military public economy cannot be obtained withou ~ a authorities to lea1·e their country, and were • considerable extension of taxatiori on arti'cles arrested and sentenced to rnrious ·terms of of consum1) tion. We should al l ·like to sec imprisonment for refu sing to do so. war profits brought folly under contribution .

They were charged with no offence, and no reason was given for the issuing o.f these Enniscorthy Pr.isoners' Defence Fund. banishment orders . .

RESULT OF DRAW. As thi s is a matter which concern s not alone First Priz.e'-Winning Ticket No, 1519. the Volunteers, but the peop le of Ireland as a Second Prize- Winning Ticket ..\"o._ J 48 5. whole, being an infringement of the rights and Third Pri ~e-Winning Ticket :1\o. 3368. liberties of Irish people, it demands tl)e seriou s .Holdel·s of tickets bearing abo1·e numbers attention and support of all Iri shmen . · Expres- please · commuic~te with Setimas Doyle, Ennissions of · ·ympathy ,have been received from all co rth~: . parts _of the country , and it is ·expected that the Fund will be a success . As the matter is We are requested" by Mr. D. M'Cullough, one· of great urgency, however, we would _urge Milsica l I nstrument Warehouse, 8 Howard St., all. those intending to su])scribe to do so without Belfast, to stafe that the following P.ipe Band delay.

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T he " Times " of Sep t. IIth says :- further proposals, adjusting the ,national fi n ance~ will AN CUA\ANN COS~NT.I\ cer_tainly have to be brought before Parli_ament Insures Irish Volunteers · at an ea rly elate. So far, we have had against victlmls4tlon by their Employers. . . , .

No BUDGET W,rite for particulars to the Secretary, I. V. H eadrn , the accepted sense. Mr.. Lloyd George , in quar.ters, 2 Dawson Street , Dublin.

May , contented himself with expounding the fi gures for the past year, and outlining vaguely · what might be required this year on the hypothesis whether the wa r lasted six months or a year. It must now be clear the continuance of war expenditure At the RIGHT PRICE. U:p TO THE END OF :\'EXT MARCH Only One Quality-THE BEST IRISH~,. must clefi nite~y be contemplated, and tha t a Budget .in a_ proper sense must, therefore, be brought in.

It wou ld have been better if some .additional taxation had been imposed , at once, and col·2 Talbot Street, · DUBLIN. lected during these months. The fin ance of the whole year mu. t be put on a proper basis, and the country must face the outlook as ii exists. In one respect, unfortunately, the out- All K inds .22 A mmu nition. look has not improved since Mr. M'Kenna All Boa rd s, T a rgets.

- carr ied .the new War Loa n to a success. The C lea n ing Rods, Pull Thro~gh s, O ils and rate of current expend iture b~s gone up in a a ll Rifle S u nd ries. rather disquieting way . We doubt whether the QATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. country or P ar] iament quite realise the pos ition. Up to June 19th the total Exchequer Gun and issues \ve re 280 millions for eighty days . From Rifle Make.r, J une 20th to Sep tember 4.th the total expendi3 INN'S QUAY, DUBLIN. Telephone . 2574. ture was 520 millions, giving a DAILY AVERAGE OF 6 ~ MILLIONS. This included .r 6o millions repaid by the Go<remment to the Bank of Eng land for prcN the playing field, by the ri verside, moratori urn bii ls of exchange and other i'tems. out walking, hunting, riding, or d riving,, lhe ideal time-piece, because it is so easy to This was about double what Mr. M'Kenna see, and so readily adaptable, is the Wristlet in June had ,seemed to indicate as .due to the Watch. There are many worthless Wristlet bank, and its magnitude has led ,to a good peal Watches. Get a reliafile f>ne. We have them of com1~1enb in financial circles. But in any in ·gold, .silver, and oxydised cases, from 18/6. case the expenditure has averaged 4i MILLIONS A DAY .

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All communications re Advertisements t!) 9e ad-;! ressed to the IRISH PRE.SS BUREAU, 3o Lower Abbey Street, DUBLIN. SUBSORIPTION.-The It:isk Volunteer , will he posted free to any address for one year at a cost of 6/6 ; for half a year, 3/3; for the quarter, 1/8.

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·Reports we re rece i\'ed from the General Staff on Organisation, Tr ai ni ~g, and Arm ame nt , and on matters connected with Finance .

The cha irm an reported on Voluntee r ac tiviti es in Cork, and highl y commended the efficiency of the officers and men of the 1st (Cork City) Battali~n T he Exect1tiYe me t again on Wecl nesdiiy evening, rst Sep te mber , Com nm nclant •P. H. Pearse ilgai n i.n the chair.

The reports of the General Staff on ma tters connected with Organisation , Training, and Armame nt were ·s ubmitted, and also the Treas urer's report on Finance .

A reporr was sub.m ittecl on the Galtee Camp, and much satisfaction was expressed with the amount of work accomplished d urin g the week's ' training and with the good effects produced in the dist rict.

Arrangeme nts were completed with respect to. the Shannon Cii mp .

Certai n appointme nts \vere made .

The hope WilS expressed that the Irish public woul d join the Tri sh Volunteers' Auxili ary rn hrge numbers.

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APPOINTMENTS. opt-6. .

The following appointments a re made: 'Oo le15e.atl <;Uj,fl-f51'.>.&L'..i . o'n mbu1tlm Ce.lnnu1r 1 ui:.ao1t) Oruu1tlte, 01Le.dri11M DIRECTOR OF ORGANISATION'S STAFF . , .:\Sllf .O.pm<iL.1 'n . 1. remne, .a5ur 1 uc.ao16 Volunteer M. Staines to be 1st Lieutenant. c trl'f.dl .<\1f151U . '.

DIRECTOR OF TRAINING'S STAFF. tu5 .dn c.at.6.0lJlLe.ac ctmn<:l\J' .6.Jil ob.llfl Volunteer Thos. Melclon to be 2nd Lieut. n.1 femne 1 5CopcA1.15 .a5ur '00 rnot 01f1515 P. H . . PEARSE, Commandant, .l\5Uf flt' c . . t,\ Copco15e 50 mor .

Director of Organi siltio n.

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TRISH IN VOLUNTEER WORK. The ,I rish Volunteers stand fo r Irela nd.

Let them seal their allegiance by the sa'cramental test of language. To speak Irish is at once the simp lest and the grandest way of p ro-. cl aiming an all~g iance purely Iri sh . The use of the Irish lang uage would also have important advantages from the h1ili tary po in t of view. Its adaptability to the di scuss ion of ' Volunteer strategy and tac ti cs is obvious.

There is really no reason .why the words of comm and in every Volun teer Compa ny hould not within the course of f ew months be Iri shi sed. H eadquarters will lead the way by issuing its official bulletins ' and orders in Iri sh hencefor~ard. A translation will be added for the benefit of the half-Iri sh. The tra nslation will be discontin ued when the half-Iri sh h ave been gi,·en what seems a reasoniible ti me in which to become Iri sh .

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THE ST. ENoA's DISPLAY·.

The de mo nstration and Volunteer displ ay at St. E nda's Coll ege on Sunday week las( was in its way one of the most re markable events in the hi story of the movement. Sections from sevent y ~ompanies compe ted in drill, includ ing two from the Citizen Army and a section of Fianna offiC'ers. Four thousand people paid threepence a-piece to watch the display. A hundred and fifty-three competitors for the silver medal shot at the target, in addition to many hundreds who joined in the genera l shootmg. The adjudicators pronounced the work of the competin g sections in close a nd openo rcl_e r drill as, on the whole, excell ent , ii nrl especially as showing continuous progres. on the right lines since the· first competition s of the kind held some weeks ago. T he fa ults t hat eme rged--and there were faults-'--will p robably form the subject of train ing lecture. during the coming season . The weiikest poin t may he sta ted in a word: fire-control. This shol.ilrl he looked to.

BRIGADE OPERATIONS. The who le Dubl'.n Brigade will carry out fie ld 013erations on Sunday next, 19th inst., unde r the direction of t he Gene ral Staff. It is expected that every Company will muster its full . strength. T~ e operat ions will occupy ·t·hr. whole day from 8 a. m. _till d u~k . ;Men ·will the refore carry a full field kit and a clay's

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STAFF WORK .

In add itio n to the training of men am! officers, the operat ions wi 1ll have in view the gi\· ing the Battalion staffs an opportunity of . prnrrising :tilff w? rk on a large scafe. The ma tte rs to be a ttepded to chiefly communi cations, despa tch work, a nd scouting:·' Q ue ry: Has ev~ ry officer his field message book and hi s road-map of. Co. ·Dublin? :Roth will be foun_? essential on Sunday next. .

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DRAWING FOR MODEL OF

O'SULLIVAN BEARE'S FORT POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY, 18th OOTOBER, 1915.

All Blocks and Ca•h to be returned as soon as possible to CAPT. O'SULLIVAN, 41 PARNELL S QUAR!i;.

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Dublin's Protest ~gair\st · Realm Act .Pr.osecU,t~ons.

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The Liberation of New Granada.

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Over ten thousand people assembled in the foot of the Andes. Th e two armies crossed :\Tine Acres, , Phoenix P 'ark; · on ' last s·ui;d av, the mounta.ins by the P aya pass, under great afternoon to protest ag'ainst , the prosecutions and the attempted deportatio1~s un de r the Defence of the Realm Act. The meeting was convened . l;Jy a representative ,committee of Dublin citi zens, and was add ressed , from t:vo platforms ])y speakers of all sha.des of national opinion. The proceedings were characterised by the greatest unanimity · and enth usiasm.

The meeting; which was the largest held . in , Dublin for many years, was a rernarkable ' .. example of national soiidarity-. tlie. J ames's IJ SAHT/\ FE. Gate Brass and Reed Band , the Fianna and Pe. BoGOTA d ifficl.1lties, and with much loss,_ both through · Fintan Lalor Pipers' Bands were in attendance , death and desertion.

Once they bad to . as well as the Dublin Fianna Companies and a d islodge an out po~·t of 300 men, but met with detachment of -the Citizen Army full y armed . no other opposition from the enemy' who did Not the least interested spectators were some not belie,re the mountain passable at that soldiers who w~re.. attract~d b; . the rn~eting, season. On the 6th of July they emerged in and a force of police with th,e 11ecessary the heart of the province of Tunja, where .they superintendents, '. in specto~s,. and _detectives . waited some days for stragglers.

RESOLUTIONS : Barreiro, having at !ast disc9vered the I. proxim ity of th€ rebels, occupied the heights " We prote~t against the attempted deportation of of Vargas, barring the way to TL, nj a . On the Messrs. Herbert Pim , ])enis M'Cullo~gh, Ernest .Blythe, 25th of Jul y a five hours' battle took place, and William Mellows, with0tit evidence of :my charges en ding in victory for the rebels , but leaving against them, and ·against their subseq uent sentences and co~tinued imprisonment. We also P,rDtest against the the Royalists still barring the way to Tunja. arrest, sentence, and persecution· to which _Seaghan Boli va r therefore retreated during the day- MacDermott, Seaghan Milroy, and Shee,hy-Skeffington, time, and then by .rapid ni ght marches passed and many of our countrym en and wome'n hav_e been _sub· the royal army by, took the tovy\1 on the 5th jected dt;ring the past thirteen months on the pretence of of. August, and so cut . Barreiro's communica- · offences against tlic Defence of the· Realm Act. "We demand the immed.i ate· release · of Seaghan . tions with the ca1)it_a l. .

MacDermott, Herbert Pim, Denis. M'Cullough, Ernest.

Barre iro now fell back on Venta Quemada, Blythe, and Liam Mellows, and of all the otl~ers of our where he was again forced fight. Bolivar coun trym en and women still unjustly ip ja_il, \viih repar· stood up to his enemy wi th a small fo rce on a at ion for the injuries inflicted· upon them."

2 . .. short front ,' leaving the majority of hi s troops . .. ,We declare otir determination to uphold the' righ't to in ambush on the fl anks , and sending hi s li berty of opinion and to free speech, notwi.thst11nding· all :cavalry to Tide rou nd on the enemy's rear. attempts to suppress both by.whomsoever made. W e Bolivar's front ~vas dri~en in , but the Sp anish are of opinion it is essential to r the pnblic safety tl)at a I . .. fl ank and rear \vere cut to p it;ces, 1,600 committee should be for med to investigate the circum· 0

mo1·ement in hi s South American colonies .

H e therefore despatched General Morillo wi tl1 , r 2,ooo rei nforceme nts to the Royal . troops.

Venezuela was soon subdued, and Cartagena was bes ieged, and, af ter . a four months' struggle, surrendered . Morillo now marched on Santa Fe de Bogota, the c~pital of New Granada, al most rivalling on the way the atrocities commit.led by the English in Ireland seventeen yea rs before. Fierce repri sals on the part of the insurgents followed, and the war became a war to _the death. ' At thi s time Simon Boliva r, the Venezuel~n patriot, was engaged in makil1'g p lans for the libe-ration of his country in his refuge iJ1 J amaica. He now left J ama ica and went to San Domingo, where he obtainer! the aid of the President, Petion, and of a Dutch shi p' builder called Brion . The ·l atter p laced seven schooners ,and 3,500 muskets at Bo.livar·~ cl isposal, anrl joined in the exped ition h.im sel f .

In 1816 they landed at Oayos de San Lu.is, where the leaders of the insu rrection made Boliva~ their .general and Brion their admiral.

At the island of Margarita these appoin tments were fin all y made, and the war began, Besides Bolivar's party there were several independent gueri ll a revolutionary forces, operat in g on the banks of the Orinoco, and on the pla in s of Barcelona and Casanare. Tile exploits of these bod ies are too numerous to descri°be here, but one bold leed of one leader, called Paez, is worthy of special mention.

On Ju ne 3rd, 1819, when opposi ng Morillds adva nce, he swam the Orinoco. with r 50 horse· men , and made for the Spanish camp. H e was · promptly attacked by 800 Spa ni sh cavalry with 2 guns. Retreating towards Las Queserns ·de! . p ri soners be.ing taken. Bolivar lost J 3 k il_led Med io, he drew the enemy in to: an ambush of and 53 woun clecl. Th is action is known as the infai1try near the river, then, spl itting hi s own battle of Boyaca, and it' fi nished the war. On men up in to small parties, he charged so as to . the roth of August Bolivar entered Sa nta F e p ush the Spani ards under the guns of the · f antry, who d'd m 1 great execu t.ion. l)aez.. lost , de Bogota.

COMMENTS. ' , 2 kille\l and half a dozen wounded .

F uture commai1,ders of irregular troops, not This is only one of many incidents, not the importance of acltieving the _ impo ssible .

1 always successful for the rebels , as· might be That is the way to surprise your disciplined expected . In fact, in these first years of the enermes . Bolivar·s plan was to leave his enemy . war. defeat and victory "'ere p retty well mixed manceuvring and calc ulatin g~ whi le, by mare/tup. ing over impassable road's he concentrated a Merunvhile, the ~ apoleonic wars being over, superior force at some unexpected point, a.nd the i nsurgen t leaders were ab le to rai se disso achie.ved very easy victories . This is the banded troops in E urope: There was a large only hope of success for irregul ars, and has E ngl ish contingent, a small Germ an contingent , been shown over and over agai~1. . an Iri sh Leg ion, and a few others. With these tr~ps' tO assist him, Bolivar was ,si ble to K:E~EP OUT THE FOREIGNER. E•ie'rything manufactured from Home Grown ~aterial at take a clec i,;ive step . Sendin g .a l::irge supp ly ·· of muskets a.nd some officers to Gerne r~ 1 8 Mary Street, DUBLIN. S:i,1_1ta nder, the lea der of the p;itriot·s 111 Casa.nare, he d irecled h im to menace the Gre}t Green Irish U niforms having but tons w.ith Irish Harp, 24/ 6. ,. .· fronti er of Ne w Gr::i nacla . Santander .infl icted Officers' Sam Brown Belts, r 8/ 6, 'Imitation a. small defeat on Genenal Barrei;o, who , was Sam Brown Belts, 5/ 6. in command there, and Bolivar, . abandoi;iing Pistol Holsters (new), 2/3 each. 1 Sergeant's Stripes, 2d, and 4d. each. his unsuccessful efforts to -d.rive the Spaniards Five Pocket Leather Bandoliers, 4/II . out of Venezuela, decided to.• cross the Andes · Belts, with Harp Buckles, r / 6, r/r o, and 3/3I and march to help him in winning New Puttees, 2/3, 2/11, and 3/ 6, Haversacks, r/-, 1/ 6, and 2/-.

Granada . H e set o ut with 2, 500 men, crossed .

Caps, 2/-, 3/-, and 3/ 6. seven rivers in- his ·course, and got in touch with Frogs., 1 1d.

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stances of a1:rests and prosecutions .a nd violations ~f the right of liberty of opinion and freedom of speech. We req uest the promoters of this meeting· to establish such a com~ittee, and keep. the pubiic from time to tin; e info pne.d ~f t he facts." · · . · PLATFORM No. r.

- The chair at Platform No. r ·was taken by Alderman Laurence O'Neill, who said that t he meet ing was called in the in'terests of no political .section, but of the personal liberty of Irishmen . If the military were to be the judge and jury in this country, if th~ pr~acpers of civi.l war got a seat in the Cabinet while .Irishmen we re sent to jail without even a charge p referred, then' it matte11ed little to them whether they· \veFe· governed by ·Pnissian, Russian, Turk or Empire. (Ap.2lause.) · · Councillor Briscoe proposed the resolutions.

H e said . they stood for Irelan cl and carer! nothing for any other country. They were rletermined to , p res~n·e the right of Iri shmen Lo a :fair , tri al and to· remain in the la'ncl where God placed t hem. (Applause .)

Mr. Sean Milroy, who was received with loud a·p pl ause, seeonclecl the resolutions. H e gave an interesting account of his experiences in Mountjoy, and his fel low-prisoners of the Irish Volunteers. P rotes ts by public meet;ings, he said, were of liLtle ava il. It wa s the men who joined and workecl in the Irish Volun teers, the 0

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THE IRISH VOLUNTEER. ·

Citizen Army , ay ! and the N ational Volunteers who were providing the argument that would tell. The bullying of the Gm·ernment would only seITe if they were all \\'eaklings and coward . (Applause.)

Mr. L. Ginnell ,' who recei\'ed a hea rty reception, said that the Constitutional Gm·ernment of Erigland had aboli shed personal liberty and established the 1ery militari sm in Ireland from whi ch they assured us they wished to saYe .

Europe . The D efence of the Realm Act nominally ap plied to England as well as Ireland, but it was never intended to pu t_ it in force in the same way in Engl and . They dared not. No person in England had been impri soned without trial or accusation. K o honest man could find faul t with the p rogramme of the Iri sh Volunteers, which was to unite Iri shmen and seal animos iti es ; yet the fom enters of di scord were •rewarded with seats in the Cabinet , and the Irish Volunteers 1rere sent to jail. Th is. method of stifling 1~ublic opinion was the surest means of bringing British rule in Ireland to an, end.

(Applause. ) Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington sa id she had the honour to be' married to one of the victims of ' the Defence of the Realm Act. (Cheers.) The Government had tried to pack juries in the cases of. Hegarty .and Bolger, buf the juries would not pack. The juries decl ared:that these Irish · Volunteers. had committed · no crime in being true to their country.

So now the Govern_J1_e nt hacl abolished trial by jury. _ ' Capf .Piar;as Beasl al said · _that that great meeting might be the beginning of a new unity among Iri ·hmen. It would be a proud thought for the p risoners if by their sacrifice they , brought about such a movement. Prisoners or ·free, they had won ; they had defied the deportation order, had struck a blow for the liberti es of Irishmen, -, had made the Defence of the Realm Act odious and rid iculous .in the eyes of a 11 Iri ·hmen.

The Chairman p ut the resolutions to the meeting, and declared them carried tinani mousl y, amid loud cheering.

PLATFORM No. 2.

Mr. Thos. F arren, President Dublin Tra~les' Council, who pres ided at this platform, said they were there to protest against Iri shmen being sent to p rison for no other reason than that they were Iri s~m en, a1)cl intended to re. main Irishmen. They would form a Committee to protect these men and any others who would be similarly treated.

Mr. H enry Dixon, who pro11osec1 the resolutions, said they were not there to speak in term s of apology of the .men who had been · so outrageously t~eated , neither would they ask for favours on their behalf. They l_Ve.re there to show that the arrest of these men is a sca nda l unknown in other coul1tri es·, · and is absolutely in accord with the methods of Engli sh G vernmen.t in Irebn cl . Whether one examined En g1ish rul e in Ireland before the, Penal ·clay s or since, the only difference is that the method is more cunningly suited to the experience an'cl the times , but in point of contemptible meanness and refined cruelty it staocl s without parallel in the history eYen of Russia_. Engli sh hypocrisy is shC'.wn in ' the fact that, . wb.ile condem1iing the treatment of political pri soners in , Naples, the .E-nglish jailers were torturing in . Dartmouth jail O'Donovan Rossa and other ' ,

' ~aturday, · September 18th, ' 1915.

Iri ~ lime n. ]~us~ ia SL'.nt po litirnl pri ~v1H' rs · lo H e has stripped the 1·c iI from our eyes :rncl jail' openly. Engl and tried to ha ~ish lPi sh1)1 en shown us what we are. We are told the crime from co1.mty _to county , and then from Ire land of the Kai ser ca n only be wiped out in bloorl. itse lf. The thanks of all Ireland is clue to the H e (the speaker) did not know in what fluid rrien who .refu s~cl to leave Ireland at the order they would wipe a way the guilt of those leaders of British authorities. At p resent we were who sold the Iri sh race. ·uffering under the di sadvanta ge of a Press . , Padrai c O'Ma ille, Oughterard- H e came which, hrough fea r of the censorship, i.- a fraid from the West to show that the peopl e there to uphold the rights of the people. So they were behind th at protest. They saw what was were assembled there, and will continue to rnme the case of the Volunteer leaders yesterdaythere so long .as it is necessary ' to assert their might be- their own to-morrow, if the Iri sh ri ght . F or the pas t twe!Yt; months in isolated people did not band together and fight for the ir places thi s man and that man had been con- rights. ,-icted on the slightest pretext and on fhe worst Alderman T. K elly- Admitting that when a o f evidence. It was sufficient for the magistracy State is.a t war, it is necessary for the prot~ction for a man to ue charged tha t he should be sent of that Sta te to base laws different than in time to ja il. One would expect tha t .some little ray of pe;i ce ; admitting that England needs the o f ·intelligence would be left in those who Defence of the Realm Act, it_ is not being g;overned this country, and · that they .would adininistered f1~ Ireland as it is in England . know tha t, notwithstanding pos tal inspection, The office!> of the "Labour.Leader ., were raided information of these facts would leak out to in Manchester a·nd certain papers and pamphthose at the front. Fr~m that clay a committee lets taken away. ' Legal p roceeding.s were subwould be formed to \.vatch with Yigilance all sequently taken, and what were the proceedings cases of arre_st and closely examine the evidence, for? To show ca use why certain pamphlets and and ,let their peopl e at home, as well as our certain cop ies of the pape r shou.ld not be deexi,led countrymen, know the who le facts. stroyed. What happened in Ireland? What Alderman Alfred Byrne, 11·ho ·econdecl the did they do in the office of the "Irish Worker., re. olution, ach·isecl Volunteers f both sides to and in "Sinn Fein, " and to Paddy Mahon, the keep on drillirig and get armed for the day printer? With base brutality they stripped the they would be called upon to look aft.er their . offices and broke the man's machinery . The own country. H e drew at t¢ntion to the differ-- more they impri son and the more they persecute ence in treatment under the Defence of the the stronger and more virile will our nationality R ealm Act in England and in Ireland. The become . The Government tries in fits and .starts Government thought if they took the leaders if a policy of P<'.rse<{ution will succeed here . the me n would disband. H~ a.ch-i sed them to H e observed s0m~ of the leaders of p ublic s_tick together · ~nd remember wha t the Welsh opinion agree irith the Go~emment's actio1~. _Smyth, M.P., wishes every man of Sinn Fein miners did with an Act of Parliament.

Ca_thal O'Seanainn, of Belfast- H e came to opinions were in jail. Redmond called their ·say a few words on behalf of the Belfast men . papers "wretched little rags. " 2'.\ugent rein jail. There was no use in p rotesting against ferred to German gold , but an Engli shman the law, as there was no law in Ireland. Eng- admitted the men who . were accused of getting land , while ostensibly fighting militarism on · the German go ld could not be p urchased by GerContinent, is putting them under militari sm in man or Br itish gold. The general body of the Ireland , putting them in shackles that she ' peop le, no ma.tter what leaders they follow, would not dare to p ut on her own people in . haYe. shown they have no sympathy with the Engl and or Wal es . :.i'o f ri mdl y commander .o f persecution of the ir fellow-Iri shmen. the forces in Eng land ha s ordered a single The O'Rahilly- He enjoyed the honour of Englishma.n out of England. These men were possessing a certillc'ate signed by _ General brought before a court of summa ry jurisdiction , Friend stating he w~s not a proper person to because the British Go1·ernment were afraid I i1·e within the counties of Cork, K erry , or . e,·en of a packed jury. Why should they not Limerick. The men who left the counties in be much more afraid of the Irish Nation? which they were residing did not do so because These men were not struck at because they were · of the Government's ord er , but beca use ~h e y Sinff F einers, but because they were the men in belonged to the disciplined organisation of the the gap , because in their persons the Briti sh fri sh Voluntee rs, and they obeyed the instructions of their Executive. · If enry man in the Government struck at the Irish )."°ation. _Mr. J im Connolly- H e recognised the wis- crowd "joined the Irish Vol unteers and possessed dom of the _Volunteer Executi rn in nof calling a rifl e and a thousand rounds of ammunition , a meeting to prote t against the imprisonme nt there would be no Defence of the R ealm Act of the Volunteers. It was not their pl ace or in Dublin to-day. If Irel and wants equal duty to call for p ubl.ic sympathy; but as_ the treatment with England , Ireland must maincommander of a military body that is out to tain a ~a.t i onal Army.

Sean Etchingham ,_ ·w exford- When Engestablish militari S'"m in fre l~nd , he felt it hi s duty to bring at least _a company of them he~e land acted the role of cruel stepmother, Ireland to show that in lreland whoe1·er strikes became herself ·again . These pr.osecutions were / . to-cl av ' at the Iri sh Volunteers strikes at the Irish. necessary for the people of Trc hnrl to real ise We in Ireland to-clay are a slave the ir duty . None of the men who we re imSation. nation kept _clown by armed force . H e was glad pr.isoned ll'Ould have it otherwi se than .that they that the Reclmonds, Drnons, and O'Briens, the should suffer that the cause might prosper.

Kettles, Gwynnes, and others of their kind are The greatest insult that could be given these a ppea ring on .recruiting platforms telling us we men is sympathy. They want the rest of the are partners in all the qua.rrels and respon- people to do the work they have been doing. sibility of the Empire . The Irish race is under Let those _who have not clone so as yet join the a deep debt of gratitude to General Friend. Irish Volunteers or the Citizen Army.

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Sean O'Murthuile, Cmk- They should also against the· action of weak-kneed em· ployers in obeying the ~:mler of the British -Government in dismissing their emp loyees who held X ationalist opinions. B.efore they were m uch older they would learn that the Board of N a tional Education, which dismissed Mr. Mansfield, was about to d ismiss a K erry teacher because he was an Irish Volunteer. That man must get the support of the whole Irish people.

The re ·oJutiuns were then put to the meeting and carried with enth usiasm, after which Sean Connolly (Citi Z\'!11 Army) sang '' The Felons of Our Land " and "A Nation Once Again ," and the proceedings terminated with loud cheers for the men in jail. prot e~ t

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Mond ay , 30th- After early urC<!:_kfast, camp was struck. Our transport had a " forced march," b ut made the ~en to •nine train at Xnocklong in great style.

I.t was a bo-reat week, spent in a great country, / amongst a great people !

Thursday , 26th- This was a cold morning, a1id a heavy mi st from the bog around hung in the a ir. Breakfast as us ual-only more of it !- was again the order. T ent striking and pitching competitions, after which we had a ma rch to Mitchelstown , and a parade through the town . A large basket of a.pples was pre- . New Wooll en Sleeping . Bags, extra value for sented to the - camp by ~ he BaHylanders Campers, only 5/ 6 each .

Cumann na mBan . A.rrangements were made Combinat ion Knives and Forks, ., / -. with the Mitchelstown Corps to deliver a night Second-hand Lea:ther Amm unition Puucbeti, 9J . attack on a field (iiot tlie. camping ground), Canvas Kit Bags,- I/- each . which we were to defend. In the absence of Web Slings, 6d., 9d., 1/-, 2/ 6 each. our men, however, a section of the Angelsburg Wa:ter Bottles, 1/ -, 1 / 6, 2/ -,2 / 9, 3 / 6, 5/ 6 each.

Volunteers took the camp by surpris.e, made Web Coat Carriers, 1/ 3, 3/ 6, 4 / 6, an attempt to. capture a pot of stirabout, and frish-made Haversack's; 1/-, I/ 3 each. wo uld have succeeded had not the Q.M., by 1). Iri sh-made Rifle Slings, 1/ 6, 2/ 6 each. strategic~] move to the " grub " tent at the B.S .A. Air Rifles, 32 / 6, 52 / 6 each . rear, mai1aged to save the situation (and the L arge Stock .22 Rifles and Ammunition , supper) by distribu ting some apples · aniongst Lowest Prices: the " ru thless invaders, " thro,ugh ·which they Bowie Kniv'es, with Leather S hea th ,'~ / - each. "hacked a way. " A sing-song round the camp- Mess Tins, · Be lts, Revol v~r Holsters, Puttees . .fire followed . The attack on our position not Stevens' .22 Favourite Rifle, 2~ / - and 30./ -. having developed up to u-30, _the C:O. decided Bes t Cheap Target Rifle on the Market. to return to camp. Th« "en~rny" was not far FOREIGN MONEY EXCHANGED . off, however, .and jumped up and' cheered us as SOon as 'We ·began to move ~ff . lt was nea r l )' one o'clock in the morning when our men returned to camp, in good form for a mug of 2 Fownes Street, Dame Street, .DUBLIN. stirabout after a strenuous night's work.

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. · T uesd3<y, 24th- When breakfast _was fin ished tents were struck, anGl we moved off for KilfinWe felt. at home' witb the ' people of ane.

Gall>all y from the minute we first came arnongst them, and left them with many a pang of regret, and some of us indeed with a feeling tha~ we we re losing dear old friends. The Cyclists and Infantry had arrived, and the camp-fire was burning bright ly when the Q.M., with _the transport, reached Kilfinane at 4 o·clock. Plenty of fuel had been supplied by s~me of our Volunteers in the village. T ents Friday, 27th__:__Muske try , double time, and were pitched and dinner served in quick time, an advance across difficult cou ntry to t):ie attack and that both these operations ~ve re well done on a ·given position constituted the morning' s may be judged from the pi,c ture of the camp \VO rk . After d inner :ve had a tent-striking which was t£tl<en there and then. We had a competition, and moved back to B.'lllylanders . ,·isit in the even ing from the local corps of A company of cyclists went on' in front to Volunteers and its Ardpatrick _Aux_iliary, and anrange abo~1t a camping site, as usual. The after some Close Order Drill on the camping transport on this occasion was excep tionally tjruund we had a ,parade through Kilfinane. rrood and ke1)t in touch wi'th the infantry ' . .

As a result of this we got two " recruits " for b . throughout the journey. The " final " of the the camp , and woke up many of those who tent pitching competition resulted in Mitchelshad Leen sleeping whil e their country was in town and, D ublin being adj udged the winners.

U<LDl,;'e r ! K ilfinane is now on the, road to And the winners 11ad the honour of pitch ing National recovery. four tents for the C.O., the Q.M., the stores, Wedne~clay, 25th- Some light skirmish work and the guard. Practice makes perfect ! Fuel occupied . the early part of the clay.

After was, scarce, and, it ~ was some time . before a uinner we again got ready for the road, and J ecent fire could be got · go ing . H oweyer, we moved off ' to . Ba llybrien. The main body _ ev-en tually coaxed the water to boil. The tea reached its destination at 9-30. The Q .M. and was worth waiting for, as tbe Cumann na transport arrived about _a n hoi.1r and a half m:San, presented the camp ·with more apples afterwarcls .· By the way, i.t may be as well and "tons " of cakes. 'these cake~ brought to explain that it is not al ways possible to get back sweet m~mories of Galbally, and the a suitable horse and car,t for transport work , Q . M. called for three cheers for Galball )'. , but in the rj'resent case the delay was clue not which were given with a heart and a half· alone to the peculiarities of the ·beast (it was Three cheers for Ballyla.nders followed. We all right for cl imbing hills, b ut had .to be . ~d a sin u-son a. on the roaus ide ~fter ward s, h b b pulled doym them!), but to the fau lty-loadi1'.g and all the village " mobilised " for the occaof the tents, traps, and stores in the yoke, m sion. After roll call, valuable ·presentations consequence of which some misha ps occurred were made by the camp to the C.O . and Q.M. at the ea rly stages of the journey, and eventuSaturday, 28.t h- The Kerry, Kilkenny, and al Iv the bag'ga.ge, etc. , had to be unloaded and some ·of the D ublin Volunteers left for home 1~e-loaded correct! y . . One of our motor cyclists this morni1~g, and we saw them off at Knockmet the transport as it was passing through long Station. In the evening some from Cork Ballylanders, and the Q.M. gave him a supply City departed, and the remainder were invited 1 of " ~mergenc.y rations " to b ring on ·in adto a dance given by _the Cumann na mBan in vance, , but the transport had reached~ Bal.lythe village. brien and was ~ un tJacked before the motor' Sunday , 29th- Church Parade at 8-30 . cyclist (who took a wrong turning) p ut. in an A:fter ·early dinner we marched to the sports at appearance. A la'.rge pot had been " com· Galbally, accompanied by the Cumann na mandeered" from an adjacent farmhouse, and mBan and the local Company of Irish Volun-· the water was boiling when the " grub " _turned teers. We met old friends and made new ones.

1 up. . Four minutes· Ja:ter·. ,the eyer-welcome Back to the camp for tea, :111d then a farewell whistle for "mess~tin s-" was sounded . After dm1~-e with the Cumann na mBan . tea, tent· · were p itched fo r the night, a;1c1 the ( I,

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