The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 48

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BY EOIN MAC -NEILL. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6_, 1915.

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to follow that standard of prinpiple, but to support the changing decisions of a political leader. We were not even to ask whether these decisions were :r:ight or wrong . The public were told, as we · were told, that to raise any question of The second Annual Convention of the nan; .Ardpatrickii D. P. Manahan; Hospital, that kind was forbidden- that it was the Sean O'Cearbhai ; Killonan, B. Laffan; CastleIrish Volunteers was held on Sunday, connell, J . Herbert; Ballylanders, J. J. Condon; work of factionists, cran.ks, . and soreOctober 31$t,,in the Abbey 'rheatre, Dub- St. Ita's (Limerick), Proinsias 0 Gaortha ;. s hriekers and kickers, of noLimerick City~.A. Coy., - Colivert; B. Coy., heads, of _ lin at 11 a.m. Eoin Mac Neill presided, James, Ledden; C. Coy., R. P . O'Connor; D. bodies and disgruntled people and Mrs. and the following delegates attended:--, Coy., E . Wa-lsh; Dromcollogher, Dr. Hayes;· Gummidges . Anything that _was not the '!

Foynes, .A. Ua Caomhleathan.

Derry-Newb'ridge _ .A. Newman; Magherafelt, faithful echo of the ever-changing voice Centrai Executive· and General council-Eoin Mac Neill, O'Rahilly, T; MacDonagh, J. Plun- Lollis· Smith; 1st Battalion, Derry, James Kava- was declared to be "a slur on Mr. Rednagh . . l;;ett, P. Beazley, ~. Macken, J . Fitzgibbon, . P. Moriaghan-Ematras, E. Blythe.

H. Pearse, P . - O'Ryan, Bulmer Hobson, C. mond ;' or "at attempt to stab him in Colbert, E . Kent-, J. MacDermott. J. O'Connor, ~ Meath-Dunboyne, J. · Boylan; Kells, Liam the back.'' In short, we were asked to O'Broin. .

W. Mellows,, C. O';Loughlin, P . White, .Art Queen's County-V~carstown , F. J . McEvoy.

O'Connor, L. Synnott, P . McCann, T. MacCursubmit to the :rule of an autocracy which Sligo-Tubbereurry, .Alex. McCabe; Cliffoney, tin, James Ledden, L. Lardner, ·P . Hughes, J . claimed to. be infallible and which looked Charles McGarrigle; Keash, .A. McCabe.

E. Da)y, F. Lawless.

Tipper·ary-Fethard, · W, Caµtwell 7 Clonmel, Antrim-Belfas·t' City, T. Smith. • with disfavo'llr on any expression of · Cla'i"e-Cari-on, T. 0 Murthille; Inagh, Sean Frank Drohan;. Dualla, Owen Keevan; Galbally, opinion tha ~ did· ~ot tak~ .the·: fu.;m of a· Wm. Quirke. . ' Mac · Cumnar. 'ryrone-Benbµrb, John Shields; Coalisland.

Cavan-Ballinagh, James O'Sullivan. vote of confidence.

Hugh McRofy; Sixmilecross, Peter McGirr; Carlow-Bagnalstown, _Peter Carton.

There might be something to be said Clogher, Patrick Quinn·; Tromogue, Michael Cork-Cork . City, C. Company, John Jen' nings; .A. Company~ 1Sean O'Suliobhain; B . Com- l\foCai'tan. in defence of a national autocracy in a Wate rford-Waterford City, Peter Woods.

- pany, Sean 0 1Vlurchadha; D. Company, time of national crisis, but what we were ~_ayo-Castlebar , Patri9k Moneley.

P . O'Gorman; Courtbrack, D. 0 LoirigWexford-New -Ross, P. Lennon· Ferns, W. sigh; Kanturk, J. J . Walsh; Mo~rne .Abbey, J . Brennan Whitmore; Wexford, Patrick Fur- asked to obey-not only we· Irish VolunLaim De Roiste; Knocknaduff, Tadgh Barry; Mitchelstown, Sean Catha&aigh ; Tracton, Mic- long; Gorey, J. R. Etchingham; Enniscorthy, teers who ha.d pledged ourselves to cerSeamus Doyle. hael F. -Lynch; Fermoy, Thomas Kent; Cove, tain definite objects, but all the NationalWestmeath-Athlone, Sean 0 Muirthile.

Liam O'_B riain; Dunman way, 'l'.. Mac Suibhne; ists of Ir\lland- was a ch~nging pqlicy Wicklow-Bray S. McCarthy.

Kilmona, Raitha De Barra; Ballmadee, Thomas England-Bootle, S. Hennessy; Liverpool, T. dictated and exacted by a combination Hales .

Dublin- Lusk, Liam Rooney;' Skerries Sea- Craven.

Sc9tland-Glasgow, .A. Company, J . Robin- . of English party leaders. It is my belief mus Mac Domhnaill; St. Margaret's, ·Thomas ·O'Reilly · Dalkey, R lVIacDermott ; Swords, C. son. that this combination, always potentially Moran; Dona bate, M. Mac.Allister; Tallaght and ,A message of greeting was received present, came i~to activity in order to Clondalkin Michael Ryder.

Dublin Chy Regiment- 1st Battalion, .A. Com- from the annual Convention of Cumaan make Ireland porverless in anticipation pa,ny, E. J . Duggan;_ • B. Company, J. K. na mBan, which was meeting at the same of the war which afterwards broke out.

O'R~illy; C .. Company, J. E. Lyons; D. Comtime at Volunteer Headquarters.

The pany, Sean Mac .AodP.a ; F. qompany, F. 0 This is not the time to describe how Loingsigh; G. and H. Compames, J. .AIfollowing message was also received from every effort was made and every _point - wright; 2nd Battalion: B. . Company, T. Hunt'er; C. Company, E . Price;· E. Company, T. .6.n i::.6.ta111 Clemeni:: 0 lt1.:\5n6, 0 S .C. : was strained on behalf of the Irish VolunWafer; F. Company, M. O'Reilly; G. Company, P . Gallio-an.' 3rd Battalion: .A. Company, J . ":So 5cu1111-0 'Ota ce.6.'0 mile ua1tte nlor mo . teers to ma'.i ntain national ·unity ~nd a - · O'Conno~; B. Company, M. Ryar;; C. Company, n~u11 rl1E;e '1 r 50 ne.6.11i::u151'0 'Oe le Cl.6.rnn basis of common action during the M. Malone, D. Company, .C. 1v1acDowell · E. Company W . Tannam . 4th Battalion: .A . 6om- .n d tnacc.6.be.6.6 50 rctt1ori::.6. be1'0 :sac nMil.6. months which followed the adoption of ~1tte6nn .6.m.6.6. .6.mel'l." pany, J . 'Murphy; B. Company, G. Irvine; C. the part-ition ;policy by a Goverm:qent Company, T. ¥acCarthy; D. Company, W. The President, Eoin Mac Neill, in open- pledged to one Home Rule_for all IreO'Brien· E. Company, F. Macken; F . Company, P. S. D~yle . Dublin County Board, L. Raul land. l£ the reproach is made that some ing the Convention, spoke as follows:Galway-Loughrea, - 0' Flaherty; Oranmore, At the opening of this second Conven- of us, in our anxiety for unity and in the M. J . Howley; Spiddal, Eamonn Breathnach; '.Ballinasloe Joseph Gaffney i. .Athenry, John tion of the Irish Volunteers, it is my duty hope that national principles would prove Cleary:· Cl~renbridge, P. Cul inan. to review the pos:ltion of our orgaLlisation superior to minor cl~ims, - yielded too Kildare-Naas, Thomas Traynor; Maynooth, Domhnall _ O'Buchalla; .Athgarvon, Eamonn since the first . Co:r;i.vention, and to say much and strained too many points, I O~Modhrain .

Kerry-Cahirciveen, Sean O'Ceallai~h; Din- something with regard to the· year's work offer no defence, beyond saying that na.gle J. J . Malone; Lispole, Tomas .Agnas; Lis- before us . . By a system of gradual pres- tional unity has claims on us that are to~el, Edward Leahy; Listillick and Oakpark, Our sure and inducement, efforts -were made only second to nationality itself.

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King's CoiJnty-Tullamore, S. 0 Braonam ; to divert the Irish Volunteers from their endeavours · to secure unity had little Edenderry, Sean O'Shea. ' . . original a~d only proper objects to which chance of success with those who made · Kilkenny~Clomant a:~h, Sean Mac Ji10bum; Kilkenny, P . De Lougnrey. . every man ' of us had pledged himself. · personal authority the supreme test, at a Louth-Drogheda, Sean N1eson; Dundalk, In our very councils ·the doctrine was time ~hen that per1mnal authority wa~ Francis Coburn; Grangebellew, N. Butterley.

Limerick- Anglesboro', W. J. Ryan ; Doon. ; exerted under the progressive coi:p.pulsion Padraig O'Riain; Meelick Cross, M. J. Bren- boldly proclaimed that our duty was, not

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2 of English parties. The breaking point, as you know, was reached when we were called upon to cast aside our pledges and to become a British Imperial organisation . . W e took issue on that demand, a nd reaffirmed the original purpose of our enrolment. To that purpose, and to no other, we will adhere. The Irish Volunteers have been, are now, and must con, tinue to be a national defence force for Ireland, for all Ireland, and for Ireland ,·only ..

-The decision you took a year ago left you for the most part without money, but with men, and with a clear purpose and a clear policy . Tha.t decision has since then been amply justified. It has been proved that a shifting policy, based on Imperial demands, cannot create among Irishmen that enthusiasm which alone money, of energy, the discipline, the /patient perseverance, the indifference to the whole machinery of oppression, which are necessary to a voluntary organisation · like · yours . We have passed through a year during which every effort has been made to discourage and intimidate us.

The entire daily Press of the country has subordina.ted Nationalism to Imperialism .

Wealth and vested interests have ·been in · league against us. We have been denounced to persecution by spokesmen of the dictated policy, and the Government has gladly taken advantage of such denunciations . It has suppressed most of . ~ the p~riodicals that took a purely national stand,- and where it has not ventured to suppress, it has sent its officers to intimidate those who k ept publications for sale.

Houses have been broken into and searched, with and without · legal warrant . The 'Defence of the R ealm Act has been used as an. engine of political oppression . Men have heen deported and imprisoned for no known or stated reason except that they have been engaged in Large or"'amsrng Irish Volunteers . · bodies of police with firearms have been sent to interfere with public meetings.

The Government has acted over and over again in disregard to its own law. It has been at special pains to find victims i~ Ulster · and among Ulster Nationalists.

The natural outcome of these proceedings has been to convince ever-increasing numbers of our people that the real issue in Ireland is the old issue between the Irish Nation and English domination.

In yollr name,. and, I can say with confidence, in the name of the Irish Nation, I offer the tribute of honour and respect to all . those who have had to bear the brunt of Government hostility to the'. Irish Voluntee·r s: I know no instance .where . that hostility-has had to be faced in which man or woman has flinched.

The cowardly combination that opposes us makes the lying pretence that their acts of persecution are done in consequence of the pr_e sent Eiiropean war, but I reminded you a year ago tha.t their hostile attitude

THE IRISH VOLUNTEER. towards the Irish Volunteers began the year before the war.

It was what we had to expect from them, and we take it as their testimony to our fidelity to the cause of Ireland a Nation.

Special honour is due to those who 'have suffered imprisonment because of their activity and efficient work in the organisation of the Irish Volunteers.

Irish public opinion has heen ashamed to see the action of the Government incited, encouraged and condoned by a few men, some of them holding for the present most prominent positions in Irish politics, who, while claiming to be Nationalists, have behaved during this national crisis in the meanest spirit of faction. I could give details that would put the agents of compulsory political service to shame before the world, but our war is not upon Irishmen even of the meanest sort, and I could only wish that the· baser side of the ·campaign waged against us through such instruments might pass for ever from our ~emories./ lii the meantime, the British Government has ceased to be bound by any engagements towards Ireland, and has imposed on Ireland a ruinous burden -0f taxatjon, in which the Parliamentary re-· presentatives of Ireland have been obliged to acquiesce; . and the Irish .Party has been reduced to this position, that a cry of alarm on its . behalf has been raised to defend from destruction the Coalition Govornment which was formed in spite of the Irish Party. It follows that the need for the Irish Volunteer organisation on its original basis is greater now that ever before.

When Mr . Redmond forced the issue on us last year, the great -majority of the Irish in America, including most of those who had been supporters of Mr. Redmond 's former policy, decided in our favour. It is necessary to state this, in view of many attempts that have been made to persuade people in Ireland to the co'ntrary. The funds generously supplied by Irish~en in America during the past year have enabled us to make_great progress with the necessary equipment for the Volunteers. At the sa~e time, it should be known that arms and ammunition have been purchased by the Irish Volunteers themselves up to many times the value of all funds subscribed by their friends and supporters.

Reports dealing with different aspects of your organisation during the past year . will be brought before you . . With regard to the coming year, the main point that I wish to impress on you is the maintena-nce of a thorough discipline, not merely in the stricter sense of carrying out orders on each occasion', but in the wider sense of maintaining the general order. Every company should fulfil its own place in the organisation . This depends, in the first instance, on affiliation maintained without neglect. Affiliation involves the pay-

Saturday, November 6, 1915. ment of a fee at stated times to the Central Treasury . · The fees are not large, and will not be irksome unless they are • allowed to fall into arrears, and to let them fall into arrears i~ not consistent with discipline . In regard to expenditure, it should be the guiding principle that the regular income from affiliatio:n fees should defray the regular expenses of organisation and administration, an~ that no part of these expenses should fall upon funds available for other purposes.

Unless your regulations upon the payment of affiliation fees are observed in a disciplinary spirit, this pi::inciple cannot be observed, and we get into the very undesirable position of ma.king up £or neglect by waste .

Further, I will only say that we ought all to adhere faithfully and strictly to the objects, the constitution and the policy . whfoh we have adopted . We ;yill not be diverted from our work by tactics of provocation. We will not give way to irritation or excitement. Our business is not to make a show or indulge in demonstrations. We started out on a course· of constructive work requiring a long period of patient and tenacious exertion. When things were going most easily £or us, I never shrank from telling my comrades that success might require years of steady perseverance - a prospect sometimes harder to face than an enemy in the field. · The dweller on a dangerous frontier region is always ready arnied and his mind is always familiar witn the resources of his locality for defence and attack. For us, as our history shows us, the whole of Ireland is that danger zone, and ' our object should be to be always and everywhere ready and to know the least thing among all our surroundings tha_t .can be turned to good account fo~ the defence of our national rights and liberties. Great progress· has been made, more must be made. The one thing we must look to is that there shall be no stopping and no turning back.

REPORT OF THE HON. SECRETARY. 'l'he H-0n. Secretary (Bulmer Hobson) presented the following report on the year's w ork :The progress that we have to record after our year's work is that we have turned an organisation having in many places a nominal existence into an organisation that is in an active and vigorous condition, having over 200 corps actively training, and of which it can be truthfully said that any estimate of its strength based upon the reports received at Headquarters is an un-derestimate.

CENERAL COUNCIL. Immediately after the Convention last year the Executive took steps to hold an election in each of the counties in which there were three or more Volunteer Corps in order .to carry out the scheme of

Saturday, November 6, 1915. county representation on the General Council of the Irish Volunteers . .A.t the beginning of December Wexford, Queen'·s County, Cork City, Kilkenny, Limerick County and _C ity, Kildare, Kerry, Louth, Galway County, Dublin County and City, King's County, Tipperary, Belfast, Derry County, and the North ' of England and Scotland had ea.ch elected their representa.tive on the Council, an·d the first meeting of th~ General Council was held at Headquarters on t.he 6th December. Since then little has been done to extend the system of county representation, and throughout the year the General Council has not had anything like its full strength. Ten meetings were held during the year. It will be possible in the coming year to have representati.ves from nearly every county in Ireland, and the making of _the General Council more repre~entative of the less well-organised · districts will have a beneficial effect on on the movement.

HEADQUARTERS STAFF. One of the first things taken into consideration by the Central Executive after the Convention of last year was the thorough organisation ·of the Irish Volunteers as a military body. The first effective step towards this end was taken early . in December, w~en the Executive decided to recommend -the General _Council to ap-'.· . point a Headqu:arters Sfa,.ff. The foll~:W- · ing compose tb;e staff :Chief of St~ff.

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declining to obey, were sent to prison for tiv_e, and by the Generai Council, and the a term of three months. Mr . .A.. New- General Council decided to allocate the man, who had also been employed upon sum of £100 for the purpose. special work, received the same order, It was found that there was much diffiand underwent the. same term of imprison- culty in procuring camping equipment ment.

The Central Executive imme- from the regular manufacturers owing to . diately uporr their arrest· appointed the number of contracts pla~ed by the several . new o.r ganisers to take up duty · English War Office . .A.part from this, . in their place. the type of tent most desirable for .the • .A. fortnight ago Mr. Monaghan re- Irish Volunteers; in view of our special" ceived an order under the Defence of the necessities, would be more expensive Realm .A.ct to leave Co . Cava.n, and hav- than the English military tents, and it ing ignored the order, is at present in was necessary to effect economies.

In p~ison. ' Desmond Fitzgerald has also consequence a special Volunteer tent was · been arrested, and is in gaol under ·designed and their manufacture was unthe Defence of the Realm .A.ct. ·In dertaken at Headquarters. .A.s a result addition, several Dublin Volunteers all the tents needed for the tr.aining gave up their holidays to organising work camps, in addition to a large - number · last summer; while in several centres- which have been sold to Irish Volunteers, notably Cork City....'.....the local Volunteers were made at Headquarters. In use they · have done much to organise the surround- have proved to be excellent, while their . ing country . It is hardly necessary to cost has been very considerably below the speak of the excellent work . done by our prices ·charged by the ,regular manufacorganisers in the country, but I am glad turers. The first Summer Camp was held to have this opportunity of saying ·that in the middle of July in Co. _Tyrone. Intheir devotion, capac_ity and energy has .A. ugust two camps were held, one in . Wicklow and one in North Co . Cork, · been beyond all praise. and in September one was held on the RECRUITING. Shannon in County Galway. .A.bout In addition to the work .of the organ- one hundred · men m all attended · isers, the Director of Recruiting at these camps, and benefitted greatly organised several conferences when op- from the course of training-.

It_. portunity offered of getting any consider- is · to · be hoped ~ that next year similar · able number of Volunteers from different camps will be ;organised in various parts p.arts .of Ireia,nd together, with a yiew to'_ o:f the country, ~m a. :r;nuc4 lar:ger~ scale' arid spreading the organisation. .A.t a later much more frequently than was found · date County Conferences were arrang~ . possible on the first occasion.

Some of these have already been held, · and it is expected that they will become .A.N CUM.A.NN COS.A.NT.A. .. in future a regular part of_a system for The last Convention recommended to recruiting existing corps and spreading the Central Executive -that a . Defence the Irish Volunteer organisation where Fund should be opened in order to assist no corps exist.

Irish .Y olunteers who were prosecuted on THE "IRISH VOLUNTEER." account of. their adherence to t,h e move- · Towards tb.e end of November, 1914, ment.

Very recently a Defence Fund · the proprietors of the IRISH vOL UNTEER was started· which has been used solely. to ' informed Mr. Mac Neill of their intention defray legal expenses in conneption with .

ORG.A.NISERS . to discontinue publication of the· paper. the various trials .

In order to carry out the work of trainIt was decided that it should be taken Early in the year, however, the Central ing the corps it was necessary to appoint over, and since 5th December, 1914, it E:xecutive and the General Co;tmcil both a number of organising instructors, and in October, 191f, Captain Liam Mellows, has be.en edited and · managed at Head- had under _consideration the position of who had been acting as Secretary to the quarters, and has been most valuable, as . men who were imprisoned or who lost Central Executive, took up duty as an a propagandist organ throughout the their employment on account of their conThe Editor is particularly in- nection with the Irish Volunteers. It organising instructor in the country. .A. year. for debted the unfailing supply of articles was felt that the best way to meet such month later Captain Monteith, who had · on military subjects which have been con- cases was to establish a mutual insurance been acting as Instructor in Dublin, was tributed by two officers attached to Head- society and to offer to Irish Volunteers ordered to leave Dublin under the Defence quarters . the opportunity of insuring themselves of the Realm .A.ct. The Central ExecuIn addition the office at Headquarters against loss of their means of livelihood tive thereupon · appointed him organising instructor, and he took up duty imme- . has constantly during the year supplied on account of their connection with our diately in Limerick City and County, the provincial Press with articles, reports movement. For this purpose .A.n Cumann where he did excellent work up to very and items of ne;vs concerning the Irish Cosanta was started, a large number of recently. In January the Central Execu- Volunteer movement, and many of the Voluntee_rs :gave _availed th~p:i.§!eJve§! o.£ tive decided to appoint two more or- provincial newspapers rendered good ser- the £acl.lities it offered, and are insured · ga.msers.

For the first six months vice by p~blishing all the matter sup- with it.

Since . .A.n Cumann Cosanta was of 1915 these . four - organisers were at plied. started the Society has been able CAMPS. work in different parts of the country, but Early in the spring the question of · to meet all the claims that have in July Messrs. Mellow~ and Blythe received ·orders to leave Ireland -under the orgamsmg training camps throughout Defence of the Realm .A.ct, and upon their the summer was considered by the Execu-

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Saturday, November 6, 1915 .

that circular. Other efforts were made by negotiation to enable Mr . Redmond to " ·control and dominate" the Volunteers, Mr. Redmond being then, as he has been October, 1913, saw the beginnings of since then, controlled and dominated by the Irish Volunteers. There was no Eno·lish statesmen of both parties. When European '.l;ar at that time and no De- the~e negotia~ions failed, the policy of fence of the Realm Act. Nevertheless, "domination or disruption " was openly the Asquith Home Rule Government at proclaimed 'by Mr. Redmond · in Ma!, once attacked the Irish Volunteers with 1914. In June, in . order to avert disa hostility they never showed before, ruption and the destruction of the Home then or since, towards the High 'rory Rule Bill, the Provision~l Committee of Pog;omites. Then, j~st as now, the real the Irish Volunteers accepted Mr. Redleo-islature of Ireland was the English mond's terms. In July, the Provisional 0 Committee successfully carried through Privy Council. · its . plan for the landing o~ a cargo of * * * rifles notwithstanding the attempt of October, 1914, ~aw the first Conven- Dublin Castle to prevent the landing by In the armed force . The outmanoeuvred for.ces tion of the Irish Volunteers . meantime Ireland had passed through of the Government took satisfaction by political experiences that seem like a wild shooting down defenceless people on the ·dream without coherence, hut which were streets of Dublin . The Government was perfectly coherent, the connecting thread · then making active preparations ·for war, being the attempt of the Unionis~ and and g.o t up a sham inquiry to stave off Liberal combin·e to coerce the N at10na.l- the indignation of the Irish people. I, ists of ireland.

The English Privy pass over the action of Mr. Redmond's In most active supporters on the Volunteer Council is not a Home Rule club.

November, 1913, it tried to kill the Irish Committee at this period . While these Volunteers by forbidding the importation things were going in Ireland, th~ Bucko£ arms into Ir~land. The Irish Party ingham Palac.e conference- Buckmgham leaders were c_ompelled to. acquiesce in Palace for the third, time-was going on th1s . In December, 1913, under the same in England, and the parties to that con.pressure, Mr. Redmond, using Mr: Hazle- ference knew that the European war was ton ·as his mouthpiece, denounce~ the at hand. With thi~ knowledge; the antiItish'"Volunteer movement. In January Irish cbmbine was permitted, to browbeat and February, 1914, arms in large quan- Ireland. ties were imported and .distributed ~mong * * * the Ulster :Partition:lsts without any inrn· .f\..ugust c·ame the outbreak of war, terference from the Government, and . and Mr . Redmond was summoned in Lord Charles Beresford, Lord Willoughby haste to L~nd~n, and Sir Edward Grey, de Broke and others were ailowed to get knowing ~hat was coming, said "Ireland up an English organisation for th!:l inva- was the one bright spot,'' and Mr. Redsion ·of Ireland in the event of Home mond, made his great pronouncement ·acRule. In March, 1914, the Unionist and cord,ingly, and the New Era began . IreLiberal combination compelled Mr. Red- land was to be forgiven for all her crimes niond to accept the Partition, which in- against England. The satisfied Governvolved ·the abandonment Qf the Govern- ment put Mr. Redmond's epoch-marking ment's piedges to the Irish Party and the speech into the. dustbin, and commenced Irish electorate, and the Junta of British · an intrigue on its own account for the officers at the Curragh declared open defi-. contr.ol and domination of the Irish ance. It would be a hypocritical sham Volunteers. Then we ha(t in quick sue;- to say that they defied the Government or cession the Mansion House meeting, surthat the Government resented the~r defi- 1:ounded by .~n Imperial guard, Mr. Redance. They defied the Irish Nation, and mond's repeated announcements that in · Buckingha:m Palace, where the Eng- Home Rule was an accomplished fact, lish Privy Council had opened war on the and nnally the ,Wooden bridge declaration I~ish Volunteers, thefr defiance was effec- decla~ing that the · Irish Volunteers had tively suppo!'ted. "a double quty " - the duty to wl;iich * * * they were pledged and the duty of serving In the meantime the Irish Nation, not- the pledge-breaking Government. This withstanding all the open bullying and was the breaking point . The Irish private wirepuliing, adopted the Irish Volunteers shoo)>: themselves free from Volunteer policy, and corps of Volunteers controlled control and from dominated sprang up in every district. The Irish · domination.

Party ·leaders were now subjected to a * * * fresh turn of the screw.

They must Thei.r first Convention marked the beeither master or disrupt the Volunteer g.inning of a new period of development Jn arming, in movement. A secret circular was sent in -their organisation. through the country, instructing local training,' and - in discipline, they bent politicians how to get control of the local their backs to the task, and they have Volunteer Committees. I have copy of never ceased to progress. ~ The extra-

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5 ordinary events of the Sh_arp Cu;ve policy cast the majority of the . people into temporary confusion, but the truth has stood out more clearly every day, and the Irish people have recovered their grasp of the national si tua +ion . The forces of Whig~ o·ery einero-in o- from the hidin!l.'-place· S in .to b ' b b ~ which first Parnell and Biggar and afterwards the Irish Ireland movement had driven them, thought that the time was come again for them to fake charge of ·Ireland. It was only a soft day in the beginning of winter for them .· '.,['hey have heel). buzzing around like blueb~ttle aies in the sunshine, and the frost is .;oming on them once more . *

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The pledged and pledge-broken _Government escaped from its difficulties in Ireland hut not from its dishonoured, by com:Uitting suicide .; and now thnse. wh9 hunoon the skirts are trembling with 0 alarm lest a simila1; end may come upon the unpledged Coalition ! * * * Intimidation, open and secret, has been used all through the ·past twelve months to break down the Irish Volunteers.

Again Mr. Redmond has been put under compulsion and forced to become an aider and abettor of the old iniquity . There is not. a shadow of difference between either the poli'Cy or the methods practised. by Dublin Castle against the Irish ,V:-Olunteers and · the policy and methods ·pr~c::" tised against the I~ish land-reformers, but Mr. Redmond is now a suppo!"ter of Dublin Castle and a guest at ·the Vice~ regal Lodge and a qef ender of their policy and their methods, on what pretext?

On the pretext that England has kept faith with him and with Ireland! * * * 'l'he second Convention of tb.e Irish Volunteers was mar"ked by discipline, . order, restraint, unbroken fi:nilness {lll_d unity of pur_pose and cheerful comrade·- ~ · ship . · When the agenda was gone through, the delegates, awaiting the result of the electio:q., spent half an hour singing the songs of Iri~h nationality. * * Government intimidation is our certifi~ cate of sincerity. Private intimid,ation is another · matter.

The cowardly private employers who are trying to penalise poor . men and drive them out of the Irish Volunteers · may know that a -record of their infamous conduct will be kept for · the time when the Irish N ~ticm will have the power of constituted judgment in its own hands . * * * The Castle has not been slow . to take its cue from- the suggestions conveyed through the "New York W9rld.''-~ Al- _~ £red Monahan was arrested fnr disobeying a deportation order, he being engS.:g~d as j an Irish Volunteer organiser in Ulster. ·· In accordanc'e w~th the sugg~stion,s.. CO:Q.- .-, veyed, a.Ild to avoid the appearance of

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THE UUSH VOLUNTEER, repeating · the· "senseless prosecutions" for- refusing to be deported, the Castle changed its hand and brought Alfred Monahan from Cavan to be tried in Belfast for a.n alleged speech, " proved " by testimony 0£ the Crossma.glen variety.

He was sent to jail in Belfast for three months, as a warning to Sir Edward Carson · against encouraging "illegalities . which are not crimes." Similar tactics were adopted in the case 0£ Desmond Fitzgerald.

Having disregarded a deportation order, he was tried on the ch'.lrge 0£ having made a speech obnoxious to the " De.fence 0£ the ·Realm " five wee.ks pr·eviously.

As he had not committed the crime 0£ organising Irish Volunteer~ i_n1 Ulster, he was not dragged across half the country to be made an example 0£ in Belfast, but . wa-s tried in Bray, where he was arre-sted and where his . offence ;:i.gainst Dublin Castle was committed .

One · of the m~gistrates quoted the '' New York World '' int.erview in delivering sentence.

Eorn 1.fac NEILL

Saturday, November 6, 1915.

written, and would soon be published .

During the winter the Dublin Brigade had undergone special practice tr~.in­ in.g , and in the · summer Volunteers from all Ireland had received instruction in the camps . 'l'he Director of Arms reported that in spite of · all opposition, the Volunteers were steadily arming themselves .

The ma.in difficulty lay in awakening the com- . panies to the imperative necessity bf taking up ·a,t a reasonable price every arm that became available. Every Volunteer, he said, m~st be arme<!, and armed immediately.

The Quartermaster reported that a large number of tents had been manufactured at Headquarters, and ·had been found very suc.cess£ul at the camps. They were also available for sale to Volunteers.

Military equipment had also ~een manufactured at Heaslquarters . .The Director of Communications reported that numerous lines of communication between Dublin and the provinces had been established.

A number of amendments were introduced into the Constitution dealing with 19 Herbert Park, the n.u mber of members on Central E:x;eDublin, 28th Oct, 1915. cutive and similar matters. The declaraHEAOQUARTERS STAFF REt"ORT. tion of Policy adopted by the last ConveTo the Editor.

Commandant Plunkett reported on the . tion was reaffirmed wl.thout alteration~- It Sm-I have a. crow to pluck ·w ith your formation of the Headquarters Staff of printer. In ,your issue .o f last week he seven m.em:bers, each in . control of a de~ : is as follows : at.trib,u ted to , me the · words _ 'f:l- h.a.d paitment; who would presently give their'' DEC LARA T 10 N OF POLIC~V OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS. - ._;. wrote/' and this week he makes me say: own individual reports.

"The men 0£ '98 repi·esented the victims · 1.

To main:tairi the right and- duty pf The Director of Organisation reported 0£ patriotism, decency, honesty, etc ." I that a special s9heme of organisation had the Irish Nation henceforw_ard to provide can only sµppose that he considers that I been drawn up to suit the particular needs .for its o·wn defe nce by me-ans of a. pershould extend my hostility to England of the Volunteers, which had been fol- manent armed and trained Volunteer to the . extent 0£ making war upon the lowed with su.ccess. Its object was to Fo rce1, English language, and changed the word combine· :flexibility with cohesion. The 2. To- unite th.e people o,f lreiland on "virtues" into "victims." the basis 0 f Irish nationality and a organisation of the smaller units was I rely upon- you to admonish your almost complete; that of the larger units. mon national inteirest; to ·maintain the. printer, and enable me to preserve ~hat was progressing satisfactorily. To keep integrity of the nation and to resist with shreds 0£ reputation the Garrisdn have the work of · organisation going visits of all our stre,ngth any measures tending to allowed me to reta.in.-Your obedient inspection were necessary, and the Direc- bring about or pe1rpertuate1disunfon, or the servant, tor had personally visite.d the better o'r - partitio·n1 o,f our coun:try.

A. NEWMAN. · 3. To resist any attempt to fo.rce the ga.nised districts, while the Headquarters men of lrelCJ,nd into military service under _ - - -.·:·--Organisers had been . working in all any Government until a . free National parts 0£ the country, and this work was THE CONVl:NTION, Governmenit is empowered by the Irish going on undeterred by the periodical im(Con·tin;ued from page 3.) people them~elves to deal with it. prisonments of indi.;idual organisers.

4. To. secure the abolitio.n o·f the syste1m become due without making any The appointment of officers and the o,f governing lreiland throµgh Dublin call upon Volunteer funds.

It is to maintenance of discipline were other be hoped that during the coming year An branch.es of this department's work. Dublin Castle and the Br'itish military Cumari.n Cosanta will be spread through~ Breaches 0£ _discipline were of extremely power, and the ·establishment of a Natio1nal Government in its place. out the whole Volunt_eer movement, as it rare occurrence. will introduce a financial solidarity that Motions dealing with the institution of In the sub-department of recruiting would enable the movement to come prac- the wo~k · divided itself into the a system of examinat1on for officers, pro- tically unaffected through any regime of strengthening of existing units, the vision '0£ arms, organisation, communicacoercion that may be instituted: formation 0£ new units, and the enrol- tions, and, finance were dealt with. ment . of individuals and small groups .

Professor Eoin Mac Neill was unaniTHE IRISH ..VOLUNTEER AUXIRecruiting literature, window cards, etc., mously re-elected President of the Irish LIARY. had been circulated, and recruiting: bodies Volunteers, and the following . were Recently the CE;ntral Execp.tive ~,ecided established. elected members af the Central ExecuThe Direct_pr 0£ Training reported that tive ~-O 'Rahilly, Bulmer Hobson, P. K SUBSCRIPTION.'-THE lRISH VOLUNTEER will a special scheme 0£ training adapted to Pearse, Sean MacDiarmada, E. Geaunt, J. be posted free _to any address for one year at a the needs of the Volunteers had been pub- Fitzgibbon, T MacDonagh, Seumas cost of 6/6; for half a year, 3/3; for the quarter, 1/8. . lished, and where it was followed had O'Connor, J. J. · O"Connell, Liam Mellows Cheques and Postals should be ·crossed and proved a success. A drill-book had been and Joseph Plunkett. . made payable to the Manager, lRxs:a: VOLUNTEER. to start an Irish Volunteer Auxiliary organisation to meet the wishes 0£ many people who for various_ reasons were unable to join an Irish Volunteer Corps and take part in training. The members 0£ the Auxiliary pay an annual subscription to the Irish Volunteers, and are expected to become ;nmed and to learn to shoot.

The extension 0£ the Auxiliary throughout the country would add greatly to the strength 0£ the movement. ,..

The Treasurer (O'Ra.hilly) presented ·t.ls report on the finances, together with the audited balance-sheet report and ce·r tificate 0£ Messrs ~ J. H. Reynolds and Co., auditors. The Treasurer's report and balance-sheet were considered in detail by a Committee 0£ the Convention, and thei'r report to the general body express~d complete satisfaction with the financial state 0£ the movement.

Repo_rts were read from the Headquarters Sta:f!, the Director 0£ Milita.ry Organisation, Di.rector 0£ Recruiting, Dii;ector 0£ Training, Qua.rtermaster, Director 0£ Communications, and Director 0£ Arms. The following is a summary of their reports :-

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Connttdt> nc. :Sc.et>1lse- S11e.c.t le1se.c.ct:,.

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Miss E. MacHugh

7/11 /' 15- The Celtic Colonization of Ireland. eo!n m.i.c ne1tt.

21 /11 /' 15-The l.a st King of Tara and his Times. cu ut.i.u.

5/12!'15- The English Invasion of 1167. .o.11 ~ 6 :S111o1'.>t.i. .

12/12/'15-The Battle of Aughrim. c.i.pi:. 6 ·con.i.•U .

9/1/' 16-The Celtic Social Sy•tem in Ireland . eom rr .i.c ne1tL · 23/ 1/'16-The Council of Drumoeat. cu ut.i.'6.

6/ Z/'~6-Tbe Bruce Invasion . .O.ri: 6 5111oot.i..

13/2/ 16-The Battle of Kinsale. . c.i.oi:. 6 Con.i.1tL • ' 20/2/' 16-Celtic and Irish Law and its Administration. eoln m.i.c ne1U. 5/3/' Hi-'The Leinster Tribute. cu ut.i.u .

19/3/'16-Ireland and the Spanish Armada. .0.11i: 6 :sr5oot.i..

26/3/16-The Battle of Benburb. c,.pc. 6 Con.i.1U. 2/4/'16-Irish Military Organisation. eo1n m.i.c ne1u. _ 16/4/'1 6- Irish Schools. - Cu ut.i.'6. _ 30/4/'16-Fifty Years of Irish History (1840-1890).

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The annual Convention of Cumann na mBan was held at Volunteer Headquar-· .ters, 2 Dawson Street, Dublin, on Sunday, October, 31st.

Mrs. Wyse Power presided, and there were present 8 members of the outgoing Executive and delegates from the following branches: Ardpatrick, Athenry, Belfast, Ballylanders, Cork, Gastlebar, Dublin (Central Branch), Dublin (Inghinidhe Branch), Dublin (Fairview), Limerick, Liverpool, Lusk, Tralee" Apologies for non-attendance were received from Glas. gow, Dingle., Drumcollogher, Castlegre- .6J1C' 6 'i))lfooi:A. 14/5/'16-Humbert's Campaign. C.i.pi:. 6 Con.i.1U. gory, Westport.

It was decided, on a motion proposed .6.11 f\"0 -Ctto. o by the Central Branch (Dublin), that a President and Vice-President be . ap- VOLUNTEERS! pointed, - and Mrs. Wyse Power and DON'T BE SATISFIED WITH BEING HALF Madam O'Rahilly agreed at the unaniIRISH . mous request of those present to fill these LEARN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE • . positions .

After the Secretaries' and Jo1in the Ce1n1tral·. Bra_n ch, 25 ParneU Sq. · Treasurers' reports had been read and Beginners' Ciasses-Tuesdays Wednesdays Fridays. ' ' adopted, and those motions dealing with and Inter-Classes-Tuesdays and Wednesdays. the constitutions and rules of the organAdvanced Inter-Wednesdays and Fridays.

Advanced-Tuesdays. isation discuss~d, the meeting proceeded Literature-Wednesdays. to the election of an Executive Committee m 'Cit1. 5.:\n 'Ce<1n5c. ! for the following year. The result of the 11. Batt. I. V. election was as follows :-President, Mrs. C. Compa.n1y.

Wyse Power-; Vice-President, Madam O'Rahilly.

Committee : Miss Bloxham, Mrs . T. Clarke,, Miss Gavan ,Duffy, Miss ACCOMPANIED BY A SHORT ADDRESS BY EOIN MAC NEIL.L, MacMahon, Miss MacSwiney, Miss P. Will be. held in Plunkett, Madam O'Rahilly, Miss M. 41 PARNELL SQUARE, Ryan, Miss Trench, Miss Tuohy, Miss M. Oni Sunday, 14th November, 1915. · J. Walsh .

Commencing at 8 p.m .

The Convention sat until 5.30, and d.iscussed many motions re organisation of Tickets, Gd., 1s., and 2s., to be had at 41 Parnell Square and at aH 1. V. Drill Halls: the movement. Few questions of policy came up- for debate, as the objects and fo,r the Defe:nce o·f Ireland Fund. principles of Cuniann na mBan have not ABBEY THEATJU:, DUBLIN. cbanged and require no re-affirm~tion .

P. J. BOURKE'S No. 1 Co. OF IRISH 'i'lie_ following message (in irish and PLAYERS, English) was proposed to be sent to the lncltld·1ng ·the Celebrated Miss Peggy .Courtney Irish Volunteer Convention, then sittjng, , and Miss Kitty Carr!ckford 'and was unanimously agreed upon:- Pr~ s ent;S for ~he fi rst time on any stage a new

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Before the Convention was ended, the following reply was received and read with acclamation :" bec.nnu1sec.nn Corin'J<i1L Pe1nne p.&1L Cum.&nn ti.c. mb.c.n 1 .c.:i::;ur 1ri suroe n.c. femne, s o h-e111eoc.c.1u le Cumc.nn n.c. mbc.n t, .c.n.c.ril.c.mt: 'Oe'n ob.c.111 .c.c.& 1'011' l'1ril .~1~ .C.CC. 1 scomp&Cl'CB.lC.6.f le f111nn.c.11'.> f .&1l."

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by Carl Hardebeck.

irish Volun,teers should support

'Phone 2495

CITY CLUB CICARETTES.

JAMES LENNON

10 for 4d.

TRY THEM.

P.

Coilw~y

Ulster's Leading Nationalist Bookseller and Newsagent.

-

& Co.

Castle Street and Chapel Lane, BELFAST.

TOBACCONISTS,

31 Exchequer Street and 10a Au!1gler Street.

Establis~ed

Ev~ryon~

should read "The Jail .Journal," "New Irela'n d," "Speeches , from· the Dock," 1/- each; by pos·t , 1/2.

AU National Publications Stocked.

Prayer Eooks and' Objects of Devotion at lowest prices.

VISITORS TO BELFAST SHOULD IN·S PECT OUR STOCK.

1894.

J :O HN DALY'S BAKERIES,

26 WILLIAM STREET

McCULLOUGH MUSICAL- WARE HOUSE,

AND

.SARSFIELD STitEET, LIMERICK.

8 HOWARD STREET, BELFAST.

TREASON ! ····

It is treason !or Iris~men to buy the Foreign Article and neglect Irish Industries.

LOUCHLIN'S IRISH OUTFITTINC is better than the Foreign Shirts, Hosiery, Glove~ Braces, Hats, Caps, Boots, etc., etc.

ALL 1RISH. • Fajr Prices.

IRISH OUTFITTING HEADQUARTERS. 19 Parliament Street, DUBLIN. · 1ot-Scot n.6 muriMn 1 1lmn 6 sCu.6n.6c':

_ __

ASK FOR

Watches that vary.

LARKIN'S

·n.

Saturday,. November 6, 1915.

TH-E IRISH VOLUNTEER.

· 1915 - -

Ring Irish College

If you want to learn IrishIf you want to get a thorough grip of the Language in the shortest possible timeIf you want a happy, healthy holiday

All Classes of Feeding Stuffs Stocked.

CAELS-Where ·to get your . News, Stationery, Cigarettes, General Fancy Goods, etc ., etc.

o

DO YOU FEEL WE·AK, .DEPRESSl;.D, or RUN DOWN'?

CAHILL'S AIWMATIC QUININE AND IRON TONIC will tone, you up, steady your nerves, improve your appetite, enrich your blopd. For summer lassitude, for .

Neuralgia, try a bottle ls. ana 2s. i postage 4d.

Made 01;ily by ARTHUR J. C.a.HILL The National Chemist, 82A Lower Dorset Street, Dublin .

TELEPHONE 222.

JOHNA.O'CONNELL

if you want Dry Feet and Pe,rfect Fit -TRY -

Sculptor

RING is Your Pl ace. . TEACHERS. VERY SPECIAL Ring is the best place attention is given to for Teachers.

Its conversation. Beginners Teaching methods are have a special tutor renowned. always with them.

SPLENDID ACCOMMODATION.

Fad1a·i11

35 LOWER DORSET STREET.

LAHEEN,

115 Emme,t Road, I nchfoore, 22 Stoneyba1 tte1r and 23 Bishop $treet.

KiN<; STKttT, CORK•

REPAIRS Neatly Executed at MODERATE CHARGES.

MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, -Etc.

\

J. J .. WALSH, T.C.

" Everything that is not Irish must be Foreign."

ROSPECTUS ON APPLICATION TO

· p.6.D1l<\15 0 CO.'Qto., RING, DUNGARVAN, CO. WATERFORD.

GLEESON' & Co.

(OF CORK), . begs to intimate to his numerous Yoluntee:r friends that he has opened a magnificent Tobacco, / Chocolate, Sweets, and , News Emporium in Dublin at the corner of Blessington a-nd Berkeley St.r eets.

Irish . goods a ·' speciality,

IRrsoHNE~ 008

.

we are an excllisively "IRISH FIRM" employing only IRISH LABOUR. All garments made to order in our own workshops. EX-TENSIVE STOCK to select from, bought for CASH from best IRISH MANUFACTURERS. _

SUITS, 42s

Irish Volunteer Tailo·rs and Drape,rs, 11 UPPER O'CONNELL S-T ., DUBLIN.

VOLUNTEER~! Send your Shlrts, Collar,s, &c.

TO THE

WATERPROOF COVERS, SACKS,

NATIONAL

For Sale or Hire on Best Terms.

to 84s.

~~~~:·~~~s=~ CftSH TAILORING

SurTs AND UNIFORMS CLE.A.NED and PRESSED 1N Two DAYS.

COLEMAN'S, 25, 26, 27 CHANCERY STR EE

r

lr·ish Made Shirts, Caps, Pop.Un: Ties, Collars, Hosiery, etc.

(Ba.ck of Four Courts), DU BL IN.

THE BEST VALUE FOR CASH IN LIMERICK·.

USE

"Green Cross Night Lights." . MADE ·IN IRELAND •.

LAVNDRY,

60 $quth Williaim Street, DUBLIN.

TENT COVERINC, etc.

CO.

(John Neligan, Manager), 4 CAPEL STREET, DUBLrn, and 50 Upper George's Street, Kingstown.

~OOTMAKER

p.6.un.0.15 6 n-.o.ttrhun.6.m, Draper,

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10 WILLIAM STREET, LIMERICI.<. ·

Printed for the Proprietors at Mahon's. Printing Works, Dublin, and _published at the Vo!unteer Headquarters, 2 Dawson Street, D:ublm..