The Irish Volunteer - Volume 2 - Number 55

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EDITED· BY EOIN ·MAC NEILL.· Vol. 2.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25th, 1915.

No. 55 (New Series).

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One or two instances of wh_at may be 'called unwise impatience· among Irish .Volunteers have come to my knowledge.

When I advise patience under great evils, it is. not that we should expect our country to go suffering these evils for ever, but rather that through the· patient endeavour and tenacious determination of her. children she ma.y be relieved from her wronO's as speedily. and as completely as 0 pos&ible . Impatient action, ·especially of a detached and sporadic kind, may be a way of relieving this man's or that man's feelinO's o • while delaying our country's deliverance, we do not know for how long.

Now no man has a right to seek relief ' . for his own f,e elings at the expense of ·his country.

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Impatience is sometimes caused by the sio'ht of anti-Irishism flaunting itself m~der license and encouragement in the face of the people. We feei that the cbn, duct of this or that person deserves punishment. What if it does? We are ·not appointed the administrators of either Divine or human justice. While we hate tyranny and injU:stice, let us not fear them. They are working· out their own destruction. Day by day they are educating the Irish people. I£ you or I are stirred to indignation, remember that others who were blinded for a. time are getting their eyes opened by the same facts that are making us indignant.

love our country, her .honour must be sacred to us.

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We have convicted our enemies of trampling upon law and plotting the destruction of order. Law and order and loyalty a.re words which in Ireland and in regard of Ireland have been debased by every charlatan and soiled by all ignoble use . In any true and honest sense, we Irish Volunteers are the defenders of law and order and loyalty.

There is no reason why ;e should be impatient, but rather that we should go forwa.r d confidently . Our conscience is clear.

Our cause is good. Our purpose is unclouded.

Let us fulfil the duty we have taken up, and while we do so, let us be cheerful and lighthearte-U. The happie,st m~~ i:9- Ireland this Christmas should be the men of the Irish Volunteers.

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The anti-conscription meeting in the Mansion House was the greatest public meetinO' the ina.uo held in Dublin since . o'ural meetinO' of the Irish Voluntee-rs two 0 0 years ago. The Irish capital has shown its mind . The two largest halls in the Ma.nsion House were filled · to the last place, and many failed to find.room. The audience, or rather the two audie·nces, were orderly and unanimous. Entrance was absolutely free to all-comers . The · stewards had nothing to do except to find places for the crowd.

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pressure " to bear? I warned employers at the meeting, and I warn them again, not to · be induced to lay the 'foundation for a class war. l£ I wanted to see an implacable feud created between employers and employed, or unemployed, I would regard this economic pressure policy with feelings of exultation.

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Now it turns out that my diagnosis of Dr. Starkie's attack of political fever was quite correct . He caught it from Sir M. Nathan. In reply to Mr. Ginn.ell, the Chief Secretary says on December l3th: "In a communication addressed to the Secretaries to the Commissioners of National Education by the Under Secretary on the 15th June, 1915, attention was called to the fact that the tea(;her referred to," and so on. The egregious Hicks of the Kinsella prosecution set the Castle in motion, the Castle appo{nted Dr. Starkie to do police duty for Hicks, and Dr. Starkie, like Magistrate Drury when invited to intimidate., said "Indeed I will '' and on the l8th June he opened fire 'on the Irish Volunteers !rom behind the secure fortifications of Tyrone House.

Sha~e for the Irish Volunteers to be hostile to a regime in which Dr. Starkie plays such a noble part!

To another question by Mr.- Ginn.ell the Chief Secretary· answered: " The evidence that the Irish Volunteers have • • • endeavoured to foment disloyalty in Ire· It was remarka,ble that. nearly all the land . is voluminous."

Hardly yet so speakers laid most stress on fighting the voluminous as th,e evidence at the Pigott sort of conscription that works by econoCommission, or even as the evidence of mic pressure. Conscription by economic the Crossmaglen Conspiracy. However, • • • pressure is too roundabout a phrase. The Mr. Birrell is progressing, and ma.y ,yet " Omnia honeste et secundum ordinem plain name for it is conscription by starvashow the Irish people once niore the stuff fiant." Let all things be done honour- tion . . That sort of thing is criminal con- · that " our sincere friends " are made of. ;:tbly and in a regular and disciplined spiracy, whoever may be mixed up in His evidence, he tells us, consists in part way. We have many enemies, ~any it. It is a. crime of inexpressible meanof " proceedings against officers and orfactious opponents, many undecided ness. When the Registration Act was ganisers" of the Irish Volunteers . Mr. onlookers. Any act of rash violence under discussion, it was not applied to Devlin will see that "these senseless prowill be used to the great injury Ireland, the Government declaring that secutions" have a meaning a.fter all, and of the national cause.

Especially .all the necessary inforination could be Mr. Redmond will figure as a mainstay should ~e guard ourselves against mak- obtained in Ireland through official cha.nof a Government in Ireland for the supinO' enemies of our own people, and all nels. Th~t being so, what is the meanpression of Irish liberty. th: people of Ireland are our own people. ing of applying- to employers to give· the • • • Nothing can be .for Ireland's a.dvan~age same information in d-µplicate, if it is not For the first time in history, Irel~nd that is not for Ireland's hon,,,1r. l£ we to induce e~ployers to bring "economic has prodl,leed an Anti-pope.. The Rev.

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Dr. O'Doherty, 0.0 ., has laid down the duty :of Catholics "to be true to Holy Church." . The vast majority of his £el_low-priests in Dublin and throughout Ireland have no intention of taking their duty from the teaching of th~ new Anti• • • . pope.

I have no acquaintance with this new Doctor of the Church, but I was once well acquainted with Canon O'Leary, of Dingle, and regret to see a ·report of a. meeting in Dingle 9ver which he presided. The meeting was nominally held for the purpose of Recruitment, but no recruits are . reported, . and the Press account shows that the proceedings were a carnival of vituperation of '. the Irish Vol un tee.r s.

Kerry, like Dublin, . will bring in its verdict in due time.

The Canon declared that the object of the meeting was to keep the Huns and the Turks out of Ireland . · I · have never heard that the Turks took any special interest in I reland beyond sending a large sum of money to relieve the Irish Fa.mine of 1847, when the· people of Kerry were dying like flies, and when the Govern. ment that brought about the Famine. was helping to deprive the country of food.

Of course that was very long ago, and the British statesmen of our time acre not the ruthless scoundrels of seventy years ago.

was on the othe·r side. '.'Yes, if Myles the Slasher, Robert Emmet, WoTfe Tone, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald were that day alive they would be on this platform helping under the Very ~ev. and distinguished Chairman to procure their help. to go and strike a blow for Ireland's sake a:r;i.d the cause of justice.'' He said· the " Sinn Feiners passed a resolution congratulating Germany on what they called a glorious achievement,'' the' sinking of the Lusitania. He said, "Remember that Ireland is now a new Ireland, restitution has been made for the wrongs done us in the past, and the teachings of our Holy Faith is to forgive as we . should wish to be forgiven, espeoi·a lly where restitution is made."

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Saturday, December 25th, 1915.

General Gough, of C~rragh fame, has got it into ' the newspapers that he ·now has " a bodyguard of Sii;i.n · Feiners and Fenians." I am beginning to get jealous -of these Sinn Feiners, they see~ to be anne.x ing everybody and everything . The London "Times" says they have · annexe~ the Gaelic League. · Now they have surrounded General 'Gough. I suspect that the twisters and time-servers ·are succeeding in making everybody believe that Sinn Feiner me~ns any Irishman who has the courage and.h~nesty to stand up in any degree for the olg ideals 0£ · Ireland a Nation.

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Mr. T. O'Donnell, M.P., spoke next.

"He was more than pleased that they had the Very Rev. Cha.irman with them We have re~eived ~ v~ry satisfactory there that day." Mr. O'Donnell then report from Liverpool this week.

The completed the process of boxing the com- branch is strong and doing good work. pass in. Irish politics. The once out-and- The members are quite assiduous in their outer denounced Desmond Fitzzgera.ld, labours, and attend First Aid, Signalling, now undergoing six months' · imprison- and Drill .Glasses with punctuality.

A ment, and Ernest Blythe, who was re- Ceilidh Mor will be held on December cently in prison. Yet we have been told 27th, and it is hoped it will be a great that the leader who sent Mr. O'Donnell success : to the meeting and the Party of which Good · reports h,ave ·also come in from Mr . O'Donnell is a member passed a reso- the br:anches 'in Tullamore, Athlone, and lution condemning the action of the Go- Tra.lee.

• • • Encouraged by Canon O'Leary's pre- vernment in imprisoping Ernest Blythe.

NOTES· ON TRAININC OF AMBUL· sence in the chair, one Mr. Denis Reidy, we ' can now understand why no notice ANCE DETACHME.NTS. · o.£ Castleisland, declared that Mr. R ed- was t aken of ,t he Party " protest " or of mond had won Home Rule, and that Mr. Devlin's protest against the "senseINDOOR'. those who disagreed with him were less prosecutions." Canon O'Leary, of 1. First Aid Orr Home Nursing Lecture. ·"cowards, humbugs, and little black- Dingle, was all• this• time •in the cha.ir.

This being essential for $~retC'.h~r Squads, guards,'' moreover; that they were Mr. O'Donnell, M.P., went a stage . branches should use every effort to get :" ·c owards who disrespected their religion, farther, farther even than the recruit- the services of a doctor or qualified nurse ,their country, a.n d their race," and conmg sergeant-major, and named the to' lecture them . Practice with triangu.eluded with an eloquent pei:oration "callman who ·should "soon be turned )ar and roller bandages and splinting ing upon all right-thinking Irishmen to out" of employment .

Mr. O'Don- should take place once a week. A lecture stand by those who had won them their nell is having his time . He knows sho_uld be arra.nged for on the use of the liberty, to ex.tend their . support to those well that. he is now a representa- · usual dressings and antiseptics (lint., cotwho were giving their blood to maintain tive of "the lmpe~".ial Parliament in Kerry ton wool, g'auze, iodine, lead lotion, etc.). that liberty, and to ignore the cranks, the at £400 a year, and that he is no longer Squad members who ha.ve any opportuhumbugs, and the bulavaun bakes." 'l'he doct-0r or nurse· in a representative of Kerry in the Imperial nity . of assisting result of this advice was that the Dingle Parliament. He told the audience that dressing wounds, burns, etc. (or even of people l.gnored Mr. Reidy and his. fellow"a load of miserv and misfortune had looking on at such work) are strongly orators. been lifted frorh that district during the. advised to make the most of the chances; • • past ten years,'' but he had the grace to as more can be learned by this way in a Sergea.nt-Major O'Rahilly, of the Consay that this was done "with the help of few minutes than can be got out of books naught Rangers·; spoke next. He said agitation."

The Dingle people are not in as many hours. that Egan O'Rahilly was his proud anThey know that the fight for the · 2; Se1ction1 Drfll by Irish Volunteers. fools, cestor, and was a nephew of Myles the land was fought, not by truckling or This has been found very usefo.l from the Slasher, who died for Ireland at the fawning or flunkeying, but by the sufferpoint of view of discipline, and a.t the .

Bridge of Finea. He said that the young . ings and sacrifices of the people, before same time is interesting work . It should men who would not listen to him '' were and during the time when Mr. O'Donnell be followed

by Physical Drill 'a nd Se,ma• hypnotised and ca.rried away from the was as yet " a servant of the Crown," · pho re1 S' i gnaliin· q · 'I.'ests in Semaphore path · of their fathers by ingenious indilike the man he now publicly denounces c should be held aft~r a few months (20 viduals for the lucre of lusty gold." 'l'he to starvation.. "\Ve are now," he deletters per minute, in the form of a mesCanon continued to preside.

"Their clared, "a free nation, a self-governing sage · sent, and oirn received).

Those leaders are employed in Government depeople!"

No cheers are reported at this who pass the test may proceed ·to Mo. rse partments, but they would soon be point.

Is it possible that the audience, Coder,' turned out· of those departments," Stretohe r· Dr'ill should be practised and the recruiting offi'cer then pro- like the cranks, humbugs and cowards, denounced under the patronage of Canon weekly if possible . Instructions for drill ceeded to mark down a · man for O'Leary of Dingle, had their own doubts with 6 are to be fo-qrid in the Fianna Sir Matthew Nathan's fire·. He said the about ' being members of a free nation Handbook and St. Patrick's First Aid '' Sinn Feiners '' were on the side of the and a self-governing people? .. .

Manua:L Dark Demon, and the Angel of Liberty

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THE IRISH VOLUNTEER.

A .MILITARY CAUSERIE

POETICAL TIPS. An interesting document has lately come into my hands, in the shape of a newspaper cutting giving tips for soldiers in doggerel verse. They are the product of the brain of a British officer, but many of them will be df us'e to Volunteers, who could easily commh them to. memory. l therefore quote the more important itemsJ occasionally taking the liberty of improving the metre, which is often execrable.

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My first excerpt repeats one of the dogmata which I have been steadily driving home in lectures this long time : "Care there should. be, if your life you'd preserve, Ammunition, food, men, keep a bit in Reserve.''

And immediately afterwards the author adds a word or two on waste in general: "Don't waste any food, and throw nothing away, ' Or perhaps you'll go hungry the very next day.

Each bit of dry wood.or of coal that you pass, Just carry to camp, or a bit of dry grass.

For lighting a .·fire, some fat or some grease Is a ~onderflif help, and it lights them with ease."

Next year,'s campers, .please note.

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A bit of moralising follows, to give a rhyme to the sound medical advice that comes after it: · "Have patience. All things will come right in a bit, .

And the first thing to do is tb ~eep your· self fit."

How? We had a lecture on this subject in the · VOLUNTEER recently. Now that we are backed up by a competent milita.r y authority we ~efer you to -· again.

"Just keep your mouth shut, and don't talk when at work. l£ everyone's talking a lot of them shirk." · QUite so. A ·valuable lesson this, and one which all Volunteers should. appre~ ciate. If the Volunteers have any faults, one of thep:i is to stand about gossiping when they might be doing useful work.

Of course they never talk when actually on parade! ·

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Two essential rules and some useful · knowledge follow: "Keep rifles quite clean, and yourself too, as well, Or the poisonous wound a sad story may tell.

Let pencil and paper be part of .your kit i' You'll find that a great many uses they fit.

Messages written, not verbal, should be, Or mistakes might occur, and then

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, No ordt:;r's correct, I must here clearly state, Unless it is signed, with the time, place, and date."

Keep that last couplet buzzing in your head next time you go into action, and you will be saved many a wild goose chase.

Slovenliness in the framing of messages and orders must never· be overlooked on manoeuvres, or it may h~ve disastrous results some day on the· battlefield. l£ a ve'1'bal message has to be given let it be as short as possible, and make the messenger repeat it before despatching him. But better not give any if you can possibly avoid it.

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The contents of .i nnumerable articles in the VoLUNTEER is summed up and concentrated in the next few lines: "Resolve on a march that you'll never fall out. ~t's · the best marching side that will win without doubt.

So soap well your socks, and keep clean your feet, Don't smoke, and don't drink, and you'll never be beat."

It was probably the exigencies of the metre that made the last line so te·r se and so drastic. Our poet could hardly expect to command an army of total abstainers, but of course it is perfectly true that the less you smoke and drink the better you'll . march,-and the more money you'll- have to spend on munitions.

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Now for the steel : "The finish with bayonets, within,

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Sings our Britisher: "White flags, or surrenders, well, those, . . we don't use them ; Be ca;reful; the enemy's apt to abuse them."

Of course the first of these lines is ridicul- . ous l?_ombast. Surrenders are of constant occuvrence on all sides in all wars. We commend the second line to the notice of Volunteers.

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Now a word to marksmen : "At shooting you now must quite 'vonderful be, But don't fire a shot if the foe you can't see.

Just take a good aim, and you may get the bull, But up to the last keep your magazine full.

Quick :firing's 'important, but no use a bit To fire twenty rounds and nobody hit."

We vrnuld ·specia1ly direct attention to the fourth line of this ~xtract .

The ,magazine is for use in e4tremity, in a tight corner, when there's no time to load. Under ordinary circumstances the cut-off should be closea and careful single shots fired. Volunteers should above all things be taught not to waste ammunition.

Every bullet we have must be made to hit someone. The last couplet in the a hove enshrines one . of those . obvious rules which it never occurs to anyone -to obey. We would like to make · it recur for ever m the head of every Volunteer. *

' 1'is the first point ,that counts, if it only gets in."

And in the lonely watches of the night let the sentry remember: '' Unless you are sure that a man is a friend 1 Mind you· don't let him pass, or it II).ay be your end ."

No leniency, remember.

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The poem ends a la plain blunt soldier: " Expect to get through, and just hope for the · best, You just pull the trigger, and luck does the rest.

You only can die as a brave soldier can, l£ you don't, then you live, and thank ' God you're a man. l£ it's peace or it's war the end is the same, .

And it don't matter much if you're playing the game." .

There you have it,-the true philosophy of cannon-fodder.

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CENERAL COUNCIL. 1'he first meeting of the newly-elected General Council of the Irish Volunteers was held at Headq~arters on Sunday, 19th De.c ember. Eoin Mac Neill presided, and representatives from Dublin, Kilkenny City, Belfast, Limerick City, Limerick County, Louth, King's County, and GalwaYi were present, while apologies were received from the representa-· tives of Kilkenny County, Tipperary, Tyrone, Kerry, Cork City, Cork County, Derry City, and Wexford.

Much business was transacted dealing with the :finances, equipment, training, and organisation of the Irish Volunteers.

A number o.f training centres for Volun·· teer officers were arranged. \

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To be given by Cumann Michil Ui Dhuibhir- in the Club Rooms, Merchant's Quay, on SATURDAY, 1st JAN·UA.RY, . 1916.

This will be a genuine Irish Night.

TICKETS Double, 3s,; · Single 2s.

A - DANCE will be held at SWORDS, (Carnegie Library),

On New Year's Night trenches

At 8 p.m. sharp.

TICKE'T~Double1

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• THE iRiSl-i VOLUNTEER. GA.ELS! Remember an Irish Irelander when you want New or Secondhand fypewriters, Duplicators, Stencil~ Stencil Ink, Rib·bons, varbons, Papers, etc.

Any make of Typewriter Repaired.

Saturday, December 25th, 1915 .

. ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS (lrish- from all pa.rts of the country it mounts American Alliance)-Drawing for Rifle has been postpol)."ed until Monday, 10th J anuary, ·1916. · up to a. considerable figure, and one which Ali Blocks and Unsold Tickets to be returned would enable Headquarters to thoroughly £'o the SecretarY, 28 North Frederick Street, organise and train corps in all parts of Dublin, on or before Saturday, 8th January.

Ireland.

Do the Company officers realise that THE FOLEY TYPEWRITER TRADING CO., 58a HARCOURT STREET, DUBLIN. when they neglect affiliations they ham" Telephone U7Y. Reis :~hambers, DUBLIN. (Proprietor, H. C. Watsen), per the worli; of the Irish Volunteers? · Telephone, 1848.

Send it To-day, or .'twill Fade' Away. · They prevent Headqu_arters froni · doing High-class Family Work.

The FRANCO PORTRAIT STUDIOS Winners of Silver Medal for Fancy · Ironing necessary work a.nd from giving much(nf.LP.P:A.) .

Work, and Diploma for. Shirts and Collars needed training to the ·corps. The corps at Manchester Laundry Exhibition, 1913.

Copy or Enlarge any old .or faded fhoto need more instructors, a.nd Headquarter-s in any style-" Black and White,'' Post Paid one way on orders of 2/6.

"Sepia," Water Colours, or in oils, For Collars and Shirts only .. lias to find the mean_s as well as the men. at Moderate Prices.

If affiliations were regularly paid by all 111 GRAFTON ST. 39 MARY ST. 35 TALBOT ST. · 40 HARRINGTON ST. the corps this would be easy . When the WRITE i:oR PRICE LIST. II CT. CEORCE'S STREET, CORK. 'Company officers neglect affiliations it is very difficult. .

Call write to JOH,N JENNINGS, Proprietor. · Re·f erring to this matter at the last All kinds of Household FurnitureConvention the President of the Irish Irish Manufacture.

FOR Volunteers said:-" With regard to the . coming year, the main point that I wish TO~ACCO, CONFECTIONERY, NEWS DUBLIN COLLECE OF MODERN to impress on you is the maintenance of .

N ewsparcel: IRISH "Nationality," "Spark,'' "'Vorker's Republic," a thorough discipline, not merel~ in the "Volunteer,'' and "Hibernian,'' 20 KILDARE STREET. stricter sense of carrying out orders on Post free, 6d weekly. each occasion, but iil the wider sense of Smart Hairdressing Saloon attached. maintaining the general order.

Every Full range of Irish Books, Pamphlets and Badges. company should fulfil its own place in the Session Opens September 23rd.

Xmas Tobacco and Cigarette Parcels from 2s. organisation . :rhis depends, in the first Enquiries promptly attended to.

Fee for Teachers 5/· instance, on affiliation maintained with5<1et>1t 1r e<1t> rinn -ne Fee for Non-Teachers out neglect. Affiliation involves the .paylr nf n".&11' tinn e. . :µient of a fee at stated times to the ' Give us a trial order for FRESH IRiSH OATSyllabus from Registrar, 20 Kildare Street.

MEA~, MACROOM OATMEAL; TEAS, from "'Central Treasury. · The fees are not 2/4 to 3/·. Sent Post free, large, a.n.d will not be irkson;ie unless they . ~acCU. RTAIN BROS., A.11 literary eommunications . for the are allo:ved to. fall into .arrears, and to let 52·54 SH ANDON ST. AND 40 THOMAS DAVIS IRrsH VoLUNTEER should be addressed in them fall into arrears is not consistent .

ST., CORK. future to ;<: ' with ' discipline.

In regard . to expen"f·,;' .'' .

VOLUNTE~R HEADQUARTER~ diture, it should be the guiding principle 2 Dawson Street, DUBLIN. that the regular income from a-ffiliation A.11 communications re Advertisements fees should _ d efray the regular expenses to be addressed to the 53 J~. RVIS STREET, DUBLIN, IRISH PRESS BUREAU; of organisation a.nd administration. and 30 ' Lower Al)bey Street, DUBLIN. FOB, training, and that no part of these expenses should fall upon funds available SUCARS, TEAS. for other purposes. Unless your regulaThe tions 'upon. the payment of affiliation fees lri~h ~ade Sweets Special Value.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25th, 1915. are observed in a disciplinary spirit, this principle cannot be observ~d, and we get Shops only suppiied. into the very undesirable position of inakO ll;S ing ,up for neglect by waste."

The view that affiliations are a matter of necessary discipline should be acted Wholesale and Reita:i l upon by every officer- it is as much a The question of affiliations is one that POR·K BUTCHERS AND SAUSACE pa.rt of his duty as the training and equip·does not a.rouse any enthusiasm among MAKERS. ment of his men . The officers should the corps of Irish Volunteers throughout also remember ·that the ability of Hea.d26 Capel Stl'eet, Dublin the country. It is none the less a. matter <J:uarters to give them the training that of considera.b le impor,tance.' The ComTRIPE, TROTTERS, COWHEEL, AND ·they need must always depend_ upon the pany officers often regard the sending of SAUSAGES FRESH DAILY. :financial resoul'.ces which they place at affiliations to Headquarters as merely a Brawn, Collard Head, Brazed Beef, always in the .disposal of the Headquarters Staff . vexatious ·forma1ity that may be dis" .,

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Four Plays at the Irish Theatre.

The Irish Theatre, Hardwicke Street, will produce every night next week _a nd on Saturday Matinee four Plays :, t>.o.1bre _nu.o.u by p.i.ur.o.1c 6 con.o.1re (In Irish)

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The Phoenix on the Roof., by Eimar O'Duffy. .

The Swan Song, by Anton 'rchekoff,

And a riew Comedy in one act by ~ ohn McDonagh, entitled Author 1 Author I

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pensed with when they are busy, a.nd one which is obtruded on their notice by ' the General Secretary with an unnecessary frequency. The sooner this notion is dropped the. be~ter for the Irish Volunteers.

The affiliations of the Companies a.re the only financial call that has so far been made upon the rank and file by Headquarters, and if the amount is collected regularly it is absurdly small.

Nevertheless, when it comes iii regularly

- --··:·- - SPECIAL COURSE : OF TRAIN INC FOR SENIOR . OF.FICERS (ALL IRELAND).

There will be. a special course of tra.{ning a.t Headquarters for senior. officers ·during the week J a.nuacy 15th to 21st. Every organised Battalion in the country should send at least one officer fo the class .

N anies to be reported before.

January 12th to the Director ofTraining.

Saturday, December 25th, 1915.

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others in course of formation. The majority of the Companies are, grouped into three Battalions, but outside the Battalion · areas numerous Companies a.n d Scouting Sections eiist.

Training is being keenly carried on throughout the Brigade district, and 'the Brigade may be rega.rded as well armed .

The Central Executive of the Irish Voluntee.rs met at Headquarters on. Wednesday evening, the 15th inst., Commandant P. H . Pea.rse in the chair.

A large amount of business arising out of the .usual reports was dealt with.

The Director of Organisation made a special report on the Galway Brigade, Recruits am still wanted for several which was i:·egarded as highly sa.tisfacCompanies of the Dublin Brigade. Every tory . Tlie Brigade comprises three oreffort should be ma.de to bring every ganised Battalions, together with numerCompany up to full strength: ous Companies not yet grouped into BatThe Companies meet at the following talions, the total number of active Comhalls:· panies being thirty-six . Training is beBATT. I. ing carried on· vigorously, and practic~lly Companies.

A. Monday, 8 p .m., Colmcille Hall, all the men a.re armed .

Blackhall Street.

The Secretary reported that enrolment B . Monday 8 p.m., 41 Parnell Square . forms to be used by organisers or centres C. Thursda.y, 8 p .m., 41 Pa.rnell Sq . of the Volunteers' Auxiliary were ready D . Saturday, 8 p .m., Colmcille Hall, for distribution . · Blackhall ·Street. _ The General Council met on Sunday, F .

Thursday, 8 p.m ., 25 Parnell Sq . the 19th inst., Professor Eoin Mac Neill, G. Wednesday, 8 p.m ., Colmcille President, in the chair.

A discussion took place on finance, and Hall, Blackhall Street.

BATT. II . it was decided to create proper machinery B .

Tuesday, 8 p.m.', i<'ather Mathew for the regular colle'c tion -of the ComPark, Fairview. panies' ~:ffiliation fees, the responsibility C. Wednesday, 8 p .m., 25 Parnell Sq. to be . placed on ,Brigade Councils or D. Sunday morning, 11 a.m., Father County Boards where such exist. It was also agree~ ~ place a sp~ci(ll levy of six- Mathew Park, Fairview.

E. Wednesday; , B ·p.m., Fatber Matpence per man on all Companies -for Headhew Park, Fairview: · quarters purposes.

F. Thursday, 8 p.m., Father Mathew Headquartern, 2 Dawson Street, Park, Fairview. · Dublin, 19th December, 1915 .

G. Tuesday, 8 ·p.m., Lamh ·Dearg Hall, Gl~snevin.

BATT. III. 111 tionalists. Volunteers who are in possesA . Monday, 8 p.m., Camden Row. f.

11:11 ~ion of_ the . facts of a~y .s~ch case should B. T'u esday, 8 p .m., Camden Row and .

Immediately commumcate them to the Great Brunswick 'Street. proper persons at Headquarters. . .

C. Thursday, 8 p.m., Camden Row. THE ANTI-CONSCRIPTION DEMON ~ THE AUXILIARY. D. Thursday, 8 p.m., Thorncastle STRATION. - Forms for the enrolment 0£ members Street, Ringsend.

As far as the Irish Volunteers are con- of the A~xiliary can now be had from E .

Wednesday, 8 p .m ., Cullenswood cerned, there was no need for the mar- the General Secretary. The forms conHouse, Oakley Road. vellous demonstration of Tuesday week tain spaces for ten names, and ~ach en·BATT IV. last. Friends and foes know that they roller of ten will be regarded as an orA .

Monday, 8 p.m., La.r kfield, Kimstand pledged as a military organisation ganiser or centre of the Auxiliary, and mage. to resist conscription.

The demonstra- will be expected to collect and forward B. Tuesday, 8 p .m., Larkfield, Kimtio~ was valuable, however, in showing, the su'b scriptions of his ten members. mage. with a plainness that no man can gainsay, The subscriptions will be received in C. Thursday, 8 p.m., Larkfield, Kimthat the democracy of Dublin stands be- monthly instalments of sixpence. This mage. hind the Irish Volunteers . . Any attempt essentially democratic scheme should D . Friday, 8 p.m ., Lark:field, Kimto enforce conscription by Act of British bring into the Auxiliary all the sympathmage .

Parliament will be resisted to the blood isers with the Irish Volunteers who canE. Monday, 8 p.m., Rathfarnham. by the men and women. of Dublin. not for the moment come into the fighting F. Monday and Thursday, 8 p.m., HUNCER-SCRIPTION. line. Those who are in a position to get Emmet H·all, Inchicore.

In the meantime the other form of Con- recruits for the Auxiliary should step a llaght and Clondalkin.

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T' scription is in our midst. Men are being forward at once . driven into the army against their will THE CALWAY BRIGADE. Note-Corps throughout Ireland should by a cruel form of oppression. exercised The Galway Brigade. stands nt·xt to send a note of the times and places of by employers a.t the behest of the British the Cork Brigade in point of actual size. their weekly parades for Publication.Government. There is only one way to From the nature of its district, it is per- Ed . I.V.) . fight this. Proof of such· action. on the haps a more homogeneous and definitely Classes at Headquarters suspended part of any firm must be followed by a organised military b~dy. It has thirty- - from December 23rd to January 2nd, mrigid boycott of that firm by Irish Na- SIX Companies in active being, with clusive.

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day took place at Thomastown, in which all four counties took part._..}etachi:nents from Bagnalstown, Ross, and w aterford co-operating with the various Kilkenny Co!J1panies. This was a most inst:r:uctive lesson in the matter of concentrating scattered ·units. · There is still a lack of thorough inter-communication, but small in-

are flocking to the standard of the Irish V olunt eers, and within the last three weeks over a dozen separate corps have been newly formed.

COUNTY GALWAY.

All over County Galwa;y the various corps are working ha.rd, and a good many sections in the more remote districts have been recently started. In addition a series of officers·' classes have been started in two or three centresr and have been very well attended, many or the ~en coming long distances to be present.

AN INTERESTINC INCIDENT. On Friday night, the 10th inst., during inter-battalion manoeuvres in Dublin, a sentry group consisting of three men found itself isolated at Portobello Bridge.

Some drunken soldiery attracted a crowd by using bad language towards the men.

Soon a. large number had assembled con-_ sist{ng mainly of soldiers, whose attitude was distinctly menacing. Police of va.r ious ranks arrived and questioned the Volunteers, asking them their names and bl'tsiness th.e re; to which they refused to reply, stating they w~re "on duty."

A Police Inspector asked a Volunteer what would happen in case of a breach of the peace.

"If you regard us as ci vil{ans' '' was the reply' '' it is your duty to protect us. If you reg·ard us as military, we can deal with the situation ourselves." A fine answer and worthy of record .

A policeman who hustled. one of. the men found himself instantly at the end of a bayonet. Guns were then loaded,

GREAT MEETING AT MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN.

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The IRISH VOLUNTEER went to press too early last week to give a report of the great .A.ntiConscription Meeting which was held in the Mansio"n House, Dublin, on Tuesda;y, 14th December.

Eoin Mac Neill occupied the chair, and in the course of his speech deait at length with the · statements recently made by the English Chief Secretary. The speaker· gave the lie direct to the statements made by Mr. Birr,all in the English House of Commons against the Irish Volunteers. .

P. H. Pearse said: That if any man loved the English Empire let him go and · fi~ht for the Empil'e, but that the men of Ire1and would never submit to be conscripted.

Rev. Father Connolly, Ballinasloe; Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington, Bulmer Hobson, James Connolly Arthur Griffith, and T. ]'.arren (President of the Dublin Trades Council), also addressed the meeting and dealt with every phase of the subject. · The Round Room of the Mansion House was packed with people, and a large and equally enthusiastic overflow meeting was held outside.

The meeting was a free and open one to t)ie citizens of Dublin, and there was not a dissentient voice when the Chairman put the only IRISH VOLUNTEER ST.A.LL AT .A.ON.A.CH NA NODL.A.G, DUBLIN DEC. 9th to 18th. resolution which was submitted at the close of the proceedings-namely, "We won't h~ve Conscription."

This was declared earned termediate corps are being worked up, which in aJld a passing Section Commander stepped course of a little while will supply this defiamidst a scene of intense enthusiasm.

At this point a ciency-and there is good reason to hope that in and took charge. the South-East will presently rival the South- soldier called on the "PortobeUo men" THE SOUTH·EAST. West: to form Another called . on the The South-Eastern· corner of the country is PROGRESS IN ATHLONE. comin" on in good style: this district comprises "Beggar's Bush men." The Commandant, The Athlone Corps has been growing steadily the C~unties of Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford, cycling home, arrived as the ·warriors and Wexford. Corps have been forming latterly stronger of late, and many new recruits have at the rate of about one per week, which is come in within the last fortnight. This corps formed up, to hear another soldier cry, fair 11' satisfactory ; and this rate is . likely to is becoming thoroughly proficient ~n both drill contmue.

In addition the already . existing and field work, and the progress that has been . " Any of Larkin' s men here? Two can corps are steadily. recruiting; up. The best im- made within tne last few months is very satisplay at this game. If Carson's men call · provement of all is that evmced. by Waterford factory. Something more, however, might be arm, I don't see why we.·can't." Before City Corps, which now musters twice its done towards the surrounding country. stren"th of some months back, has a good this significant counter~stroke had time WEST LIMERICK. stand~rd of training, and is proceeding with the to develop' the Commandant, . taking in 'w est County Limerick has been recently task of arming itself. .A. similar story is that of Kilkenny; while both gi>:e a. lot of attention visited by an organiser from Headquarter.s, and the 'situation, marched off the squad and to working up the country d1stncts around. On the result has been a very large number of dismissed t.hem. ' Sunday,' 12th December, a very notewon.iy field· new corps. All over the county the young men

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DUTIES OF SCOUTS. A volunteer army for the purposes of. national defence may n·ow be regarded as succeed in his work.

In addition to the usual s·ubjects (i.e., a perma,n ent institution- in this country.

It may be assumed that the shaping 'of ' m~sketry drill, physical culture, ' signalthis army into an effective military force ling, first aid), the Director of Tra.ining will be carried out on much the same has se·t the following course in scoutba.sis of organisation, and more or less mg:on the same system of training as the 1. Observation. Know how to observe.

Volunteers of the present day.

T'r aining the eyes and ea.rs.

One of the greatest difficulties which 2. Map reading. How to make 3; will present itself to Volunteer officers is rough sketch. the training of scouts. I am told that 3. Reports. What to report on, and .the scouting a.t Volunteer manoeuvres is how to make a report. extremely . bad. In fact there has ·been 4. U seiof ground. · How to move about little or no real scouting, for the simple and see without being seen. reason that there are no trained scouts in 5. How to judge distance accurately the Volunteers. A highly-trained scout a.n d estimate num,bers correctly. does not learn his multifarious duties in a ' 6. Tracking. How to form sound confew months; it takes him years of con- clusions from signs. tinuous study and practice.

7. Pathfinding. How to guide youtIn my opinion, boys between fourteen self by compass, by the sun, or by t~e and twenty years of age, with a few stars. years' training will make far better 8. Self-reliance, confidence, initiative, scouts than men-even with twice as and resourcefulness. much training. In the first place, the Before concluding this article I would boy's eyesight is, as a rule, much better like to explain that these _notes are inthan the man's; his powers of observation tended for the training of mounted (cycle) keener; and he possesses niore initiative, ·scouts as distinct from · " ground" or courage, and imagination than the aver- "company" scouts. These la.tter usually operate nea;r the force to which they age man.

The Fianna has, 'therefore, great pos- belong. . The duties of the company sibilities in supplying the national army scouts are:with efficient scquts. The· Dublin Bat1. Locate obstacles to the advance. talion has already seriously set itself to 2. To select the best line of advance. this ilnportant work. I hope other cen3. Report the direction in which the tres will follow its ~xample . enemy is in. position or is advancing.

The duties of 'the scout are, to put it 4. Protection. briefly, to get' information about the Any intelligent infantry man can be enemy and to find the means of communi- trained in these duties in a comparatively cating such information to the com- short time. The more extended reconmander of liis force. This latter is often naissance and scouting proper are carried the most difficult to accomplish.

The out by the highly-~rained scout. When nature and extent of his information will I use the term scout in these notes it will depend upon the instructions he receives be understood that I refer to the · from his commander before going out; "mounted" sco1it and not the "comand .its value will depend on circum- pany '' scout. sta:qc:es . The success of the scout in getFrom week to week I will deal with ting information and in communicating each of these subjects in the order given such information to his commander' may above. If there are any points not quite be the means of securing a grea.t .victOry clear to my readers, or if there is any adfor his side or perhaps in averting a ditional information fuey would like me crusb)ng defeat. to add, I would be glad if they would To some boys scouting may appea.r to communicate with me to this office. be as easy as falling off a log; but believe PADRAIC O'RIAIN. me, the fellow who/ thinks this I would not trust to scout for butter for the breakfast table, for as like as not he would fetch you the cheese.

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