f!1 Sat.urday, March
Vol. 1. No.6.
in anticipation fir~~ tme , carryng their
_ have -ren.lised, then Ireland
out their
.ambitions,
Ulster
policies hence
question.
Governments gard
they but
prejudice may
and
the
do helps
treat,
in
ton
now
Tory
tor.
utter
disre-
Ulster to
The Party Game. other
have ignored tests frorn
hand,
the most
past
ignored
English
policy
present
Government
honest
out
that
that
them, in
by
the'
Ireland policy,
have
the
support
From the
great
sent
facts
state
of
presented are
Outpost
made
Home the
Irish
Ulster ...,
armed
consistent Home
gees
w.th
the
! thor
Rule is being
i sired i to
these
to th~t
remains
can dictate majority
out
will
Ulster
II!\~.y he, arms
to the whole country of the
British
of
ever able
the
de-
remains the
o.f the great
army
conciliating playing
Ulster;
the party
not it
§u:ne
ity, in enthusiasm, and in a11 that makes' for a gr~:l.t movement it,. has never been excelled+in
Ireland.
question
is a question
the Xational spirit exists movement has taken root.
town
'behind the
Distinctions
have
'sunk
been
disregarded While
had been
partial
arming
because
how-
of
It
Ireland.
the
necessity
'Of
than
continue
may
have
for
Ulster
as a live
is .proud
but their
enough
the
been
of the limited
achievements
Ireland
to appre·
but the help they brought
was as uns rtisfying
everything
else
that
and as Iimiis done
sections 'Of the Britis.u Parliament with pol' cies .at stake .and the fru sts of office
that
The known;
creed
differences
up Ireland's
army.
it is not shallow
is not
its enthusiasm
blazes
in apathy
that
forth
to-morrow.
to-day
and
Behind
it is
soul.
this
a drill
w.th
it is only
e.rrnestness the
of the men the
trade. city
makes winter
give
back
banners, cessful cial
halI
the
tramp
of
and in the muddy
darkness
country
echo.
agglress:on,
support
no
from
posing
before
the limelight,
of
finanno
no masquerad.
the
National
successor
no
of sue-
magna-tes,
in carr.age
ter the woethv a thousand
promise
English
of
reads
NOo band's,
tho camera,
is to-day
the lights
marching
no 'UJJ!:torlll, no tradition,
ing in teer
the brIlant
music,
same
them-
bend
task of learning
nights the
To
determ ination
men
Under
to
ground.
and
young
selves to the congenial soldiers'
necessary
hall' or a parade
whieb
Volun-
and in charac. of 1he heroes
hard-fought
of
fields.
history
of the
failure their
success
of the
succesf
and of the
movement
was
hard." is well
a. lesson to Sir
land.
who
And!
strlk,e
it
Ere tile Dane
alt Clontarf
01:
the
silence
ill
was ever
the
tasted N orrm.n
strike
ease in Ire.
Irish
Price, Id.
rough, ere Elizabeth's banners we.nt down en a hundred bloody fields, there 'was no talk, no boastin~' of what Irel~d .could do. The "ild Geese "011 stealthy. wing left Connaught , :\I\lnster .and Le:nster for Continental bat.t1~s, left with o.n·, ger in their hearts, with a smile on theirlips, and from Cremona to Fontency ../111'. ' trian and Englishman milt . no blatant boasters. .It has never been the Jrish·, man's wont <to boast, and Ulster's denia: of theirJesson in her reliance on the Eng .. lish methods augurs evilly for her .tight. ~ 'ng prowess. Southern Ireland has been, goaded into rebellon ere now. Those who ,I goaded her paid well the price for boast- i mgs that -were empty then as; now. And to-day the war. : "ricr Celf, the descendants 'Of these men, ' have the same blood in their veins, the same patriotsm in their hEnl'ts. and the same ready rand dexterous hands th.at wrote the bloody history ('of 'D8.
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Colours and Uniforms
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.No doubt Ireland's army wiil arrive at ! the more spectacular stage 'by and by. : One 0'£ theso days. we will lmve the N a· ! tional uniform, in itself a great incentive; to ernthusiasrn and discipline, Bands will, be more numerous .r.fies available for every recruit, and distinctive colours of the various regiments in evidence. These wi.ll tend to make QUI army more in DC. cordancs w.th National sentiments and National history. Looking back upon the! past history' of Ireland, the wealth of col. i Our and of. mu~ic wer~ 11 ptonc;unced ...fea- I ture of Ireln.nd's martial !:fe, Just as the I same colouring ma11k,ed en~ry phase of the social 'Order. Of Iate life in Irela-nd had be. 1 ceme a thing ,0'£ dra'b tints, m.Iita ry pride, I racial cerernonin.l, and. 2]1 the wormth as. I sociated w'.th a normal. happy socia-l; system were ,:.:tbandonen. It W,l.5 poor Ire. land instead of glorious Ireland. Our music wailed when i,t should have leaped forth. in trurnphant paeans. and a mourn. ing garb was over everything. 'Ye had been repressed by force ; forbidden to bear arms like the verest slaves. and in perforce I ehtying that command our minds ceased to be active aud militant. -Ve had to'l bear the oft-repeated sneer that we ,lOP, preached England with a "whine UPQn our lips,", with all manhood dead in u".1
I
Irish Arms for Ireland Ofcourse they saw us different at times. j When the very dregs of OUl" population s WOn Englands battles we got the indirect, credit of still.' more repressions. If the' minority of th.e worst of I'rtland oould in. ; fiuence the. fate of nations -and build the: might of Empire's when drilled, d'sciplined i and armed, surely the majority of 'the . peep~e were unsafe to trust with the arms I that might some day turn against our tcsk. masters. In everv land under the sun and) for every cause Irish bones h.rve bleached' and whitened. But Irsh valour and Irish, sacrifice were denied. to the country that' had paramount claims upon them-Ire. land'.
!
Solidarity To-day we are remedying that. For the " first time in centuries a-n Irish c.tizen army' stn.nds upon the soil of Ireland wi,th!lo I futile 'Outlook for vengeance abroad, wlth, no equally fnUe hope of foreign succour, i but strong in its independence and con,ft.dent in its right. N'O class, no creed i owns Ireland's arillY; no class, no creed I shal! be all owed to use it against another From the meanest to the highest, the citizens of Ireland own Ireland; from the depths 'Of !!he earth below to the skies! above. In the Volunteers facing the com. I mon enemy .and standing for- a common t right, social and political, rlist'nctions are j forgotten, Ireland must first belong to the I people, and then, and not till then, can sweeping social changes be contemplated ..
I
No Boasting "Thes«"
ultimate
and
answered
by
Success and Failure.
of
political
in buildng
deputy.
in England .. Two
and'
a-nd ephemeral,
have
of class and
it is spontaneous,
visit
it v;as not amen-
Ireland
They
elate their worth,
of
nnd village
its appeal.
To realse
Ireland
the
can
were
as
.
Th N ti I S I . e a lona ou.
the National soul and the Volunteer movement is itself the physical expression of
fac.t is that
it had not in it the basis
Of course
to Ireland
liberties
In spontane.
their
no more
in its hands and to the
and
Nation.
may exist along
from
by class and creed,
Pna liament.
a
but
of to-day
great
out.
it is
sinks
rea-l voice
so much
Volunteers.
the rights
Ir.sh
repel
with
in '82 failed
the
its existence,
force.
to
all events,
to deal
down
men ,
of ,permanency
ted
it is
to
at
of the kind
of years
insigneficant
An English Question. .At bottom
sooner
upon
that
tasks, It
will
nebi'e its arnhition.,
achieved
Whe·
have
that an otherw.se with
the
though of its
Determ ination
of the country
section
the outcome
debate
irisl:_l policies
box and constitutionistands
armed
to pre'.
at .any price.
Whatever
section: of Ireland
i
made
effect of propitiating
Parliamentary fact
principle
avowedly
concessions
he seen.
concession
essential
I of Ireland which is ! vent self-government
pre. is re-
Ireland
the
settle
hundreds
without
constitutional
Every
0-0.
to the
see the
Parliumentary
still
the
In the Past. For
struggle
I
to secure
common
men.
Politics. The British
I
but,
destined'
to meet in.
sooner
The other
the ballot
I
called
ambitions.
than
within,
be
ideals and
just
be one
side aggr.essi~n;
City and
iu
and
is operative
differences
own lines.
--<>--
while
in Engla-nd, people
whatever
that
Westminster,
Rule
from
\'01.
perman-
will ~f the
the
function
subordination
of
for their
of their
a higher
Everywhere the Volunteer
cIear:
affairs,
at
achievin.g
Irish
elements
will stand
also
parties.
are
It is )JiJ2'8d upon
might
The Armed Man. Two
ency.
But
just as Ulsters presentattitude cO~11dnet he sustained without the support of one of England';;
to-day,
the dragon's
of the
the
'conceivably
at least
of
all
might
support of the King. 'I'ory opposition in the present game WOUld, ~e w.thout
Ulster
a. victory
has
It has
a
the' passive 1 worthless
of all
thought
sowing
estabhshment
are
are not t:lbove
they.
gain
unteers
for the
the Tory Party
and
this
well
'People,. and
SQne
a nd they
chess-beard,
has check ...mated boasting
suits
1.0, give
in carrying
en the political
for it not for
has
be permanent.
it will be merely
The
in
by drilled
as understood
of Horne Rule,
measure
that
Ireland To-Day.
and. Souch- alike,
It no doubt
is equally
failure
the reasoned
very
f ac-
arid to, Ireland,
cannot
I
pro.,
as they
is supported
and! rifles.
would
verbal
just
North
but that now Ulster men
violent
Ulster
na-
another
teeth.
the Liherals
the Orungernen
with
te Ire-
all.important
a movement
nation
but
the
that
might
game.
On the
\0
CQ~ld
a, lesson
dealing
power .. is, an
its foundation the
the
tl\,rmed, men
The lesson of their
proves
sen-
play
when
that
applicable
tomor-
same
them
Carson-that
if ,:j\;ot dictate , and
land .that
the
is called
Before
Ulster
Edward
for the
an.d achieving
what
have shown their
for Ulster
timent;
not
is a factor
14, 1914
vengeance
t.q_wers flamed
in red ruin. at the slogan, of- Art MacMur-.
i
'.... It
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