\
Saturday,
Vol. I. No. 13. thou' of
COUQ!r,,'s hopes.
Ireland
them , no bond
!!euerollS" ideal'
)\0
'a Xation
is being
set before
of brotherhood
to make
them stand shoulder to s.'1~ulder w.th the manhood of the other .pr.:)v]l1ces to uphold Irish rights. Set in the midst of a pro-
vince that has given to Ireland of hero-martyrs being
to Irish
taught
their
to look
I
they
the
anticipated
~
poetry
•
trallv
iu the
she iags
Irish
behind,
maiued
.
Act of Union, on the blindly,
From the Outpost
she
I
of
to meet
the Ulster
week
past,
brave
and
doings
in Ulster
all Ireland
this
training
was interested
the
that
Ulster
could
recruit!
induce
to inhale
the
the
What
enthusiasm
sturdy
Northerner
feverishly
tions for war! cover of night,
The mobilisation, under the rendezvous guarded
with
silent,
rifles,
hundreds
the
of men,
coastguard must blood.
have
station fired
that
Volunteer,
and
survives
amongst
bright
almost
contents brown
ness-like
I
everything
Orange stunk
changes,
Lodges
the
now- fighting
of alien,
that
nostrils
I
II
the fact
change
back
And with
what
handled the rlfles,
ago
old O?:·
that
each
of the stocks,
and
felt
long
The enemies
thinking ca5~s,
the blue,
the
.goes
busi-
ding itself
'Yhat a pity it all is to think mcnhood,
of Ulster
to resist
is being
of rifles.
the
trained
the consummation
of
in
a very
Ulstermen
laugh
l for
I
The
the importation
successive
that
of the British
Empire,
their
was only
rule
proclamation of arms
foolsh
andj
that
England
natural
a hankerinll:
after
that
Ulster
rifles
and
the
of every Lays down
But
reason that
sel:.
the generous
impulse
SOCl·
movement.
The
procu~ing
anyhow
should
it
have
e:et them
in
and
of the and
that
its ostenta-
now
been
possible
surely
.aken to mean that more or less afraid.
the not a
impossible
and its
ment
is marching
from the drill hall streets God's unteers
are
echoing
own sunshine is
waving
Volunteer
along. and
must
done alive
longer
the
the
breach
i
Kiobe
:
but a free and worthy! sustained
by
the! !
I
for
as
at Clontarf, Kern
Limerick
Ireland
she calls
as su rely as .8rian
man
and
needed
I
its
has caught
Into the Breach. soldiers
Shane
and
Galloglass, defenders
I
needed , Hugb
as surely
I
as ;
or as tho Pike.
'
.rnen call-ed in '98, The motto is "b-e prepared." What has happened yesterday: when
I·
heart
has
of the Volunteers,
arms
the Act of Union to-day
is happening diers
are
was
when
un willing
or
passed,
what
England's
sol.
unable
to enforce
1
i .
the laws made by ita own Parliament may well happen to-morrow, . and our hardly won rights be menaced by new
d:lngers. donf
Let
force
move-
tile
coward
him into the
in their
stand
movement.
\\"hen
you hear
nnteer
when
it's necessary
as you"
know
Out
weakling
or worse,
in
of the Volclose
veins will join the ranks
now.
and the
century
enduro
flame
right
needed
I
that
and
barrack
its
the;
for the
made
Ireland
be no
tramp.
the banner after
for
He is no usc in time of peace and a dan- ; ger in times of strife. But the men with
It has come out
the
.to' its
arm
has
keep
the nations
red blood Irish
I
generous:
p~otected
I
aside,
The Flag of the Volunteers . the
f
to do heroic
the
of all that must
it til! every
We
I strong
to
the Government is The Iacts of the situ .
its operation unwarrantable.
fan
Into
advising
IS
and
amongst
But tha: the proclamavalueless
suffered
for every
way .and to get tbem
without
heirs
and
sister
rea).1y does
It is quite
the;
unity
and tbe.heart that
is
as long as this
men
nerved
for Ireland,
glow.
is concerned.
proclamation
has
of Ireland
of
Every
led
:
to see and I
act are in
and
I
of the prison 0011 sweet and the felons
are the
is so much
stood in the
Meanwhile
to
!
I
"keeping" holy have to-day a channel of . f success are ac tiJon w h ose POS51ibil! I rnes 0 t th bef Th dl grea er an ever ore, e prou y historic nationality that has withstood the .. persecutions of centuries and unconquerable by gold or steel held upon' its way is active again in Ireland, and we who
by
authonsed· the of, that reason
and as in our
of Ireland
vision
in it,
has
that
ance
suffi-
added
that
scaffold
had not,
gel a-.r:s if fifty proclamations
ation prove
are
battlefields
of a g~m~ ,of bluff,
G~overnme~t should ha\~e p,oclamat~on not a vestige now remains.
existence
vitality
deeds,
will
had
with
'
potentialities
emotion
the proclamation
fact,
The
is so we are irresistible~
bas
much.
tho brawn
sol.
paper as far as Ulster
matter
and
and
the
and
imbued
took up arms arms remain
I
the
into' being
of Ireland
men a taste
melodramatic
scroll,
a £act w.ben
sprang
the manhood
in the 'movement.
the prepara-
and the rest of Ireland
,i"'n is absolutely
I
movement
emblematic
was
finer parts of the
part
IS
t~
for 'It
regard
while
at the smashing
good behaviour,
forbid.
must
light
too
its
Volunteer
Tho brain
in
'-." son why it should. remain in force and , tile present time its existence is only
they are neither few nor weak. will scarcely fail to profit by the expert manner in which Ulster has landed her car.
the
Ulster
the
was
itself
and g?od
fOl.k believe
wor id of the
The Line of the Rifle.
feel.
me
in
a Nation."
For the Cause.
If there was ever any reason why a .friendly
not
nions.
Ulster
been
Ulster
'upon
but making
Of c: u rse the
to up.
that .
I
The Proclamation.
brotherhood.
to their
arms
waste
the
a century
of the
that
time it was said that Ulster
cient
in its I Another
perhaps
without
that comes to the hands of an Ulster VI' 0 unteer mcreases the real strength of ~1 ter ' . . Uls er S posiuon. As Professor Kettle pointed out some weeks ago the proclamation should have 'been raised because at
I
by the.
hands the destiny of our country is as. sured, Upon the banner of the Volunteers rre Ian d' s fate f itt d h .. a e IS wn en an W 0 trails It I I .. li f or ewers It, rewntes or erases one ine 0 ....._ . 'I f hieh "t st d 1 , ,">c pIln<:lp es or W I J an sowers I I d t th ti .re an amongs e na ron s,
~Iuff It may be as far as the political stage concerned but behind it all eyery rifle
So
things
"Ireland when
is
the
The day
"Gold
discipline
bit
some
,and waited
and
who are
in the
may in time
barrel.
as soldiers
nut
hold the Act of Union
up,
The Pity of it A I( young
a.nd armed
a
.secrecy
not be so far .. away.
drIled
IS
tious
come to strike a blow for Ireland, that it seems almost humorous to fuel that an= armed Ire~and of today is iI. Constitutional one,
barracks!
the
were,
depend,
.woTk.. Indeed
guns
. that
will be luckier
a pity
for
l~ake
man
and
its folds
and every manly .
warfare
the passion of liherty lon.g as the freeman's
-"
to h~\'e
is gi"ing
I diers
into the alembic. of the quicker
ings they must have of the
police
tions
and:
the word that ".'OUM nave set tne country .:!blaze: so often eager hearts waited tho sicnal fire to tell them that the hour had e
m,"!rch of
of holding
the last remnant
Celtic temperament. tenderness'
~:ealthy
the thrill
may
by its
crisis.
is
the
w:th:
herself,
is to thwart
the Fenians
often Ireland
prepara-
poetical
Ulster
than
of waiting
in the happenings. It was like the days of '67, only then it was Ireland was get. ting .trained in the same way that 'C lster i!s so strenuously engaged in pursuing now. What a glamour {here must be oyer it all for
aggression
It
compelled
a capacity
cyents,;
Vlaiting the Word. But perhaps
were
all
Volunteers
her first motive aspirations.
asserting
of Ireland
good.
ally and otherwise
. .., Eng-land Nationalist Ireland ~ must regret the oause tha-t has led tc hostiliti r , fi hti ll,lCS, an d tlna ·t v;-hilleu ",'trs er is ,g ll)g
Enzland ~ ational
is
has
may remark, with regard to the d~nations that have helped to procure the rifles for
denial would
trained
By
will catch
float above mimic
bright"
pity is not alms" says the poet and "gold • ,." for party purposes IS not patriotism, we
t:~is. matter,
. agamst
rifles
i'-:ster
in tho present
the Korth.
reo
somewhat
at
to be aggressive
Oetting the Guns. There
but
and
sabre
abro~.d than
with the rest
lS all to the
not
of the
and out of step with the
Ireland,
perhaps
if and wben
I
is going
phase,
is prepared
force,
-<>--
i
Fenian
perhaps,
remainder
the passing
to self-reli ance : she
the
I
emotiono lly
Ju'st now she is be'ng
road
thrcuzh
vanguard,
since
cause,
..
mid- -Ithat
and her imagination
stagnant
other oneness
and
Irishmen
Added Weight.
If L'Ister is indus-
ascendant.
more
I
itself,
standard.
breezes
nobler
"::,!iusket brown
would
was trampled in the dust, victory and all it stood Ior , or death and England's star in the
It
as a new' Anyhow the rifles are coming into the there was ',oountrY~ coming in by the th.ousand and
of war
on its
mountain
war.
tactics
night rpar'incrs with wives and loved ones, • 0 hard fought fields where England's power
stili
to own one is not an Irishman,
have lured
The Blindness of Ulster. caress such a pretty weaoon • • rifle. Mayhap too like the Fenians
furled
a
heart in Ireland will he . bound by. invisible ; tres to lis staff. RIfles will guard.it.and the soldier sons of Ireland read higher and I
I its Uusterrnan
with
'breaking throug~ the eyes of .the as the proverb has It, and the Inishmans, nature is to love the weapons of
to the old 0'Pp1·es;Qr. any
an
The man who has once'
a rifle and is not smitten
i cat,
are
motherland.
Price, l d.
i is nature
thousands
liberty,
by' hook or crook. handled desire
I
May 2, 19:4
that
it said
he and
"I
will voL,
and be as good who' says worthy
your contempt. Bu t manhood Rally round the fia::-.
it is only
a
i
of ,
of Ireland,