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Vol. I. L I.t)i> tuAint t)ei|teAt) postiiAiji 26 a T), 1914,

Monday, October 26th, 1914.Leit-pi3itiru

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IRISH VOLUNTEERSFIRS! CONVENTIONTHUSLSM AND UNANlMTY

it!o.H OF AIERICA DECLARES FOR THE 1ISH VOLUNTEERS.

/The First Conlntion of Irish Volunteers w/held in

he Abbey Theare, Dublin, yesterday, Mr. Mac 'jeill, Chairmariof the Provisional Commpe, pre­

siding. y t el^en o ’clock about 160 debates had assembled, a laie number of whom wore hiform.

LIST OF D E L E G A T E S ."he following imembers of the ProviP^al Com-

Initee were prelelit:— Eoin MacNeill, Uayathghaille, I f f . Pe a j ' s a , MacDermott, M. J Judge, T.

Tfe, L. Mellows, e following is the list of delegates/11 the corps

^represented:—iis Smyth, Magherafelt, Derry; Scpas O ’Briain,

BalhveAmjfe Westmeath; Dr. Crowld Ballycastle, Mayo Micli^H Cahill. Foynes, Lherick; James Carrol, Horwiq, ^Lancashire; D. Denjhy, Bathmore, Berry Thom asM Byrne, Anglesboraldmerick; Sean 0 Cia|hain, B Iff yf err iter, Kerry; J*nes M ‘Elvogue, T)onagiimore, rJy -one; F. Thorntoi Liverpool; P. Bavin, Coy. B., fManchester; Jamef Dalton, Coy. A, Limerick; >1. .P Coleret, Coy. B,Limerick; James Ledden Coy. (ByjLimerick; J. A. Lehane, Coy. D,

,limerick; B. m )^Connor, C oy /E , Limerick; M. M’ Geourii, Inagjjo Clare'; J. Twomf, Millstreet, Cork; L C ’No.an, Com A, 1st BatL, Dvolin; Captain Daly, Coy- B, 1st Bamf-, Dublin; Lieut.Dolan, Coy. C., 1st -BatL, Dublin; W illia m Murnane/Coy. D, ist Batt., Duolin; John M p h oldiee, Coy. % 1st Batt., Dublin; Lieut. Awrighggf Coy. G, 1st Bitt., Dublin; M. J. Staines, Coy. jjfe , 1st Batt., Duliin; P. J. Nolan, Coy. A, 2nd Batt., /-^Dublin; Captain Hunter, Coy. B , 2nd Batt., D ib lic p M . O ’Hanrahai, Coy. C, 2nd Batt.,

.Id n ; CaptaJ f T. Markham, Coy. E, 2nd Batt., Llblin; (npt:ij a W . W . 0 ’Kelly, Coy. F, 2nd Batt., Jfbl in ; J i 1 Kelly, Coy. G, 2nd Batt., Dublin; D.

lrPhy, Coy f ff, 2nd Batt., Lublin; Captain Sheehan, /'* A, 3rBBI Dublin; lieutenant M. Byan, Coy.3rd Bat!, flMDublin; Micheal O Maol Eoin', Coy. C,

t Batt., lul^Blin; S. 0 Murchadha, Coy. A, 4th Batt.,. Cosgrave, Coy. B , 4th Batt., Dublin; y, Coy. C, 4th Batt., Dublin; Dan y. D, 4th Batt., Dublin; E . J. Kelly, Bah*, Dublin; Cathal O Dubhghaiil,

rim; John Manning, Kiltormer, Galway; 'ewjuort, Mayo; John Boonev, Athenry, tain De Valera, D. Coy., 5th Batt., ph Ward, Kiltullagh, Galway; Patrick

Lor, Cavan; John Smith, Larah, Cavan; fter, G Coy., Manchester; J. V.

Iiblin; W jm M X atl Carthy,

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Kilroy [alwaw; Q luffin; Jnan. T)i*

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y Dublin; W . J. B . Whitmore- * ’’Wexford; C. Breslhi, 1st Batt.,;, Carthy, South London; Joseph ; 1 ladon; J. J. Keegan, Bathfarnham,

-ybl, Kilmallock, Limerick; J. Fitz- \°.Q u een ’s County; Patrick Creagh, \ k Maurice O ’Connell, Carrickerry, ^ A‘Cabe, Keash, Sligo; Thomas

yl Clare; E. O ’Dwyer, Lower Kil- Mieheal 0 Foghlu, Ballyroan,

i \ W? b) Maille, Leenane, Galway; ** Galway; Michael Booney,

toyralway; Patrick Byrne, Bath-

Ematras, Monaghan; M. Sheehan, North London; Pierce MbCann, Dualla, Tipperary ; Daniel O ’Mahony, Castleisland, Kerry; J. Brown, Cordal, Kerry; Sean O ’Sullivan, Coy. A, Cork; P. Barrett, Coy. 33, Cork; Patrick Cotter, Coy. C, Cork; A. Welden, Coy. D, Cork; T. MacSuibhne, Coy. E , Cork; T. MacCurtain, Coy. F, Cork; Liam Seartain, Coy. G, Cork; D. Faisit, Coy. H ., Cork; J. Murphy, Newcastle, Galway; M. O ’Beilly, Castletara, Cavan; Sean Franklin, Manches­ter D. C oy .; M. McMahon, Tralee A. Coy., Kerry; Aus­tin Stack, Tralee B. Co., Kerry; E . O ’Connor, Tralee C. Coy., Kerry; M. J. O ’Connor, Tralee D. Coy., Kerry; James Curran, Sion Mills, Tyrone; — Lowe, Manchester A. Coy; J. K . Etchingham, Gorey, Wex- ford; P. Hughes, Dundalk; Sean MacCormack, Drum- raney, W estm eath; J. Hanify, Kilconeiran, Galway; P. Daly, Dollymount, Dublin; — Byrne, Galbally, Tipperary; P. Donnelly, Cooley, Louth; P. Mehin, Athlone, W estm eath; J. Herbert, Castleconnell, Lime­rick; Art O ’Connor, Celbridge, Kildare; J. P. Hickey, A.S. Corps, Dublin; — Monteith; Creaslough, Donegal; Major MacBride, Wrestport, M ayo; John Carroll, Hos­pital, Limerick; Sean O ’Connor, Edenderry; King’s C o.; D. Walsh, Mitchelstown, Cork; W . J. Derham, Skerries, Dublin; F. Lawless, Swords, Dublin; P. S. Doyle, Inchicore (1), Dublin; W; O ’Gorman, Inchicore (2), Dublin; S. Farrelly, Grocers, Dublin: A. Heron, Derrydonnell, Galway; P. Bracken, Tullamore; S. MacCarthy, New Boss; W . Walsh, Waterford; W . Sears, Irish Volunteer ” ; — Newman, Newbridge, Co. Derry; S. Sinead, Wexford; J. Murphy, .New Boss (2), Liam Cooke, Bathdangan, Wicklow; W . Magill, Dunmore, Galway; Thos. Kilgariff, Milltown, Galway.

C H A IR M A N 'S S T A T E M E N T .Mr. Eoin MacNeill, who was received with loud

cheers, made the following statement:—About a year ago the first steps were taken to set

afoot the Irish Volunteer organisation, and a Pro­visional Committee was formed in Dublin for that purpose. This Committee was brought together by what I may call a process of mutual invitation. Every, possible effort was made to secure a personnel as widely representative of National opinion as possible I myself came to the Committee a supporter of Mr. Bedmond and the Irish Party in the execution of their electoral mandate to secure Home Buie for Ireland. It was not to be expected that Mr. Bedmond would make himself responsible for so great an experiment in the direction of a forward move. W e hoped at least for neutrality on his part and no discouragement, but we found it almost impossible to induce recognised public supporters of Mr. Bedmdnd to join our number. This should be remembered in view of the charge that our Committee consisted of men hostile to Mr. Bed­mond ’s party and policy.

A few of the original Committee have recently joined the new Committee formed by Mr. Bedmond. These men can testify that not a single act or word of hostility to the Irish Party or its policy found a place in the whole proceedings of the original Committee. Even when Mr. Bedmond’s assent to the Ulster exclusion proposal of the Government v fc forced from him in last March, neither the Commifflee nor any member of it proposed to take action, although exclusion would raise a very acute difficulty for the Irish Volunteer organisation.

On November 25th, a mass meeting held in Dublin adopted with enthusiasm the project of a Volunteer organisation, set forth in the Committee’s manifesto. TheenDsMment of the Dublin Volunteers began at that meeting, a ^ d immediately afterwards the enrolled rpen we7e divided rSPni^kroughout the city.

acter, and that the enrolment should proceed strictly on the basis of locality, avoiding all party and sectional divisions.

The Provisional Committee bound itself by resolu­tion at one of its earliest meetings that all money received by public subscription or private donation should be expended on the purchase of arms and ammunition for the Volunteers and in ncu other way The Committee has faithfully adhered to this resolution until the present day.

In spite of every discouragement, private and public, the Volunteer movement made rapid headway in all parts of Ireland, and it soon became plain that those who discouraged Volunteering and flouted the project, only proved their own want of unity with the spirit and instinct of the Irish nation, and their incapacity to understand or interpret the national mind.

I now turn to the question of the Government’s attitude towards the Irish Volunteers, for I have not the least doubt that the secret hostility of the Govern­ment is at the root of certain later developments.

No sooner did it become known that a serious move­ment was on foot to establish a national defence force for Ireland, than the Government launched its double Proclamation against the importation of arms. The Government had placed no obstacle in the wav arming the Unionist Volunteers during the two pre­vious years, though the Unionist movement was an open threat against Home Buie to which the Govern­ment was pledged, and professed to be faithfully pledged.

I now ask did the Government consult their Irish allies, as everyone must expect, upon this remarkable departure in their Irish policy? If they did, what was the response?

I made a vigorous public protest against the Procla­mation. I pointed out that it was a return to arbitrary measures specially directed against Ireland, in other words, to coercion, bv a Government that pretended to disavow coercion and to forward Irish autonomy. The Proclamation was partly successful. It did not pre­vent the importation of arms by the Unionists. The Government plainly connived at the landing of arms in the neighbourhood of Belfast. But the Proclama­tion discouraged the subscription of money to buy arms for the Irish Volunteers. During six months, the entire income of the Provisional Committee for all pur­poses was about £1,200.

The Government also employed its detective fore- and even its regular forces to watch and hamper the work of the Volunteer organisation. Our corrvsprud­ence and postal parcels were opened, delayed t.nd f-orue times withheld by the Government. The Government refused to allow us to form rifle clubs for target practice They confiscated all arms coming to us whenever they could seize them, and they also confiscated and stir hold up practice rifles and miniature ammunition, th property of the Irish Volunteers.

The course of events since the beginning of Marchquite explains the whole attitude of the Govern;*towards the Volunteer movement. Having mad?of the Parliament Act, which was of prime imp;to their own party, and having made full usoIrish Party for that purpose, the Governmercally allied itself with the Unionists to coBedmond, and they succeeded. They competo accept the exclusion proposal, and he acron the public understanding that it would Jeagreement between the narties [ nn J ^ i eled to no agreem en L J ^T ^V oTant The illS^ead of keepmg to

their amendment ro-HKTIv, a d o p te d those proposals h'to their pp-uLv, ana again compelled Mr Bedmon

in various halls The initial exp'e

tie Committee. Lfate to superintend The.ity coips. The further

fieadqmrters were born

Les were borne by the members of I G o v e r n m e n t .us<J Mr. E sm on d ’s kov xrroci nn n . purpose, the Inrliarn^at Act.member was told off as a dele-1^ a m e f

drilling^penses

bliKennedy, Tubbercurry, Sligo; of the Dublin Volu

became widespread throf affiiation fees WaJ appo'/ted its members

' county

A O ’Sullivan, Baltimore, Mlogherr iiinerick; D.Man, Bel

and organisation of a T J ^ e w m mrj? N-nsn I arty and their s^nn^-ers, andes of he organisation Bedmond to yield at sta

■10 wee L contributions emphasise the bearing ot a11 this on thethe organisation qUeStion.

country, and a scale Had Mr. R e d n ^ understood and tins e Committee also hood of Ireland, he would never have yi, eetings in various L nd he w o u J(7 h ^ e held the Govemm ut

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IRELAND.MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1914.

to fools that is another matter. The plane i 0 Irishmen to-day is as little in America as it is hn0p or Belgium— it is at home . The Militia B a T ^ can never be enforced in Ireland if the young 0£ the country make up their minds to ignore it yie first instance and resist it actively in the ut£e resort. To enforce the Act in such an event y require the whole British army. When Austin the days beforei Hungary gained its independi attempted to enforce her Militia Ballot Act oi young Hungarians, the young men did not emiw but passively and actively, individually and in grd they opposed it with such success

IRELAND AND IE WAR.SIR ROGER CASEMENU THE DUTY

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Eire ” is teidiol don phaipear so. Ise chialluigh- eann an teidiol son na gur paipear i gcoir muinntire na hEireann e. Ni i gcoir na Sasanach na i gcoir na mBelgeach na i gcoir na bhFranncach do clobhuaileadh e ach i gcoir muinntire na hEireann. Ni i gcoir ein dream a fe leith de mhuinntir na hEireann do sola- thruigheadh an paipear so ach i gcoir gach duine i nEir- imi ata dileas da thir fein— gach duine gur mo leis Eire na ein tir eile ar dhruim an domhain. Taimid bodhar ag daoinibh airithe da aiteamh orainn gurab e ar ndual- gus troid a dheanamh ar son na Sasanach no ar son treibhe eigin eile. Is mithid duinn an fhirinne d-inn- sint agus a radh go lorn direch na fuil ein tir an domhan ag cur curain orainn ach amhain® ar dtir fein— Eire.

is Mithid duinn a radh na fuil deire le hEirinn '”^-eo bhfuil an sean-naisiun ann fos go beo briogh-

agus go bhuil a Ian. daoine arm f os nar gheill n do smacht Shasana agus na geillfidh go deo.

/uma linn caide an tuairim ata ag duine mar gheall chreideamh na mar gheall ar chursaibh poilitidh-

ichta, m a’s fearr leis Eire na ein tir eile no Impreacht eile. An te ata ar thaobh na hEireann cabhrochaimid, v*,a

leis. Sin bun agus barr an sgeil. Sine ar Soisgeal. Eire ar ri agus ar mbannrioghan Sgeimhle o Dhia ar namhaidibh na hEireann.

“ I R E L A N D / 7To-day we issue the first number of “ Ireland ” — in

order to report the proceedings of the Irish Volunteer Convention, which the prostitute daily Press of Ireland

ill,..in so far as it does not suppress, attempt to mis­represent and distort. On Monday next and every day thereafter we shall continuously publish “ Ireland ” until we have broken down the conspiracy and routed the conspirators.

W e intend that Ireland shall have a voice in the daily Press of her country— that the recruiting-sergeants shall no longer bellow and the bribed journalist blaspheme in her name. For three months past the daily Press of this island has lent itself to the con­spiracy to emigrate her young men to a foreign country

d death in a foreigner’s quarrel. In the pro­motion of that conspiracy the daily Press of Ireland is

publishing day by day falsified news of Irish activities, Irish opinion, and Irish feeling, with rigid suppression of every protest or letter of contradiction that reaches the hands of its editors.

W e need money, and we ask for it, from the only people whom we have ever asked or accepted money from for an Irish purpose— the Irish people, premising that no journalist connected with the paper will accept money for his labour— knowing it to be a duty of national urgency he is called on by his blood, his tradition, his manhood, and his loyalty to the land that bore him, to perform. The creed of “ Ireland ” is that the bodies of Irishmen are not for sale or barter tc any otner nation, and that Ireland belongs to the Irish people to have and to hold from generacioa unto gene- tion. If you hold it to be true, we claim your support against the corruption and treachery which, arrayed in the stolen garments of Patriotism, is abroad in the

-land. *•

As an Irishman, and one wlis been identified with the Irish Volunteer movensj.nce it began, I ee it my duty to protest againie claim now put

many ana m sro *°rward W tae British Governmehat, because that n j o , . ss that the Aust <<overnme'rd ha,s agreed with its ipal opponents tosoldier T fUn WOuld re(3u're three Austr Place the Home Rule Bill on (Statute Book,”cave on fh eah ure ° ne Hungarian recruit, and so . A u oPeratl0n until aftfe war, and untilemigration « f i T ^ a bad Let there be M A “ erKJmg Bill ” to profour;modify its pro­to RnaUal * C a /m ( eterrnination never to subil1!/ 10ns )HS been introduced and sd , Irishmen in ever* if t i ' ^?ns° n P on an^ the militia Ballot Acn /n . , er*bst in the BritisHny and aid thennnlv it A -e ni\are foolish enough to attempt t , ^ sJat-’c and European powema war against a

The P W riddled to pieces in a fortnighCP ,wJj° have never wronged i l l . The Britisharticles are (h V tT V lT , 1ne^'spaper whose leading/'/ ,r.ty llas b®?n Publicly Jged for twenty-dav—-the “ M , Vlceregal Lodge day by ye,arf „ ^ self-government Ireland. It hasnay— the „ t--------------------------------------- j J | yet fulfilled that pledge. Inst,, it new offers* • • • 1Freeman’s Journal” which trafficked in the . at a very high price, a wholjblood of its countrymen in 1798. and 1854 for English ,finite for;n J tial intemaintrol of certakSecret Service pay— is now publishing under orders, Hfied Irish services if, in return thispromiasOQ articles bewailing the loss Ireland is sustaining by the r. (payable after death) the In' people will coi emigration of young Irishmen to America. If they t L ttieir blood> tbeir honour, d tlier manhwd emigra e o France and Belgium and get slam there, i% ar that in no wise concerns sm. Ireland his ornnng, as the Irish regiments are made to form, ncarrei with the Geerman peoj or jist cause of

the first line of the English army, that is no loss to off, acrajnst them. ■Ireland, according to the Castle organ. It preaches % not pronounce an opinioupor the British

e emigration of Irishmen to ser\e England as food for sM'bint tbis war, bevond sav tbit tbe ouilic powder— it deplores the emigration of Irishmen to an profon under which it was-beguiKnely, to defffd area outside the field of war as a “ loss to Ireland.” the

LLOYD’S NEWS.

ated neutrality i trovq by the officialThe id on “ Tim es,” 1declaithat Greaton an,rms that did ri the Gian Navy ” ai

In a letter \\vhich appears in the ” Freeman’s Jour- s place innal ” of Saturday from Mr. W . E . G. Lloyd under the &/ a r .I0?!heading “ Help the Brigade,” the following illuminat- a ^ for Britisn

l cull Cl cl Vvo-pr. fnT1 Tihft 1mg paragraph occurs:— mnnv lv •It would be most advisable that the War Office Vn1 1S V0 il

should at once make it perfectly clear that companies mora] mv°lved m of the National Volunteers will be accepted, and, q . cwhere possible, with their officers, for service in the a p nIrish Brigade. There is, I believe, much misappre- brino- no r a /thension in tl^e ranks of the Volunteers on) this - flit to a pe* (matter. ”There is certainly “ much misapprehension ” in the

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ranks of the Volunteers with regard to this matter, r^offie is ttwX^ ^ \rriteewere pre| No doubt those companies of Volunteers who have irishmen is Un ' ^l! A B. Fearse,_seceded from the control of the Provisional Committee ..n opr n ^1Ze ; AuDciagffi b> xx.m ILL --X1 n • - •” ali n1erj .sonis- In the i \ \lJfcin, P.

population Infallen by l\ W aaen, S..„ T U 't e .L . Mel

ay. Were ye bllowinl

will accept this intimation with enthsuiasm. I t ' willbe a stirring sight to see the Volunteer adherents of m pvprv i o -Mr. Bedmond and Recruiting marching through the decline of v i t - ^ town— fully four hundred strong— and proceeding to i C1, v L eGrafton street to enlist “ where possible, with their 0Ome into onpr*’ ^ ^repesenri ,, r > come into operinn to-morrv- • xi-vomcers. Smythl

THE DAVIS CENTENARY

or sale on ter^ Gf exchange accept, it woultbe the duty of Irish s length and mihood for the trying t o build up fron , depleted populati

ruined national Je.Ireland has suited at the hands (

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'IE MILITIA BALLOT

- — Jview, as its orginaton claim for it, i the duty of Irishmen b keep out of it!

If Irish blood is to le “ the seal tin]

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ENFORCED

“ Indepnden ” annovuo^a ^ion to^ ^ a t ^ne Government is

latingjv0 er]for4ement of the Militiai - . and tliat all the necessary

a veil. watR tk^object, there has been

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The centenary of the birth of the greatest of modern a niore Pilonged series oIreland’s thinkers and teachers occurred on Saturday. T ^ c ^ d than, any^ther commum v On October 24th, 1814, Thomas Davis was born at *-0-day, when no largin of vital S h Mallow, in Cork. The error that ascribes his birthday J1 ,as1vS . f>me w^en to October 14th originated with Duffy. There is no design to poduprifrg Feasts Irishman in our history whose centenary deserved to ]\em nP 0 0l r P®°Ie> are being be more enthusiastically celebrated, but owing to the ;beir h\es on foreigr.fields, m order t preocc upation of the “ leaders of the Irish people ” or ma e y ^ealthy »,ommunities mi in the attempt to sell the bodies of young Irishmen to ar\c 1C ler ® dstruction o± a rEngland there is no time for these people to do more r? _ s 5r j ;i._ , war, . „ ? s.in the matter than blaspheme Davis’s memory by fal­sifying his words and principles.

Were Davis alive to-day the successors of the Bar- ,retts, Birchs, and Conways— the English Secret-service Ir^ and together in on>, nation and in Dublin, journalists of Davis’s day— would be enabled and common to all,” then let that bl to call him with truth, a Pro-Prussian.” Prussia was Ireland where alone it can be righte the country in Europe which he held up most con- secure those liberties. It was not Gern stantly before his countrymen as a model for their Bie national liberties of the Irish peopL emulation. Prussian ducation, Prussian industry, n°I recover the national life struck doi Prussian system, Prussian self-reliance— these he ex- and by carrying fire and sword into an horted his countrymen to emulate, if they would buildup Ireland a strong nation. ^

“ I f , ” he writes, “ Ireland had all the elements of ^#s poverty than all the riches ( E]a nation, shev might, and surely would, at once assume sed ^ now we are unworthy of the amcthe forms of one, and proclaim her independence. 1 ^o-day we barter that cause in a )rdi( Wherein does she now differ from Prussia? She has shall prove ourselves a people unwohy a strong and compact\gorirtory, girt by the sea; Prns- a dwindling race of cravens from whq y ( sia’s lands are open ana flat, and flung loosely through manhood has been drained . If tcio\ Europe, without mountain or river, breed or tongue then let us fight on th^t^soiwhto bound them. Ireland has a military population generations of slain Irishmen lie in1^oT equal to the recruitment of, and a produce able to pay, Be our grayes be in that patriotn i i -

file fabric

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_________ ___ _________ ___ - — w w x i v A j r r v / x u . . a X a . \ \ j C I X 1 11J OThe cause of Ireland is greats than

any party; higher than the worVh if an• • i . —

a first-rate army. Her harbours, her soil, and her trie corpse of Irish nationality can— - — -t-------------- 1 - ‘rr’ land will be false to her history, 'w,1# rtr t •- - - — t • /

Vip.cause they are av* r#

fisheries are not surpassed in Europe.“ Wherein, we ask again, does Ireland now differ ation of honour, good faith and *s<

from Prussia? W hy can Prussia wave her fla^g anong now willingly responds to the t f ° the proudest in Europe, while Ireland is y F ir m ?malities of mdepenaence. ~vve’ couh’ nor in the hr- t ° fight in a cause that has nomorrow— we could assume them ^iMFqksume them o- gleam of generosity in all its from history and nature than ]jresult of such assumption wop1able defeat.

“ The difference isoffices of Prussia nowledge. Were the Irish Volunteers, I say, in their mand schools le v e lle c jg ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ collegesbanded, she would d an{ dis.civil and her wbolestruggling for has ) been

assume inem o- ^ a i u ui generosity vqth better warrans a war for the “ small nationalisms '

russia holds; but th> term it, then let it begin, for'one rd perchance be a, miser borne. -

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Mr. Denis M ‘ C u l lp u g h J ^ J ^ who said he spoke asb y M r ; A . N e ~ f e w ^ d g ^ n o w e r r f ^ E e d

Mr Louis S m y th secon d } T h e motion was ca r­ried w ith acclam ation , all he members rising, andorps), and supported

who s Dorl been an araenu ludower _ T 4 tw 0| ivir.

and had spent much of °p arty. jthem ^ L / 'w h a t e v e r lieslvere told, he would not

- ,no-nT-ouslV'dor severl minutes.cheen . t, g ^ f edy retured thanks. He promised

' ever influeEes were brought to bearm o n d , an d had spen p arlia m en ta ry P a rty .y e m in .o r ia n g i.r « 1 ^ w ,ed

The adoption of the repor s

h ishrink fro; his

to. Limerick, &p. /ne proposal of Tmas Mac Donnchadha,

fed by Major MacBridc the O ’Rahilly was unan-On the motion of Mr. J • members of the Pro-lsecogj elected Treasurer.. ni thanks to the officers and memu d was 1Dy<® X

0 l C o m m itte e for their serv ices to 1 ^ motion 0f Mr. Diton, Limerick, secon dedted w ith lo u d a cc la m a tion . ^ m e m - b Mr. O ’Connor, Limerick that portion of thereon-

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C o n v e n tio n th e n a d jou rn ed to su b m itte d b y th, Provisional Committee

flu tin g the delegp^j l h f A b b l f Theatre, saluting tne u ^ as \ 3 -Desnite the heavy rainfall, therchey

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toa propoS V l iv in g resumed its sitt6f urgencya\ed permission as a m<

4 hat this \ving resolution. ■ ^he Volun­teers tenders its

ers of the Cork cSvcongrhtMish Volunteers, on ng singled out for at\Corp§ British Government

^le*r p rin c irS ^ p in io n s, and allegianceolnrlo ° i serve Ire ld B i'th a t we unanimously of n f 2 Cork YoJunfand any other members ^ ! or&aiusation thro tut the country whom ithpnr+ f sou£kt to victinin the future our whole-

earted support both m ond material, in their fightBritish n 16 ^rannJ pradd against them by the and f i l0] ernrnent and hr supporters in Ireland, Convn 4-- ’ ^kermore, it recommended from this

^ le incom Executive Committee of

which provided for the electin of an Executive of nine members resident in Dublin ’as abandoned, and it was agreed that the members of he Provisional Committee should be elected. The njmbers of the I ro\ isional Committee alone dissented rom this arrangement.^

It was decided to leave jpe arrangements for the election of representatives oj the various counties to a general council in the hands ! the elected Executive.

M I L I T I A BALLOT ACT.On the motion of Eamom Ceannt, seconded by

Peadar O Maicin, the following resolution was adopted:‘ ‘ That this Convention speaking in the name of

the Irish Volunteers, plsdges itself to resist the operation of the Militia Ballot Act, or any other form of compulsory military service which may be applied to Ireland in the interests of England.”

The Convention concludel at five o clock with the singing of “ A Nation Onct Again

Volunteers are to be urged by their leaders to enlist. „ W e say, definitely, no. In taking that stand we are

taking the historical Irish national position. Ireland has never accepted duties or responsibilities within the British Empire. The demand now made upon her,, the demand that she should send out her young men to fight the Empire’s battles, is a demand that h a s„ never yet been made upon her by her national leaders. The making of that demand constitutes a departure ir national policy. * Upon those who make the demanc lies the onus of proving that new circumstances warran a new and grave departure. Upon those who call upoL Ireland to take up duties and responsibilities within the Empire lies the onus of proving that Ireland’s status as a subject country has changed. But it has not changed. The British military occupation of Ireland still continues. A British Chief Secretary still rules Ireland from Dublin Castle. A British Under-Secre­tary has just arrived, charged with instructions to hold and, if need be, to dragoon Ireland. The doors of the Irish Parliament are still closed. No Irish Govern­ment responsible to the Irish people exists. Our, sovereign rights as a nation are still denied. Our status is the same as it was ten years ago, fifty years ago, a hundred years ago. In these circumstances our attitude towards the Empire must remain unchanged. To abandon that traditional national attitude is to bbandon our national claims.

P. H . P E A R SE .

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thp TVi'oi T7 , moon! Hixecunve LommnuecIndemnif to takfceps to start an All-Irelandteer^ n ^ Tund, for theustenance of such Volun- IrelandS”ma^ shuck dn for their allegiance to

ProvU7* d^ SJ s^ ed thafhree members of the Cork mJ9’ ^ omruittee q Volunteers had been vic-

T T Z Grovernme]— Mr. J. J. Walsh, Chair- fhe C° rk CountyBoard G . A . A . ; Mr. P. S.

and SeanHegarty, who were all em-m the Post Office. Two of these were removed+1 ancl tile third, /ho objected to go, was dis-

de service (althougi it was admitted that thereU ° f ? e ? " ainst' him] and ordered by the military■nonties to leave Cork.adraie CLMaille, Galway, seconded the motion.

Tralee, referred to theficheal Oorts __ Ween iij. ^ . . - • j 1d identified themselves with the Irish Volunteers

[ho remained loyal to the Provisional Committee.The resolution was unarimously adopted.The following declaration of policy was unanimously

dopted by the Convention:—1 . To maintain the right and duty of the Irish nation

henceforward to provide for its own defence by means [of a permanent armed and trained Volunteer force.

2. To unite the people of Ireland on the basis of Irish nationality and a common national interest; to main­tain the integrity of the nation and to resist with all our strength any measures tending to bring about or perpetuate disunion or the partition of our country.

3. To resist any attempt to force the men of Ireland into military service under any Government until a free National Government is empowered by the Irish people themselves to deal with it.

4. To secure the abolition of the system of governing Ireland through Dublin Castle and the British military power, and the establishment of a National Govern­ment in its place.

Padraic O Maille proposed Mr. Eoin Mac Neill as President of the Irish Volunteers. They were on the side^of Eoin Mac Neill because Eoin Mac Neill was on the side of Ireland (applause).

THE ISSUE.

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Mr. P. H . Pearse writes :—Mr. Redmond at Wexford and Waterford and Air.

Dillon at Ballaghadereen have declared it to be false that the Irish Party has bargained with the Govern­ment toship off the Irish Volunteers as a body tc the war. I accept those assurances, and I grant with Mr. Redmond that, even had the Irish Party so bargaiied, the thing could not have been done. But I point out that the charge which Mr. Redmond and Mr. Bllonhere rebut is nftt charge which has been iradedgaiuot tuoxii. j-ne issue wnicn tney raise is not theissue upon which the Volunteers have split. The charge is quite different. The issue is much more :eal. The charge is that the man who virtually controller' the Volunteer movement had announced for Irish Vdun- teers a two-fold duty— to defend the shores of Irdand and “ to take their place in the firing line in the var.” This he did in the British House of Commons on Sep­tember 15th: in the Manifesto to the Irish peopie on September 16th; and, finally and very definitely, in an address to Irish Volunteers at Woodenbridge on Sep­tember 2 0 th. The Provisional Committee has repu­diated the second part of that definition of duty. It declares that the Irish Volunteers had from the oegin- ning, and still have, but a single duty— to secure and to guard the rights and liberties of Ireland. It declares not only that the Volunteers as a body must not be shipped abroad, must not be placed under British con­trol, must not be used for British as distinct from Irish purposes, but that individual Volunteers would be untrue to their Volunteer pledge if they were to enlist for foreign service, that such an enlistment would, in fact, constitute desertion from the Irish army at a moment when the Irish array needs every man in Ire­land. Thus, the issue is rot whether the Volunteers as a body are to be sent at road— a thing admitted on both sides to be unthinkatle— but whether individual

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