NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives s. (185ft ; Wt.5333-66.4000.12jl4.A. T. &Co. ,Ltd. (6559.) Wt.3103-96.20,ooo.s J 15. 23SO Telegrams·: "DAMP, DUBLIN." Telephone No. 22. DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE; 'I) · ~ ,,- l) ( • _ ,._ _ v.~ .l.. L.---...--_....·---·-----. IDetectt"e IDepartmentt . Dublin, 27th. Januar_y , 191 6 ·· . + ·:1110 VE~v1EI' 1' S 0 F DUBLIN Subj'ect, ~----------------------'---------- I beg to report that on the 26th. Inst. , the undern1entioned extremists were observed , rnoving about and associating with each other as follo'vvs :- • ·ith Thomas J. Clarke, 75, Parnell St . , John ~~ ..1cGarry for twenty rninutes between 12 & 1 p. m. C. Colbert for a few rninutes at 12-45 p . m. Pierce Beasley,who arrived at Kingsto. n from Holyhead at q p. m. as 1n• con- . versation with Clar e for a quarter of an I hour bet,veen 8 & 9 p . m., Joseph M'eGuirmess being there at the .time. J . R. Reyno lds and , B. Parsons fron1 8-40 to 9 p. xn • . Joseph Hurray left Araiens Street by 9 a . tn . train en route to Ardee . R. I . C. infonned. The Chief Commissioner . { Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives ) ..... informed. J ohn lVIcNeill , Jaxnes Connolly, L. Raul 1 . Ivl . J . 0 'Rahilly, J . Plunkett , H. Me l l ows , ' • ' I and E. O' Duffy in 2, Dawson ~ Street from 12 noon to 2 P• n1 . • J . J . Walsh in his shop , 26 , Blessing- • .... tom Street between 8 & 9 p. m. Fenton Lynch , Geral d Griffin, F. F~1y , Pierce Beasley, 1 . Raul , Thomas McDonagh , E. Kent , P • .H . Pearse , Joseph McGuinness , Thos . Humter, M. J . O'Rahilly, W. Sheehan , E. Daly , ( .. and J . Plunkett together in 2, Bawaon Street betweer1 9 & 10 p. m. • Attached are copies of this week ' s lS- sue of 'rhe Irish Volunteer , Nationality, Honesty and New Ireland some of which con- tain notes of an anti-British character. , • Superintend~nt . .. - • Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced - ---- ·-- --- --- -~ ---·-- ---~--- ~--- without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives '')... T E EDITED BY EOIN MAC NEILL. Vol. 2. No. 60 (New Series). SATURDAY, dANUARY 29th, 1916. PRICE ONE PENNY. collected for the Irish Volunteers by the We are expected to play a game of editor of the "Irish World," ew York. political blind man's bu:ff, a game in NOTES The British Government honours the which the whole public is to wear a bag United States by maintaining there a over its head and try to find its way out As I anticipated, it has turned out that well-organised system o£ secret intelli­ of the Union poorhouse by listening to the "riot" near Carrickmore, Co. 'Iyrone, gence. Any statements that have been the voices of two or three " leaders." was a bit of mischief organised under the made to the e:ffect that the body of Irish­ Thanks to Mr. Ginnell, the bag is off, auspices of Dublin Castle, which ent a American opinion, or any considerable and the Irish public now knows that it is force of forty police, fully armed, to see part of it, not to say "ninety-five per subjected to fresh and additional taxes, its programme through. The accounts of cent.," is in favour of Mr. T. P. O'Con­ amounting to nearly forty shillings from the affair publi bed in the daily papers nor's Sharp Curve policy, cannot deceive every man, woman and child, and that wer , like the "riot" itself, an elaborate the British Government. We can there­ this has been done without a word from concoction. The hesitating instruments fore form our own conclusions as to who the "leaders '' about it. Why should of the plot made a slight dishubance at these statem nts are intended to per- the "leaders" trouble themselves telling the 1ngmg. o f "A a bon. once again." uad , and the amount of respect they you and me and the like of us about the A window was broken, there was a earn for tho e \\rho make then1 from the taxes we are to pay? You may trust Mr. trifling scuffi , and ome lauies becmn members of the British Government, Redmond, and he will trust the British alarmed. All was over before th part hich, f1·om such and in1ilar perform­ Democracy, and it will be all right. Your arranged for the small army of police ances, will be able to estimate the moral business is to vote at conventions and could be brought o:ff. ~rhe conduct of the strength of certain forces in e ·acting the elections as you are told, and to vote poli ·e wa~ puhli(·ly coucl mncd hy Vather fulfilnwnt of a treaty.. which has heen '?otes of confi.denc at all times, and to Hhol't, C. ., . p aking at Mass on the fol­ sig-ned by King George and enrolled in pay up your ia. es and look pl asauL lowing Ruuday. It is part of :Mr. Bir­ tlH' Statute lloo]- of thP Imperial Pnrlia­ • • mcut. The Briti. GovN·nment will also The "leaders" would not ventur to rell' c "u licatc and cliffi ·ult" programme h take up this attitude of ilence, ervil to g t Irishmen to nnuder each other in be ubi to judge how much nearer its and obsequious silenc , on the subject of the interest of "a I' al Empire pahiot- Irish policy has brought it to the desired this intolerable and ruinous burden of . ·i m." If that sort of tl1ing ucceeded, consummation of an "A11glo-American fresh taxation, if they did not count on :Mr. Birrell would be the murderer. It Alliance." • the ignorance of the Irish public and the is not likely to su c d, for the Irish • • There were sti11 quite lately in Ireland lack of public spirit among those who, in Volunteers in Tyrone and elsewhere are I a set of .People who could beli ve or pre- every locality throughout Ireland, ought not a faction. Tho c of the police who t nd to helicv<' that Ireland is a poor to b foremost in ass rtin o· tlw rights and arc imitating Crossmao·len methods country that could 11ot pay her own way . clef nclinO' the interest of the people. shonlcl remember the fate of Gartland without the help of England; and unfor­ • • who was struek down iustantan ously hy' • tunately there WPre many peo}Jle who did Frorn 1756 to 1763 England was at war • the hand of Gml in the st re ·t in open day­ not Pven knmv •nough to laugh at that with t ran e, :fightinO', as she i fighting light and wPnt without a moment's warn­ sort of nonsen, e. Worse still, m n who now, for empire. 1 our years lat r, 1n ing L fore a trihunal where perjury and claim to he follow cl blindly as politi ul 1767, the Engli h Mini try d cidcd to im­ all the otl1cr tricks of Dublin 1a, tle are guides and think that patrioti~nn consists pos an Imperial taxation on the English of no avail. colonies in Am rica. The colonists had • in passinO' vot s of confidence, such men, • • to their own disromfitnre, l1ave contented help d England to fiO'ht ~ r~nce in the I have just received the first ntunber of th mselves with political machin work recent war, and George Washington had a The Irishman,'' a new monthly, price and have neg·lected to fortify their posi­ fought with distinction on the English on penny, edited by A. 1Tewman (Dub­ tion by instructing the public on vital side. It was suggested that England, in­ lin office : 17 Upper Ormond Quay). rrh maiters of the national economy. Having stead of ta ing the American colonies, editor is well known to readers of the neglerted this themselves, they have I?een should save expense by withdrawing her !Rrsn VoLUNTEER, and the new periodical quick to re ent and denoun e any effort to army from them. "I will hear nothing Leurs the distinct impress of hi vigorous brinO' free discu sion to bear on the ques­ on the subjec.t," said the English Chan­ personality. I wi h "The Irishman'' a tion of national finance. If in the whole e llor of the Exchequer; "it is absolutely sm·cPssful and useful career. Iri h parliamentary rep1·esentation there necessary to keep an army there." The • • • i a single man e. pt :Mr. Ginnell who colonists, who were recently so loyal, I have to acknowledge on behalf of has any sense of the e:ffe t of present and now began to boycott English imports. the Irish Volunteers the receipt of £40 proposed taxation on Irish prosperity, the They had the same sort of governors then from an Irishwoman; £318 from the knowledge is kept wonderfully dark. It in America as we have now. One of these Ancient Order of Hibernians in the is thought good enough for the common royal governors wrote to the Ministry : United States of America, sent by the sort of Irishman to feed th m up with " Send over an army and a fleet and re­ principal officers of the Order ; and phrases about a constitution "better than duce the dogs to reason." The colonists £18 18s., balance of the original fund Grattan's "-when we get it l ti:ffened up.