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ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU of MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT by WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO W.S. Witness Liam De Róiste No. 2 Janemou ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO W.S. Witness Liam de Róiste No. 2 Janemount, Sunday's Well, Cork. Identity. Member, Coiste Gnotha, Gaelic League. Member, Dáil Éireann, 1918-1923. Subject. National Activities, 1899-1918. Irish Volunteers, Cork City, 1913-1918. Conditions,if any, Stipulatedby Witness. Nil. File No FormB.S.M.2 STATSUENT OF LIAM DR ROISTE. CERTIFICATE BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU. This statement by Liam de Roiste consists of 385 pages, signed on the last page by him. Owing to its bulk it has not been possible for the Bureau, with the appliances at its disposal. to bind it in one piece, and it has, therefore, for convenience in stitching, been separated into two sections, the first, consisting of pages 1-199, and the other, of pages 200-385, inclusive. The separation into two sections baa no other significance. The break between the two sections occurs in the middle of a sentence, the last words in section I, on page 199, being "should be", and the first in section II, on page 200, being "be forced". A certificate in these terms, signed by me as Director of the Bureau, is bound into each of the two parts. McDunphy DIRECTOR. (M. McDunphy) 27th November, 1957. STATIENT BY LIAM DE R0ISTE 2. Janemount, Sundav's Woll. Cork. This statement was obtained from Mr. de Roiste, at the request of Lieut.-Col. T. Halpin, on behalf of the Bureau of Military History, 26 Westland Row, Dublin. Mr. do Hoists was born in Fountainstown in the Parish of Tracton, Co. Cork, in Juno, 1882. His baptismal name was William Roche. His parents wore National Teachers, His statement is recorded hereunder:- "Before the end of the century I was residing in Cork City and from 1901 to 1910 was employed as a teacher in Skerry's College, Cork, and subsequently employed in a similar capacity under the Cork County Technical Instruction Committee up to 1920. my latter appointment necessitated travelling to and teaching in various towns in Co. Cork. From my youth I have boon actively connected with various Irish-Ireland, Literary and Industrial Organisations, in moat of which I functioned as Honorary Secretary or other Executive appointment. During most of this time I made it a practico to keep a fairly comprehensive diary and other notes of the activities of the different organisations with which I was associated and which now enable me to refresh my memory on many incidents and events which otherwise would, perhaps, be forgotten. In the pamphlet issued by the Bureau of Military History it states, inter alia, on page 2: 'The military history of 1913-21 cannot be properly understood and assessed without a knowledge of other events which had an intimate bearing on the national 2. resurgence of that period, and for that reason the Bureau is Interested In every contributory fact or development reaching back in many cases to at least the beginning of the century'. I thoroughly concur with this view. and agree that the historian of the future, unless he has a complete grasp of the early developments, will not be in a position to portray the stirring period of our history from 1913 to 1921 in its proper perspective. Keeping the above in mind, I, therefore, propose to embody in my statement incidents, events and developments from as far back as 1899, of which I am personally acquainted and which, I venture to submit, helped in no small way the great resurgence of the Nation in the later years. I do not propose to doal in an detail with the promotion the Irish languago or the activities Of the Gaelic League, for the reason that I consider there are sufficient records and material readily available to enable an assessment to be made in this connection in future years. 1899. Cork. Young Ircland Socioty loundod. Obiect. to aid in the attainment of the sovereign independence of I1aniq, by propagating the principles, of the "Young Irelanders" of i848, fostering the language, music and national traditions; encouraging the study of Irish History; countering "West Britonism" in every form. The chief mover in founding the Society was John M.O'Keeffe (Sbán Ó Cuiv) and among the early members were Batt, Kelleher, Robert Warren, Eugene Power, William O'Herliby, Daniel Tierney, Terence NacSwiney, Fred Cronin, Robert Fitzgerald, Michael Radley, William Curtin, Maurice Conway, John O'Keeffe, Patrick O'Sullivan, William O'Sullivan. 3. The Chairman was John Roynane; Treasurer, John Crowley; Secretary, Liam Roche. 1899. Sundav November 12th. "Pro-Boer" meeting of very large numbers, organised by the Society, held in Cork Cornmarket, Anglesea Street. A "Transvaal Committee" had been formed. Its members marched to the meeting behind a Boor flag in semi-military formation. Eugene Crean, at the time Mayor of Cork and Member of Parliament, presided over the meeting. The principal speakers were Miss Naiad Gonne, John Daly, Mayor of Limerick, Charles Doran of Cove, Arthur Griffith, J.C. Flynn, H.P. letters, expressing sympathy with the object of the meeting, were received from Rev Father Kavanagh, O.F.M., historian of "The Insurrection of 1798"; Maurice Healy, M.P., Captain Donnellan, M.P., Michael Davitt, J.F.X. O'Brien, M.P., James J. O'Kelly, M.P., and Jeremiah Howard, Chairman, Cork County Council. 1899. Members of the 'Transvaal Committee", through an intermediary in Paris, offered themselves as volunteers to fight with the Doers. They received no reply to their communication. Reporting the meeting, the "Cork Constitution", organ of the Unionists, vehemently denounced the proceedings. They were "silly", "hurtful", "inspired by hatred, unreasoning hatred of England". It adverted to the "inconsistency of the Parliamentarians", who, while wooing the sympathy of Englishmen to obtain "Home Rule", sided with England's enemies and associated with "extremist elements" in Ireland. The speeches that had been delivered were "treasonable". Some of the older members of the Young Ireland Society had been connected with the Irish Republican Brotherhood - the Fenian organisation. 4. 1900. Early in 1900, it was suggested the Society should undertake the. erection of a National Monument in Cork, in honour of the men of 1798, 1848, 1867. The foundation stone had been laid in 1898. The project was taken up and house-to-house collections were made by members of the Society. The older men gradually made this a chief object of the Society and counselled "diplomacy" in setting forth the meaning of "Sovereign Independence". The younger men disagreed and, in December 1900, severed their connection with the Society. In due course, the monument on the Grand Parade was erected. It was unveiled on St. Patrick's Day, 1906, by Rev. Father Kavanagh, then President of the Young Ireland Society, The oration was delivered by Rev. Father Thomas of the Capuchin Order, Holy Trinity, Cork. 1901. Januarv 2nd. Seven of the young men who had been in the Young Ireland Society met to form a new society, as "a branch of the National Organisation, Cumann na nGaedheal". It was decided to call the Society "The Cork Celtic Literary Society". So that there would be no ambiguity regarding its aim, it put as its object: "TO STRIVE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IRISH REPUBJJC". Immediate means proposed were:-) "(1) A - Adopting and propagating the principles of the United Irishmen. B. Working for the restoration of the national language. "(2). The study and teaching of Irish History" "In an other matters the Society adopts the objects of Cumann na nGaedheal". The seven young men were: Terence MacSwiney, Dan Tierney, Batt Kelleher, Fred Cronin, Bob Fitzgerald, Michael Radley, Lisa Roche. 5. 1901. Kalleher was Chairman, Tierney, Treasurer; Roche, Secretary0 Our Chairman suggested the idea of a "Manuscript Journal", to which members would, contribute articles notes on current topics, stories, poems. It was called""Éire Óg"; read at monthly meetings of the Society, and was a feature of the Society's work for several years. Arising out of an article that a ppeared. in the first number, a discussion took place and a resolution was passed: "That we call on the members of the Cork Corporation to dispense with the usual vote of thanks to the outgoing Lord Mayor in consequence of his action in attending a reception given to the Queen of England in Dublin", The Lord Mayor, the first who bore the title in Cork, was Sir Daniel Hegarty, The Queen's visit to Dublin was publicised as "in grateful recognition" of the valour of the Irish soldiers in the British Army fighting against the Boers. The Cork Corporation meeting for the election of a new Lord Mayor was held on Wednesday. January 23rd 1901. Queen Victoria had died the previous day The customary vote of thanfs was dispensed with, as we had suggested ;but a resolution expressing regret at the death of the Queen, proposed by a Unionist member of the Council, was carried unanimously! The new Lord Mayor was Alderman Edward Fitzgerald, afterwards Sir Edward Fitzgerald, Baronet. At a later meeting, the Cork Corporation, on a suggestion conveyed to it by our Society, decided that "in all streets to be named, or re-named, in future, the names of such streets shall be in Irish as won as in English". One Sunday in the summer of this year (1901), four or five of us were in the country - Fountainstown, my native place. 6. Someone suggested that we may be able to procure a shotgun. I said a fried of mine, "Miah" Aherne, had a few of them. We called to the house. Miah was absent, but one of his sisters gave me a gun and cartridges.
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