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Cosanta. Roinn COSANTA. ROINN 1913-21. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1698. 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, Stipulated by Witness. Nil File No S.452. FormB.S.M.2 200. 1915 be forced, will be branded as a "Sinn Fein" "pro-German" one, financed by "German gold", so as to alienate Redmondite and O'Brienite sympathy and confuse the facts and issues in Ireland and abroad. I am not alone in my opinion, I find. Letters in the "Irish Independent" hint that there may be "another '98" in Ireland. The real Sinn Féin policy of past years - national self- reliance - was the wise one to prepare for Ireland's freedom as against the futile policy of parliamentarianism. But, the majority of the Irish people followed the Parliamentary Party. The Sinn Féin attitude will be justified, but it may be too late. June 16th. has been released under the Sheehy-Skeffington "Cat and Mouse" Act. He is reported as being very weak after hunger strike. Sean MacDiarmuda is in hospital, it is stated. Sean Milroy is being tried today. I learn he is in good health and spirits. - Prosecutions still continue two in Belfast, two in Galway, one in Tralee reported today. A Mr. Lundon, M.P., Co. Limerick, says the chief concern of English politicians is "jobs, jobs, jobs"! June 17th. Sean Milroy got three months with hard labour. The Magistrate, Mahony, said: "Mr. Milroy was an intelligent and honourable man, but mistaken in his policy". (So. three months, hard). From "Independent" report: "Mr. Milroy, when sentenced, struck the rail of the dock with his hand and said to the magistrate: "You have power to send me to jail, but you have no power to make me a criminal". The remark elicited applause in Court "which was immediately silenced". (Cheer up, Seán! shall yet win). We June 18th. At its meeting yesterday, the County Cork Technical Instruction Committee adopted a curious procedure, ostensibly to cut down expenditure. It decided to dismiss its four Commercial Teachers:- John Cummins, Terence MacSwiney, 201. 1915. C.P. McCarthy and myself, and, later on, to reappoint three of the four. Who is to go? Cummins is six or seven years in the service of the Committee; I am four and a half; Terence about three, and McCarthy, nine months. June 20th. "New Ireland" though supporting the Parliamentary Party, this week strongly emphasises the fact that the suspension of the Home Rule Act lasts only till September 17th next. If by that time the Great War has not ended, "His Majesty by Order in Council" must further postpone the operator of the Act. The paper urges that Ireland press for putting the Act into operation in September. A good idea, I think. But, it should be the Act for all Ireland. There should be no breaking up of Irish Territory. If the Coalition Government repudiates the obligation to put the Act into force, the Irish people in general should know where they stand. Carson and "Ulster" will yet be the cause of smashing the British Empire. They have done a great deal to arouse a nationalist spirit in Ireland. They will do more. If Eoin MacNeill should take up the idea of "New Ireland" he would make a great score, whichever way the result went. "New Ireland" also states it is "credibly informed that within the last ten days between three and four hundred men have joined Mr. MacNeill's Volunteers in Dublin alone, and that the Irish Volunteers - far more than the National Volunteers - are recruiting faster then ever before". There are obvious reasons for this and many evidences of it. The popularity of "seditious literature" is one sign. Anything savouring of "sedition" is eagerly sought after. And, notwithstanding the suppressions, many other "seditious" papers are being published. "Nationality", edited by Griffith, is out this week. The general tone is humorous and sarcastic; laughter at John Bull, sarcasm regarding his "good" intentions. The "Cork Free Press" ceased publication as a daily 202. 1915 yesterday. It went out with a sigh. The "old men" could do no more. The fate of Ireland is now in the hands of the young men. True for Mr. William O'Brien. And the young men are not doing badly for Ireland - going to jail, facing many threats, losing their positions, being shadowed by police, being denounced by the pro-British; also, thinking, writing, working, arming and drilling; even speaking publicly, though D.0.R.A. threatens them. Irish nationalism seemed to have been submerged last August. There is no fear of it now. It will survive and conquer. June 23rd. Letters, showing the questionings in many minds regarding Home Rule, the intentions of the British Government in respect of Ireland, the policy of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and so on, are appearing in the papers. One such from a Father Holland was in the "Examiner" yesterday. His - conclusion was armed Volunteers, whether Redmondite, O'Brienite or Sinn Séin, were Ireland's only safeguard now. And what is now penetrating the minds of the "New Garrison" is that the recruits from the south, overwhelmingly Catholic, are being sent to the war fronts with celerity, while the Orange regiments of the north are being kept at home. June 24th. A short article of mine, signed "Seanachán", which I sent to the Dublin "Leader", is published in that paper this week. It was inspired by the suggestion in "New Ireland" that a demand be made for having the Home Rule Act put into force in September. Not that I like the paltry thing, but to make the demand is a challenge to Redmond and his Party and to the British Government. Ireland has been told the war is being fought on the English-French side for "the rights of small nations". Last year, Mr. Redmond said: "It is a time to test me men's souls". Well, here now is a test for Mr. Redmond and the British Government. 203. 1915. June 28th. "Huns" off the Cork coast - south of Youghal - Several ships torpedoed, it is said. The cross-channel yesterday. steamer "Lismore" had a narrow escape. This seems to - tally with the tale of a tramp in Castletownbere lastweek he is now in Cork County Jail - who told a romantic story in a publichouse of how he was drinking with a German submarine crew in Waterville and was informed by them the Germans were to land a force in Youghal Shortly! A "National Register" Bill is being introduced in the British Commons. This is, of course, preliminary to some form of conscription. Will it apply to Ireland? All Ireland has practically sworn against conscription. Its enforcement here will mean a fight. Had a note from my friend, Fasait, written on board the liner in New York Harbour, a fortnight ago. June 30th. O'Donovan Rossa is dead. A brave old man. An indomitable spirit. Ten years ago he was here and I found him a likeable man; humorous, simple, with a fund of stories which he told in Irish or in simple country-idiom English. Beannacht Dé le n-a anam. - - Three men in Belfast one a solicitor were sentenced, under D.O.R.A., one to six months, the other two to three months' imprisonment for toasting in a bar: "To hell with the British Empire and the English Crown". The "Evening Echo" lifts from the "Daily Chronicle" of portion an article which appeared in some Berlin papers on the situation in Ireland. The article is highly coloured but, in substance, true. For instance, it is stated Ireland is under martial law. Technically incorrect, but actually, for large areas, under the Defence of the Realm Act, it may be termed martial law administration. July 4th. Friday night (July 1st) our Cork Óglaigh carried out some military operations in Bishopstown district. 204. l915. Today they are gone to Blarney to meet Courtbrack and Blarney corps. though the latter corps, as such, has been "suppressed". News is now coming of the formation of other country corps. Ballinadee, near Bandon, has an excellent corps; Courtbrack is considered good, while Cloghroe and Kilmona are being formed. The general prospect for others is reported bright. Judging by debates and questions in the English Parliament and articles in English papers and reviews, there is bungling and incompetency; there are violent disagreements in high places in England. Inefficiency isacknowledged and a shortage of munitions for thearmy. It is almost beyond credence to those who had implicit trust in England's invincibility and who were overawed by England's prestige. "Ah! but", a friend of mine, an old man whose one great desire is to see England get a good hammering, says, "they have the devil's luck. They will win because they have the wealth". In And we have been figures, England appears very wealthy. taught it is the wealthiest country in the world and that the resources of the Empire are stupendous. But, how much of the wealth is paper? Frantic appeals are being made to the people to economise, to save, to hoard. This shows how insecure the wealth" is. Parsimony is being lauded as a virtue. paper Income is but a fraction of war expenditure. Foreign investments cannot be easily liquidated now. The new war loan will only mean changing one kind of paper for another. High interest is offered.
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