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manuscript journal of the Society, principle speaker at inaugural Sinn Féin meeting at Cork city hall in January 1906, a friend of Arthur Griffith, cartoonist, combatant in the Easter Rising, director of Clare by-election 1917, present at Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. (Milroy died in Nov. 1946) Level: Item Extent: 4pp Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content:
Reference:
U271/A/2/009
Date:
1949 (1899 - 1902)
Title:
MS. Memoirs 1899 - 1902, of 'Liam de Róiste, Representative of Cork City in
Dáil Éireann 1919-1923'. Level: Item Extent: 84pp Part of: U271/A/2 Scope and Content: Chapter 1: From 1899, early employment in Cork, later work with Skerry's Academy and as a teacher with the County Technical Instruction Committee.
Chapter 2: Gaelic League, 41 Great Georges Street. Irish language classes.
Chapter 3 : Feis na Mumhan/First Munster Feis, 1900 at Assembly Rooms; Gaelic League in Shandon.
Chapter 4: Young Ireland Society. '....The existing parliamentarian organisations had no attraction for young men whose thoughts of nationality went deeper than the then current conceptions of political forms...'. Based at 27 Princes Street initially. Founder members included Batt Kelleher, John Ronayne, and Terence MacSwiney. Boer War Transvaal Committee public meeting. Members of IRB join Society, introducing an 'air of conspiracy'. He developed a 'strong antipathy to secret societies'. Background to National Monument, unveiled Patrick's Day 1906. Chapter 5: Socialism. Dissolving of the '98 club owing to discussions on socialism. Socialist Con Lehane was a member of the CCYMS and later emigrated to USA. Visit of James Connolly to Cork, meeting with de Róiste. Socialist views of religion. 'It was not possible to reconcile ....Socialism with the faith of an Irish Catholic...'. Chapter 6 : The Celtic Literary Society. 'To strive for the establishment of an Irish Republic'. First meeting 2 Jan 1901 of 7 young men at 3 Marlboro Street, including those who had left the Young Ireland Society such as Terence MacSwiney. 'Were we foolish young men or were
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