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List of Items and Descriptions
A: Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army 1913 – 1923 (1957)
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Establishment of the Irish Volunteers in Cork, 1913 (2 items)
1 14 December 1913 (‘1914’ is indicated in error on the document) TS. account by Langford of public meeting in Cork to ‘…inaugurate Oglaigh na h-Eireann-- the Irish Volunteers…’, on ‘14 December 1914’ [1913]. He writes that the Preliminary Committee were Tomás MacCurtain, Liam De Roiste, J.J. Walsh, Donal MacIonnrachtaigh, and Diarmuid Fawcitt and Maurice O’Connor issued invitation cards ‘to known separatists, Gaelic League local branch secretaries, to G.A.A. adherents; to Gaels who could be depended on to distribute them wisely and well…’. ‘O’Brienite’ Eamonn O'Neill, and John J. Horgan, ‘Redmondite’ were invited to speak ‘to emphasise the non-party character of the meeting’, but did not speak. Guest speakers included Roger Casement of the Gaelic League and Prof. Eoin MacNeill, Secretary of the Volunteers. Describes meeting being interrupted by Ancient Order of Hibernians and ‘Redmondite’ followers. 2pp x 3 copies 2 October 1914 Statement of Executive Committee, Cork Corps, Irish Volunteers, Fisher Street, Cork. Concerns the split in the ranks of the Volunteers following John Redmond’s call for the Volunteers to enlist in the British Army. Statement seeks to ‘place some facts before the citizens’ to explain the cause of the secession of certain volunteers from the ranks of the Cork Corps; ‘The cause of the division…is not a personal, sectional or party one. It is one of principle…Has the time come for Irish nationalists to abandon the old principles of Irish Nationality to make peace with England, accept the English connection…enlist in the British Army…the Cork Corps…support the Provisional Committee in Dublin because that Committee is true to the original non-party
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