Resource Pack 2: 1913 Irish Volunteers
4 Cork City & County Archives: Through War and Rebellion: Cork 1912-1918
The Document: The document is an eyewitness description by Riobaird Langford after the event which describes what happened on the night when Eoin MacNeill and Roger Casement came to address a public meeting in Cork City Hall to set up a branch of the Irish Volunteers.
Instructions: 1. Read through the document. 2. Highlight the names of people, sentences, or words you do not understand. 3. Highlight any words you cannot read. 4. Fill in the recording sheet supplied and attach it to the document.
5. Optional: There is a second document by Diarmuid Fawcitt which describes the same events. Read through it and decide which of the two documents you find the more interesting. Pick out four quotes from either or both documents to tell the story. Fill in the recording sheet supplied and attach it to the document. 6. Optional: The Langford and Fawcitt documents mention groups such as the ‘AOH’, ‘Molly Maguires’, ‘Gaelic Leaguers’ and ‘the Redmondite party’. Look up and explain what each group was and discuss divisions in Irish nationalism in the period c1900-1915 7. Store the completed work as directed by your teacher.
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