The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30
Present Upheaval Viewed as the Logical
Outcome of listers Incipient Re-
belion Before the Great War
By JOSEPH I. c. CLARKE.

By JOSEPH I. c. CLARKE.
THE rebellion Of Sir Edward Car.
Nj and his armed Ulster fol.
lowers In the summer Of 1914
wa the direct cause Of the re.
heiiious outbreak which has brought
Ireland once again into the hGhtins
arena. Menacing. formidable, lacked
by the mas Of the Irish born Officers
Of the English army stationed in Ire.
land and masses Of English Tories.
the Liberal Government Of England
did not dare to deal with II as nat
rebellion IL dealt with by established
governments. Instead Mr.. Asquith
,emporized. Ulster would not have
home rule: that 10. the P%rotsstants of
lister would not :3cin hands with
the res, Of ireland IN the partial
seif-rule which the government Of ire
land bill proposed to bestow on Ire.
land. The situation became very tense
and dramatic. Carson set up a virtual
Ulster government OF his own. There
were Ulster drillinSs, lister gun run
n!nrs Ulster councils ~ war. Ulster
defiance. II was evident that a small
clash with the English governmental
forces might p%recipi,ate wide blood
shei. listers objections TO home rule
wor. nicely examined. and hnally IL
st,i was excluded from the operation
OF the proposed scope Of the home
fulc law.
Then. with the s%uddenness Of
trumpet blast. the great European war
broke out. Ulster. somewhat suilen.
somewhat ashamed. subsidized.
The marvel through all the Ulster
sritaiion had been the self-restraint
Shown by the other three-fourths to
seven-eighths OF Ireland. which had
ohevcd the injunction OF tine National
!st leaders. John Redmond At their
head. This vas not to imperil home
rule Icy initiating the Ulster idea OF
appealing 10 arms to settle a civil
question: it was a matter for England
|, IN settle. To any n who knows the
infiammable quality Of the Irish mind
IN the face Of . chance to Night In
Wha, 1t es,eems a good cause the strain
pu' upon II by the leaders was great
indesd.
The European war had wrought Q
sudden change. John Redmond's decla.
ration in the House Of Commons p,edE-
Ing the support Of Nationalist Ireland
to the cause Of the British Empire and
the Entente Allies in the war vas for
Ireland the sensation Of the hour. Ire
land. old love Of France and her an
cent aversion & Germany as Eng
lands ancient Continental ally gave
trcat echo for the moment to the
u~''erances Of the leader. Recruiting
vert forward in Ireland with vlgor.
Redmond and his fellow Parlia mentary
tss SAINTS NJ the same time bethOuGht
them II a way I bring out the ma rtial
'r.r.' II the Irish race To the full. Car
'''s vhilom rebels ~ Ulster had
med themselves with the partial o n
't''ce Of the imperial officials. Why
t'u i not the Irish OF the other three
49,. noes arm themselves now--for
tie defence Of Ireland: An almost
.h.'i.A thrill Of JOY ran through the
W''" .sland AT the thought. 50 the
Volunteers. Memories ~ the old vol
nr"crs Of Us. who for a time had
lrpIsht Ireland To the state where
liruy, Grattan could salute her In his
''opl"nce AZ AT last a nation gave
S.a.s TO the new propaga nda. No more
secre' drillings by moonlight Of small
er"lrs az in Fenian times, but drills
and inanTuVres out in the open dag
IL Weren't they drilling 10 drive
80 Ihr Germans or the Austrians or
Tie Turks II they set foot on Irish soil.
"1''' Moryah! Where Ulster had
s"n' "a, o00 coyenant"d volunteers Ma