The Irish standard., 1916-07-01
UBLIN,

| DUBLIN.
Colonel Maurice Moore, late of the
Connaught Rangers, brother of Mr..
George Moore and Inspector General
of the Redmondite Volunteers, whose
statement the Commission of Inquiry
into the Irish rebellion declined to
read in public has now supplied his
statement for publication. Sim Fem
ism, he says, had been in the hands
of young literary men and women for
some years until Irish Nationalist of
all sorts were reused by the violence
of the Ulster agitation against Home
Rule and the drilling and arming of
body of trained men to defy the con-
stituted government of the country.
Irish Nationalists would have been un-
worthy of freedom if they had not &C.
copied the challenge flung so insult
ingly in their faces. The special idea
of starting the Volunteers in Dublin
in October 1913, was to support Par
lament against the illegal threats of
the Orange party. Speaking of Pat
rick Pearse, he says: "Pearse was
man OF such tender sympathies that he
would not shoot or fish because he
could not bear to give pain. His
school garden, full OF fruit, was not
shut off from the boys. He trusted
their honor not to steal, and when the
temptation of rosy apples proved too
much he could not bring himself to
punish the little culprits."
During the rising over 600 patients
were treated in Jervis Street Hospital
At meeting of the Committee of
Management thanks were conveyed to
the medical and nursing staffs, the
Sisters of Mercy, Chaplains, and visit
ing doctors for their devotion to duty.
The Dublin Evening Telegraph
has ceased publication.
A party of Sim Fein leaders SEN
fenced by court martial to long terms
of penal servitude were recently re-
moved to Dartmoor Convict Prison.
The party included Mr. John MacNeill.
Me-. r. E. Heeney, cattle exporter,
son of Mr.. r. J. Heeney, whose fam
lily live at A Belvidere place, Dublin,
was, when running to assist wound
ed man, shot dead in O'Connell street
during the rising, and was inferred in
Glasnevin
MIR. j. Malachi MuEdoon. b.. writes
to say that he was refused permission
to consult two client prisoners in
Richmond Barracks; that explana.
tons were Of no avail and he alleges
that some subalterns were rude, and
that an officer walked away when he
addressed him.
Mr.. Ginncll stated in the House of
Commons that Sean McDernlott asked
to have Father Augustine of Church
street with him while being shot, and
that Father Augustine was never Civ
Ell the message. He also asked if
Sean McDermott, the night before his
execution, was put in cell without
any cot to rest on, and that he had to
lie on the floor with one of his shoes
wrapped in a blanket for pillow. No
denial was offered.
One of the priests who attended
Cornelius Colbert at his execution in
Richmond Barracks, writing to Dub.
lin paper, says: while MY left arm
linked the prisoners right, and while
was whispering something in his ear
Il soldier approached to fix piece of
paper on his breast. While this was
being done he looked down and then
addressing the soldier in a cool and
perfectly natural way, said: Wouldn't
it he better to pin it up higher-nearer
the hearth The soldier said some
thing in reply and then added: Give
me your hand now The prisoner
seemed confused and extended his left
hand. Not that said the soldier. but
the right The right was accordingly
extended. and having grasped and
shaken it warmly the kindly, human
hearted soldier proceeded to gently
bind the prisoners hands and after
wards blind-folded him. Some min
utes later, my arm still linked in his
and accompanied by another priest,
we entered the dark corridor leading
to yard and his lips moving in prayer
the brave lad went forth to die"
KILDARE.
Mr.. NJ. O'Kelly, editor of the Lem