Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-22
PARLIAMENT OPENS
|. At MANSION HOUSE
AMID LOUD CHEERS
Declaration of Irish Inde-
pendence From Great
Britain Is Read.
DEMANDS EVACUATION
By BRITISH GARRISON
Document Written in Gaelic,
Dead Language of An
cient Race.
PRISONERS aane M aSIg
Meeting HELD ~ u3ha as
Seat OF III, NJ ,s'al vacy
Militia as ri1trt
DEMANDS EVACUATION
BY BRITISH GARRISON


DUBLIN. JAM WIna .a-tr
comrades were HEt artes e, Ir-a
t'arli ment,' ) 80. -. .,,vners-now
many IS nos known-in Jail at Belfast
started riot to-day. The police in
tervened and quciied the rioters. De-
tails are still lacking
The declaration of the formation Of
republic, read to the assemblage
amid thundcrous and constant cheers,
asserts that the Irish people alone
have the power to make laws binding
on the Irish people"
1t demands the evacuation of Ireland
by the foreign garrison.
MEMBERS PLEDGE THEMSELVES
TO SUfPORT MOVEMENT
All members Of the Parliament
SO .emniy rose after the document had
been read and pledged themselves TO
use every effort TO give effect to the
ueelaration OF independence.
day by huge crowds. which dis
tmsuisned themselves by their orderii-
ncaS.
Mansion House was jammed when
the session OF Dali Eireann" was
opened. There were at least 5000 per-
sons m the mecting-roonl.
Mention, OF the nalne of Count
Jossph flunkett was cheered to the
,rhe name Of Sir Edward. Carson " aaT
greetsd. by hisses and catcalls is. : s,.9
* ~. J.s Dugga9 read 2anf English trans
| 'eNN'N'i " oi.itnSNuSCiATaIlOn lnIGDenu-
snce. which was first read In us or
/ isinal CELTIC text. :" - ! -
liALF OF PARLIAMENTARY,
DELGGArluS pANIiCIPA1ED
About half tho Sim t,eine.s elected
10 membership, IN the British parlia-
inent participated. the other half be-
ing In various Englisn prisons charged
Win Win sedition or merely held on sus-
provisions OF the defense OF the realm
act. The Sim teiners met under tho
sides Field Marshal YiscountE French
the frst viceroy In many years 10 give
Ireland pure.y military government.
tacit consent TO- take measures which
are are, purely purely sedi,ious and in direct
Vi9ia,tion rh,,i, ot exnlieit law,
ihese Sian Feiners. elected by about
half o: the voters In Ireland on a Mat
form ] OF independenco from the british
British Parliament. but specifically re-
fused TO recognize that body and 10
Ga,l isb thsmseives members OF the Britt
House by the permission OF the Lord
Mayor Of Dublin, who himself is !.
home ruler, but not so much of q
accept what most of his predecessors
nave accepted--a knighthood from the
British government
CARDS OF ADMISSION
FOR FRIEND AND FOE
In the shabby Sim Fein head
quarters. surrounded in decayed old
house which was at one time one OF
pubilns finest mansions. courteous
Young women secretaries gave cards
OF admission to to-day's meeting quito
impartially TO friend and foe, to sup
porters of the Sim Fein and 10 'corre-
spondents of English newspapers which
hold the Sim Fein and all its works
ana thema.
Hail. differed In one respect from the
solemnities Of 1875 At Philadelphia. It
was carried out In the Irish language,
which is virtually n dead tongue, so
dead hat the Sim f'einers have been
Obliged 10 rehearse their parts and
VIII be compelled to lapse occasionally
they cannot find Irish words to ut
modern parliamentary procedure.
EXPECT PROTECTION
FROM AUTHORITIES !,
ireland is country OF the unex-
or disorder. The revolutionary Nag
Goats quite freely over the homes OF
Sim SIN rsiners IN Dublin Members OF
authorities Of the nation whom they
are defying.
Once they would have looked to the
but now they think they do not com.
mand american support. They do not
talk of and apparently do not con-
Dublin had an unhappy and fruit
less experience. In the insurrection of
lslS, an experience which cost rows
pointed to with pride as the 6nest
TWELVE MEN MURDER
Twelve men with blackened faces
this afternoon shot and killed two po-
l;cemen.,, MacDonnell and o,connell,
the only casualties OF Ireland's lin
asnendenss dep, day" recorded so far. The
rwo ",o patfo;inen 81 @ were guarding the cons