Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16
ireland, And Freedom 'IlI :I:l ON.
Story Of Age Old Struggle In Historic
Ssf7} y ~ Review. " A.
RESISTANCE HAS EVER been STUBBORN
Historians Differ as to The Original
Cause of The Trouble; But There
Has Never Been Aay Dispute. as.to
.The>Uneompton,isins Nature of The

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Has Never Been .Aay Dispute. as. te
,The> Uneompton,isins Nature of The
Fighting. r.,
THS, HS,sSsachievement of mutually
agreeable basis for peace between Ire
land and Great Britain and the pros
pect OF, Irish sovereignty in Irish af-
fairs, with Britain cooperating as
nsighbor. state within the empire
marks at once ithe, end of a struggle
Z that has written in blood the history
OF ireland for seven and a half cen
trries and. the dawn of an era that
promises fullest play, for the highest
degsloptnent Of Irish economic and cul-
tilral possibilities. aoa
Mutual confidence and friendship be-
tween 1.-The English and Irish people
ceased with the invasion popularity ac-
ctedited Ito Strongbow,5 heir to the
Earldonp Of Pembroke and a liege OF
Henry. II. of England, in the twelfth
centuuy+,>It is also given as truth in
histories, principally British, that
Nicholas Breakspear, or Adrian ", the
only EnS]ishman TO become Pope OF
Rome, sent Henry "a bull empowering
him to take possession of Ireland
..As consequence of this, Henry dis
patched a force Of l-Normaris un-
der Diarmid MacMurragha, the foe OF
King Rurie o'connor, and that the in
vaders took Dublin and other; places.
Upon this victory, the historians say,
Strongbow; one of the English officers
undery Biarmid, married Diarmid's
daughter and assumed the throne OF
Leinstsr upon his rather -in-laws death
ihf1l71. After all this. Henry is said
to have gone to Ireland, furthered the
conquest established Dublin Castle as
the seatlof Irish government, appointed
Huge de Lacy as governor, and given
Dublin to the citizens of Bristol. Rurie
,O,Connor held,out for long time. and
Henrysrirgotiated with him, but he fl
nally retired to a monastery in 1883,
and ireland became the land of
tragedy
If the English Pope thought himself
privileged to dispose Of Ireland to
Henry. or If Henry simply sent Strong
bow or someone else to seize Ireland,
hmakes little difference to the essential
facts herein contained. They set out
in brief outline the one great charac-
>teristic of Ireland developed by the
conquest, which was and is Ireland's
absolute refusal to. be conquered or to
surrender her nationality even after
. these centuries of starvation and the
sword. And down through the years
this fact has been the cornerstone in.
the policy of every man who rose to
leadership, among the Irish people, And
upon a Willingness to mporariSe with
ittwas founded the ruin of many bril-
liant aspirants. - -
Indeed, not only has one leader after
another come to power in Ireland by
this appeal to the Irish instinct of
resistance to English rule, but it is
a fact that repeated immigrations of
English, Welsh and Scotch and even
OF other racial groups, have not only
failed to disturb the essential unity OF
the Irish people but these immigra-
tions. with the exception Of portion
Of the Scotch element in Ulster, in
variably and rapidly coalesced with
the existing population, and, as Mr.
De Valera was sfond of saying in
America. became more Irish than
the Irish themselves"
And, if il is curious, it is neverthe-
less true that Of the great Irishmen to
whose patriotism and even martyrdom
Ireland gives deepest homage the
greatest of them are men who were not
fellow -worshippers with the Irish
masses in the Church of Rome, but
firm and sturdy Protestants. Witness
Robert Emmet. Wolf Tone, Henry
Grattan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald,
Thomas Davis, Smith O'Brien, Isaac
Butt, Charles Stewart Parnell, and,
even among the living, one who yes
terday affixed in Ireland's name his
signature to the agreement in Down.
ing Street, Capt. Robert Barton,
Henry Grattan was the soul and
spirit of the Irish parliament Of 1882,
which since that time has been known
. as "Grattan's Parliament Against
every odd he fought for Irish nation
ality, and his address. at the closing
session-preceeding the enforcement
of the Act of Union, the enactment of
which. according to Mr.. Gladstone was
one OF the blackest pages in British
history-lives in Ireland as one of the
most patriotic orations.
Picturesque Leaders.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald was one Of
the most. picturesque figures in the
history OF the movement that led to
the Revolution. of 1898, a revolution
almost entirely directed by Protest
ants. In this connection it might be
well to quote Grattan for the motive
underlying this movement. He said
"The Irish Protestant can never be
free till the Irish Catholic has ceased
to be slave" by which he referred
TO various discriminatory measures
against Catholics, among which was
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