Evening journal., 1922-01-09


throne. and such relief as he was
able to AFFORD vanished when he abdi-
Gated. ireland joined him and fought
valiantly against the Crown. even
after he Battle OF the Boyne in 1871
In 1898, al Wexford. Father Mur-
ply set forth with his small, inspired
band. only to die on the scaffold
And then came the great Fenian up
rising Of 1865, lasting until 1858.
Something Gained Each Time
Every one Of these successive rebel
lions gained in strength. Every
one was rewarded by some success
despite the fate of the leaders there
or
Finally. on April 25. 1915, the new
Irish party-the Sim Fein owe our
selves )-hoistcd its fag over the
Dublin Post Ohice. and proclaimed
ireland republic. The bloody
Faster rebellion followed and so
terrific was this outburst that Eng
land knew that IL was engaged in
a death struggle with the embattled
island that had been working up TO
this point since 1884. when Henry
Lord Of Ireland.
Incident to these seven specified
outbursts against English rule there
were numerous concessions made by
the Crown. Each concession mark
ed step upward for ireland and
each famed the nationalist flame to
hotter FIRE First there was the
empty National Parliament during
the reign OF James the First and the
obviously inert laws aimed at equal
ity in the courts OF Catholic and
Protestant.
Through all this hghting' from
Henry to the present date. the re-
ligious factor has been a fundamen-
tai n not the immediate, point at
issue.
In 1888 the British Parliament
adopted the act OF renunciation. In
the future according to this made
Quate law. Ireland was to have her
own Parliament and was to make
her own laws. In vain did Ireland
protest that she could make no laws
for herself unless taxes were so ad-
justed that she could catch her fin
ancial breath. The act OF renuncir
asmuch as the peasantry had been
reduced TO beggary The great
Irish Parliament closed for all time
when Father Murphy's uprising start
ed
The came the Pitt plan in 1900
and the rise Of Daniel O'Connoll.
lditle by little the English grip was
slipping and Ireland was getting ser
for the final battle. She reached
the depths OF degradation. however.
when the great famine OF 1916 de-
scended upon her. Two million OF
her inhabitants starved to death
Four millions ied to America.
After Famine. Home Rule
But the famine marked the low
point. after II came the rebound.
The corn laws resulted from the
famine. Wheat was permitted to
enter ireland free OF duty. ireland
grew in strength. out Of this strength
came the Fenlans. father OF Sim
b Fein. and out of the Fenian rebel
lion came Gladston first home
rule bill and the land purchasing
act whereby lrishmen might obtain
Irish soil by purchase. This wa a
o. long step forward.
{ The home rule bill was rejected
Z by London. So was Mr. Gladstone's 8
second measure in 1893 The made
r quate land purchase act was made
more sincere and liberal ia 1903
when the restoration of the land 10
the people was seriously undertaken
for the first time.
Next came Asquith's home rule bill
of 1914 and the uprising Of Carson
and his 100000 Ulster volunteers.
They said that the passage OF the
Asquith measure meant that they
would fight south ireland to the
< death.
u The world war came. and with IT
e the new Sim F'ein party-a lustier.
y younger and more numerous party
n than ever had menaced the Crown.
Saturdays acceptance Of the peace
II treaty and the establishment OF the
d Irish Free State came out Of tho Sim
7. Fcin uprising just as the Slim Fein
Il Issued from the progressive upris-
g ings cited above Sir Roger Case
is ment. afterward hanged as a traitor
e returned from Germany with the
/. news that instigated Sim Fein ia
n the Faster uprising OF 1915. Padria,
d II. Pearse was chosen provisional
n President OF the new republic. Tho
r. ensuing carnage lasted until Apri
% 30. Forty thousand British troop,
swarmed into ireland.
n England cried aloud that the IN.
rising was German born: hat Ire
land was fighting the enemies OF the
Kaiser. Ireland replied that she wa,
lighting for ireland and was privii
eyed 10 take advantage OF anythins
that fetched her nearer her goal
independence. Pearse was executes
along with a half dozen othei
leaders and Eamonn de Valera wal
elected President OF the Irish Re
public
Repression Fails.
Orders Of repression issued n,
London choked the general uprisin,
into mere guerrilla warfare which
it so developed. was deadlier an,
more brutal than any precedint
open conflict had been. There wer
murders and reprisals by both sides
Whole towns were burned and. /
ireland needed an ultimae urgins
ID was supplied by the BLACK am
Tans The acts Of repression (Sep
tember. 1912 falling to wipe ou
either Sim Fein or the Dan Eireanr
the British Parliament passed IN
new Government OF ireland act d
December. 192O-a makeshift durin
II which an attempt at something per
manent could be made
This act created a parliament 10