The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-16
OLD SPIRIT FLARES UP IN SPEECH Irishman Warns England
 Battle Is Not ].
 Over BLOODSHED FOLLOWS FIRST APPEARANCE One Man Killed Tn Dis- turbance After His
 Address 2O,0OO PERSONS
 ATTEND GATHERING Appears Fit And Ready To a I Fight After Year Spent In Prison
BLOODSHED FOLLOWS FIRST APPEARANCE
2O,OOO PERSONS
 ATTEND GATHERING

ENNIS, County Clare, Ire land, Aug. 15.-One man was killed by the military disturb ance which followed Eamon de Walera's first public appear Snce before his Irish repub- Iican" followers since his re- lease from a Free State prison.
 Michael Hartnett, a Tip perary man, was the victim. He was shot by the troops as he was returning from the De Valera meeting, but other de- tails of the killing are thus far unknown.
 De Valera spoke here on the same platform from which he was yanked to prison exactly year ago by Free State eoldiers. The tall, dreamy scholar took alp his task of pleading the use of Irish freedom ih 1ia al role of presi. dent of tie 1fish republic. The Bloody elsIS tliaf dlas dbgaed De Va. iera'a footsteps as lie has sought q path that wapld lead his people to bet ter times and Circumstances still turks about him and after he had delivered his impassioned words of encouragement to his followers the fire that smolders in all Irish hearts flared up and blood was spilled once more. It often has been that way at De Valera meetings.
 Fight Not Over
 De Valera warned England and the Free State that the fight is not over and that no blows are barred.
 'our means of achieving our goal are every available means whereby de- terndined men can win their freedom" " De Valera said.
 Twenty thousand Irish men and wom- en heard De Valera reiterate his dec laration that he would champion the cause of Irish independence. There were delegations present from all parts of Ireland. The fire-eating old ladies who did their share for the republic after the signing of the Anglo Irish treaty by pasting blood-thirsty death threats on the walls of Trinity college, Dublin, were in the crowd. There were farm boys and girls and villagers who learned to hate England as they. sat on the hob in their novels and heard the tale of 700 years of tyranny re- peated as the legend of their country's shame. There were boys from the towns with their sweetheaFts. Many of them had carried rifles and revolvers and potted first the English soldiers that were quartered in their country and then their own countrymen who came to terms with the invaders.
 Crowd Goes Wild
 These were De Valera's own people. With him, they feel that even the faint English aura that hovers over the Tree State government means slavery to a foreign land,
 The crowd went wild when the lanky leader appeared before them, fit de- spite nearly year in Free State prison and ready to take up the fight at the spot where Free State soldiers Interrupted him last August
 Our policy of 1917, 1918 and 1921 l:olds good, De Valera shouted The crowd cheered. It was in 1929 that Irishmen began to shoot each other in earnest and when the battle of the Four Courts was fought in Dublin with one faction of Irishmen sniping out of the windows of the city's greatest public building while another faction pounded 1t to pieces with artillery. Hardly a building in downtown Dublin but what
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