The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-23
Waterbury, Conn. October 21, 1881.


 Editor Waterbury Democrat:
 Dear Sir:
 Under the heading, Emotion ran high at meeting of the Patrick Sarsfield club" an article appeared recently in a copy of a local paper. Mir Timothy Luddy, a one time president of the Patrick Sarsfield club is extensively quoted in said article. The Patrick Sarsreld club was the local camp of the Clan-No- Gael, an organization affiliated with the Irish Republican Broth. erhood" in Ireland. The objective of the Irish Republican Brother. hood was not some vague form Of amelioration to come out of q Brit ish parliament and drafted by British ministers, but an independ- ent republic on Irish soil, and any one acquainted with Irish history could see the impossibiiity of such a miracle as the winning of this objective through mere persuas- Ion, or by constitutional methods. They, the q. R. B., stood for the building-up of an armed force which could achieve the goal by military means. In this they were fully supported by the Clan No-Gael, The objective of the II. R. B." is today the objective of their successor. the Irish Re- publican Army and their meth ods are today the methods of the II. R. Al, and today the Irish Republican Army" Is alone. sup- ported by that organization, which has been for the past two genera tions the spearhead in America of every movement which has aimed to support every effort made in Ireland to establish an independent Irish republic. That organization Is the Clan-No-Gael.
 Prior to the truce the Clan-No- Gael attracted to it's ranks men who saw the possibility of serving their own interests in American politics by making Ireland an issue.
 Those professional Irish men were often belligerently Irish" to the extent of violently proclaiming their national origin, when nothing was to be lost thereby, but a lot gained in the way of Irish votes and support. by means of which, they could gain their objective, which may be a political appointment in their respective city or state as the case may be.
 The Patrick sarsiield Club of this city had its coterie of professional Irish men, that also used the Irish question as a means to forward their own political interests, and in the days that followed the World war, when the l. R. A. was strik- ing at British rule in Ireland. they could be found lustily cheering for the republic. But, alas, at the first evidence of compromise, they were drawn by those leaders. who for reasons best known to themselves. were frightened by the name "re- public" here in this great republic of the west, and with those leaders they retraated into the Free state camp. thereby severing all counec- tions with that organization known as the Clan -No-Gael. Such are the members of that Patrick Sarsfield club, which today. considers the irish Question a domestic one, and which no longer functions for the purpose for which 1t was intended. But in that Patrick sarsoeld club of pre-truce days there were other members, members who considered the Irish Republic" proclaimed by Pearce in 1e16 and ratified by the Irish people in 1919, a living, concrete thing. To them 1t was not a mere abstraction, or ladder to climb to power, or some obligation to be discarded when it could no longer suit, they continued to keep the spark agioW, when their former comrades, accepted that British manufactured articles called the irish Free State" as comprom- iso," by determined effort and hard, steady work. until the day came, when they could hand the work over to othcr mon. inon younger in years. blst men to whom fhe causc of Ireland had
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