21 August 2015
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2, Number 37
It is reported that Bishop O’Dwyer of Limerick has issued a public appeal to John Redmond to support the Pope’s call for a peace conference to end the war. Redmond rejects the call, saying it “would not be calculated to promote the cause of peace”.
Summer training camps have been taking place and the C.O. of the Wicklow camp reports that they marched from the camp at Tiknock into the O’Donovan Rossa funeral and back again to Tiknock that night.
Cumann na mBan reports that branches from Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Limerick and Liverpool took part in the funeral.
The paper commences a lengthy series on ‘The Crossmaglen Conspiracy’ a notorious case in the 1880s when 13 men from South Armagh were wrongly convicted and falsely imprisoned by the British government.
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