20 November 2015
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 50
• Bishop of Limerick, Edward O’Dwyer
The paper carries a letter from Edward O’Dwyer, the Catholic Bishop of Limerick, condemning the treatment of young Irish emigrants in Liverpool who were attacked as ‘shirkers’ by “a brutal English mob” because they would not join the British Army.
“Their crime is that they are not ready to die for England. Why should they?” The Bishop states that the war is England’s not Ireland’s.
Following the execution of the 1916 leaders O’Dwyer published a scathing open letter to General Maxwell which aroused widespread sympathy for their cause.
The paper also reports Volunteer manoeuvres on the Northside of Dublin with the alarming headline ‘Carnage at Coolock’!
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