The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann, Volume 2 - Number 51

Most of this issue is taken up with the case of an Irish Volunteer officer and national teacher, Jeremiah O’Connell of Caherciveen, Co. Kerry. 

O’Connell was reprimanded by the British Board of Education in Dublin for being a member of the Irish Volunteers.

 In a letter to the manager of Filemore Boys National School, the Rev. Browne, parish priest of Cahirciveen, the Secretary of the Board, N.W. Bonaparte Wyse describes the Volunteers as “an organisation which is openly hostile to the Government of Ireland, and to recruitment for the forces of the Crown” and membership as “most improper and unbecoming to a National Teacher”. 

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