12 February 2016
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 62
Eoin Mac Néill condemns John Redmond and his party for trying to recruit young Irishmen to the British Army.
In Galway Irish Party MP Tom O’Donnell spoke at a recruiting meeting with the English Viceroy and “said that everybody in Ireland who does not dance to the tunes of the English gramophone is ‘contemptible’”. At the same time Mac Néill states that “if any Irishman is convinced that he will serve Ireland by becoming a British soldier, and if he acts on that conviction, he is a patriotic and brave man”.
Like many of Mac Néill’s articles this is long and often convoluted in argument. It is in stark contrast to the content and tone of James Connolly’s ‘Workers’ Republic’ which was being read avidly by Pearse and others of the Military Council who at this time were planning the Rising, unknown to Mac Néill.
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