The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann (Volume 2, Number 35)

The huge public funeral for O’Donovan Rossa is reported and it is estimated that at least 5,000 rifles were carried in the procession. Pearse’s famous speech is given in summary. There is an interview with Rossa’s widow who recalls his last days. She dismisses the spurious report in an English daily paper that her husband had become reconciled with British rule in his last days.

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The Volunteer organisers who were ordered to leave Ireland had refused to go and were prosecuted as a result and there are reports of the trial of Liam Mellows in Dublin and Herbert Moore Pim and Denis McCullough in Belfast. All were imprisoned for defying the banishment order. The evidence presented in the case of Mellows was deemed confidential and was not revealed in court. The magistrate Swifte commented that the facts “might be of a highly confidential character”.

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