The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 58

This issue has an unusually graphic front page with the striking headline ‘Ireland’s Ruin’ which states that the future increase of the Annual British Imperial Charge on Ireland will be £8.8 million. 

Francis Sheehy Skeffington addressed a meeting in the Foresters’ Hall, Parnell Square on his return from America. The meeting was chaired by James Connolly and Sheehy Skeffington reported that Irish-American opinion was largely pro-German, with even members of Redmond’s organisation in the USA now opposing his policy.  

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