The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 65

It is reported that Terence Mac Swiney of Cork, a senior Volunteer officer, was accused of inciting the murder of John Redmond. This accusation was made by a Crown lawyer at Mac Swiney’s trial. The Irish Independent printed the accusation as if it appeared in evidence, which it did not, nor was Mac Swiney charged with any such offence. The Indo printed Mac Swiney’s letter of protest at its report but in an editorial note accused him of lying. “We have come upon strange times when Irishmen of the highest character are represented as murderers, and when the answer to their protest is to call them liars,” comments Mac Néill. 

The paper also records the complaint of Sir Morgan O’Connell, the pro-British descendant of Daniel O’Connell, that recruiting to the British Army is dead because “the open and avowed, pro-German, anti-recruiting, Sinn Féin element has been allowed to spread and to spread until every village in Kerry is rotten with it”.  

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