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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 10

A remarkable story connected with the Easter week rebellion in Ireland in 1916 is told in the “Irish Press,” after a lapse of 17 years, by Count Plunkett, lie says that before the rising he went’ to Rome as the envoy of the Irish volunteers, and discussed the struggle for Irish independence with the late Pope Benedict for two hours. He told him that the volunteer executive bad pledged the “Irish Republic” to fidelity to the Holy See. The Pope was much moved when be was told that the date of the rising had been fixed, and iie conferred ihe Apostolic benediction inion the men who were “facing death for Ireland's liberty.”