OUR IRISH BROTHERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 430, 9 August 1915, Page 2

OUR IRISH BROTHERS.

THEIR RECORD IN THE AVAR.

AN INTERESTING REVIEW

Speaking al. Vac mass meeting in tli<‘ Town Hall. Auckland, on Wednesday evening, when the loyally i and determination of the communiUy with regard to the Imperial war policy were, reaffirmed, Air. P- J. Nerhenv submitted some exceedingly interesting information regarding the part that Ireland has played in the. present war. Ib* quoted Air. 'John Redmond, who, in a speech at Manchester in March last, had. said -. “We have 100.000 men from the. soil of Ireland itself. We have 115,000 from t'ao Irish in Great Britain, from Canada. Australia, and NewZealand J have good means of information, because 1 am in close touch with men in every one of these colonies, and I have been told'that |an enormous, and quite a surprising proportion of those contingents are Irishmen born, or the sons of Irish-

men. Therefore, it is no exaggeration for me to state that at tins moment the Irish race has at the front a quarter of a million of her sons.’ ..... , “Turning to prominent individual Irishmen’.” Air. Nerheny said: ’Sir Joan French comes from, a good Roscommon stock. Admiral Beatty comes from Wexford. Admiral Carden. who in the early stages commanded the fleet which bombarded the Dardanelles, comes from Tipperarv. and when Carden, through ill-health, was forced to resign his command, his place was taken byAdmiral Roebuck, from Kildare. The lieutenant-commander of the (lestrovcr that sank the German submarine No. 8. is from County Clare. If we come down to the rank and file, the name of Mike

O’Leary will be for ever associated with tnis war. and with him large nuniliers of Irishmen who have won I fame and distinction. In South Africa, Air. Nerheny reIminded his audience, an Irisn Brigade was formed, and joined Botha in bis task of defeating the Germans in that country. Coming to the Irish regiments, who hail not. heard with pride of the deeds during the war of the Dublin Fusiliers, the Munster Fusiliers, Connaught Rangers, Royal Irish Rifles, and the Irish Guards, of all 'of which our Empire was proud to--1 day! ~, , T . I iStcphen Glynn. D. Sheehan, I ro■fessor Kettle, William Redmond, and William Archer Redmond (brother and son of the Irish leader), , ;dl of whom were members or exmembers of the Irish party, had enrolled for the front. Well we nngr.t say with the Irish poet of the last century . “Par away- in foreign lands, ironi Dunkirk to Belgrade; Lie th<’ graves of the men ol’ the Jrisli Brigade.”