WILD WORDS AT CORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 2

WILD WORDS AT CORK.

- ■ ■— “MANCHESTER MARTYRS” CELEBRATIONS. « The annual demonstration in memory of the execution of Allen, Larkin, and O’Brien, who were hanged in Salford Gaol in 1867, was held on Sunday, November 24, in Cork. There was a large gathering, and a procession proceeded through the * principal streets. One of the speakers said the only way the freedom of Ireland could be attained was by taking the advice of John Mitchell that every man who had not a gun should sell Ins clothes and buy one. Mr. Bulmer Hobson, who delivered the oration, said had there been no Fenian movement Irishmen in Ireland to-day might be as scarce as the Red Indians on the shores of Manhattan. It was owing to the Fenian movement that there was in Ireland to-day anything worth living or worth fighting for. If they now forgot to honour the memory of Allen, Larkin, and O’Brien they would be a coward race. But they wanted to do something more. They wanted to carry on the work the Fenians tried to do to a triumphant issue. The Fenians stood for an Irish Republic, and so did they. (Applause.) No policy which left Englishmen in possession of Ireland could be regarded as final, no settlement of the Irish question which left England in control of the Irish nation could be regarded as final. There was only one way, and that was to get the absolute and complete independence of Ireland, free from English rule and English domination. The Fenians did not go to the Prime Minister for concession. No, they started into arms, and if the people of the present day believed in that they should arm themselves to get the independence of Ireland. (Applause.) MR. W. A. REDMOND ON ULSTER. William Archer Redmond, M.P., was the principal speaker at the Manchester martyrs demonstration at St. Patrick’s Church, Manchester, on Sunday. He said he firmly believed the people cf Ireland were about to realise the fruit of their national aspirations. Mr. Bonar Law spake of the intensity of the opposition to Home Rule, but he had said nothing of the intensity in favour cf Rome Rule. What would happen if Home Rule were refused ? On whoso shoulders would lie the .responsibility of plunging Ireland into another bloody revolution? Very little was now heard of the wooden guns of Ulster or ol the bluster and bravado of Generalissimo Borabastes Furioso Carsoti.