IRISH NEWS

New Zealand Tablet, 23 September 1920, Page 31

IRISH NEWS

GENERAL. The Cork Sinn Fein Executive has strictly forbidden canvassing for any public appointments, and declare that any breach of the rule will disqualify a candidate. At a public welcome in Enniscorthy, Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney, advocate'H self-determination for Ireland, and said as long as the people at home were united on a practical policy Australia would be at their back. A Dublin correspondent says that within the past few weeks the defences of Dublin Castle have been considerably strengthened, and that double rows of barbed wire have been placed in the upper Castle yard. The guards have been doubled. Carrick-on-Suir Urban Council decided to publicly burn the claims received for compensation for the burning of Carrickbeg Police Barrack and Sergeant Daughton's furniture. The Council directed the clerk to send the minutes of the meetings and all information required to Dail Eireann in future. Two Volunteer despatch riders have informed John Lacey that they have not recovered any more of the money found at Mulhuddart in connection with which they have three men in custody, but they were hopeful of good results. Mrs. Dunne, wife of one of the men detained, received a letter by post from her husband, stating that he is being well treated and that he would soon return. The unusual sight of a large Sinn Fein flag flying at the head of the flagstaff on the Admiralty Pier at Queenstown has been witnessed by the townspeople and by hundreds of naval men, soldiers, and dockyard workers. The flag was hoisted by the workers of the Cork Harbor Commissioners. The flagstaff, to which the Sinn Fein colors are attached, belongs to the Cork Harbor Board, who passed a resolution recently ordering the Sinn Fein flag to be hoisted in future on their steamers and flagstaffs instead of the Red Ensign. IRISH CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND. St. Patrick's Hall, Manchester, was packed by an enthusiastic gathering of Irishmen recently, who were addressed by Messrs. Sean Milroy and W. Sears M.P. Mr. Milroy said they hoped to convert many Unionists and the others would receive the toleration accorded to minorities in other countries. Mr. Sears said Sir Hamar Greenwood appeared to be as ignorant of Canadian history as he was of Irish history, otherwise he would not be supporting the Partition Bill. British militarism trampled on Canadian freedom 80 years ago, and England tried partition and imposed sham Home Rule. The result was an Easter week rising followed by executions, arrests, and deportations, and the Mayor of Toronto had an experience similar to that lAlt1 Al t T ?^ e } l .y- And When the Greenwoods and fhey tughttr. time had failed Canadians — 6d aII LORD HENRY BENTINCK ON THE IRISH QUESTION. Lord II C. Bentinck, M.P., writes to the Times expressing the hope.that the Prime Minister will cut himself loose from the reactionary influences which are 3 upon him the responsibility for the policy and has irritated the Irish into acts of criminal folly, perpetual 5. lrel f lld re S ards as inte » ded to UIJS a Sf Unha PP- y cleavage between North-East Ulster and the rest of Ireland. * j The Irish rock remains as dangerous as «w and it carries no conviction to be told that the" Prime

Minister and his Liberal colleagues are engaged m restoring law" and order in Ireland. "Such is the universal plea of the incompetent tyrant. The Irish are not by nature either criminal or disloyal they are as responsive to good government as any-other body of people. Irish disorders are provoked by the misconduct of the Government, which consists in ignoring what Lord Morley terms the grand eternal commonplaces of liberty and self-government, in deliberately preferring the interests of the minority to those of the majority. The Way of Peace—Liberty. "There can be no peace in Ireland "until there is a frank acceptance of that principle which is deemed essential to the good government and happiness of every other nation in Europe. Let the Government of Ireland represent the majority of the nation,. and not the minority. "Let a Constituent Assembly be elected, as Sir Horace Plunkett and Lord Hugh Cecil suggest, and let the Irish be made responsible for the healing of those unhappy divisions which are largely the result of a bad form of government. Irresponsibility is the bane of Ireland. It is irresponsibility which causes Sinn Fein to put forward demands which are fatal to a united Ireland; and it is the knowledge that it can rely on Mr. Bonar Law and Lord Birkenhead that enables Ulster to persist in its irresponsible and cynical regard for the welfare of the Irish nation. "Although the settlement of Ireland can safely be left to Irishmen, it is encouraging to remember that in Canada apparently irreconcilable differences of race and creed were healed by the grant of responsible selfgovernment. Once given responsibility, Canadian statesmanship solved the problem; a Dominion Parliament united the nation in the conduct of major matters of government, while Provincial Assemblies safeguarded the idiosyncrasies and rights of the different provinces. In Ireland such an arrangement would satisfy the aspirations of the Irish people for national unity, while it would give Ulster all the guarantees it had a right to expect."

BRITISH LABOR AND IRELAND. A message to the Evening Jars says the following resolution was adopted at the National Union of General Workers Conference at Aberdeen-—" This congress repudiates the hellish deeds perpetrated by this fiendish Government in the British name in India, Egypt Ireland, and other places. It calls on the Labor Party m the House of Commons and throughout the country to repudiate any agreement made by the present house of thieves with any other capitalistic Government or the like, and inform the suffering people of all lands that a Labor party will upon attaining office pursue a policy of self-determination for all nations. At the Labor Party Conference at Scarborough a motion was adopted declaring the time had passed for half-measures, and demanding the right of the Irish people to political independence, and fhat the Govern - me t should at once provide for an election by rroLmbTv t Re P r T eß T ta i ion ? aU °P 6II Constituent lsSh Sn all Ireland and the withdrawal of the Britan Army of Occupation. An amendment in favor of an all-Ireland Parliament for exclusively Irish affairs within the British Empire was defeated on a card vo e