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Each week, we look back at what was 鈥渋n the news鈥� the same week 100 years ago 鈥� as reported in the Cork Examiner in 1916.

By Niall Murray, the Irish Examiner

 

 

Monday, February 21, 1916

  • RESTRICTION OF PAPER | IMPORTANT NOTICE

To Readers of the 鈥淓xaminer.鈥�

It is expected that the Government proposals, which entail heavy curtailment of supplies to newspaper owners and others, will be shortly enforced. This will necessarily lead to a reduction in the size of newspapers, and no waste of any kind on the printed editions can be permitted. Agents and Vendors will, therefore, be good enough to exercise the most rigid economy in ordering present supplies.

Tuesday, February 22 1916 

 

  • KILLARNEY PRIEST VOLUNTEERS

Rev. Donal O鈥橲ullivan, Professor, St. Brendan s Seminary, Killarney, has volunteered as chaplain to the forces.

  • COUNT BERNSTORFF U.S. INDIGNANT.

New York, February 20th.

All the morning newspapers indicate their displeasure with big headlines, and many practically accuse Count Bernstorff of having turned the German Embassy into a publicity bureau for the purpose of influencing American sentiment into pro-Teutonic channels, through the systematic giving out of misleading statements.

The 鈥淗erald鈥檚鈥� Washington correspondent says鈥擳hreats that a certain Ambassador will be sent home if the unfair Press propaganda does not cease are made by an official who is in a position to make such threats good.

The ambassador鈥檚 dismissal could have thrown the Rising plans into disarray. Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff was the diplomat in New York who was relaying messages to Berlin of the required arrangements to supply guns for the Irish Republican Brotherhood鈥檚 planned Rising at Easter.

  

Wednesday, February 24, 1916 

This ad is for one of the family businesses of Tom谩s MacCurtain command-ant of the Irish Volunteers Cork Brigade, and his brother Se谩n. Tom谩s took on the flax mill, factory and shop at Thomas Davis Street in Blackpool the year before, and it was there he would be shot dead by police as Cork鈥檚 Lord Mayor in March 1920, in front of his wife Elizabeth.

 

 

Friday, February 15, 1916 

  • THE WOMAN OFFICIAL (From to-day鈥檚 鈥淒aily Chronicle鈥�).

Paris, Thursday.

Much has been written about the employment of women in private offices and businesses in France, as well as in the capacity of ticket collectors on the Metropolitan railway and in tram cars. The movement has gone much further than this, however. In the Government offices in public and municipal administrations...the employment of women is being more and more generalised. Not merely as heretofore as copyists or shorthand typists, but as recognised officials occupying posts requiring personal initiative and responsibility. In this sense the war has wrought a veritable revolution here.

The opening of such situations to women has, it is said, given excellent results... They have introduced a happy change from the impersonal mechanical conceptions of their work, which their male predecessors too often displayed.

 

Saturday, February 26, 1916

  • MAGDALEN鈥橲 ASYLUM.

PEACOCK LANE

Tomorrow, as has been announced in our advertising columns, the annual Charity Sermon in aid of St Mary Magdalen鈥檚 Asylum, Peacock Lane. will be preached by the Rev. Father Matthew, O.S.F.C. By the help of contributions of the Cork people, and by the work of the inmates, this institution has been able to carry out a most noble and meritorious charity for more than a century.

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Some more of what we now know was being done 100 years ago this week by those planning 鈥� or who would play a role in 鈥� the 1916 Rising.

Compiled by Nial Murray, the Irish Examiner

 

Tom Clarke seen outside his shop at 75a Parnell Street. [Photo: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland, Tom Clarke and Kathleen Clarke Papers, 1890-1972, NLI Ref.: TC 13]

 

  • Following the slap on the wrist of a one-shilling court fine for Irish Volunteers full-time organiser and publisher of Fianna F谩il newspaper Terence MacSwiney, concerns were raised in the mind of the RIC Inspector General Neville Chamberlain about the organisation鈥檚 growing influence. 鈥淎lready, as exemplified by the action of Justices at Cork Police Court, who though no Sinn F茅iners dismissed charges brought against Irish Volunteers under the Defence of the Realm Regulations, which were clearly proved, they appear to have acquired more influence,鈥� he wrote in a report to Dublin Castle in March. MacSwiney had been charged with making a speech likely to cause disaffection to the King and hostility to His Majesty鈥檚 Government at Ballynoe, Co Cork, on January 2, and with having a cypher capable of conveying military or naval information at his home in the city鈥檚 Victoria Road when he was arrested 11 days later. Liam de R贸iste, a Cork city Irish Volunteers activist and friend of MacSwiney recorded in his diary: 鈥淭he 鈥榩opular鈥� magistrates knew they dare not convict, if they would retain popularity.鈥� The case against Thomas Kent of Castlelyons, Fermoy, relating to the event at Ballynoe was adjourned for a week.
  • The shop of veteran Fenian Tom Clarke at Parnell St in Dublin was visited by Edward Daly, and Se谩n MacDiarmada, Clarke鈥檚 co-conspirator on the Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council that had already set Easter Sunday on April 23 as the date for the Rising to start. The Irish Volunteers headquarters at 2 Dawson St, Dublin, were visited by four of the men who would be executed after the Rising: Eamonn Ceannt, Se谩n MacDiarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, and Michael O鈥橦anrahan. Also attending meetings there, according to Dublin Metropolitan Police detectives, were Volunteers founder Bulmer Hobson, James Whelan, Herbert Mellows, and Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy was an organiser for the growing armed militia, and had spent several weeks helping to set up and organise Volunteers companies in Co Cork in late 1915.
  • Gaelic League offices at 25 Rutland Square (now Parnell Square) were the location of a meeting between Michael Joseph O鈥橰ahilly, Se谩n T 脫 Ceallaigh, Se谩n McGarry, and Patrick Pearse. O鈥橰ahilly, known as 鈥榯he O鈥橰ahilly鈥�, would later be killed after being shot in a laneway off Moore St after the evacuation of the GPO in the later stages of the Rising.
  • Police saw Tom Clarke leaving Dublin, possibly on his way to recuperate in Limerick from a gunshot wound received accidentally at the end of January. (The DMP believed his lengthy absence from his under-surveillance shop had been due to a cold.) Clarke also met on this date with Se谩n MacDiarmada, also planning the Rising with him, and IRB Supreme Council member Diarmuid Lynch who had helped identify Fenit in Co Kerry for the proposed landing of German guns. Clarke鈥檚 shop was visited by his aide, Se谩n McGarry 鈥� the man who shot him a few weeks earlier 鈥� and by Con Colbert and Edward Daly, two others who would be executed after the Rising, along with Clarke.
  • An article in The Gael, one of the 鈥榤osquito press鈥� being closely monitored by police, said 鈥淩emember England holds you in slavery by having a few policemen in every village. See that there is man for man at least鈥� the time is short, perhaps too short.鈥�
  • James Connolly was seen leaving Dublin by train by DMP detectives. This may have coincided with a trip he made to Belfast around this time, where he told local members of the Irish Volunteers: 鈥淚t is a mistake to fight only in the country 鈥� fight in the towns,鈥� pointing out that there would be a plentiful food supply in urban areas. One man there, James Smyth, told the Bureau of Military History in 1949: 鈥淚 believe that the main purpose of the lecture was to impress on the Belfast Volunteers the imminence of an armed rising taking place.鈥�
  • 100 Irish Volunteers carrying guns and pikes marched up and down several times during a recruiting meeting at Stuake near Donoughmore, Co Cork. Police reported a crowd of 40 people stood cheering 鈥淯p Sinn F茅in鈥�. Earlier, freshly-posted anti- recruiting notices were found, advising a boycott of the British Army and carrying a copy of the Bishop of Limerick鈥檚 鈥榥otorious letter鈥� saying Irishmen have no interest in the war.
  • 60 Irish Volunteers interrupted a military recruiting meeting at Moycullen, Co Galway, forcing their way through it. The leader was prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Regulations and jailed.
  • DMP reported 鈥渁bout 150 Sinn F茅in Volunteers鈥� assembling at 41 Rutland Square, under command of Edward Daly and Joseph McGuinness. Some of the original documents from which these accounts are based include:

 

Sources

Bureau of Military History (BMH) witness statements, and the BMH timeline, both accessible on the Military Archives website: www.militaryarchives.ie ( @dfarchives )

Dublin Metropolitan Poice (DMP) 鈥楳ovement of Extremists鈥� files, digitised and uploaded to the National Archives website: www.nationalarchives.ie ( @NARIreland )

Monthly reports of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) inspector general and county inspectors, accessed on microfilm at the special collections department of 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork鈥檚 Boole Library

The Irish Revolution Project

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