The Irish Worker

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Saturday, April 11, 1925 THE IRISH WORKER 3 IN MEMORIAM! PEADAR MACKEN Irish National Painters' Society I. R. B. Killed in Action, Boland's Mill EASTER WEEK, 1916. SEAN CONNOLLY CAPT. IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Died in Action EASTER WEEK, 1916. JIM CONNOLLY Acting General Secretary, I.T. & G.W.U. IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Commandant Irish Republican Army. EXECUTED MAY 12th, 1916. WILLIAM PATRICK PATRIDGE Amelignated Union of Engineers, Organiser I.T. & G.W.U. COMMANDANT IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Died from wounds received during EASTER WEEK, 1916. JAMES McCORMACK IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. RICHARD CARROLL Secretary, Brick and Bonelayers' Army I. R. B. Died from wounds received in Action MAY, 1916. JOHN O'BEILLY IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. MICHAEL MALLIN Silk Weavers' Mallion Organiser I.T. & G.W.U. CHIEF OF STAFF IRISH CITIZEN ARMY EXECUTED MAY, 1916. CHARLES D'ARCY IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. J. F. ADAMS IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. GEORGE GEOGHEGAN IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. JAMES CORCORAN IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. MICHAEL DOUGHERTY IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Died 1920 from wounds received EASTER WEEK, 1916. PHILIP CLARKE IRISH CITIZEN ARMY Killed in Action. EASTER WEEK, 1916. Unionmen who gave their Lives Fighting for Liberty and a Workers' Republic Easter Week, 1916! Like the flesh of a meteor causing consternation to British Imperialism and carrying exhilaration to every man and organisation that had ever mouthed or meant the slogan "Ireland a Nation," came the slogan to the power and might of the suppressors of our ancient nation in that now historic Easter Week of 1916. What could it mean? How dare the British Imperialism while embarrass in a death struggle to consolidate its power throughout the world. Even the stolid British worker felt that it was not playing the game when he was at war for the defence of small nations according to the teaching of his mesters. He knows a little better now and is still learning what were and are the lessons of the Rising to the insurgent working class. Was it a mass rising? No. Unfortunately there had been no serious attempt to mobilise the great mass of the working class and these masses remained spectators instead of participants in the struggle. Was it a National insurrection? It was and yet it was not. The national forces and the subsequent history of Ireland in these last nine years is showing clearly the reason for the division. Nine years after the events of Easter Week we see former rebels now acting as his Britannic Majesty's Ministers of State. We see Treason Acts being passed by men who claimed to fight for Ireland, to prevent their former conrades from carrying on the fight to its successful conclusion against British Imperialism. "At was a glorious fight against unlimited odds, but it was not a fight directed by a clearly revolutionary party pledged not…