Young Ireland

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PHONE 3319 CONAN, MAULE & CO. 15 Eustace Street — DUBLIN — ROYAL TYPEWRITERS HAMMOND TYPEWRITERS Writs in ENGLISH and IRISH General Office Supplies and Equipment Vol. VII. No. 30. [New Series (a).] SATURDAY, AUGUST 19th, 1922. PRICE TWOPENCE. éire Ós YOUNG IRELAND GRIFFITH MEMORIAL NUMBER GOLDEN MOMENTS WITH ARTHUR GRIFFITH No law, and no series of laws, can make a Nation out of a people which distrusts itself. It is the duty of a free citizen to live so that his country may be the better of his existence. No man can offer Ireland a speedy and comfortable road to freedom, and before the goal is attained many may have fallen and all will have suffered. The strongest allies of England in Ireland are political ignorance, and provincialists masquerading as patriots. The Nation was invisible and inaudible to the world so long as Ireland merged itself in the Parliament of Great Britain. Loyalty is a noble word. Mask it and it becomes more dangerous than the prowling wolf. Patriotism and Liberty are noble words, but masked they have wrought have in civilisation. To-day we have men in Ireland—born in the country, citizens of the country—who use the word Loyalty to cover disloyalty, and who, mained in their own minds, lead a section of Irishmen to similar confusion. The revival of the old national aspiration for Irish freedom seems startling and bewildering to many minds in Ireland, just as God's daylight is dazzling and blinding to a man confined in a dark cellar for years. Let us be men again, and agree to Defend our country for ourselves. Let us be slaves, and offer to defend it for foreigners, and he will mock God who hereafter prays to Him to save Ireland. The war's thunder awoke subconscious reversions into clear impressions. Its blazing fire and fury lit up the world and revealed many things that England had decreed should remain hidden. It revealed Ireland to Europe in its true perspective, and it revealed Ireland to the Irish nation in a way somewhat out of accord with the theories of Imperialism and Provincialism. If we place our duty to our country before our personal interests and live, not each for himself, but each for all, the might of England cannot prevent our ultimate victory. Our misfortunes are manifold, but we are still men and women of a common family, and we are not nation and apology for living in accordance with the laws of our being. It is not British misgovernment, but British government, good or bad, we stand opposed to, and in all hope opposition we seek to band all our fellow-countrymen. His (Dr. O'Dwyer) was the voice which halted and disrayed the march of armed Tyranny when it deemed that it was consummating the Last Conquest of Ireland—his was the voice which spoke for the dead and the voice living—his was the voice that pierced through the prior walls and sent the prior men to their knees in thankfulness to God—his was the voice that lifted up the heart of the people and gave them courage to face undaunted the menace of u…