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Cork, at Cullen -- that is, a meeting for children's singing, and dancing, for adults' bagpipe playing and singing; together with speeches to support the use of the Irish language, and to faster national feeling, strengthen national resistance to consorption from without, and to make towards national unity by self-reliance. For, the meeting was organised by Sinn Fein; that is, trust yourselves alone, be what you are yourselves, look to your own country first.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=291,66,1440,62" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-2", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Some 1,000 or more were there; villagers, school children, young men of clubs with banners, members of the Irish volunteers lately organised in the district; farmers and farmers' sons making up the majority. A priest of the parish was there; the parish priest had sent his wish to be present, had not a funeral called him away. There were a few speakers from Cork.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=324,509,1615,60" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-3", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The police were of course were on the field. Soldiers, for the first time, had been sent into the village, and were quartered at the police carrack. Five aeroplanes were also sent. They whizzed among the people in the village street, dropped one flaming 'rocket' into the crowd, set one thatched roof on fire with another, and, leaving some crying children, and many others who hurried into the village church, they flew backwards and forwards for an hour over the field meeting and its platform, coming esse close enough almost for a raised hand to touch, thus, perfectly managed, drowning all other sound of speech and song, and sailing away for another charge; all to excite wondering ave (as by the shouts of the aeroplanes' occupants one might judge), and to excite fears by their 'bombs', of which a few score perhaps were thrown throughout the hour of the visits - looking as they did at first like fireworks, but proving to be what seemed to be called lighter bombs, falling, in flame, with a thud to be heard half the field off, then leaping up, often, some twenty or thirty feet, into the next field, or into a hedge, everything going on fire where they settled. As it seemed, a blow from one falling would have killed; those standing close enough would have been burned. But the 'bombs' did not fall nearer to the people than a few yards. One little girl flinched, but soon stepped forward again in line, and clasped the hand of the next child, while they sang; all holding in their hands little objects of religious devotion or memory; not without trembling, indeed, as those seated behind them could see. Yet that trembling was not much. Perhaps those who could reflect more, trembled more; thinking that worse might be intended upon us; or that some youth might fire or throw, and give cause for killing; or thinking of England and Ireland in 1918. 'Swine!' the exclamation on one side. And probably on the other. Whether equally deserved, readers may judge.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=288,815,1571,60" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-4", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The object appeared to be to disperse the gathering, to drive the people into their houses, to terrify. Terrified, some may have been. Terrorised, few, if any. As a net result, the meeting, continuing to its close in peace, seemed an epitome of ireland at this hour -- no declamation, no violence, no hissing or shouting (nothing but a few answering cheers to the attacks, that day); but, determination, or resolve, or resignation; confidence of the people in themselves, hope in a world that may listen to Ireland's voice, or at least a mind convinced and made up that they see and know the enemy. And: \"I do not set my life at a pin's fee.\" The \"credulous optimism\" of the Irish towards England seems dinned out of them -- \"all so pitiful and sad,\" in Canon Shechan's words, \"the eternal story of Irish trustfulness and English perfidy.\" The knowledge of the last four years' partiality between majority and minority in Ireland; of the self-government promising, and no meaning; of the small-nationality preaching, and no practising; of the conventions and draftings to gain time, and do nothing honest and true; of", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=279,2225,1505,49" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-5", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "- 2 -", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2722,68,162,34" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-6", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "of the hopeless word-breaking and scheming -- that is what the four years seem to prove to the Irish, where, in a Sir Thomas Esmonde's recent words, \"no one now believes a single word the Government says\"; such are the facts as seen by the Irish; who at their little meeting-epitome on May 26th, 1918, did not seem surprised that, when (in their bishops' words) war has been declared on them, they should be the object of brutality and covariace, and perforce should have to submit; seeing that Swift's eleven armed men are still a match for one man in his shirt, not to say one child. And what do you think of it? said the priest to the police sergeant. \"Blackguardly conduct,\" was the natural, if not the official answer.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2039,249,1780,53" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-7", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Everyone telt that the organisers of the conduct would desire to refuse publicity, in Ireland, to an account thereof; in Ireland, where publication of weary diplomacy's ways in Secret Fresties is refused; and where a Government counts on credulity coming back. And perhaps credulity will again come; resignation turning to indifference if not to despair; and corruption, through fear, depending on deadlier work; and generosity making again its foolish appeals of right and justice to might; and thus, once more, everything in Ireland and in the Irish being cultivated which would be judged baser or less wise by Englishmen in their own land, and every better, more manly, more sane, more just instinct in Ireland put at a discount by rulers who know not how to practise their own home preachings, and what they say are their nobler wishes for their own, for all unhappy nations, for the whole of this wretched world looking to live and let live. And that - as suggested above - is all that England, in 1918, can plan for Ireland. The pity of it.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2208,850,1555,49" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-8", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The Irish, as at Cullen, are driven to silent hate plus contempt; to defiance; to resolution from despair. And is this conciliation? And is this statesmanship? And is this even wise militarism? Is there in all this, to use century-and-a-half old words of Burke's about English dealings with Ireland, is there, in it all, or in any part of it, common justice, common sense, or common honesty?", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2198,1678,1584,48" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-9", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "\"At any rate,\" writes a young Irish protestant (on that same May 26), \"I would not take in exchange the Ireland of 1914 for that of 1918. We are now completely emancipated from party politicians and capitalists' newspapers. And the Irish nation stand too well the feelings of all those who are in any way afflicted or distressed.\"", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2186,2047,1712,46" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/56767/p01.json#anno-10", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "W. F. P. S.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=3529,2423,328,37" } ] } ] } ], "metadata": [ { "label": { "en": [ "Level of description" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Item" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Date" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "c.1918" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Reference" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "15" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Extent and medium" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "2 pp; Typescript" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Scope and content" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "The article describes a confrontation with the British military during the aeridhacht. It reads ‘during the singing and performances not only were many police present but five aeroplanes appeared and for over an hour circled over the meeting, descending to the closest possible proximity to the crowd and drowning by their din the children’s music, and that flame rockets were dropped from the planes close to the crowd, one of which set light to a thatched roof …’. The article is signed ‘W.F.P.S.’ This is probably William Frederick Paul Stockley, a Sinn Féin politician. The article concludes by declaring that ‘We are not completely emancipated from party politicians and capitalist’ newspapers. And the Irish nation of the future will never be Imperialist’." ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Repository" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Context" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > Pamphlets, Cartoons and Publicity Material > 1916 Rising and War of Independence" ] } } ], "summary": { "en": [ "The article describes a confrontation with the British military during the aeridhacht. It reads ‘during the singing and performances not only were many police present but five aeroplanes appeared and for over an hour circled over the meeting, descending to the closest possible proximity to the crowd and drowning by their din the children’s music, and that flame rockets were dropped from the planes close to the crowd, one of which set light to a thatched roof …’. The article is signed ‘W.F.P.S.’ " ] }, "thumbnail": [ { "id": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T56767.jpg/full/200,/0/default.jpg", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg" } ], "navDate": "1918-01-01T00:00:00Z" }