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league s membership card endorsed:
all ireland here we,
all ireland s liberty;
to right, raise, set free,
our native land ever. t.d.s.
the application of afil s principles of conference, conciliation , consent , win all-ireland home rule – or constitutional nationalism rather doomed path of militant physical force.
many of leading protestant gentry of munster, , representatives of wealthy protestant business , professional community joined league. lord dunraven, lord barrymore, lord mayo , lord castletown, sir john keane of cappoquin, villiers stuart of dromana, moreton frewen, few of more notable adherents supplied political , financial support. amongst orangemen spirit of patriotism stirring – hands stretched out ulster catholics of south. lord rossmore, once grandmaster of orange institution, joined league, sharman crawford , others. unionism declared them discredited creed . nationalist , unionists called upon recognise unwisdom of perpetuating suicidal strife sacrificed them religious bigotry , political exigencies of english partie. league chairperson james gilhooly (mp), honorary secretary d. d. sheehan (mp). central london branch founded dr j. g. fitzgerald (mp) chairman, suggesting disenchantment former parnellite colleagues including john redmond. canon sheehan of doneraile, founder member, spoke , wrote enthusiastically in favour of leagues doctrines. cork free press, published o brien, appeared first time on 11 june 1910 league s official organ , organiser. newspaper in fullest sense, superseding cork accent , 1 of 3 great radical newspapers published in ireland – other 2 being nation, published in dublin in 1840s, , northern star, published in belfast in 1790s.
canon sheehan wrote manifesto of movement first number of cork free press, , asked in long editorial:
we generous people; , yet told must keep sectarian bitterness end; , protestant ascendancy has been broken down, build catholic ascendancy on ruins. in earnest our country @ or seeking perpetuate our wretchedness refusing honest aid of irishmen? why should throw unto arms of england children of ireland our faithful allies, if did not seek disinherit them? weaker brother disinherited stranger naturally enemy ...
england owes world-wide power ... supreme talent of attracting , assimilating hostile elements of subject races ... ireland, alas, has had talent of estranging , expelling own children, , turning them ... deadliest enemies. time should cease, if still retain ambition of creating nation.
all-for-ireland fife , drum band parading through castletownbere co. cork in 1910.
towns had rival afil , aoh bands, clashing on sunday parades.
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