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...Easter Monday, 1916, during World War I, a few thousand determined Irishmen decided that "Britain's extremity is Ireland's opportunity" and thought the time ripe for revolt. As a popular rising, the Easter Rebellion was a decided flop. In only four of the country's 32 counties did Irishmen take to arms. Only one small but aggressive group of people took part in it. The majority of Irishmen thought it was foolishly timed, were more angry than sympathetic about the commotion it caused...
...there were 4,000,000 Irish of the U. S.'s 24,000,000 population. Irish influence in U. S. affairs-particularly politics-was growing yearly. Most Irishmen were Democrats, and after the Civil War Irish-run political machines kept the Democratic Party alive in the North. They virtually elected Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. Secretary of State John Hay forever claimed that his hands were tied by bitter Irish anti-British sentiment, and it was the Irish voter who not only forced Cleveland to take a strong stand against Great Britain in the Venezuelan crisis...
...Type. The Ireland from which de Valera came to the U. S. in 1919 was not the same island from which Irishmen had fled to the U. S. in the times of Cromwell and William of Orange, not the same island whose people fled to the U. S. during the potato famines of a century ago. Meanwhile, it had had a cultural renaissance. Irishmen had begun again to take poetic pride in their land, with its purple mountains, its lakes and glens peopled with green-coated, leather-aproned leprechauns, the heather-crowned hills of Donegal, the rocky outlines...
...delegates were men long dead: John Bates, who founded the first U. S. miners' union in 1849, and failed; the thousands of British diggers who flocked over to man U. S. coal mines during the industry's Civil War boom, and remained to foster unionism; the violent Irishmen who were called Molly Maguires; sainted John Siney, whose Miners' National Association of the U. S. rose, fell, and left him dying (of a broken heart, some said); the Knights of Labor, "one big union" for all workers; whiskered John Rae, first U. M. W. A. president, whose...
Since the I. R. A. has more than once killed prominent Irishmen who voted to suppress it, the Dail strove to protect its members' lives by balloting in secret last week, and the vote was announced as 82-to-9 favoring de Valera's emergency bill. The Senate followed 62-to-7, and straight way de Valera sent out 5,000 Special Police armed with rifles to hunt down the I. R. A. All ports of Eire and the frontier with Northern Ireland were carefully manned and police with rifles took over what amounted to military guard...