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Deportation – 1915

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Irish Examiner 15th July, 1915 p.5

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Dublin, Wednesday.
The “Evening Mail” says:-
The Government have ordered two organisers of the Irish Volunteers to leave Ireland, and it is understood they will refuse to obey.
Inquiries at the Headquarters today elicited the fact that Mr. Ernest Blythe and Mr. Liam Mellows have been served with expatriation orders, signed by Major-General Friend, commanding his Majesty’s forces in Ireland.
According to the terms of the order, Messrs. Blythe and Mellows are requested to leave this country before 10 o’clock p.m. on Saturday next, 17th inst. On the 20th they will have to report to the military authorities where they intend to reside, and, if the place is approved of, they will not be allowed to leave the district or country without permission. No charge has been made against either of the men, who have been re-organising companies of the Volunteers in various parts of Ireland. The order was served upon Mr. Blythe early on Monday morning at a hotel in Ennistymon, County Clare. District-Inspector O’Brien and a number of other policemen entered his bedroom before he had arisen. Having read the document, the proposed deportee left by the next train for Dublin. Mr. Mellows was in Athenry when the police conveyed to him the instructions of the Commander-in-Chief. Both men state quite positively that they will not leave Ireland.
Deportation orders have been served upon a number of other men in the Irish Volunteers, but in those cases they were only prohibited from entering certain areas.
Last night Mr. Pim, better known by his nom-de-plume “A. Newman,” a Belfast author, received an order from the military authorities to leave Ireland. Mr. Pim was connected with the Irish Volunteer movement in Ulster.

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The Galway Fisherman – 1915

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Advocate (Melbourne) 29th March 1915 p8

Currach Inishbofin, Galway. Photo: d'Alvaro Wikimedia Commons
Currach
Inishbofin, Galway.
Photo: d’Alvaro
Wikimedia Commons

The Galway Fisherman

Blue waves are softly lapping Innishmann
With gentle swell,
The hardy fisher rising at the dawn
Man’s coracle.

With hasty prayer to guard ‘gainst wind and foam
He bows his head,
And steals a look at his poor Claddagh home
That waits for bread.

There tiny hands, with mother bending low,
Are joined to pray,
That God and Mary make the soft winds blow
O’er Galway Bay.

For smiling sea, the storm may darken o’er
With sudden force,
And many a wake is held along the shore
Without a corse.

Eager of heart, he skims the tranquil wave
With sturdy oar;
Perchance some day the tempest dark may rave
He’ll come no more!

As all the western race that haunt the sea
Face danger still
And murmur low, whate’er the end may be,
“Sure, ’tis God’s will.”

For he has played full many a time before
A game with death,
When sped his skin-clad boat by Arran’s shore
In trusty faith.

And if perchance is ‘whelmed his manly pride
‘Neath storm and spray
Be sure fond hearts upon the Corrib’s side
Will for him pray.

But, oh the joy when evening shades descend
Upon his toil
His coracle is low from end to end
With silver spoil.

O’er Innishmann the sun’s last rays are gone,
The shore lights burn
There wait the loving hearts who prayed at dawn
For his return.

The Abbey bell faint o’er the water swells
The night has come
The cooling land breeze on his moist brow tells
He’s nearing home.

Where hoping wife and little ones wait on
Thro’ anxious day,
To greet him gaily and the prize he won
From Galway Bay.

Lis Mor, in Dublin ‘Leader’

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Clanricarde – Galway – 1915

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Washington Post

Marquess of Clanricarde 24 May 1900 by Leslie Ward - Published in Vanity Fair, 24 May 1900. Wikimedia Commons
Marquess of Clanricarde 24 May 1900 by Leslie Ward – Published in Vanity Fair, 24 May 1900.
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21st August, 1915

Marquis of Clanricarde Compromises. (abridged)
After litigation extending over some four or five years the legal proceedings in connection with the expropriation of the octogenarian Marquis of Clanricarde through compulsory sale from his estates in County Galway to his tenants, have been brought to a close by means of a compromise according to the terms of which he is to receive $1,200,000 for the property. This is not a large sum considering that the estates were formerly rated as yielding a rental of near $100,000 per annum.

But of course the fact that Lord Clanricarde is 84 years of age and has no direct heir will have been taken into consideration by him in consenting to accept this sum.

Few people know Lord Clarnricarde personally. He lives the life of a hermit in London in a dingy set of chambers in the Albany, off Piccadilly, and never goes out into society. Yet there is no member of the House of Lords whose name has been so frequently before the public. Half the agrarian crimes in Ireland during the past four decades have been due to his merciless and relentless cruelty toward the tenantry on his extensive estates on the Emerald Isle. Hundreds of thousands of dollars-probably millions- have been spent by the government in executing the decrees of eviction which he obtained from the courts against his tenants for the nonpayment of rent.