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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2150, 16 May 1914, Page 11

to oreato public opinion which may avert the disaster even at the eleventh hour." "The object of the Women's Covenant' is to demand that civil'strife shall not take place, but to make it clear that, should this bo forced upon Ulster, there aro hundreds of thousands of women in Great Britain who will stand by their Irish sisters in tho hour of need."

Rather a curious instance of the extent of the knowlcdgo which tho averago Englishman has of the Irish nation was shown at a recent meeting held in Dublin. Impassioned speeches liad been made by several speakers in favour of Homo Rule, and many wero the references made to Cathleen Ni Houlihan ior love of whom many men had gone willingly to their death. At tho end of the meeting an Englishman accosted an Irishman whom ho know and asked curiously: "Who is this lady, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, about whom they talked so much?" I 1 "I Mr. W. B. Yates has put into words in his beautiful play "Cathleen Ni Houlihan" tho spirit that breathes in the real Irish of to-day.

"It is a hard'service thoy take that help mo. Many that are red-cheeked now will be pale-cheeked; many that have been free to walk the hills and the bogs and the rushes will bo sent to walk hard streets in far countries; many a good plan will be broken; many that have gathered n.oney will not stay to spend it;.many a child will be born and thero will be no father at its christening to givo it a name. They that have red cheeks will havo pale cheeks for my eake, «nd for all that, they will think they are well paid." ' That is tho spirit that Ulster has to face, at a time when the cup for which they have thirsted these many years is almost at the lip of the Irish people, at a time, too, when the spirit of nationalism and of patriotism has been stimulated and strengthened by the work of the Imh Literary Theatre as it has for years.