IRELAND AND THE EMPIRE
: STIRRING ADDRESS BY IRISH LEADER f . London, March 15. 'Mr. John Redmond, the Nationalist j leader, speaking at Manchester, said tho fact that the meeting was not comi posed only of Irishmen proved that Englishmen and Irislimeu were 'now ; ■united for a common purpose. Ireland [ (had been, admitted by the democracy of | 'England on equal terms to its proper >' place in the Empire, which she had i assisted in building up as much as Engf land had. - i 1 Ireland, he said, had already taken ; • !her proper place in perfect, absolute good; faith, and the first and immediate : duty was to ensure that Ireland bore • her full,. honourable part in the war. ; !A month ago 99,704 Irishmen had enlisted, exclusive of 115,000 Irishmen in j. 'Britain who 'were fighting for the Em- ; . pire. Irishmen knew they were fighting ! for Ireland. The Kaiser's calculations i- had-been completely falsified; he had i Inspected to meet a divided Empire.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2411, 17 March 1915, Page 6
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160IRELAND AND THE EMPIRE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2411, 17 March 1915, Page 6
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