IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.193

1 WAS IN PRISON WITH THESE MEN
WHENFIRST THEYBETRAYED THE REPUBLIC
By JANES MRUSLANE
since,privately andotherwie,tridto
The following June I was uneondition.
allyrelesed,without signingrecognj
repudiate the awful thinga denemnder
betray a cause can frequently rise in witk the Bepublie'!
his commsnd.
tion of the Free State and still pledg-
the ranks of the enemy to whom they
It was in thin camp at Gormanstown
ing my allegiance to the Bepublie.
hsve sold themselves. The present eab-
in 1923, that I waa interned with hun-
While I waa in the Curragh, kow.
inet of the Irish Free State is a good
dreds of othern Many readers of the
1923,he wrote this verm i my auto
eample of this Unfit and illqualified
IBISH REPUBLIC sharedaaimilar
graph book:
"l he miod dt p er a Netes
clorest friends feelboundto sdmit
which the prisoners were herded. The
Cotare Fighs,
kept in prisc oatofpitendsimply
this) they could never have risen, or
ohe wasmade to accommodate
having risen, they could mever,in a
about eighty men.I was Quartermanter
Bail teaud tht rie de ti
Gerald Boland’s wbole life aince haa
demoeratie couatry, bold government
af the Camp, however, and was aauign.
Ternzife icome
been built upon the reputation of hia
ith the other Camp Officers toa
brother.
test of the right tpfsueh poaitians.Do
cmaler hut whieh held wix men This
A year and a half ago, when the
swaywith the many eremples of their
agaed the form about eight months
warknown ae"Hut O"
Free State Goyernment decided to pa
inefficieney and draw yourown con-
Three of my former hut-mates now
later:nd,not content witb siging it
hinself,he brought it around tring to
coereion measures againrt Republicans
clusion from one incident only—the
hold'cabinet posts in the Government
there was a kick-up in the Cabinet in-
fact that, lant year alone, the cabine!
against which they were then in arms.
have all of vs mign it.
poaitions and ministers were shuffied
OKelly，（now Vice Prenier”and
and rehufled no leme than five times,
isterolDefene',tben O/Cof the
the
responsibilityfor Republican
or once every ten weeks in an effort
Camp): Sean T. O’Kelly (now Vice-
vengeance of God down upon tbe"mur.
deaths. Buttledge, who was then the
to get the country's work done!
Premirr and Mlininter of Finanee,
Minister for Jurtiee,refused to continne
The anewer to the puzzle of why
thes O/C Discipline): Sean MeEntee
dering Free State Governmeat”as be
uch, and it was left for Gerald
such me are being paid enormous sal.
(now"Minister of Loeal Government”,
called them.Be was partieularly bitter
Boland to grab it.
aries (and life-time pengions sfter then Adjutant D.0.).
against Malcahy and Collins and sid
qdop
His reeord as the Minister for ‘Ju
five years srvice) is in the opening
During the time of these imprison-
tice' for the last year is stained with
inginto the same roomwiti'them-bat
the bloodof the men be has officially
pomitions", salaries and pensions are the“Form', was cireulated. Freedom
laterhe was glad enough to tale a job
murdered,Paddy MeGrath-s veteran
simply their Judas'silver. They are could be secured merely by signing
in the sume Free State Gorerement. 1t
tof1916-and Thomas Earte:and with
reaping the traitors'reward and en-
this short document:and the higher the
was Sean T. who advised us on s hun-
the deaths ot Antbony D'Arey nd
joying the traitorw'temporary honours
rank of him who wonld sign this
gerntrike to go to the deatb. (Last
John MaeNeela on hunger-strike: and
before they descend to the traitors'
yoar Anthony D'Arey and John Mse
Neela diod on hunger-strike in the de
the.recent mhooting of prisoners in the
igaoble, forgotten grave.
would be—not simply freedom, but a
Curragh Concentration Camp.His con-
In Decemmber 1918, the people of Ire
posiion in the Free State government
fene of the Republie,Had Sea T.any.
thing to say thent) Before Christmas
duct in handling the bunger-strike Lat
land, under the Britiah election laswa,
teboot.
April was so.vindietive that Father
indicated in the demoeratic manner of
Tothe credit of the thousands of sin-
of192s, Sean T.had bought his release
O'Hare, who had three tinaes beggod
ballots, their desire to be freed from
cere prisoners it must be said that com-
by signing the form.
for permiion to visit the atrikera,
British dominion and their wish to be
paratively few really stooped to sign
Sesn MeEntee, now “Mninter for
Local Goyerament”,sleo wrte a bit o!quert You have murdered D'Arey
eried out in the Court during the in
an independent Republie.Their eleted
thifem—even when,in rare instanees,
deputies met in Dublin as the First
wedr leader might do so.
poetieal advice in my alhu:
and MaeNeeli!"'
Dall, to carry out the people'i man-
ThrForm'was s signed withdraw-
date. The English reaetion to that ex-
b：
alotlegiance from tbe Second Dail,
smple of demoeraey inIreland in well
kuown. The First Dai wzu compelled
land.md a reengmition o!the Britis
line poetiy und migaed ihe wrm about
hang himself.
to call upon the youth of the country,
supperted Free State government. The the same time.
Paddy MeGrathwas a1916veteran
whose recordall during the trouble wa
the Irish Republican Army,to come to
minute a man put his signature to that
The Republicanism of these men
he admitted moral defeat: he sold his eould not have been too deep when
the defense of Ireland'sright tobe
honour cheap for an early releae. And their spirit was broken by the conen-
nor's command in the old days and was
tree.
these three men,Owar Traynor,Sean tration camp: but for every man who
friendly with Traynor,but,umlike
A year and more later, elections were
Traynor,he ever denerted the Repub
called for the Second Dail. Thin was
T. OKelly and Sean MeEntee migued
signed sway his allegiance for hi re-
the last free eleetion of all the people
lic.When,in 1939, the IR.A.,re-opened
that form while the moet of the men
lease, there were hundredr of us who
under tbeir command had enough hon-
could not be made to desert the Repuh-
the war with Englaad,Paddy MeGrath
of Ireland. After the Second Dail had
been eleeted,
Provisional govern-
our left not to aign it.
lic for any entieement-peronal free.
Was there to fight mide bymide with
the younger men.In an setion against
Republie beforehe deecended to signing
Toward the endof 1923wewere mor.
the B.&I. Stemship Office in the Tan
British Parliament,was co-opted in
that form.Osear Traynor suceeded aa
ed to Mountjoy Prison in Dablin. The
tines, Paddy waa badly wounded and
Dublin and another in Belfast. With
same evening that Traynor vas being
one bullet,near hig heart, could not be
English money, munition, and
men
Brigadier General of Dublin Dick Me-
these “governments"
Kee wbo, while a prisoner in Dublin
Austin Stack ws being
removed.He carried that until 1940
madecommon
released,
Cartl,was murdered with Paddy
brought in. Traynor and be met for a
when his one-time comraden otficially
ment of Ireland (the Second Dail)
Claney by the Tann This offiee of Bri-
to lesrn that Traynor had igned the
rested while protoeting a headquarter's
which wa being defenaed by the Irish
gade O/C Dublin was one of the most
Republiean Army.
iportntinrelndButinideinr
form.Stack was being broagat in from
offiee of theRepubliesn Army.
the Curragh,snd when he lemed thatI
"The first sin in the hardest': snd
As the months pamed,the military
little hut in 1923,ope eould see that
defeat of the Republican foree came
Osear Traynor was slipping.
was in Mountjoy he eleeted "room"
certainly it hss been cery for these
nearer. Thousands upon thousands of
About this time down in Kerry， ter-
with me. Some time before, wthad bees
former Republienna to go one step low-
prisoners were in concentration camps
all over Ireland. Their lot as harder
command of PaddyDa,deed thatgiad to ew oursequirnce that
first break. The whole thing confirms
even than that of the Republican pri
were ao horrible u to get the name ofwe talkedmearly thewe night
what Lian ·Mellowes once said, Go
soners wbo now erowd the concentra-
no longer on the right road'.
carred more than oneeOnone schoffWe dicued themurderous aewonld makanothereffrtretore
hungerstrikein Gormanstown Camp,tivitie in our Little hut, and,to every-the Bepublie
At 5:00 AM.I was told tapaek up,
p* H
pnitios cam come sbeat enly wbes
State Cabinet but then a Republiean)

ragh, so Staek ind I parted cee again.
Ladepes
oce and soparatien lee Lrelemd.
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