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14 "man who wants to bear arms, that he should pay a licence of $2.50 a year to the revenue, but nobody — Dublin Castle or anybody else—has the power to prevent the carrying of arms by anybody in Ireland.'"

Read the Clan-na-Gael American-Irish circular of 18th December, 1885:—

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In the Irish World of 8th June, 1907, an article appeared by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet in defence of the use of dynamite in Ireland. To it Patrick Ford added this significant comment:—

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"What are our motives and objects?" said Mr. John Redmond in the United States, 14th November, 1901. "First of all our ultimate goal is the National independence of our country. I say in its essence the National movement is the same to-day as it was in the days of Hugh O'Neill, of Owen Roe, of Emmet, and of Wolfe Tone—to overturn the foreign domination in our land and put Irishmen in charge of their own affairs. The object is always the same, and if we are working by methods, that seem slow and ineffective to a free and armed people, our critics should remember that people