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A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience in traveling to Ireland with Bernard Patrick McDonough, a West Virginia-based businessman involved in the manufacturing of shovel.

The article presents information on some books, which have been published by Irish Government. Bence Jones, an Englishman, whose book is made up in the main of papers contributed to the English magazines on the social and economical condition of Ireland. About every five years since the Catholic Emancipation in 1830, it has been the custom of the London Times and some other leading English journals to send over "commissioners" to write letters about Ireland. About every ten years the Government of the day has appointed a commission to report on Ireland to both Houses of Parliament. All these tell substantially the same story. They differ somewhat as to the causes of Irish phenomena.

Comments on political development in Ulster. Requisites for the implementation of the act of British parliament by which Prime Minister David Lloyd George's government put through the division of Ireland into two zones; Objectives of the Ulster Unionists; Role of the political party Sinn Fein; Ways to bring about peace on the island.

This article presents the views of Roger Casement on the problem of Ireland. Things will never be the same for England. The "Irish Question" will have been lifted from the mire and mud and petty, false strife of British domestic politics into an international atmosphere. England does not mind the "treason" of the orthodox Irish "patriot." She only fears the Irishman who acts; not him who talks. It is a blow of sincere enmity, based on a wholly impersonal disregard of consequences. The world will be the better, the more sincere, the less hypocritical for a British defeat.

As a matter of fact the term "Empire" is misapplied. The thing that threatens today the existence of the German people, and has already throttled the people of Ireland and is in course of throttling the people of India, Egypt, Malaya, and a score of other dependencies of the London, England, market is not an "Empire" but an Emporium. England fights only for profit, just as the tradesman deals only for profit. Her wars have always been wars undertaken on a profit and loss account. When the balance lay on the debit side, England sheathed the sword; when it lay on the credit side, she wrapped the whole world in war and from a safe point of observation counted up the gains and assessed the value of her investments in other men's blood.

The bills brought in year after year under the Irish Land Question by Irish members are either contemptuously rejected, or passed over for want of time. This year, however, as a result of the report of a select committee of the Great Britain House of Commons, the Government has brought in a bill and carried the second reading without a division being challenged. The opponents of the bill have so far contented themselves with threats that they will mutilate it in committee, and, if they consider it necessary, that they will have it rejected by the Great Britain House of Lords.

Great Britain's Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone's administration has received a severe blow, and, though it has now come back again in its old shape, its prestige is seriously diminished. The Irish University bill now deceased may be dismissed with a very brief epitaph. Nobody was in favor of it with the exception of the Ministry and their thick-and-thin admirers, and nobody will weep over its remains. The only real question was whether the party ties of the majority were strong enough to stand the strain of so unpopular a measure, and that question has been decided in the negative. Gladstone's normal majority is between 80 and 90; some 35 Irish Roman Catholics deserted on this occasion to the enemy; and the supplement necessary to convert the majority into a minority was derived from the ranks of the discontented Radicals.

Presents several letters to the editor. Suggestions of educators for a plan to include college-trained men and women during war; Need for teaching literature of England and the U.S. in universities and colleges; Analysis of the article "A Constitution for Ireland."

This article focuses on "Memorias del General O'Leary," the memoirs of the Irish soldier Daniel F. O'Leary. He was an adventurous native of Ireland. When a mere youth he became deeply interested in the insurrection against Spanish rule in the U.S. In March,1818, as ensign in a squadron of hussars commanded by an adventitious leader, Colonel Wilson, O'Leary reached Angostura, Venezuela. The lengthy Memoirs of an intelligent and observant foreign soldier who participated in the struggles which reconstructed the map of South America would naturally contain much interesting information. But this material has much more than autobiographic interest.

Comments on the Irish rebellion against England even as their fellow Irishmen are fighting for England's army in the war. Background information on the leaders of the rebellion; Reasons behind the rebellion; Implications on international relations and world politics.

Irish freedom movement leader Charles Stewart Parnell has got an opportunity to pose himself as the leader of Irish people after the imprisonment of Irish leaders John Dillon and William O'Brien. If Parnell's motive is merely personal ambition, the temporary removal from the scene of two men, either of whom, if free, would have had as much personal influence with the Irish people as himself, must seem to him and his adherents a distinct gain. A comparison or his and their political records is distinctly unfavorable to Parnell. For several years he has remained in a condition of political apathy, in mysterious seclusion, rarely appearing in the House of Commons, never in Ireland.

The article examines the impact of the Free State censorship bill in Ireland on literature and thought. There is a list of sixty-five books banned since May, 1930. Of these from eighteen to twenty are concerned definitely with problems of sex and birth control. The Minister for Justice stated definitely that he did not intend to allow this subject to be discussed in the Free State, and the spirit of that utterance still prevails. In practice, however, it means that since denunciation of birth control became the fashion in Ireland, the subject must have been very widely discussed by people who do not read books at all. An open censorship can be fought, but an atmosphere of censorship cannot be grappled with. This censorship atmosphere, which is not new to Ireland, has produced by reaction a tradition of Irish writers whose works figure on the censored lists of other lands.

This article focuses on the censorship bill just passed in Ireland. The Committee on Evil Literature, on whose findings the Bill was based, included in its five members a Protestant clergyman as well as a Catholic priest. It recommended that the terms "indecent and obscene" should be given a wider interpretation, that a Censorship Board should be set up "to advise the Minister of Justice as to any books, newspapers or magazines circulated in the Saorstat that, in the opinion of the board, are demoralizing and corrupting," and that the minister should have power to prohibit these publications.

It is time the world faced the truth about Ireland. The recent elections should have made it plain. Republicans secured 51 seats as against the Government's 47 and this in spite of the fact that electors knew from experience that their representatives would be barred out. On certain neutral measures like the Shannon electricity scheme, the grading of dairy produce, improved cattle breeding, and general industrial efficiency, where national tradition is not directly involved, the Government has done good work, though even here it has set itself to reduce wage standards. The Government is getting more and more out of sympathy with the strong national tradition. They dance on the razor edge between ex-Unionists and Nationalists and when their toes get sore they vent their spite on opponents by repressive acts.

The article features U.S. Corporal Frank Hayostek and cites the end of his love affair with a woman named Breda in Kerry, Ireland in 1952. Breda found the bottle of aspirin with Hayostek's name and address which he tossed overboard from a troopship in 1946. Such story drew attention from the press, inspiring reporters to follow the love affair for six years.

Presents an account from the author's memoirs of Irish playwrights Lady Gregory and George Moore. Literary knowledge and style of Lady Gregory; Family background of Gregory; Relationship of Gregory with Irish people; Establishment of the Irish Literary Society in London, England by the author; Opportunity given by a new generation of critics and writers to denounce the propagandist verse and prose that had gone by the name of Irish literature; Aspirations of the author for an Irish theater; Reference to the play "The Cat and the Moon" on Moore and his cousin Edward Martyn; Characteristics of Moore; Appreciation of Moore's novel "A Mummer's Wife."

Reports on several socio-political events from the world. Speculation on the policies of the new U.S. President Calvin Coolidge; Report that the French reply to Great Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's note virtually ignores the main proposal of the British and does so in terms which from one ally to another constitute an extraordinary rebuff; Issues related to the French occupation of Ruhr, Germany; Information on the Irish developments, the struggle over the Turkish-American treaty, and the Russian progress; Information on the conference on U.S. farmers and laborers conditions at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Speculation on Coolidge's policy on the American participation in the World Court; Offer made by the owners of bituminous coal mines to give their entire industry to the government in case the anthracite miners go on strike; Information on dispatch of the newspaper "The Chicago Tribune," about an agreement signed between France and England; View that nothing can swerve France from her determination never to let go her hand on Germany until that nation has totally collapsed; View that monarchists are much more likely to contribute to the separatist tendencies, which will be in evidence after the French set up their Rhineland Republic, Germany; Speculation on the automobile manufacturer Henry Ford's chance of securing the Democratic nomination for U.S. President; Information on the present political conditions of Ireland; Statement of Judge Elbert H. Gary on plans for abolition of the twelve-hour-day in the U.S. steel industry; Statement of the U.S. manufacturers that the change to the shorter day will require about 60,000 more laborers, and these will not be available unless the restrictions on immigration are relaxed; Report that the additional ballots during the past week have produced no change in the standing of the various candidates in the journal's Straw Vote; Information on the resignation of Philip Littell from the editorial board of the journal.

The article presents an overview of the June 14, 1922 issue of "The Nation." Less than a year ago, Ireland was in the grip of the British terror. There was tragedy and suffering but there was life and hope. A united people opposed the Black and Tans-a people who gave evidence of courage, social idealism, and political capacity. Suddenly England proposed a truce and in the course of time, a treaty was signed which gave the Irish the nearest approach to absolute freedom they had for almost 800 years. Pending ratification, the British turned over the government of Ireland outside of six Ulster counties to Irish revolutionists. There was general rejoicing.

The article focuses on the week of terror in Ireland. The toll of outrage and terrorism in Ireland is being brought vividly to the public mind by lists published by the Manchester Guardian each Saturday for the preceding week. The two lists printed from the Guardian of May 21, 1925 and May 28, 1925 show the extent of the slaughter going on from day to day. Fourteen houses in county Tipperary destroyed, with the furniture of another, by order of the competent military authority, who describes the occupiers as "active supporters of armed rebels, especially of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade I.R.A., which resided in this area and has admitted responsibility for the brutal murder of District Inspector Potter.

This article presents information given by the witnesses Laurence Ginnell, Annot Erskine Robinson and Ellen C. Wilkinson. Ginnell was asked whether he is an Irishman, he reply yes. His home is in County West Meath, he has always been identified with Irish public life, his prior occupation in the Ireland was of a prisoner, he was a member of British Parliament, but for twenty years before living in Westminister. The witness said that he always regarded the attendance of Irish representatives at Westminster as worse than futile in practice, and only awaited a general policy of withdrawal to withdraw myself. One member withdrawing could produce no effect, nor could two or three.

The most important document which has emerged from the struggle for freedom in Ireland is the Report of the Commission of the British Labor Party, printed below. The thoroughness of its methods, its impartiality, and its desire for truth, make the Commission's findings invaluable as a revelation of the situation to be found in Ireland today, and startling as an indictment of the British Government's Irish policy.

The article presents information about the third official report of American Commission on "Conditions in Ireland." This third report of the American Commission on conditions in Ireland concludes the testimony of social activist Mary MacSwiney given in Odd Fellows Flail, in Washington, December 9. The testimony of MacSwiney includes not only the story of her brother's arrest, imprisonment and death, but much valuable information upon the whole history of the Irish movement for freedom. On Friday the hearings were continued, at the Hotel Lafayette. J.P. Guilfoil, the next to tell his story, is an American citizen who was visiting in Ireland and a witness of the disorders there. D.F. Crowley is the first of four former members of the Royal Irish Constabulary to testify before the Commission. These men resigned as a protest against the things they were ordered to do in Ireland.

The American Commission on Ireland resumed its public hearings on December 8, 1920 in Odd Fellows Hall in Washington. On Wednesday the Commission was informed that the British Embassy would not visé the passports issued to members of the Commission by the State Department. Mr. R. L. Craigie, First Secretary of the British Embassy, notified the Secretary of the Commission of the decision. A protest to the English people against this autocratic action of the Government of Great Britain in suppressing truth and free speech from the liberty-loving people of two democracies and to ask if such action, aimed at unprejudiced Americans seeking only to serve the ends of international understanding and world peace, has the sanction of the British Labor Party."

The article presents information on several socio-political issues. Archbishop Ireland, one of the most distinguished prelates of the Roman Catholic Church, has been moved by his sense of duty as a citizen of a self-governing country to address a few words to his fellow-citizens on the present crisis in political affairs. Archibald Philip Primrose's retirement from the position of liberal leader ought really to have occurred when the party was turned out of power in 1895. His assumption of the place was said-originally to be due to William Ewart Gladstone, and one of the best arguments in its favor was that there was no one else for it.

The article presents political updates of the world, as of July 11, 1895. The Liberals have been defeated, and a general election is imminent. To estimate the situation regarding Ireland, people must take a broad view of political events. In Irish affairs, the past and the present are near to each other. Another update says that nothing could be more curiously indicative of the demoralization which political passion has produced in Italian affairs than the letter of "J. W. M." in the June 6 issue of the journal "The Nation," and the writer's evident blindness to the conclusion which must be drawn as to the hopeless degradation of Italian politics.

This article focuses on the social developments in various parts of the world. Although the German universities are not as yet formally open to women, nevertheless in several of them women are and have been for some time admitted to many of the courses of lectures. This is especially the case at Leipzig, but at Heidelberg, too, at Freiburg, and quite recently at Berlin, women have been permitted to pass the portals so Tong sacred to the male sex. In view of the proposed inquiry by a committee of the House of Commons into the Irish land laws, a sketch of the past legislation on this subject may be of interest. The reason for exceptional legislation in Ireland rested chiefly on the essential difference between the landlord and tenant systems in England and in Ireland.

The article presents political updates of the world, as of February 2, 1893. The Board of Health of Louisiana has addressed a somewhat passionate petition to the U.S. Congress against the establishment of Federal quarantine, on both constitutional and economic grounds. The economic argument is difficult to meet seriously. In another update, the synopsis of the forthcoming Irish Home-Rule Bill transmitted by telegraph on Sunday probably contains all the important features of the measure. The list of powers reserved for the Imperial Parliament follows the Constitution of the United States almost on all fours, as indeed did the bill of 1886.

The article presents information on several developments from Europe. The general election, upon which the hopes of the Irish people have for so many long years been fixed, cannot be far off. It may come upon the people any day. Meanwhile, there is no likelihood that the present posture of Irish affairs will materially change. It may therefore be opportune to consider the prospects regarding that election. In the French cabinet, a certain number of ecclesiastics had begun during Lent to tackle the engrossing subject of socialism, either by treatment in the ordinary sermon, or by a kind of contradictory lecture from the pulpit, during which the part of the opposition was played by a priest previously prepared with certain objections. Neither the one nor the other method pleased the Socialists.

The article focuses on the industrial expansion in Ireland. It mentions that industrial expansion in Ireland is mainly because of the government's national development program, that offers capital grants, and tax concessions for industrial growth and informs about rise of foreign investments in Ireland from various European countries. It states that most of the new plants that have opened in Ireland are by companies of foreign countries where there is shortage in labor supply and plant sites.

Presents several socio-political developments related to the United States. Revolt in the U.S. House against the sales tax issue in the country; Arguments against the substitute proposal to raise the income-tax rates in high-income groups; Charges against William Randolph Hearst, a Canadian political personality, regarding sales tax in Canada; Departure of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Supreme Court Justice in the U.S., due to his opinion on the New State Ice Co. vs. Ernest A. Liebman case; Agreement between Chinese and Japanese forces that Chinese forces should stay where they are and Japanese force should be withdrawn; Advancement in trade between the Soviet Union and the U.S.; Problems in political circle of Ireland due to the victory of politician Eamon de Valera; Opposition of the bill, to provide money for building roads in order to provide employment, by Senator Hiram Bingham; Policy of the U.S. government in order to balance the budget; Statement issued by Judson King, director of the National Popular Government League, regarding presidential candidates of both leading parties in the U.S.; Disadvantage of young music composers in the U.S. regarding chance to listen their own music.

This article presents information related to politics. It is because they believe that war between England and the U.S. would be the greatest calamity which could befall the civilized world; and because they feel that the two countries are rapidly drifting apart, that editors of this periodical have invited one hundred of their fellow-citizens to form a committee to investigate, through a commission, charges and counter-charges of atrocities in Ireland. It is admitted that the procedure this periodical has suggested is unusual. But unusual conditions call for unusual methods, and in view of failures of governments everywhere to prevent existing wars and to establish peace, it is high time for citizens to get together to do what they can.

This article focuses on various issues related to politics. Surely no British Prime Minister has ever been placed in a worse plight than Lloyd George by the complete collapse of his amazing plans for Ireland. It is only a few weeks ago that he was all fire and flame both for coercing Ireland for military purposes and for introducing Home Rule. No Home Rule bill seems even to have been drawn either as an essential war or as a peace measure. John Dillon solemnly warned Lloyd George before the Nationalists withdrew from Parliament that if conscription were applied the chaos and confusion would be appalling and Ireland would be turned into another Belgium.

A biography of Irish journalist William Howard Russell is presented. He was born in Ireland in 1820 into an upper class family and attended Trinity College in Dublin. He started writing as a journalist while an undergraduate and continued to do freelance work after graduation after he accepted a job at the Kennsington Grammar School in Kennsington, England. He was notable for his coverage of the Crimean War, the Sepoy Mutiny in India, and the U.S. Civil War for "The Times" newspaper. He died in 1907.

The article discusses the visit of Queen Victoria of Great Britain to Ireland in 1853, during which she visited the Irish cities of Cork, Dublin, and Belfast. It comments that the occasion of her visit was the Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin that year, and examines her relations with the Exhibition's chief promoter, William Dargan. Other topics explored by the author include relations between Great Britain and Ireland, relations between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, and the Irish education system.

Presents information on socio-political developments around the world. Role of the U.S. Congress in several issues such as taxation, budget, reconstruction, labor, immigration, Mexico and Japan; Information that the International Reform Bureau's aims are confined to the suppression of the liquor traffic, prostitution, gambling, drug addiction, obscene prints, indecent shows and all exploited vice; Report that several excellent, God-fearing, and narrow people are behind the "Sunless Sunday" movement; View of English jurist Frederick Pollock on American enforcement of law, particularly constitutional law; Report that Arthur Griffith, acting President of the Irish Republic, professor John McNeil, Eamonn Duggan, and other Sinn Fein members of Parliament have been arrested and it is reported they will be interned.

The Irish censorship board is a state body, but its outlook is mainly conditioned by the Irish Catholic Church which, to a far greater extent than the Irish Government, is interested in the fate of Irish culture. Within the last decade or so the Irish Catholic Church has adopted a liberal social policy, and this has been reflected in Irish censorship. Indeed, of the Irish writers who appeared in the sixties, only Edna O'Brien has any real reason to complain of Irish censorship. Of her six books, five have been banned, and the most recent, "The Love Object," is not yet out of danger.

Nationalism in the northeast has now for decades been limited to futile protests against partition, against sectarian discrimination in housing and employment. A monolithic Unionism, self-gerrymandered into security, could afford to ignore the protests. Then, within the last few years, that frozen front of Unionism began to crack. Both in Dublin, Ireland, and in Belfast, Northern Ireland, it began to dawn on politicians, or statesmen etc. that a little practical cooperation between the two governments on the island might help to do away with the ill effects of three centuries of sectarian hatred. Captain Terence O'NeiII, the Belfast Premier, was all for this cooperation.

The title of author Sinclair Kennedy's book is "The Pan-Angles." Like most books with a thesis, it is three times too long, unless writers are bound to assume that endless reiteration is the only sure means of impressing the public. The book "Charles Stewart Parnell," by John Howard Parnell, has a family memoir of a most engaging kind. One must not look in it for the philosophy of the Irish Home Rule movement, or even for accurate political history. The author, who is now upwards of seventy, writes from memory, and falls easily into connection of events, but he does give an uncolored though loving picture of the Irish leader in habit as he was at home.

This article presents several socio-political developments from various parts of the world. The Philadelphia newspaper "Press," has done a service to the public by sending a correspondent on a tour of the South to interview prominent men of both parties as to the Force Bill. The unique character of the political campaign in Pennsylvania this year attracts the attention of the whole country to the contest in that State. The session of Parliament in Great Britain draws near its close. It has been in the main, and considering possibilities, a wasted session. That contempt or regardlessness of public opinion which disgraces the policy of the Government towards Ireland has infected their handling of British questions, and brought humiliation and lessened majorities.

Writer Brendan Behan in his last appearance at Glasnevin Cementery, Ireland, that was in March 1964, drew bigger crowds than he had ever drawn in London, England, Paris, France, etc. "One of the largest crowds," the press reported, "seen in Dublin, Ireland for many years." The report was heartening, for Dublin has not always treated its writers, alive or dead, with much regard, much less with affection. There are, however, encouraging signs that Irish attitudes are changing. More than likely the change will hold, for the Irish, now that prosperity has increased among them a calculable middle class, at last seem to have realized, the advertising man is ubiquitous, that their writers are as valuable an export as were, once upon a time, their cattle or the clergymen.

This article focuses on the political conditions of the world. That socialism is becoming conservative is a fair statement of the impression produced on the outside world by the International Congress, which met at Stuttgart, Germany during the week of August 18-25, 1907. The practical spirit manifested in resolutions adopted by some nine hundred delegates from all the six continents, is not an entirely new phenomenon in the Socialist movement. Meanwhile, trouble is plainly afoot in Ireland, but this will not necessarily mean disadvantage to the Liberals as a party. They have tried conciliation, but it has been rejected by the Nationalists.