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Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP TM)
Pat Purcell Papers By kind permission of Mr Michael Purcell |
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Nationalist and Leinster Times, June 1920. Ordinary meeting of Carlow Council. Saluting the Flag. Green, White and Gold. The Chairman, Mr. Lennon, said his attention had been called to the flag which had been placed behind the chair. He said he greeted the flag and wished it prosperity and he wished the cause it represented prosperity. That flag was the flag their forefathers had fought under in times gone by. It was a flag which had often been "downed" but never disgraced (loud cheers). Mr Governey said he had been in the old national movement all his life ; he had been in the fight all the time and gone all the way, and now, with their chairman, he saluted the flag (applause). He would go further than that .They were at present living under a tyrannical Government. They were held up to the world by the British Press as murderers. He stood there to bear testimony to the great work of the young Irish Volunteers all over Ireland who had been carrying on the government of Ireland under the flag. They had run to earth from time to time the ruffians who had been bringing disgrace on Ireland. The Volunteers had brought about a new era, and peace was maintained and people's property protected (applause). He would only say in conclusion, - Long live the Irish Volunteers and long live the Flag (applause). Mr Lennon told the meeting that the government of the country was quickly passing out of the hands of the enemy and that the Irish people were coming back to their own again (applause). They proposed to set up Civil Courts in each parish, consisting of three arbitrators elected by the people and with a parish priest or curate to act as president of the court. These courts will take the place of the Petty Sessions. District Courts would replace the Assizes and Quarter Sessions. There would also be a Higher Court as a Court of Appeal in Dublin. The Irish Volunteers were determined to put down the ruffianism referred to by Mr Governey. The Volunteers would get support from the courts and they would run to earth any of those evil-doers throughout the country. [Note added 2011. Mr Michael Governey addressed the first meeting of the Irish National Volunteers (Carlow / Laois branch) held in Ballickmoyler in 1914. In May, 1916 Michael was Chairman of Carlow County Council when he proposed a resolution condemning the 1916 rebellion - expressing the council's "abhorrence of the appalling crime committed on Ireland by the terrible incident of the recent rebellion", the Resolution was passed unanimously by Carlow County Council and copies were ordered to be sent to the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary for Ireland.]
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