Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running 1914
Recollections and Documents
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 2014
288 pages
978-1-908928-66-5 (ISBN)
Description
An invaluable historical record of the first nationalist military operation in Ireland's twentieth-century independence struggle written by the leaders of Irish nationalism, including Erskine Childers, Darrell Figgis, Padraig Pearse, Bulmer Hobson, Arthur Griffith, Roger Casement, Sean MacDiarmada and Eoin MacNeill among many others which gives a fascinating and unique 'running account' of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the operation as told by the men and women 'on the ground'.
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The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running
Recollections and Documents
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Content
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Contents
- New Introduction
- F.X. Martin: A Life
- New Foreword
- Original Foreword
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Soldiers Without Arms: The Irish Volunteers in 1914
- 1. By the King: A Proclamation for prohibiting the carriage coastwise of military arms and ammunition
- 2. Conservatives and Orangemen defy the Government, 1913-1914 Sir Edward Carson at Newry, 7 September 1913
- 3. Arms and Drill
- 4. Defence of Ireland Fund for Arms June-July 1914
- 5. No hostility to the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Unionists
- 6. We must have rifles
- 7. Over the Ulster frontier
- 8. The Irish Volunteers demand arms
- Part II Planning the Gun-Running
- 9. Alice Stopford Green
- 10. Erskine Childers
- 11. Plans are laid in London
- 12. List of subscribers to the gun-running fund
- 13. The boat at Foynes
- 14. Childers and Figgis in quest of guns May 1914
- 15. Buying the guns at Hamburg
- 16. Final plans at Dublin
- 17. Everything completed
- 18. Now or Never!
- 19. The Asgard
- Part III Guns on the High Seas
- 20. Rendezvous at the Roetigen Lightship
- 21. The first stage of the journey
- 22. Diary of the Asgard 1-26 July 1914
- 23. Letters from the Asgard, July 1914
- 24. Conor O'Brien
- 25. Sir Thomas Myles
- 26. Contraband of War
- 27. Guns for Kilcoole
- Part IV The Guns Arrive
- 28. Waiting in Philadelphia for a telegram
- 29. The plan suceeds
- 30. Challenge from police and soldiers
- 31. Bringing in the guns
- 32. Sealed orders
- 33. Watching from Howth Pier
- 34. An eye-witness at Howth
- 35. The guns are safe
- 36. With the I.R.B. at Howth and Kilcoole
- 37. What the Howth gun-running means
- Part V The aftermath
- 38. Bloodshed at Bachelor's Walk
- 39. 'The greatest deed in Ireland for 100 years'
- 40. What Happened at Howth and Bachelor's Walk
- 41. When the news reached Belfast
- 42. Danger and duty
- 43. How matters now stand with the Volunteers
- Index
- Plate Section
