...constitution of the Irish Volunteers, which reads : 1. To secure and maintain the rights and liberties of all the people of Ireland. 2. To train, discipline...volunteer force. 3. To unite in the service of Ireland the men of every creed, party and class. No funds would have been sent from this side except for the...

...operations in Ulster appeared on November 25th, 1913. It was a Manifesto calling upon Irishmen to " maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland." " A plan had been deliberately adopted by one of the great English political parties, advocated by...

...Nationalist reply to the Ulster movement. It took the form of a manifesto calling upon Irishmen to "maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland." "A plan had been deliberately adopted by one of the great English political parties, advocated by the...

...hostility against the Ulster force. " The object proposed," it said, " for the Irish Volunteers is to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland. Their duties will be defensive and protective, and they will not contemplate either aggression or domination....

...the Dublin Battalions, when the manifesto reaffirming the original objects of the Volunteers, viz. : "To secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland," was issued on the 24th September, 1914. Since the issue of this manifesto made secure the foundation...

...organization. The object of the Volunteers, as denned in the form of application for membership, was " to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland without distinction of class, creed, or politics." The 1 Under the pseudonym of " Shan Van Vocht."...

...Ulster menace to the attainment of their ideals, founded the Irish Volunteers, who pledged themselves "to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland." The Irish Volunteers, as Sir Roger Casement stated in his speech from the dock, had no quarrel with...

...MacNeill was persuaded to chair a committee which would organize the setting up of this force 'to ensure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland without distinction of creed. class or polities'. A mass meeting was held in the Rotunda in Dublin...

...letter of resignation, stating: I joined the Volunteers in cordial sympathy with their avowed object to 'secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the peoples of Ireland without distinction of creed, class, or polities'. But when the European war broke...

..."Then repeat after me, 'I, the undersigned, desire to be enrolled in the Irish Volunteers, founded to secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland without distinction of creed, class, or politics.' And sign down there at the bottom." "Is that all...