TERENCE MacSWINEY. FIANNA FAIL (The Irish Army). A Journal for Militant Ireland. Nos. 1-11 (all published). Cork, 19 September 5 December 1914, various printers. Folio, mostly 4 pp, one double number. Fine copies. This short-lived periodical was edited, financed and mainly written by Terence MacSwiney, later Lord Mayor of Cork, whose death on hunger strike in 1920 was a turning point in the independence struggle. Its main purpose was to support the Irish Volunteers, and to oppose Irish recruitment to the British Army at the outset of the First World War. It reports in detail the attempt to expel a leading Volunteer officer, Sean OHegarty from Cork, and the controversy with Redmond over the future of the Volunteers. It was suppressed after the eleventh issue, which reports in large type a promise of German support for Irish freedom given to Roger Casement in Berlin. The printers name is cut from the final page of this issue, as in all copies we have seen, presumably for fear of reprisals. It did not circulate outside Cork, and complete sets are extremely rare.
TERENCE MacSWINEY. FIANNA FAIL (The Irish Army). A Journal for Militant Ireland. Nos. 1-11 (all published). Cork, 19 September 5 December 1914, various printers. Folio, mostly 4 pp, one double number. Fine copies. This short-lived periodical was edited, financed and mainly written by Terence MacSwiney, later Lord Mayor of Cork, whose death on hunger strike in 1920 was a turning point in the independence struggle. Its main purpose was to support the Irish Volunteers, and to oppose Irish recruitment to the British Army at the outset of the First World War. It reports in detail the attempt to expel a leading Volunteer officer, Sean OHegarty from Cork, and the controversy with Redmond over the future of the Volunteers. It was suppressed after the eleventh issue, which reports in large type a promise of German support for Irish freedom given to Roger Casement in Berlin. The printers name is cut from the final page of this issue, as in all copies we have seen, presumably for fear of reprisals. It did not circulate outside Cork, and complete sets are extremely rare.
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