Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1915 — IRISH FOES JOINED BY WAR [ARTICLE]

IRISH FOES JOINED BY WAR

Nationalist and Ulster Volunteers Are Fighting Side by Side in the Trenches. V Dublin. —A band of the Irish guards, which even a few months ago would have received an unfriendly greeting anywhere in Ireland, arrived here on a recruiting tour and was enthusiastically cheered as it marched to the Mansion house, playing “St. Patrick’s Day.” There was another remarkable scene here when John E. Redmond, the Irish nationalist leader, reviewed 25,000 of the Irish national volunteers and in a speech said that of the nationalist and Ulster volunteers, who had organized to fight one another, more than 50,000 were now fighting side by side on the continent, or in training to go there. Perhaps for the first time in Irish history such scenes have been witnessed, and certainly there has been a change from the days when an~lrishman who joined the army was shunned by many.