On This Day / April 2, 1921
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Summary: On This Day – 2nd April 1921, peace talks were held to quell Roslea violence, the Irish census was postponed and de Valera outlined Sinn Féin’s stance on Partition elections. Edited by Éamon Phoenix
Roslea Peace Talks | On This Day – 2nd April 1921
A PEACE conference of clergy and prominent laymen was held in the Town Hall, Clones yesterday evening [to discuss the Rosslea troubles]. Rev Canon Ruddell, Rector, Clones occupied the chair.
The meeting was called to consider the best means of bringing about a cessation of trouble prevailing chiefly in the Roslea district where shootings and burnings have been creating embittered feelings among the people of both sides of the community and which, if not checked by some effective means such as the intervention of the clergy and leading citizens, might lead to disastrous consequences.
The conference was summoned to bring together a meeting of the clergy and representative laity of all creeds and classes from the parishes of Clones, Roslea, Tydavnet, Kilmore and Drumsnatt, Killevin and Newbliss.
Addresses were delivered by the Rector, Rev D Gormley, PP Rev Samuel Currie, Clones and Mr Thomas Toal, chairman, Monaghan County Council.
After a broad and amicable exchange of views between the delegates…adopted a resolution to do all that was possible to prevent any further trouble in their respective districts.
No Census of Ireland
DUBLIN Castle states: ‘Owing to the existence of a state of rebellion in the south and west of Ireland and of the disturbed conditions in other parts of the country…the Government have therefore decided to postpone the holding of a census in Ireland on the present occasion.’
A Catholic Viceroy
THE Right Hon. Lord Edmond Talbot will succeed Fieldmarshal Viscount French as Viceroy of Ireland under The Better Government of Ireland Act 1920.
His appointment is an historic event of the first importance, according to PA, as he is the leading lay Roman Catholic in the kingdom and the first Catholic to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [since the Union].
De Valera on Partition Polls
QUESTIONED yesterday regarding Dail Eireann’s attitude towards the elections for the Northern and Southern Parliaments, Mr de Valera said: ‘Dail Eireann is concerned with one question, whether it should give its sanction to the holding of these elections or whether it should refuse recognition and order the citizens to boycott them…
‘I am confident that the people, who now realise what is at stake… will return none but Republican candidates outside the six county area…’
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: As leaders on both sides of the community divide sought to end the scourge of sectarian violence in Roslea, De Valera announced that Sinn Fein, while rejecting partition, would use elections, north and South, to elect a new republican Dail.
He agreed an electoral pact with Joe Devlin on a joint platform of abstention and self- determination.)
On This Day – 2nd April 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
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Summary: On This Day – 2nd April 1921, peace talks were held to quell Roslea violence, the Irish census was postponed and de Valera outlined Sinn Féin’s stance on Partition elections. Edited by Éamon Phoenix
Roslea Peace Talks | On This Day – 2nd April 1921
A PEACE conference of clergy and prominent laymen was held in the Town Hall, Clones yesterday evening [to discuss the Rosslea troubles]. Rev Canon Ruddell, Rector, Clones occupied the chair.
The meeting was called to consider the best means of bringing about a cessation of trouble prevailing chiefly in the Roslea district where shootings and burnings have been creating embittered feelings among the people of both sides of the community and which, if not checked by some effective means such as the intervention of the clergy and leading citizens, might lead to disastrous consequences.
The conference was summoned to bring together a meeting of the clergy and representative laity of all creeds and classes from the parishes of Clones, Roslea, Tydavnet, Kilmore and Drumsnatt, Killevin and Newbliss.
Addresses were delivered by the Rector, Rev D Gormley, PP Rev Samuel Currie, Clones and Mr Thomas Toal, chairman, Monaghan County Council.
After a broad and amicable exchange of views between the delegates…adopted a resolution to do all that was possible to prevent any further trouble in their respective districts.
No Census of Ireland
DUBLIN Castle states: ‘Owing to the existence of a state of rebellion in the south and west of Ireland and of the disturbed conditions in other parts of the country…the Government have therefore decided to postpone the holding of a census in Ireland on the present occasion.’
A Catholic Viceroy
THE Right Hon. Lord Edmond Talbot will succeed Fieldmarshal Viscount French as Viceroy of Ireland under The Better Government of Ireland Act 1920.
His appointment is an historic event of the first importance, according to PA, as he is the leading lay Roman Catholic in the kingdom and the first Catholic to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [since the Union].
De Valera on Partition Polls
QUESTIONED yesterday regarding Dail Eireann’s attitude towards the elections for the Northern and Southern Parliaments, Mr de Valera said: ‘Dail Eireann is concerned with one question, whether it should give its sanction to the holding of these elections or whether it should refuse recognition and order the citizens to boycott them…
‘I am confident that the people, who now realise what is at stake… will return none but Republican candidates outside the six county area…’
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: As leaders on both sides of the community divide sought to end the scourge of sectarian violence in Roslea, De Valera announced that Sinn Fein, while rejecting partition, would use elections, north and South, to elect a new republican Dail.
He agreed an electoral pact with Joe Devlin on a joint platform of abstention and self- determination.)
On This Day – 2nd April 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
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Summary: On This Day – 2nd April 1921, peace talks were held to quell Roslea violence, the Irish census was postponed and de Valera outlined Sinn Féin’s stance on Partition elections. Edited by Éamon Phoenix
Roslea Peace Talks | On This Day – 2nd April 1921
A PEACE conference of clergy and prominent laymen was held in the Town Hall, Clones yesterday evening [to discuss the Rosslea troubles]. Rev Canon Ruddell, Rector, Clones occupied the chair.
The meeting was called to consider the best means of bringing about a cessation of trouble prevailing chiefly in the Roslea district where shootings and burnings have been creating embittered feelings among the people of both sides of the community and which, if not checked by some effective means such as the intervention of the clergy and leading citizens, might lead to disastrous consequences.
The conference was summoned to bring together a meeting of the clergy and representative laity of all creeds and classes from the parishes of Clones, Roslea, Tydavnet, Kilmore and Drumsnatt, Killevin and Newbliss.
Addresses were delivered by the Rector, Rev D Gormley, PP Rev Samuel Currie, Clones and Mr Thomas Toal, chairman, Monaghan County Council.
After a broad and amicable exchange of views between the delegates…adopted a resolution to do all that was possible to prevent any further trouble in their respective districts.
No Census of Ireland
DUBLIN Castle states: ‘Owing to the existence of a state of rebellion in the south and west of Ireland and of the disturbed conditions in other parts of the country…the Government have therefore decided to postpone the holding of a census in Ireland on the present occasion.’
A Catholic Viceroy
THE Right Hon. Lord Edmond Talbot will succeed Fieldmarshal Viscount French as Viceroy of Ireland under The Better Government of Ireland Act 1920.
His appointment is an historic event of the first importance, according to PA, as he is the leading lay Roman Catholic in the kingdom and the first Catholic to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [since the Union].
De Valera on Partition Polls
QUESTIONED yesterday regarding Dail Eireann’s attitude towards the elections for the Northern and Southern Parliaments, Mr de Valera said: ‘Dail Eireann is concerned with one question, whether it should give its sanction to the holding of these elections or whether it should refuse recognition and order the citizens to boycott them…
‘I am confident that the people, who now realise what is at stake… will return none but Republican candidates outside the six county area…’
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: As leaders on both sides of the community divide sought to end the scourge of sectarian violence in Roslea, De Valera announced that Sinn Fein, while rejecting partition, would use elections, north and South, to elect a new republican Dail.
He agreed an electoral pact with Joe Devlin on a joint platform of abstention and self- determination.)
On This Day – 2nd April 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
On This Day is a daily column in the Irish News looking back either 50 or 100 years. The column was compiled by Dr Éamon Phoenix from the mid 1980s until autumn, 2022. The Foundation is very grateful to the Irish News for giving permission to reproduce Eamon’s columns. Funding gratefully received from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and the Magill Trust.
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