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whole: MODEL (pledge certificate format)
design: ornate border panel, incorporating stylised Celtic scrollwork, enclosing the full text of the pledge. Superimposed upon the
scrollwork are photographic portraits captioned as follows - "HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL LOGUE Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland",
"EAMONN DE VALERA, M.P. representing SINN FEIN.", "ARTHUR GRIFFITH representing SINN FEIN", "WILLIAM O'BRIEN [Dublin] President of Irish
Trade Union Congress", "M EGAN, J.P., T.C Cork", "THE RIGHT HON. LAURENCE O'NEILL THE LORD MAYOR Who presided at the Mansion House
Conference Ireland's Envoy to Washington.", "T.M.HEALY, M.P. representing 'All for Ireland' League", "WILLIAM O'BRIEN, M.P. representing
'All for Ireland' League.", "JOSEPH DEVLIN, M.P. representing Irish Parliamentary Party", "JOHN DILLON, M.P. representing Irish
Parliamentary Party" and "HIS GRACE THE MOST REV W J WALSH D.D Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland". At the centre of upper
horizontal border a view of "MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Co.KILDARE Where the Prelates of Ireland received the Deputation from the Mansion House". At
centre of lower horizontal border a photograph of "MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN Where the Conference Assembled"
text: "IRELAND'S Solemn League and Covenant A National Pledge denying the right of the British Government to enforce compulsory service in
this country, we pledge ourselves solemnly to one another to resist Conscription by the most effective means at our disposal" (9 lines of
Gaelic style lettering, followed by space for signing)
Association - event: the Mansion House meeting, 18 April 1918, settled that a fund should be started to finance the
anti-conscription campaign and that all Irishmen should be asked to take the pledge to resist conscription. Dillon, Healy and de Valera
headed a deputation to the bishop's conclave at Maynooth. Cardinal Logue, influenced by the eloquence and logic of de Valera and Dillon,
was brought round to an anti-conscription standpoint. The bishops ordered the pledge to be read at every mass in every parish on the
following Sunday. They also issued an uncompromising manifesto - "We consider that conscription forced in this way upon Ireland is an
oppressive and inhuman law which the Irish people have a right to resist by every means consonant with the law of God" | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 3 Irish Opposition to & (after) 18/4/1918 Extension to Ireland & 1918 British Home Front (Ireland) & Conscription recruiting political campaigns | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | O'Reilly, J J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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