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Many of the Irish soldiers in the prison
camps in Germany, on learning of these
conditions, expressed their wish to join the
Irish Brigade and numerous applications
have already been accepted.

A body of picked Irishmen is now
enrolled, armed and equipped and is
being daily augmented by fresh
volunteers from among the prisoners.

The first company of the Irish Brigade
has drawn up and caused to be signed
by their non-commissioned officers the
following statement which they wish to
have widely circulated as a Manifesto
to their countrymen of their hopes and
aims, and thereby to secure the
moral and material support of all
patriotic Irishmen throughout the world.

Manifesto of A Company of the Irish Brigade

We, the Members of the Irish Brigade now being
formed in Germany, late prisoners of war but now
enrolled to fight for the freeedom of our country
hereby declare:
That, as we entered upon the war as members of
the British army in the belief that we were fighting in
the cause of Liberty and justice, as thereby advancing
the cause of our Country, Ireland, to secure the rights
and liberties of her people; and as we have assured
ourselves and are now certain that in this belief we
were misled by those we had trusted and that today,
as always, the British State is the implacable enemy of
our Country and of all its national rights and liberties,
and, moreover, that in this war, which has been forced
on the world by England and her allies the cause of
national right, of justice and truth is the cause of the
Germanic nations:
Now, therefore, after full deliberation and with full
sense of our responsibility, we have taken the open
course of severing, by our own act, all connection with
the British State and army and of giving ourselves to
the service of our Country to fight for Irish Indepen-
dence.
If it were in the power of any Irishman to bring
that result about to-morrow by honourable and brave
means, he would be indeed a coward and a traitor to
the traditions of his race did he not do so.
The Imperial German Government has generously
undertaken to arm and equip us as soldiers of Ireland
to fight in her cause alone and under the flag of our
Country.
With the help of our countrymen in Ireland and
throughout the world, we hope either to win the Inde-
pendence of our Country or to die fighting for the glory
of God and the honour of Ireland.

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Many of the Irish soldiers in the prison
camps in Germany, on learning of these
conditions, expressed their wish to join the
Irish Brigade and numerous applications
have already been accepted.

A body of picked Irishmen is now
enrolled, armed and equipped and is
being daily augmented by fresh
volunteers from among the prisoners.

The first company of the Irish Brigade
has drawn up and caused to be signed
by their non-commissioned officers the
following statement which they wish to
have widely circulated as a Manifesto
to their countrymen of their hopes and
aims, and thereby to secure the
moral and material support of all
patriotic Irishmen throughout the world.

Manifesto of A Company of the Irish Brigade

We, the Members of the Irish Brigade now being
formed in Germany, late prisoners of war but now
enrolled to fight for the freeedom of our country
hereby declare:
That, as we entered upon the war as members of
the British army in the belief that we were fighting in
the cause of Liberty and justice, as thereby advancing
the cause of our Country, Ireland, to secure the rights
and liberties of her people; and as we have assured
ourselves and are now certain that in this belief we
were misled by those we had trusted and that today,
as always, the British State is the implacable enemy of
our Country and of all its national rights and liberties,
and, moreover, thta in this war, which has been forced
on the world by England and her allies the cause of
national right, of justice and truth is the cause of the
Germanic nations:
Now, therefore, after full deliberation and with full
sense of our responsibility, we have taken the open
course of severing, by our own act, all connection with
the British State and army and of giving ourselves to
the service of our Country to fight for Irish Indepen-
dence.
If it were in the power of any Irishman to bring
that result about to-morrow by honourable and brave
means, he would be indeed a coward and a traitor to
the traditions of his race did he not do so.
The Imperial German Government has generously
undertaken to arm and equip us as soldiers of Ireland
to fight in her cause alone and under the flag of our
Country.
With the help of our countrymen in Ireland and
throughout the world, we hope either to win the Inde-
pendence of our Country or to die fighting for the glory
of God and the honour of Ireland.

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get men
get money
get in touch with
leaving Irish