The
following document connected with Padraig MacGamhna [Paddy Gaffney]
and with Ireland's bid for recognition in the struggle for
Independence was published in 1949 by Stephen Carroll who was, at the
time, Secretary of the Carlow Branch of the Irish Transport and
General Worker's Union.
Stephen
was responsible for designing and distributing the Memory Card of
Padraig MacGamhna following Padraig's death in 1943. Later he was
instrumental in having the commemorative Plaque to Padraig erected on
89 Tullow Street.
Stephen
was unsuccessful in his efforts to have the Market Cross in Carlow
renamed Connolly Cross in memory of James Connolly, one of the leaders
of the 1916 Rising.
During
Easter weekend 2013 a Commemoration will be held at the MacGamhna
memorial in Killeshin.
Nationalist and Leinster Times. [front page]
4th July
1949.
Government Of The Irish People.
Mr Stephen
Carroll, Dublin Road, Carlow, Secretary of the Carlow Branch, I.T. &
G.W.Union, showed our representative an interesting document connected
with the late Mr Padraig MacGamhna.
It read as
follows:-
Carlow Union.
Copy of
resolution unanimously adopted by the Guardians of the Poor of Carlow
Union at their annual meeting held on the 15th day of June, 1920.
Proposed
by Mr James Leonard, seconded by Mr. Patrick Gaffney, and unanimously
resolved:
THAT we,
the elected Guardians of the Poor of Carlow Union, at a duly convened
meeting, hereby acknowledge the authority of Dail Eireann as the duly
elected Government of the Irish People, and we undertake to give
effect to all decrees duly promulgated by the said Dail Eireann in so
far as same affects our Board.
THAT
copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Republican Minister for
Foreign Affairs for transmission to the Governments of Europe and to
the President and Chairman of the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America.
Sealed
with the seal of the Carlow Union this fifteenth day of June, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty.
(signed)
James Leonard, Padraig MacGamhna.
[The seal
- about the size of a Euro 5 cent piece - bore the words "Carlow
Union". In the centre was a replica of the British Crown.
The
Resolution was addressed to President Eamon de Valera who, having
failed to have the First Dail recognised by the Paris Peace Conference
and the League of Nations Convenant, was travelling throughout the
United States at the time on a mission seeking recognition of the
First Dail and the Irish Republic.]
- Transcribed by M. Purcell c2011.
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