[Footnote 3:  “Ireland’s Crusade Against Tuberculosis.”  P. 34-35.]

[Footnote 4:  “Report of Chief Tuberculosis Officer of Belfast for the Three Years Ended 31 March, 1917.”  Hugh Adair.  Belfast. 1917.  P. 25.]

[Footnote 5:  “Appendix Report Housing Conditions of Dublin.”  Alex Thorn.  Dublin. 1914.  P. 154.]

[Footnote 6:  “First Annual Report P.F.  Collier Memorial Dispensary.”  Dollard.  Dublin. 1913.  P. 24.]

[Footnote 7:  “Starvation in Dublin.”  By Lionel Gordon-Smith and Cruise O’Brien.  Wood Printing Works.  Dublin. 1917.  P. 14.]

[Footnote 8:  “The Poor in Dublin.”  Pamphlet.  St. Vincent de Paul Society.]

[Footnote 9:  “How Local Milk Depots in Ireland Are Worked.”  Dollard.  Dublin. 1915.  P. 3-15.]

[Footnote 10:  “Second Annual Report of the Woman’s National Health Association.”  Waller and Company.  Dublin. 1909.  P. 143.]

[Footnote 11:  “Supplement Fifty-fourth Report Inspectors of Lunacy.”  Alex Thorn.  Dublin. 1906.  P. VII.]

[Footnote 12:  Ibid.  P. XXVII.]

[Footnote 13:  “Sixty-second Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland, 1916.”  His Majesty’s Stationery Office.  Edinburgh. 1918.  P. LXVII.]

[Footnote 14:  “Marriages, Births, and Deaths in Ireland, 1917.”  P. XII.]

[Footnote 15:  “Supplement Fifty-fourth Report Inspectors of Lunacy.”  P. XXXII.]

[Footnote 16:  “The Woman’s National Health Association and Infant Welfare.”  The Child.  June, 1911.  P. 10.]

[Footnote 17:  Figures supplied by H.C.  Ferguson, Superintendent of Charity Organization Society, Belfast, 1919.]

[Footnote 18:  “Irish Education Act, 1892.” (55 & 56 Vict.) Chap. 42.  P. 1.]

[Footnote 19:  Ibid.  P. 1.]

[Footnote 20:  Ibid.  P. 4.]

[Footnote 21:  Ibid.  P. 3.]

[Footnote 22:  Ibid.  P. 8 et al.]

[Footnote 23.  “Vice-regal Committee of Enquiry into Primary Education, Ireland, 1918.”  His Majesty’s Stationery Office.  Dublin. 1919.  P. 22.]

[Footnote 24:  Ibid.  P. 22.]

[Footnote 25:  Ibid.  Martin Reservation.  P. 27-30.]

[Footnote 26:  Ibid.  P. 8.]

[Footnote 27:  Ibid.  P. 39.]

II

SINN FEIN AND REVOLUTION

Will social condition lead to immediate revolution?

“Eamonn De Valera, the President of the Irish Republic, who has been in hiding since his escape from Lincoln jail, will be welcomed back to Dublin by a public reception.  Tomorrow evening at seven o’clock he will be met at the Mount street bridge by Lawrence O’Neill, Lord Mayor of Dublin....”

The news note was in the morning papers.  In small type it was hidden on the back pages—­the Irish papers have a curious habit of six-pointing articles in which the people are vitally interested and putting three-column heads on such stuff as:  “Do Dublin Girls Rouge?” That day the concern of the people was unquestionably not rouge but republics.  For the question that sibilated in Grafton street cafes and at the tram change at Nelson pillar was:  “Will Dublin Castle permit?”