[Broadside, caption title]: About the Pilgrims

First edition. Broadside. Single sheet measuring 6" by 11" printed on recto only. Lightly creased where once folded, with light early soiling and a few small nicked tears in margin only, a very good copy. The header states: "Released for immediate publication"; published on occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the pilgrims in the United States. The text of the broadside begins: "Every citizen in America, no matter what may be his racial origin, is interested in the celebration this year of the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers we all ought to have respect but we should not allow [it] to be turned into a fulsome magnifying of the Anglo-Saxon race to the minimizing of the other people people here of pro-British tendencies have seemed to capture the tercentenary celebration Civil freedom existed in the world long before the Pilgrims sighted New England The Pilgrims were but a part. Let us. try to see America not as some would wish it to be, but as it is." Scholar Michael Doorley states, "The Friends of Irish Freedom was founded a few weeks prior to the 1916 Rising, ostensibly to promote the cause of Ireland in the United States." [see Doorley, 'Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism: the Friends of Irish Freedom' (publisher's abstract, Four Courts, 2005)]. In their first constitution, the Friends of Irish Freedom pledged themselves "to encourage and assist any movement that will tend to bring about the national independence of Ireland." It was founded in 1916, at the First Irish Race Convention, in New York City, at the Hotel Astor. Clan na Gael played a key role in the foundation, with close ties to the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was generally considered their counterpart in Ireland. Unrecorded by *OCLC*, which does note a single holding of two similar "Friends of Irish Freedom" broadsides, *The Anglo-Saxon Humbug,*and *Playing up the Puritan*, both held by Oberlin; The National Library of Ireland notes holdings of various broadsides and pamphlets published by The Friends of Irish Freedom; but not this title.…