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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

Paul Cussen

January 1919

This is the year that sees the publication of Yeats’ The Wild Swan’s at Coole, Francis Ledwidge’s Complete Poems, and ‘An Seabhac’, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha’s Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, the year in which Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination is published with illustrations by Harry Clarke.

C.S. Lewis publishes his first work in London, Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics.

Other publications of note are:

 Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

 Herman Hesse’s Demian 

Franz Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie (‘In the Penal Colony’)

W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence

Marcel Proust’s À l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, vol. 2 of À la recherche du temps perdu

P.G. Wodehouse’s My Man Jeeves stories

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day

L. Frank Baum’s The Magic of Oz

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Father Francis P. Duffy’s Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth (with Joyce Kilmer)

John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of Peace

Prof. William Strunk’s magnificent The Elements of Style

Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier, and

Arthur Ransome’s Six Weeks in Russia

The Little Review was seized by the Post Office in January, not because of the contribution by James Joyce, but because of the inclusion of some nude drawings.

In mid-January approximately 5,000 soldiers mutiny in Southampton, taking over the docks and refusing to obey orders.  Lies had been told and the men had thought they were to be discharged when they were being sent to France.  Sir Hugh Trenchard surrounded the mutineers with soldiers and military police.

There was a melee between US sailors and British soldiers on board the Rosslare express train from Cork.  Most of the windows were broken when the train arrived in Waterford and a number of the American sailors were injured. One was missing, and was later found, fighting fit, in Dungarvan.

In Belfast more than 20 Sinn Féin prisoners climbed on to the roof of the prison where, over the course of two hours, they waved republican flags and sang Sinn Féin and other songs to a large crowd that assembled on Crumlin Road.  Their protest ended when members of the crowd began throwing stones at the protesters on the roof despite a police presence.

 ‘I can declare that the spirit of the prisoners, so far from being broken, has grown more robust since their entrance to the jail.’ - Count Plunkett

 ‘In January, 1919, Cork Brigade, which was made up of about twenty battalions and embraced the whole of Cork County, was divided into three Brigades.  Our Battalion (Bandon) became the 1st Battalion, Cork III. Brigade.

The other battalions in the Brigade area were, as far as I can recollect, - Clonakilty (2nd), Dunmanway (3rd), Skibbereen (4th), Bantry (5th). The 0/C., Cork III. Brigade, was Tom Hales who, up to the formation of the Brigade, was O/C. Bandon (1st) Battalion. I cannot recollect the names of the other officers on the Brigade Staff.

During 1919, beyond normal training, which was becoming slightly more advanced -selected members were being trained in scouting, signalling and the use of arms - there was no unusual activity in Company area.’ – Laurence Sexton.

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1290.pdf#page=5

 1 January - Count Plunkett stays in his house in Upper Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin after being released from Birmingham Jail, having served seven months imprisonment.

Jerome David Salinger is born in Manhattan (d. 2010)

Edsel Ford succeeds his father as president of the Ford Motor Company.

HMY Iolaire hits the infamous "Beasts of Holm" rocks and sinks a mile from Stornoway harbour.  Over 200 people drown in the tragedy.

2 January - The Cork Examiner reproduces a Daily Express article entitled ‘Why the Women Failed’ as 17 women had stood for election and only Countess Markievicz was elected. Two women had stood for election in Ireland; Winifred Carney failed to secure the seat for the Victoria Ward in Belfast.

3 January - The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement is signed for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Tragic Week begins in Argentina as striking workers fire on police. Three policemen die over the course of the week and 78 are wounded.  Between 100 and 700 civilian deaths are reported along with 2,000 wounded, while 50,000 people are imprisoned.  Martial law is declared.

5 January - The Sparticist uprising begins in Berlin.

6 January - Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep (b. 1858)

7 January - A reception is held at the Imperial Hotel by the members of the Cork branch of the Irish Women's Association for almost 300 Munster men who had been prisoners of war.

Robert Duncan is born in Oakland, California (d.1988)

The Christmas Rebellion in Cetinje begins in response to an attempt to unite the Kingdom of Montenegro with the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa is founded, led by Clements Kadalie.

10 January - Private Harman and Private Perry of the Royal Defence Corps were shot on sentry duty at the railway bridge in Monard.

The newly formed Freikorps attack Sparticist supporters in Berlin.

13 January - Workers councils in Berlin end the general strike bringing the Sparticist uprising to an end.

15 January - Proportional Representation is used for first time in Sligo municipal elections.

Rosa Luxemburg (b. 1871) is arrested along with Karl Liebknecht (the only member of the Reichstag to have voted against the war, b.1871) for their part in the Sparticist uprising.  They are murdered by members of the Freikorps. Luxemburg’s body is thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin.

Red Rosa now has vanished too. (...) She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out. May she rest in peace.                                    - Bertolt Brecht

The Great Boston Molasses Flood occurs when a large storage tank bursts and a wave of two million gallons of molasses travels at over 50 km/h through the North End killing 21 and injuring 150.

16 January - The 18th Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified, authorizing Prohibition.

18 January - The Paris Peace Conference opens at the Palace of Versailles.

Bentley Motors Limited is founded.

Pianist and composer, Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the Prime Minister of Poland.

19 January - The first elections in Germany of the new Weimar Republic.

20 January - Silva Kaputikyan is born in Yerevan (d. 2006)

21 January - The first meeting of Dáil Éireann, formed by Sinn Féin MPs elected to the House of Commons, is conducted exclusively in Irish. Cathal Brugha takes the chair and calls on Father O’Flanagan to bless the proceeding. Clár Oibre Poblacánaighe, the Democratic Programme, is adopted.

   An ambush is carried out at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, by Irish Volunteers. Two RIC officers are killed; Constable James McDonnell, approximately 50 years old, was from Belmullet, County Mayo, a widower with four children; and Constable Patrick O'Connell was from Coachford, County Cork, approximately 30 years old and unmarried.

25 January - The League of Nations is founded in Paris.

26 January - Stoker 1st Class John McSweeney of Fuller’s Lane, Bandon Road dies of nephritis.

The 1918 All-Ireland hurling final is held in Croke Park.

Limerick          9-5                 Wexford        1-3

27 January - A general strike is called over working hours led by engineering workers in Glasgow and Belfast.

31 January - The editorial of An t-Óglach states that the formation of Dáil Éireann “justifies Irish Volunteers in treating the armed forces of the enemy – whether soldiers or policemen – exactly as a National Army would treat the members of an invading army”

The British army is called in to deal with Scotland’s most widespread strike since 1820. Six tanks support 12,000 troops and the strikers give up their cause for a 40 hour work week after the Battle of George Square.  Ironically, Glasgow citizens gave more per capita to fund the army’s tanks when “Julian the Tank” (No. 113) made a tour of Scotland in January 1918 as a Scottish War Savings Committee initiative.  The tanks are not used against the public; their presence supporting the soldiers is enough.