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Show SINN FEIN CHIEF SHOWSCOURAGE Father OTIanagan Termed Man Not Afraid to Argue With Pope LONDON. Jan. 15. Father .Michael O'Flanagan. acting president of Sinn Fetai who sent the famous telegram to I'remier Lloyd Ueorgg asking him what steps he proposed to make peuce In Ireland before Christmas, is described de-scribed by one who knows him as "the sort of man who would not hesitate t n aririie arllh llie unn.i liimm.lf " "When he was 1 urate of Croasna." says Professor Robert Mitchell Henry In "The Evolution of Sinn Fein." "Father "Fa-ther u'Flnnnagan had taken a very acthe part on the side of Sinn IVin in the East Cuvan election, when Arthur Ar-thur Griffith was returned. "Soon after he was deprived by his bishop, I r. Coyne, of all his faculties as a priest, Including the right to say mass. The technical offense for which ho was punished was that of having addressed meetings within tho boundaries boun-daries of three parishes of the local parish priests. "Everyone knew that the real reason rea-son fer his punishment was not the technical offense, but the fact that his speeches had been strongly, ami even Violently Sinn Fein- "The P'-ople of Crossna retorted by -hutting up the parish church, and refusing re-fusing to allow mass to be said in it by anyone else " After the Easter rising of 1916, Father Fa-ther O'Flanagan to-k Eamonn de Val-1 Val-1 pa's place, In appearance, he is described as a smiling man in early middle age, with just a suspicion of silver In his Jet-black Jet-black hair. His conversation is easy ami witty and on the platform lie is an effective speaker, with a crisp command com-mand of epigram. |