The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-24
How tho PooF of Ireland Faro.


From correspondence from Killarney we take
the accounts given below of the relations be-
tween landlord and tenant In Ireland, as they
exist now: t-
i Before proceed with Waterford, etc, Unjust
finish the humane agent whose zeal for his
master informed you of in my last Thomas
Foley, of Haggard, received notice TO quit
the cFowbar brigade had torn down his humble
dwelling and departed, he gathered few
sticks and erected q temporary howell within
the unroofed walls of his once happy home.
His brother who held the adjoining farm, got
the farm from which Thomas had been evicted.
Ale permitted hiiu to- remain in the unroofed
of brotherly kindness, he sent his oallIH to
warn the brother in possession that If he did
not put his brother and family out of the same
he would be evicted himself
The Rev. Father Cudd, when Ire hesrd-this
statement from the wife of the invalid, thought
il too atrocious to be true, and sought the
bailiff, who informed him that it was true.
The poor fellow, to save his brother from the
pains and penalties of eviction, crawled from
the walls of his old home with his wife and
children, but he could not go far he entered n
field in Haystown, in view of his hearthstone,
threw up a few boughs against fence and
covered them with furze faggot served for
door. fhe- first night he passed in this
primitive dwelling was his last. The Rev
Richard Kelly, of :fempletown, attended him.
when he arrived to prepare the dying man for
eternity the faggot was removed; the priest
administered the last sacraments of the Catho-
lie Church to another victim of Irish landlord
ism-accoriing to law. Dore would have q
lasting place in the memory of the benevolent
if he were to illustrate the last moments of
Thomas Foley, of Haggard late tenant OF the
Most Noble Marquis of Ely.
Ellen Gore, of Templetown, eighty years of
age, was evicted the day subsequent to that
when her daughter paid at the office of the
agent the sum of IS II. Cd. Not copper was
due, when the excellent agent sent his baliiHs
TO remove the old woman aud daughter, peace
fully if possible, forcibly if necessary, from
their old home. They were at breakfast when
I he messengers of the agent arrived, but the
latter did not give them time TO finish 1T.
Furniture, etc, were flung cut upon the dung
hill and the house unroofed. When the
bailiffs had departed the creatures gathered all
their little household affairs together and
sought shelter inside the walls of their home.
but no more so. In this miserable place, the
old woman, her grandchildren, their parents
and two unmarried daughters sought shelter.
The old woman, from the fright, took i'll; word
came to the agent that the Cores were clinging
to the ruins of their former home. Hare was
indignant at this infringement of /" the sacred
ri chts," and set out to-tell it not wherever
civilization has laid rail, built school house
or erected a telegraph pole-put them out.
The bailitfs arrived in front of the hut, and
with profanc expressions commanded the poor
creatures to leave Immediately.
The grandmother was indlsposed, aud unable
to obey the inperious summons. One of the
gallant members of the brigade" struck
He applied the match to the dry thatch which
the poor creatures had gathered and fixed TO
preserve them from the biting winds. 1t
blazed like flax the women shrieked; the
children screamed: the venerable grand
mother moaned inside; the bailif cursed One
of the daughters dashed III through the smoke
and bfazing thatch and brought ont her aged
mother half smothered and nearly naked,
amid the jeersf and laughter of these worthy
ministers of landlord law in Ireland, The
brave girl Fa shed in again to save the seanty
covering, When trying to escape through the
debris Of the old house, Que of the bailifs
showed her, he says, by accident She fell and
broke her arm badly that the bone protru-
ded through the skin. All present did their
best to comfort the old woman and wounded
daughter. The bailitfs, satisfied at the part
they had enacted, skunk away. The linen"
looked on -gloomily with curses between their
teeth-it would be unlawful to curse aloud
and said did nothing. Five days after
wards the grandmother aud four of the grand
childred died of fever.