The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1871-07-02
AIscELIANEoUs IRISH NEWS.
Crowded out last week.
THE GREAT NOLAN Ey

Its Final Settlemcnt.-Rejoicimg Amoaost
The Icnants.-We compile the following
history ofthis celebrated case, the decision
OF tue arbitrators, and the scenes which
followed, from the Dublin Nation ard the
FREEMAN, Of the, Sd inst: county
Nolan, of Ballinderry, in the Years
1864 and 1866 evicted from off one of his
estates-a place called Portacarron. on
the picturesque shores of Lough Corib-
some sixty or eighty souls. He was not a
man according to the usual type of evicting
landlords. He was not harsh, a heart
less or avaricious man. AS is now known
on sworn evidence, and always held of him
by repute, he was a genial, kind-hearted
gentleman; generous, open handed, uD-
right and honorable: Nevertheless he did
deed which, howsoeyer provoked, or
howsoeVer harmless and lawful accord
ing to the social opinion of his fellow
landlords, forfeited for him SO far the
high place "his fathers SOM had sue
ceeded to In popular estimation. For some
of these evictions-those wrought in 1864
he had what he naturally conceived to
be just and ample cause, and if his impress
sions of the facts were thoroughly correct,
no one could much blame him on the occa,
sion; for subdivision of their holdings
by tenantry, without permission and
against the landlords prohibition, is a
wrong and an injury to the landlord, which
he is warranted in resisting. Other of the
evlctlons-those which took place in 1866
fault on the part of the tenantry unless
1t was fault for them to cling too fondly
to the old family, the Nolans of Baliinder-
~, through generations, "the best land
lords In the county" and refuse to attorn
TO typical middleman land shark whom
evictions, it is clear, caused Captain No.
Ian poignant sorrow ; he was forced into
them by the middleman land shark, who
seems to have iured and deceived him into |
q contract for the whole Partacarron Es-
tate. put that was his own mistake, and !
lessened In nanght the wrong and outrage !
on the peaceable, kindly, industrious ten !
antry VINO were torn from their homes and !
nung into the ditch side. Scarcely was the |
deed perpetrated when Captain Nolan |
seemed q to have repented it bitterly. Still, !
" ilIegal;" he had but done in the case Of
Two or three score souls that which his fell
low-landlords around him had done in the
case of thousands! In every other Incl
dent OF his life he was everything that an |
Irish gentleman might fairly be expected !
to be. His military tastes, and talents of |
no ordinary degree, led him into the army; |
but his political principles were Irish in the |
true sense, and in his own neighborhood |
he was immensely popular. Last January, |
as as our readers may recollect, he appeared
AoA OAO representation or |
Galway; and unquestionably hc would |
have been returned, but, lo!-the sceptre
OF Fortacarron evlctions barred the way |
The Key: Mr. Dooley, who, heart wrung
ana maddened by grief, had witnessed the
eviction scenes in 1864 aud 1866, bitterly
denounced Captain Nolan for the wrong
thus and then done. Captain Nolan an.
swercd, and with truth, that the charges of
Father Dooley were in some points griey-
ously exaggerated in others, incorrect
but In some, based on facts which he him
sell admitted and regretted. He announced
that he would not seek Il popular trust
Win such an Indictment hanging over him.
that he would retire from the contest. and
submit his entire conduct in the matter of ,
the Portacarron tenantry to the inyestipa- 8
tlon and nnrestrained arbitration of a FRI;
bunal whose award would be bevond inn.
peachment in the estimation of the Triab :
pabhc. The arbitrators whom he seIectad | ,
and who were fully approved by the ten '
antry as well as by their devoted friend. ,
rather Dooley, were Sir John GRAY. M. p. c
ather Lavelle, p. p, and Mr.. A, M. Sul. Y
Ivan. Formal legal deeds of submission | G
were drawn, signed and registered, and the | c
arbltrators were constituted n legal tribu | q
1ai 10y tho Court of Exchequer, with full q
1ower to summon and examine witnesses. Z
IN Monday last the proceedings commenced
vas hlled with the evicted tenantry and a
be neighboring townspeople and PEASANT a
y. Tho trial lasted two days and was 6
cry interesting. Sir John Gray, in C
which, for clearness, precision c
nd yrD hata e..