The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-09-05
CENTENARY OF o'coNNELL.
MAGNIFICENT DEMONSTRATION IN DUB
LIN.
THE THREE FETE DAYS.
fCondensed from the publIp paper

lNonoenb0o from the Dublin papers,
The Dublin celebration Of the OConneli
Centenary has taken place, and, by universal
consent, 1T was the greatest, the most imposing
and magnificent demonstration. OF the kind
ever witnessed In Ireland. The gathering Of
the nation into the city last week the splen-
did enthusiasm, the Eond order, the sobricty
OF the people; the scene in the pro cathedral
on Thursday morning; the monster procession
hundred thousand persons participated and ut
which half million persons, at least, gased
in hearty sympathy /; the wonderful uprising
tempt to degrade into = WhisEIbsrai pSsa Sispisy M
this unprecedented demonstration in fever Of
Irish freedom; the banquets In the Rotundo, in
the Exhibition Palace, and in the Gansion
characteristic accents. the familiar voice OF the
great Archbishop of the West)-all are events
which will never fade from the memory of
those who witnessed them, aud must thrill the
hearts Of generations yet unborn.
THE ARRIVALS IN THE crrY.
As early as Monday, the ID, Dublin began to
fill with strangers. On that day the fret ex-
cursion trains arrived from the country, and
each OF them brought thousands Of persons of
ell GLASSES. On the two following days, there
were further. excursiops by railway, and the
crowd Of visitors, accordingly, rapidly increased
In numbers tilIs on Thursday, not only special
trains arrived in town but special steamers,
the principal streets became ali but im passible,
and the hotels could hold no more. The Free,
man Of Friday says on this point:
"Ali Thursday visitors continued to arrive
from the furthest parts of the island, the. fre-
qnent sound Of music proclaiming the coming
Of each fresh body. All that day the citizens
were the minority in their own habitat, three
strangers, ct least, appearing for every home
bred individual on the promenades. The sue
cession OF strange faces in The streets, the
groups of sight-seers, the new crowds at alp
famous civic resorts, gave some notion Of ex-
pansion OF the census, bnt how enormous it
was showed only on the parade of the united
masses Since Sunday the railway termini,
Kings bridge, the Broadstone and Amiens
street poured in their Thousands without cess-
ing from south, north and west; while by Har-
court street and westland Row the people of
Lower Lenster focked to the festival of the
nation. This is ali without reckoning the
English and Scotch deputations landing from
migration was the large number of the fair sex
who shared In it, Yesterday alone over $500
arrived from England. among them being Fa-
ther Nugent at the head of 500 Teetotalers
from Liverpool.
THE CITY ON THURSDAY.
From an early hour the streets of the metro.
polls were alive with crowds OF sight-seers.
gaily dressed and pleasant-looking the object
i've point of all seeming to be the pro- catb edral
in Marlborough street, in which the grand
every salient point in our blocks of buildings
futtered gay banners, bannerets and streamers
of every conceivable shape aud size, the pre-
vailing hue of all being, however, the national
wrought representations of harps, round
towers, wolf dogs, and other devices sym mbolical
OF the Island Of Saints; and all, or nearly all,
bearing the cognomen of the Liberator, compiled
with q national wish or aspiration for legend
Many houses, too, hung ont flags Of other ma
tionalities to honor the event, and the Union
Jack was to be seen futtering at many points,
famed by the same breath that Stirred the
Trico!or and the Stars and Stripes pendant
from some neighboripg flagstaff.
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