The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-24
AN IRISH ANNIVERSARY.
Last Nights Meeting of Irish Citizens in Com
memoration of the Manchester Martyrs.

The committee appointed to arrange for the
meeting in commemoration of the Manchester
martyrs, Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, finding the
| time too short to enable them TO properly and
| adequately prepare for it, decided to abandon
the idea of public meeting In order not to
be entirely disappointed of their desire to honor
the event, few of Ireland's friends met last
evening, at the rooms of the Irish National
League. Mr.. S. P Sheerin presided, and Mr..
t. Ii. McNelis was appointed secretary The
following telegram from Rev. Myron w. Reed
was read:
| Cannot come. VIII be with you in spirit. Success
| to the meeting
Mr. James Fl. Rice also telegraphed his una
| voidable absence and assuring them his soul
was with them.
Irish music was rendered by young musician
| just from the old country, and passing through
| the city or his way West. His repertoire en-
braced enough to even more than satisfy his
| fully appreciative audience They heard nearly
| all they knew before and much many of them
had never heard till then.
Mr. Donnelly. the orator of the occasion, con-
fined bis remarks to that part of Ireland's his
tory embraced in the last eighty ninety
| years-her many brave but ill-prepared and
! abortive struggles for freedom, the sufferings
| and sacrifices of her people apparently resulting
| Ill nothing, but really the seeds that have bios
somed into the bright prospect of to-day. Re-
ferring to the martyrs, he told of their innocence
charged and their judicial murder to sat
| isfy the English cry for Irish life
! Concluding, he said: IA brighter day seems to
] have dawned upon that Ireland of many sor
rows The clouds are clearing that too long lay
| dark and sullen around her. To use the words
of some poetic enthusiast of the past, we can
almost in fancy see her visibly rising from her
bed in the ocean and moving nearer to the sun.
! leader has arisen amongst the Irish people,
| clear of head and determined of purpose, who
seems to be destined, by providence, to conduct
his native land to that position which rightfully
| belongs to her among the nations. Englands
| greatest statesman, in his grand old age, has
| seen his way to recognize the justice and the
| fairness of Irelands claims and justify her
struggles and her conductin the past. The great
| sympathic heart of free America is with
US, and beats time to every pulsation
! of the Irish heart and it being TINS, what has
Ireland to fear3 Altogether, the outlook is full
of hope for the future. No matter
what the future may have in store for Ireland
| whether she reaches the goal of her ambition
| peaceably or otherwise-one thing is certain,
that the names and the memories Of those who
gave up their lives in her darkest days, to prove
that she was still alive and likely to lve--those
who, like the noble three whose memories we are
| tonight comrnemorating, wentfeaTessy and con-
| fidently before the throne of their God, with a
prayer on their lips for the land Of their love and
alteration, will occupy through all time first
place in the hearts and affections sof grateful
| nation"
Mr. Martin Grady sang 'God Save ireland. !"
and in response to encore, gave "Murty
Hynes, a ballad describing an incident of Land
League days. Short addresses were then made
by Cornelius Kelley NJ ]. Burns, Capt James
McHugh, Frank NJ Ryan, d. j. Sullivan and
| Michael ODonnell. Mr.. William j. Parkinson
rected DR.. Joyce's poem, Zone true man dead
for liberty is worth thousand men, Then fol-
lowed the singing of THE Star spaugled Ban
ner," by Martin Grady. The meeting closed by
all joining ill the song, The Rising of the
/ Moon. ~