The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-08-03
THE ANNIVERSARY OF

LII ANNlv1n0Ah1 UI
John MandeviIle's Death Meeting in Kill
behenny OhurchYard.
Sunday, July Z, was the first ami
versarv of the death of the patriot
martvr of Tullamore Jail, Mr.. John
Vaudeville. and meeting of the peo-
pie Of Michelstown and the neighbor-
ing districts was held in the pictur-
esque little churchYard Of Kilbehenny
to commemorate it. The meeting, says
the Cork Herald. was not regularly
called or organized. as it was the in
tentlon of the people of the locality to
celebrate the anniversary of Mr.. Man
deville's martyrdom by great public
demonstration in which MIR. William
O'Brien and others of Mr.. Mande-
ville's fellow sufferers would partici-
pate, but the representatives of the
several localities having made pill
grimage to the grave of the departed
hero, a meeting was held. The autho-
rites went to lot of trouble for the
protection of the peace, force of 80
police, with Agnew, the gov
eminent shorthand writer, being in at
tendance for the OCCASION. Needless
to say there was no occasion TO call
the services Of those gentlemen of the
government into requsition, and they
had merely to be passive spectators of
the proceedings. A meeting was held
at Kllbehennv churchyard at p. m.
Amongst those present were-Messrs.
Ambrose Vaudeville, solicitor; John
Sarsfeld Casey, coroner; William }.
Casey, hon. sec. Mitchelstown National
League; John Finn, 2. L. G.; Edward
Murray, Eugene Aherne, J. J. Greene,
M. O'Neill, hon. sec. Glanworth Ma
tional Meague; w. Herr, Edward Pear
son, J. O'Mahony. VIM. Gould, J..
O'Brien, VIM. O'Brien, J. Fox, w.
Condor, w. Smith, J. Doherty. A
deputation from Fermoy included
Messrs. Thomas Coughlan, president
National League; -. Hayes, vice presi-
dent; P. Kiely, w. Troy, j. Donegan,
r. Walsh, VIM. Eager, chairman town
commissioners; VIM. Dillon. Edward
SheehY, M FITZGERALD, j. Casey, j.
O'Brien, etc. The grave of the deceased
patriot was literally concealed beneath
floral tributes of love and affection to
the memory of John Vaudeville.
Prayers having been recited over the
grave, Mr.. John Sarsheld Casey, cor
oner, addressed the meeting in a spirit
ed speech, and said he felt almost I'M
worthy to speak to the memory OF one
who was associated in the struggle for
national life with some of the greatest
minds that existed in IreI nd at the
present time. He wished TO pay his
tribute of respects and devotion to the
memory of John Mandevil s-He was
a faithful and genuine friend OF his
country. and had sealed his devotion to
it by delivering up his life ir its cause.
His end reminded him of the saying of
a notable peruon-''They kill you so
slowly in Jail that you cannot call it
murder" That was the way in which
Mr. Vaudeville was done to death. MIR.
Casey then eloquently recounted Mr..
Mandeville's services to the tenantry
of the Mitchelstown and neighboring
districts, and said that in the struggle
in which he died the departed patriot
had no private or selfish interests, and
his only ambition was to save his ten
ants from oppression and ruin (ap-
plause) by his grave they vowed
everlasting hostility to the tyranny that
contrived his death, and to the wretched
system that had long preyed upon the
happiness Of Irish homes, and it was
their fervent prayer
.'That from his clay full many a race may start,
OF true and brave men to act as noble part"
(Cheers.)
Mr.. Thomas Coughlan, president Fer
moy National League, also addressed
the assemblage, and said their appear
ance there that day was an unmistak-
able assurance that those who suffer
for Ireland will never be forgotten by
her people. In the records of Irish
heroism the story of John ManGeville's
sufferinqs, borne with such noble fortl-
t,lde, will never be forgotten (applause).
The assemblage then separated.
4-PAW FAUTS AND FIGURES.