The morning call., 1890-05-11
"REMEMBER MITCHELsToWN. "
Organize ion and Object OF the John Man
do al

Organization and Object of the John Man
deville Memorial Club.
The John Vaudeville Memorial Club has
been organized in this city for the purpose
of assisting their brothers in Ireland to
raise monuments to the memory of Mande-
vile, Shinnick. Lonergan and Casey. They
have opened subscription list, and will
hold meeting tonight at Irish-Ameriean
Hail.
A member Of the organization gives the
following history of the movement: The
watchword, Remember Mitchelstown,"
from the foot of the Galtaes is heard in San
Francisco. The history of Mitchelstown in
the past-back in the centuries-is almost
as famous as its more recent one of 1887,
the facts of which are known to almos t
every reader of the civilized press. Her
people were then, as they are now, engaged
battling against tyrant might. The Mitch
elstown, or Kingston estate. at that time
comprised portions of the four counties of
Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford,
and was lorded over by the Earl OF Kings
ton, THE Wolf of the Galtae," as O'Con-
nell very properly styled him. His castle,
known as the Mitchelstown Castle, is one
of the most magnificent structures in Great
Britain. 1t has also attached a demesne of
400 acres of the richest aad most pictur-
esque land in ali Ireland surrounded by
wall ten feet high. This came from the
sweat of his unfortunate tenantry. During
Kingston's career, assisted by his faithful
lieutenant, Judkih Fitzgerald, High Sheriff
of Tipperary, terrorism unheaId of reigned
and was carried out most inhrmanly
against the constitutional rights of the peo-
pie, and particularly against the practices
of our religion. The head of a priest
was valued as that of wolf. Kingston and
ali of his breed are dead and gone but his
castle and demesne still remain, and may
yet revert back to their rightful owners.
The history OF those days seems to have
repeated themselves in a measure in 1887
when the crowbar brigade manifested it.
self to the unfortunate tenantry of tho
estate, mercilessly hurdling them from their
ancient hearths, the old. sick and dying,
no mercy being shown to any person, no
matter in what condition. 1t was after
trying to prevent in constitutional way
some of these inhumanites that the gallant
men of Tipperary, Limerick and Cork on
their return to Mitchelstown on that MEM
orable day, tile 9th of September, 1887,
had to face the British soldiery and hire
ling constabulary. With their national
cry, "Revenge-Remember Limerick" and
as the Irish Brigade won the heights of
Fontenoy, so tie Galtae boys won the
square OF Mitchelstown, singing God Save
Ireland" True there was sacrificed on the
altar of liberty on that occasion three of
our gallant men, ShiBnick, Loncrgan and
Casey, whose names will always remain
fresh and green in the minds of all true
Irishmen until the flag Of home rule floats
mortal memorials are erected TO the memory
of John Vaudeville, Shinnick, Lonergan
and Casey.
John Vaudeville, after whose name this
club was called, was a greatgrandson of
the chief of the Commera and of the
QMahoney5 of Farrow, who in his time
made it warm for the Earl of Kingston and
Judkin Fitzgerald.