The times., 1897-12-26

III tbut vfose memory now goes by IN un
clean epithetI, and were pluDdered,r an,
all these robberies were iegalized in Eng
lands Parliament and dbymonarchy's IS edicts
t But while there was niarauding by th
enemy the patriots began to take action
Some tim IN March, 1898, 500 men, m )unt
ed, entered the town of Calvin, count,
Tipperary, and held it during the day un
J I'll they collected all the arms and ammuni
ton. Other insurgent forces in the coun
, try retailatcd OH the ''yeos.'
All ireland was put under martial law
with free quarters for the military in ali
parts OF the Eingdoni. The Tory soldiers
became masters OF every household entered
and the owners were compelled to supply
their every demand which savage dis
positions prompted. Shocking scenes we're
| exhibited. The '.tooty and beauty 'ner-
| ceDar!es that met such a suitable fate sub
| sequcntly at New Orleans were III evidence
and perpetrated hOrrid acts not recordable
in a public print. People We're scourged.
some placed on pickets. houses We're burned
aud furniture taken into streets and made
into fuel 10 warIn the sentinels. Vast
quantities of provisions an corn were sofi-
sufned by fire, resulting in subsequent
famine Tor tens Of thousands of the common
people. Mcr v ere imprisoned on the Slight
est suspicion on on the Information faisels
given by al INSCRIPTIONS enemy; sometimes
almost stfanGled to death or from time }
time half hanged for the purpose Of ex-
tortiDg confessions as To tine secrets of
the United Irishmen or the hiding place OF
arms rowde1 and ball. To wear the hair
short made ore ''croppy. or a little
green in ones apparel was all suffici mt
for the -vengence of the red Coats. At the
| guardhouse the short haired person had a
| cap besmcar-d with hot pitch pressed down
Oh his head and was turned out amid The
| jeers OF the toriurers. Sometimes the sight
/ Of the victim was destroyed by the melted
| pitch getting into the eyes, and these
atrocities were gloated over by yells that
| might have iSsJrd from a baud of Comanctie
| Indians. No officer or magistrate ever in.
| terfered in these atrocities. Peoples ears
We're Tuu:iIated or cut of aItogether and
| Sits made i'll the ncses OF supposed rebels
| The government instructed all magistrates
end officers okeep the names ofinformers
| profoundly secret. and thus afforded scope
for every form of cruelty crafty personal
| malice.
| In March, '9S, Lord Edward Fitzgerald
| was seized in the house OF Nicholas Muir
ance with dagger. He wounded Magis-
| trate Swan Major SIR, Ca Ut. Ryan anG two
of his sa'diers, the latter three LING their
wounds Lord Edward died early the fol-
| lowing month on account of a pistol shot
| wound received in the encounter. John md
Henry Shears weie arrested In MAY, tried
July = ard executed on the ] It'll.
The irectofy had ordered the simGItan
gf pT frSt rants tf,f
the nigh, OF May %. LaCghhistown and
the artillery at chapelizod. near Dublin.
were 10 be attacked. Then the castle AMI
other parts Of the metropolis, in which the
forces Of the counties OF Wicklow, Dublin
and kildare should take action. The gof.
ernn.ent disposed OF III 600 troops on the
e1st nd 22d OF May. In the country .he
insurgents assembled in many places, anu
during night and day skirrlishas were
fought at the towns OF Mas, CIa inc, Pgos-
porous, BalIy-Mrre, Eustace and EHct!le1.
The day following Carlow, Iackats.O~H
and Monastereven wereattacked Fighting
took place at Tallagt, Lucan. Tusk. 1I:n-
boyne, Barretstown. Collin and Baltinglas.
IN ali these actions the United irish we're
victorious, except the attack ON Prosperous.
At Dunbcyne, eight miles from Dublin. the
regiment OF Reay Fencilies escorted the
baggage OF the Kings troops, which was
seized by tic Irish, and simila. fate bcfln
the Suffolk Fencibies at Barretstown. 4
force of the United Arpr was attacked IN
May "a at stratford, on the Slavey
River, by the British and the Irish lie
feated, with n slaughter OF ) 90, the British
losing short OF 200.
At subsequent attack On Prosperous the
car NO
barracks Were fired, and the Cork .ntiitil.
an Orange organizs ton, with its conman-
der, persisted in the flames. Twenty-eight
Of Weich cavalry regiment were killed
At Mas tie British We're to many and the
Irish were repulsed. Several officers and
men Of the former were slain; 200 Of the
latter Were slain in the streets md Il the !
cavalry pursuit of them greater nuInber |
We're slaughtered in the roads and fields. |
AT Kilcullen, the inefficiency Of the British |
cavalry d ga inst the enbattled irish pix ,
men was clearly shown. War now began to !
rage through the blightcd land. The brave
Irishman, whose firearms had been seized |
by the enemy at previous times. had to |
rely chiefly en- the pike. The patriots Were
repulsed at Carbon. Numbers took re Guge IN
houses when Intercepted. The houses were
the bodies OF the unlucky patriots were fall
ing down the chimneyS wherein they had
been roasted to death. Then there folio .red
the hanging and shooting O i bout 400, ac-
cordinE to martial law, among them Sir
Edward Croshe. On the 2GthO of May, at
Tara 100 irish Were counted dead on the
field after their defeat, two genera Is and
number of inferior officers being among
the n;tmhpr. nd AT R1tbH up1p and 4
Knockawin and Kildare, disaster attended
the heroic, but badly armed ana undrillcd,
patriots. The patriots at a battle-ground
near Corey defeated the Kings troops, |
killing the commander and $50 troopers
Another sort OF Bunker iii was at oulard,
county Wexford, where the Irish were
posted very effectively. The British at
tackled, We're thanked and totally routed,
the Nortl. Cork regiment being annitilated
and the colonel and officers left amoag
the dead On the field. All nt the infantry
royalists who escaped by narrow chance
We're Gen. iehunt, Major Allen af.d eleven
privates, who mounted the horses Of the
slain.
Up to this time the Rev Fathers Michael
and John Murphy used every exertioh
against the system OF the United Irishmea,
but when the royalists despoiled their chap |
els and burned them with their residences,
they joined with their patriotic countrymen. |
The insurgents attacked Enniscartiy most
with c0rsidera bic display
Of strategy. -Four hours Of bloody battle
"a ged with fluctuating fury. AT last a
force of United Irish plunged through the
liver up TO their necks at TempleShanon |
nd OF town. and made such tremendous
f,& Il. az