The Irish standard., 1899-07-15

| ana olldl lileu. he was seized, dragged
off his horse, SO kicked and buffeted
that he was said to- have been scarcel,
recognizable, then tried by courtmartial
and hanged off Wexford bridge. Keogh
the gallant governor OF Wexford who
had again and again risked his life iol
he protection from violence OF loya' is
prisoners, was hanged. His head wa:
severed from his body and fixed on d
bike before the court house in Wexford
While his body was thrown into the
liver. Among, however, the executions
which caused the most horror was tina,
OF Father John Redmond, who had done
nothing to favor the instruction. His
body after death underwent the most in
decent mutilation. But one OF the mos,
terrible atrocities committed in 1898 by
British soldiers on the bodies OF the
dead has yet to be recorded. The in
surgents, writes Father Kavanagh in
his Popular History of the Insurrec-
ton OF 1898, on their march CATER the
battle OF Arklow) to Corey, carried
some hundreds OF their wounded COM
rades with them, leaving, unfortunately,
many others on the field, who were
slaughtered without mercy by the enemy
on their return. Not only did these
wretches murder the unhappy and de-
fencelcss wounded, but they mangled
the senseless remains of those whom
death might have protected from all but
the vengeance OF fends Imagination
sickens at the contemplation of the hor
r1ble deeds perpetrated by the Ancient
Britons, who, having fearfully mangled
the remains of Rev. Michael Murphy,
tore out his heart, roasted it and ate it,
Father Murphy, in foot note, adds:
This horrid fact is recorded by Pro-
testant clergyman, Rev Mr.. Gordon,
who, as an avowed royalist, would not
lightly cast an imputation on the Kings
troops. Tradition states that all who
partook OF this cannibal banquet died
raving mad
when we read of the plumber in
which the troops in the Soudan INDUCED
with impunity, and of crimes more obi
Gus still, we are insensibly reminded OF
the words OF the lord lieutenant of the
union with reference to the conduct OF
the British troops in ireland 100 years
ago. You write, says Lord Corn
wallis i'll secret letter to General Ross,
as if you really believed that there was
any foundation for all the lies and non
senslcal clamor about my lenity. On
my arrival in this country l put stop
to the burning OF houses and the murder
OF inhabitants by the yeomen Or any
other persons who delighted in that
amusement, to the hoggings for the pur-
pose OF eXtorting confession, and to the
free quarters which comprchendcd uni
versal rape and robbery throughout the
whole country And, lately, as the
Soudan was subjected to British con-
quest with all its attendant horrors in
the interests Of British trade, SO ireland
was united to Great Britain by series
of methods which Mr.. Gladstone has
characterized as the blacklist and foul
est transaction in the history OF man to
enable an English Parliament in the in
tcrests of British trade to paralyze the
prosperity and drain by excessive taxa
ton the resources OF the Irish people.
"The atrocities of the English in the
Soudan must remind us of those atroci-
ties in Ireland for the purpose of carry
ing the union and establishing system
which is maintained by methods as foul
as those by which it was inaugurated."