The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-30

those I spoke to that the English
 government, realizing the perils which surround 1t not only in Ireland but in many other parts of the Empire,
 would resurt to any expediency soon
 CT than permit the war to continue
 in Ireland and would maxe extreme
 efforts to placate the Irish with the
 Dominion Home Rule. But so-
 called concession of any sort l dis
 covered was beyond accepting. Any
 trifing with the principle which Ire
 land has always regarded as her just
 and intrinsic right, could only end in
 dishonor and disaster. Dublin feels,
 and such an outcome it assertes is
 unthinka b1e.'
 From Dublin MT. Feeney went to
 Cork, Limerick, Tpperary, Water
 ford and Wexford, meeting with every
 class of the population and encoun-
 tering innumerable manifestations of
 the fierce conflict that has ragged for
 four years. The heroic patriotism
 of the people," he states, was writ ten largely wherever the eye wander ed. in every village, town and coun- ty, there were the same exhibits Of
 a nations resistance to aggression, to relinquish the campaign for fiber ty and everywhere one heard of the
 deeds of the Fighting Men who braved the rigorS of an uneven war fare and achieved Herculean triumphs that would arouse the imaginaf1 ons
 of those who seek for the granduer of human nature in the sepic tales of the national vaFor and devotion to coun- try. The chivalry and bravery Of Ireland has never been better exem- pltf1ed than in this campaign for free dom, the man and the boy, the wom-
 an and the girl, the infirm and the
 youthful have all gone through helfs tortures in thousand different ways some of them more heinous and bar
 banous than these that have been pictured in the Spanish Inquisition or the savagery of the Kurds, and there has been no weakening of the spirit, torture, but rather a deep and sub Timer desire to push on to the end without fear or finching. It IS spirit that challenges the admiration of the world for all time to come MT. Feeney. an active worker for the cause of Irish freedom on this side of the Atlantic, had an oppor- tuntty of meeting several of the men
 and women who are shoulder1ng the leadership of the cause in Ireland
 among whom was Mrs Michael O,Cal- Iaghan, wife of a former mayor o1 Limerick who was murdered in his home on March 7th last by the Black
 and Tans. at the same time as George | Clancy, the reigning mayor of Iim- l erick and his wife were killed in a similar manner.
 Describing Mrs. O'Callaghan and the awful ordeal she came through
 MT. Feeney said: "She is a woman
 noted for her culture and refinement with an intellect as deep as her hus- | bands was; in appearance she is 3 | typical Irish beauty, dark complex l toned with the luminous eyes that shine with knowledge and fidelity, and l yet this woman suffered severely ir | body defending her husband the day | before he was killed while before that 1 she had been subjected to most bruta | invasions of her home and he taunts
 and threats of her countrys enemie: | who tried to intimidate her to divulge | her husbands whereabouts by repeat | ing to her how she might have to dit
 and the pain it meant to be suddenl! | destroyed by the bullet or the bayo het. And did she think of death | And was she prepared to die? Thes questions and many more for no othe
 were parts of the Black and Tan | methods of terrorizing."