IRISH AGITATION IN AMERICA.
About 70 delegates from various parts of the country have been in secret session in Philadelphia representing Irish societies, and have formed an organization called the “ United Irishmen of America.” They profess to he organising retaliatory movements on England for Irish wrongs. Interviewing 1 reporters get bloodthirsty speeches from them, hut nothing indicating what they intend doing. They have sent a committee to New York to discover the whereabouts of a skirmishing fund recently collected, being anxious to hold some cash. They arc greatly ridiculed by the American Press, while one small portion of the Irish population seems to sympathise with them.
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Patea Mail, 28 August 1880, Page 3
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106IRISH AGITATION IN AMERICA. Patea Mail, 28 August 1880, Page 3
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