Sedition at Skibbereen.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7710, 12 January 1905, Page 4

Sedition at Skibbereen.

O'IXVXOVAN KOREA'S WILT) CUY FO!{ VENUKANCE. All Skiiybereeiv was Fenian one day at the end of November, and frothing with the emotionalism which murks the Celt in his patriotic moods. The occasion ~wus the unveiling by O "Donovan Kossa—Feniau, ex-couvicl, and Irish-American—-of u memorial to "Mhose Ulio have (lied lor Ireland" erected l.y tlie Young Ireland Soj'-iety of SkilVbereell. 'Phe little forlorn town was throng- ' e'd with people, and green (lags ami emblems were everywhere displayed. This monument is in the centre of the town, ami is a limestone figure of Erin, weeping, with her hand on an Irish memorial cross. O'Donovnn llossa is a man of sev-enty-four, with keen cavalier profile, sweeping white ■moustache and beard, and brows that fall low over his eyes, lie is no speaker ; lie lias no platform manner, neither art of eloquence nor grace of oratory—naught but the faculty to blurt blunt things bluntly. "1 thought ye was all exterminated by the English," he began, when performing the unveiling ceremony, "but 1 see there's still Irishmen to carry on the work." The crowd cheered to the echo, ami he began to \ tell tales of revolution. An anecdote of landlord-shooting drew roars of cheers, and a poem about the ghosts . of rebels frantically applauded. He declared that England's policy was tyranny, maintained by force and fraud, Force was required to over-throw it. The blood of martyrs , cried out for vengeance, and on unit- ' ed Irishmen ami national principles depended Ireland's salvation from foreign oppression.