EVICTION IN IRELAND,

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2236, 6 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

EVICTION IN IRELAND,

The London correspondent of the Dune din Star says : — One of the so-called "society" journals lecently ofTeied a prize for the best definition of an Englishman, a .Scotchman, and an Irish man. There were many clever answers, but t he referee eventually decided that victory lay between two — a gentleman who pro nounced an Englishman solid, a Scotchman stolid, aud an Irishman squalid, and a- lady who thought Englishmen strong-headed, Scotchmen long-headed aud Irishmen wrong • headed. If the former is the smarter definition the latter is certainly tli^ truer. Very few persona have the smallest notion what a state certain parts of Irelaud are in at the present time. On the MaiquU of Clanricarde'*. estate, iv Galway, a small army, com prising nearly a thousand persons — soldiers, constabulary, agents, and magistrates — are engaged evicting two or three small farmeis. The opposition opposed by the peasantry is so violent and sustained that it absolutely took this regular Held force the best part of a day last week to evict one cotter. Englishmen generally fancy that outside Belfast tilings in Ireland are pretty quiet just now. This is a complete delusion. If you want to get an idea of the sort of civil war prevailing iv the South-west read a book called "Nor.ih Monarty,'" wiittcn by a Galway lady and just issued by Black wood. It contains pio turcd of Irish life startling enough to wake up even a Conservative Govern ment into immediate action.