THE IRISH REVOLUTION.
PROPOSED CENTENARY
CELEBRATION
SYDNEY, this day.
A proposal is afoot to celebrate the centenary of the Irish revolution of _ 1798. Speaking on the subject to an interviewer, Cardinal Moran said he would do everything in his power to oppose the celebration. He looked upon the 1798 movement as a terrible crime, and a terrible blunder — a crime on the part of the Government that forced on the revolution, and a blunder on the part of every friend of Ireland who took part in it. To celebrate the centenary of what was a great crime and blunder would be a crime and a blunder in itself. Of course it meant that the crime was committed by the English Government. Their official statements themselves show that it was by picketing and other measures that the military forced the people of Ireland to take up arms. All this was preparatory to depriving the nation of its Parliament.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 276, 27 November 1897, Page 5
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