THE IRISH QUESTION.
1 NATIONALIST VIEW. I NO CHANGE SINCE 1798. LONDON.. June 24. I Mr. John Redmond {Leader of the Irish Party), speaking at New Ross yesterday, at the unveiling of the memorial to the VVexiord men who fell in battle at ■ New Ross in 1798, said the principle of ■ nationality for which the men of 179S ! fought would never be surrendered. They might differ in their methods, but they w-pre united in demanding one object— namely, the freedom of Ireland. She was mow the Empire's weakness, but if England were able to win her goodwill by a frank concession of freedom to the people that would be of more value to her than the goodwill of all the colonies of the Empire put together. The Wexford men had told England they hated her, and they were as much rebels against her rule to-day as those of 1795, and she could and she would change that hatred by the grant of freedom and by nothing else. [The Irish Rebellion, which began on May 4, 1795, and cost 150,000 Irish and 20.000 British lives, was gradually suppressed in the following year. County VYexford was the centre of some of the severest fighting.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1907, Page 5
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