IRELAND.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 7

IRELAND.

WARNING AGAINST THE POLICY OF

VIOLENCE.

FENIAN MOVEMENT.

■ INTERFERENCE WITH HUNTS.

THE BOYCOTT.

DI TWEGRArjI— PKESS ASSOCIATION—COrTBIGHT.

London, November 25.

Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Belfast, and referring to lawlessness in Ireland, declared that, in view of the disposition of Parliament, any ono contributing to disorder or encouraging people to commit crime would not be a friend, but an enemy, of Ireland.

Fenians havo, resolved to propagate Fonianism. They havo appealed to Irishmen throughout the world to boycott English manufactures, disregard the law, and secure separation from England.

Tho Irish Leaguo stopped tho OrmoiicTo hunt, N. Tipperary. Correspondents report that poison has also been laid in tho country whero tho Kiklarc hounds hunt. Several hounds were poisoned at the last meet near Tullow, and two died.

To commemorate the execution in 1867 if the Manchester Fenians—Allen Larkin, and O'Brien—a special Mass was celebrated in the cathedral at Cork.

Later a street procession was held, tho&c taking part including the Lord Mayor, a majority of tho municipality, trade guilds, and political organisations.

STOPPING OF HUNTS.

A MEANS OP. RETALIATION

A gentleman, with a first-hand knowledge ot some of the matters referred to above, writes: "The slopping of hunting is a very old institution in the midland and southern counties of Ireland, and has onlv been resorted to for the purpose of . preventing obnoxious landlords who are members of Hie. hunt clubs from enjoying the sport they dei# to others. The laying of poison is carried out for the same purpose, but ns, according to law, due notice has to be-given to the police and tho public in general, no preventible harm can be said to be inflicted. When it is considered that fox-hunting invariably results in serious damage to fences as well as standing crops, the toleration of the peasantry in permitting the sport to, continue—now that in many instances they' arc owners of their own landsis a matter of surprise; but the stopping of a hunt has never been resorted to, except for the punishment of evicting or obnoxious landlords, and then only after due notice has been given to the Master of the Hounds. People holding., their own .lands, have, of course, the right to lay .poison and stop hunts. In some eases the latter is cllected by stationing a corps of men with pitchforks at a jump. Generally the horsemen have retreated. In cases where they havo perisisled they have sometimes been knocked off their horses, and police court proceedings have followed. MANCHESTER EXECUTIONS. "The religious and other celebrations referred to are quite usual in Ireland on the anniversaries of the Manchester executions. Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien were executed for the killing of Sergeant Brett, in tho rescue of two •Fenian prisoners, named Kelly and Densy, from n police vau on its way to Snlford Gaol. The rescue party fired a revolver shot through tho: door of tlio'v.in for the purpose of bursting it open, as' JSrott had refused to pass out tho keys of the prisoners' compartments through tho grating, and Brett was killed. Five men were originally condemned to death for the shooting by a Special Commission, consisting of Mr. Justice Jtollor and Mr. Justice Blackbiirne, but two of the five—Condon, alias Shore and pardoned, tho firstnamed through the intervention of the United States Government, of which Condon was a subject,,and Maguirc, who was a private in the Royal Marines on fiirloiigh, on the petition of forty English reporters present at the trial, who .averred that his conviction iras a case of mistaken identity. , , . . FENIANISM. " Fenian propaganda is not likely to havo any serious effect on Irish, politics, the great bulk of the Nationalists having long since discarded any idea of separation or nrnicd resistance to Great Britain as impracticable and illusory. All the agitation of the past quarter of a century or more, has been aimed at constitutional self-government, and whatever conflicting opinions may exist us to the feasibility of certain defined lines of policy the basic principle of striving within the law is firmly rooted. The Fenian organisation has always had a footing in the United States, especially amongst evicted tenants and others similarly expatriated, but it has never had' any serious hold on the Irish people at Home since the abortive rising of ISG7."