THE FENIANS AT THE THURLE CONVENTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8950, 14 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE FENIANS AT THE THURLE CONVENTION.

RESIGNATION OF ARCHBISHOP CROKE.

Abishop C&okk writes to the Freeman's Journal saying, with respect to the Tharles Convention:—" Though not quite unprepared for a troubled, if not a turbulent meeting, and for certain unpleasant revelations with which my ears have been rendered familiar for some time, I could not at ail have believed that the elements of mischief were so painfully present in the organisation as they now appear to be, and that evidence of the fact would have been so soon and so unmistakably given. Nothing, therefore, remains for me but to dissociate myself, as I now publicly do, from that branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association which exercised a sinister influence over the proceedings." The Irish Times, in referring to the convention of athletic delegates at Thurles, says:—lt was plain enough that the extreme party, who were stigmatised by the clergymen present as Fenians, have no inclination to submit to the control or take the advice of the Church any more than of the law. The strangest part of the strange affair is that the Gaelic Society is described as a rival organisation to the National League, though how that is we know not. Perhaps very soon there will be more light spread upon the quarrel.