AN IRISH MEETING.
SERIOUS RIOTING'. . /
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Dublin, March 24. Mr. O'Brien had commenced to deliver his speech at Youghal when the Scottish Rifles, with fixed bayonets, and the police, with batons, charged the mob. and dispersed the meeting. Several persons were seriously wounded. Later. The police prevented Mr. William O'Brien, M.P. for Cork, from addressing the meeting at Youghal, which had been proclaimed. There was serious rioting, and Captain Plunkett, the magistrate, was brutally assaulted before the crowd dispersed. Subsequently Mr. O'Brien addressed a few of his supporters in Canon Kellar's stable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9012, 27 March 1888, Page 5
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