’9B IN SYDNEY.
A GREAT CELEBRATION. By IsUflranh. —Proas Association. — Copyright, Received May 83, 1 a.m. Sydney, May 22. The celebration of the Centenary of the Irish rising of 1798 to-day was very largely attended. The remains of a well-known Irish chief) Michael Dwyer, and his wife were exhumed at the old Devonshire street Cemetery and re-interred at Waverley Cemetery, wherethe foundation-stone of the national monument was laid. The body of the wife was in ft remarkable state of preservation, diie largely to her great age (1)5 years} when she died. Her featdrea and hair Were perfectly recognisable. v ' Dwyer was buried 73 years and-his wife 38 years ago'. . ,i ~ , Speeches were delivered in eulogy of the heroism and patriotism of the leaders of the rising.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3440, 23 May 1898, Page 3
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