CHARLES PARNELL.
MONUMENT UNVEILED IN DUBLIN. London, October 2. A statue of Charles Parnell was unveiled at Dublin. A vast gathering w itnessed tho procession of Nationalist societies through the city. Thousands of excursionists came Irom tho west and north.
Tho strike necessitated cancelling tba Munster excursions.
■The. p'olice specially guarded the Lord Slayer’s carriage. TJio ."Mayor was boated and compelled to leave the procession. Mr Redmond, in unveiling the statue, said that Parnell had found the Irish peasant serfs, and made them free men. Homo Rule was now in the position it occupied before Parnell’s death, but, in addition, the House of Lords’ power to oppose it had gone.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 41, 3 October 1911, Page 5
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