EVICTION IN IRELAND.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 2

EVICTION IN IRELAND.

i vlt-- ';fe'' ••comrri-biiiyFsuppog^d/' tha'fcv^ihe 1 fday1-1 ibf; 'eVip^i pn:s:'^^in''ir^lan^Jj as'passed,, ibujb,.^ea^e.>whicli :; 'is-being .m'aicle the •JSU.-bject.vQf.,:infliTiry.v';;in /• .Gouiity- Kerry sefeirtiS,to* vbe:'-:ais';'" v;ba^;--;a6',.i'tije''W9rst of. that, occurred thirty "of forty jt?ars ago. ::^ttt-bld"woman lived in a tiny cottage. ..almost on : the ~tpp. of a ; in''a; plaeie 'called^'Glounseehxin. She had' been tKere r all her life, and; tJie^^vre'tciifed :i^sHan; iy' \y)i'icli she occupiedl carf ;'h;av&' 'little^ '0 nq .valued But the landlord 'd%'iilej' to ; %viet • her,. and the' sheriff' went't;6 the l;«pot on the morning of September 17. '' f'He' found there/ ;"o vDom^II J VM.,T., "an old woman" r6"f'eiglrty-dne'yeairß in bed, and weak/and acting on'b'is own discretiptiI, dndj' l!illideed-,':.i' ,must &ay ■liumariityj he: fefii'sed !to' carry put the -evictio'iV.'"' ' He' believed that, it would not'-/T)e'''p'iroper7,6r.,;humane f<?j; ' him in 'the eiY#tfmsfcfneeiS, ' ik shift tliis old womanl" v The 'she-riff jetitrned the jieighbouririg' town Stj'd reported: to^tlie. landlord.; ■'••J3tit-'th^'"'gen'^%ndn'''ordered, the evictioti ~ to'1 prd'ee-ed/'aiijl ;<|upei:i.iiteiided 4>ho :operation6!.-.'';h'ijciself:"'■'■■ The' popr old lady" wa^^aKea^o^t"o| bed and 1 dressed by her' g'i-aifcfehildreii, ahd as she left the- cot a match was appliecl to the thatch. ' TJie evicted octogenarian died eight days later. Mr O'Donnell, I with' true Irish '.. firb, told, tlie. j magistrate© when lie was making his, ; complaint that if he- had be9.n.|he woman's son . sic ' ."would not have waited for the law." "And'"it'would i have been .hard to blame him. '