THE LAST OF THE IRISH DUELLISTS.
I was fortunate enough (writes MrT. P. O'Connor ia bis " Weekly ") to l> now intimately the last of the goeat Irish duellists —a man too, who had been the companion and comrade-in-arms of O'Connel in his greatest struggle. This was the late O'Gorman Mahon. Ke believed to his dying days in the duty of a gentleman to avenge any attack upon his character I>y an appeal to the pistol. For days during the 'eighties he was in a condition of intense excitement and of almost pathetic joy because he thought that Parnell had made up his mind to send a challenge to Sir William Harcourt, and I can still sec tho look of almost incredulous sorrow with which he heard Parnell announce that he did not believe in tho duel as a means of settling political struggles.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7725, 26 March 1904, Page 6
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