ENNISCORTHY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 24, 20 October 1898, Page 3

ENNISCORTHY.

The place was strongly garrisoned. The insurgents had practically no firearms. Their weapons were pikes, scythes, etc. They could reach the enemy only through a shower of lead. In their attack on the Duffey Gate they met with great loss, till Father Murphy had the insurgents' cattle collected and driven upon the military by the pikemen. Then it was a hand-to-hand fight between military and insurgents. A galling fire was poured upon the insurgents from the neighbouring houses. These were broken into and taken one by one, and inside of an hour Enniscorthy was cleared of the royal troops (applause). The Wexford garrison fled in terror, and the town fell without a blow. Then followed the battle of Newtownbarry, and that of Tubberneering. The speaker gave an admirable description of how Colonel Walpole rode out in all hiß finery, on a splendid white charger to annihilate the insurgents who were camped on Carrigrue Hill. He described the brilliant charge of the pikemen against a hail of leaden death, and how Walpole's and his immediate command were cut off to a man, and his cannon captured.

It would take long, said the speaker, to tell of the bravery of the insurgents at New Ross, Gorey, Arklow ; of their dash and nerve, their