BRILLIANT CHARGES

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

BRILLIANT CHARGES

with their eight-foot pikes against disciplined troops furnished with the best weapons of the time. In some instances the blaze of the cannon set fire to the frieze coats of the insurgents. These were the men they had assembled to honour there that night. Three of them were taken by the yeomanry at Carlow. The yeomen wanted them to turn informers. ' Never 1' said one of them, named O'Connor. They were put to the torture of the triangle. ' Irishmen,' said O'Connor, ' die like heroes 1 Let not the name of informer be thrown at you. Your countrymen will remember you* (applause). Camden, Castlereagh, Carhampton are forgotten, but the names of the heroes of '98 are spoken all around the civilised world (applause).

It took 90,000 splendidly armed and equipped British troops — more than fought under Wellington at Waterloo — to defeat