THE NINETY-EIGHT MEMORIAL IN SYDNEY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 20, 17 May 1900, Page 27

THE NINETY-EIGHT MEMORIAL IN SYDNEY.

4. THE UNVEILING CEREMONY AT WAVERLEY CEMETERY. After two years of earnest work the committee, representing fi\e Australian provinces, saw the realisation of their effort on Easter Sunday, when one of the finest monuments ever erected to commemorate glorious deed 3 of patriotism was unveiled in Waverley Cemetery. Sydney, to the memory of Michael Dwyer, his wife, and the men of Ninety-eight. The ceremony took place in the presence of about 6000 people, among those present being (pays the firenn/ns Journal') delegates from Victoria, South Australia, Queensland. New South Wale?, etc. '[HE MONUMENT. At three o'clock Dr. C. W. McCarthy (President of the Central Executive; hauled down the Irish flags which had draped the main portion of the front and revealed the Memorial in all its beauty of marble and bronze has reliefs. And here it may be advisable to describe the monument architecturally. The Bite of the monument is in the Catholic portion of the Waverley Cemetery on an elevated position overlooking the ocean. The monument, which cost about £2t>oo (of which £2400 had been received up to date), is built of Carrara marble, the length and breadth, respectively, 30ft and 24ft ; the height from the top of the Celtic cross to the ground level, 3» > ft- The foundation-stone was laid by Charles W. McCarthy, M.D., on the 22nd of May, I*9B. The elaborately-carved Celtic cross Btands on a baee and sub-ba.se raised on a platform of several steps. On the die appears the inscription, • Remember '1)8,' worked as a monogram and interwoven with sprigs of laurel and shamrock. The inscription on front is aa follows : ' Erected by the Irish people and sympathisers of Australasia,' ' In loving memory of all who died and suffered for Ireland in 1798,' and on the sub-base, 'Pray for the souls of Michael Dwyer,

the Wicklow Chief, and Mary, his wife, whose remains are interred in thiq vault. JRequwsrant in Pare.' The cross is flanked with walls stepped at the aides with capping and frieze. There are six bronze medallions, representing the busts of Father John Murphy and Henry Joy M'Cracken on each side of the die under the cross, and Robert Emmet, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Michael Dwyer, and Wolfe Tone on each side of the two bronze panels representing 'The battle of Oulart Hill ' and ' Lord Edward Fitzgerald resisting capture.' Ou the terminal part of the wall at each side of the entrance is a bronze casting of an Irish wolf-dog, and beneath the words — 1 Who fears to hpeak of Ninety-Eight I Who blushes at the name ? When cowards mock the patriots fate Who hangs his head for shame ?' The floor of the monument is laid with richly-colored mosaic, showing the Harp of Erin surrounded by shamrock diapers and the Round Towers of Ireland, enclosed with Celtic borders. On the back wall is the following inscription :—: — 'In loving memory of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Thomas Addis Emmet, Thomas Russell, William Orr, Samuel Neilson, Henry Munro, Arthur O'Connor, Rev. William Jackson, Rev. Father O'Quigley, Napper Tandy, Henry Joy M'Cracken, John and Henry Sheares, Oliver Bond, Dr. W, J. M'Nevin, W. Putnam M'Cabe, William Sampson, Joseph E. Lewins, A. H. Rowan, Joseph M'Cormack, Fathers John and Michael Murphy, Father P. Roche, Father M. Kearns, Father Clinch, Bartholomew and Charles Teeling, Rev. William Steele Dickson, Robert Simms, Bagenal B. Harvey, John M'Cann, William Michael Byrne, Anthony Perry, Rev. William Porter, Dr. William Brennan, John H. Colclough, James Hope, Osmond Ryan, John Kelly, Edward Fitzgerald, John Devereux, Bartholomew Tone, Garrett and William Byrne, Michael Dwyer, Alexander M'Allister, Anne Devlin, Mary M'Cracken, Betsy Gray, William Lawless, Dr. John Esmonde, Miles Byrne, Dr. William Tennant, William Hamilton, William Duckett, John Sweetman, John Chambers, Thomas Cloney, John Sweeney, Joseph Holt, William Aylmer, John and Patrick Byrne, Edward Molloy, Peter Lett, Edward Roche, Benjamin P. Binns, Felix Rourke, Patrick Prendergast, Rev. Mr. Stevelley, Matthew Keogh, James Dickey, Rev. Mr. Warwick, Henry Byers, Father Prendergast, 8. Barrett, Father Redmond, Colonel O'Doude, Harvey Hay, and all the other Patriots of 1798.'