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Dillon was ignorant when he cited the fact as a count against the landlord of Coolgreany. I give the story as Mr Brooke tells it. "The Rent Audit," he says, "at which my tenants were idiots enough to join the Plan of Campaign occurred about the 12th December 1886, when, as you know, I refused to accept the terms which they proposed to me.
We found him in full canonicals, as he was to officiate at the function this morning, and with him were Father Dunphy, the parish priest of Arklow, and two or three more robed priests. Father O'Neill, whose face and manner are those of the higher order of the continental clergy, briefly set forth to me his view of the transactions at Coolgreany.
Yet in all these places the Plan of Campaign has been invoked "because the people were penniless and could not pay their debts!" Captain Hamilton sends me the following graphic account of this affair at Coolgreany: In the Freeman's Journal of the 16th December 1886, it is reported that a meeting of the Brooke tenantry, the Rev.
"Of course," he said, "all this is doubtless at least as legitimate as any other part of the 'Plan, and I daresay it all goes for 'the good of the cause. But neither the tenants nor the landlords get much by it!" DUBLIN, Thursday, March 8. At eight o'clock this morning I left the Harcourt Street station for Inch, to take a look at the scene of the Coolgreany evictions of last summer.
P. O'Neill in the chair, was held at Coolgreany on the Sunday previous to the 15th December 1886, the date on which the "Plan of Campaign" was adopted on the estate, at which it was resolved that if I refused the terms offered they would join the "Plan." I had no conference at Freeman's house or anywhere else at any time with two parish priests. Dr.
I called by appointment to-day upon Mr. Brooke, the owner of the Coolgreany estate, at his counting-house in Gardiner's Row. It is one of the spacious old last-century houses of Dublin; the counting-room is installed with dark, old-fashioned mahogany fittings, in what once was, and might easily again be made, a drawing-room.
In the village of Coolgreany all the houses on one side of the main street were built in this way by the landlord, and the same thing was done in the village of Croghan, where twenty tenants have a grazing right of three sheep for every acre held on the Croghan Mountain, pronounced by the valuers of the Land Court to be one of the best grazing mountains in Ireland.
In June of last year there was a conference at my house, and all that time there was a Committee sitting at Coolgreany, and the tenants would not be allowed to do anything without the Committee." "And who made the Committee?" "Oh, they made themselves, I suppose, sir. There was Sir Thomas Esmonde he was a convert, you know, of Father O'Neill and Mr. Mayne and Mr. John Dillon. And Dr.
"Did Father O'Neill tell you, sir," he said, "that Captain Hamilton was quite willing to talk with him and Father O'Donel, the parish priests, and with the Coolgreany people, but he would have nothing to say to any one who was not their priest, and had no business to be meddling with the matter at all?" "No; he did not tell me that." "Ah! well, sir, that made all the difference.
John Morley in this Nineteenth Century." Nothing could be livelier than Dr. Dillon's interest in all that is going on on both sides of the Atlantic, more positive than his opinions, or more terse and clear than his way of putting them. He agreed entirely with Father O'Neill as to the pressure put upon the Coolgreany tenants, not so much by Mr.
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