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Reid, of Aldershot, said: "The population of Castleisland is only one thousand two hundred, but I counted forty-eight whiskey-shops on one side of the street." Of a row of eleven houses near the main bridge of Ballina I counted seven whiskey-shops, and one of the remaining four was void.
I was fairly popular until you held up my name as a subject for murder in Castleisland. You said Hussey might be a very bad man, but you would take care of one thing that if any person was charged with shooting him, or any other agent, they would be defended, which meant they would be paid. Mr.
Killarney, Tralee and Listowel are rich by comparison, Tralee being the richest of the three, and Castleisland the wealthiest portion of the district. There were nearly as many outrages there as in the whole of the rest of the country, which shows that poverty was not the cause.
There was one delicious incident. The local branch of the Land League at Castleisland refused to pay any reward to the dynamiters because we had not been killed, and the leading miscreant actually fired at the treasurer.
The only place where any opposition was exhibited was in Castleisland, whence the Lombard family originally sprang; and there the lighted tar-barrels, which had been placed on the ruins of the old castle, were extinguished, to avoid unpleasant contact with a gang of rowdy roughs. Messrs. Lombard and Murphy had stated that they were buying on behalf of the tenants.
'Did not some of your sympathisers light a bonfire in 1878 at Castleisland on account of the triumphs of your buying the Harenc estate? and did not the population of Castleisland, who knew your character, scatter that bonfire, and put it out? 'I heard they had a row over it. There were nine bonfires lighted in Kerry after I succeeded.
One young and cheery Kerry landlord was very proud, about 1886, at the price of forty shillings being offered for his life by the Land League, whereas nearly all the others were only valued at half a sovereign apiece. As a matter of fact, almost any one could have been shot at Castleisland if a sovereign were offered, for they cared no more for human life than for that of a rat.
There is great competition among the incompetent to get lucrative posts in my native land: they probably appreciate the Hibernian eccentricity of giving important positions to the men whose claims in any other country would never obtain a moment's consideration. There was a schoolmaster near Castleisland, who died of sparing the rod but not sparing the potation.
Jim from Castleisland meeting Mick from Glenbeigh, asks: 'Well, Mick, an' how are ye getting on? 'Illigant, glory be to the Saints. 'How's that, Mick? Sure, prices is low. 'True for you, Jim, prices is low; but what we has we has, for we pays nobody. And to that I will add another observation. Somebody asked me: 'If Ireland were to get Home Rule, what would become of the agitator? I replied:
"And where are we to get the money?" said the priest. "And why are we to ruin the merchants?" said O'Leary, whose brother was in the flour-trade, in Cork. "And shut up all the small shopkeepers," said Father Columb, whose mother was established in that line in the neighbourhood of Castleisland. "We could not do it," said Somers.
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