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Updated: June 16, 2025

A judge from the bench at Cork, and a noble lord in his place in parliament, bore testimony to that fact, in reference to the late movement; and I ask you, my lords I would ask the country from this court for the sake of the character of your countrymen to believe Devany's interpretation of Fenianism tainted traitor though he be rather than believe that the kindly instincts of Irishmen, at home and abroad their generous impulses their tender sensibilities all their human affections, in a word could degenerate into the attributes of the assassin, as stated by that hog-in-armour, that crime-creating Constable Talbot.

Various - Speeches from the Dock, Part I