kilshanny

Updated: July 2, 2025

It is a cheaply-printed leaflet, not unlike a penny ballad in appearance, and thus it runs: "Testimonial to Mr. AUSTEN MACKAY, Kilshanny, County Clare. "We, the Nationalists and friends of Mr.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

The latter, at my request, he allowed me to keep, and I must reproduce it here. It tells its own tale. A peasant came to the authorities and complained that he was "tormented" to make a subscription to a "testimonial" for one Austen Mackay of Kilshanny, in the County Clare, producing at the same time a copy of the circular which had been sent about to the people.

William Henry Hurlbert - Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)