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Ireland's Fight

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
October
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dublin", Oct 25. - At Woodford, County 3-alway, i home-rule meeting was to be leid Runday under the auspices of the Britïsh Home Snle Union to protest againet coerción. The Government proclalmed the meeting and sent pólice and troops to the town. There was a great crowd of people irom the surrounding country. Wilfred Blunt, the philanthropist, wa to preside, and when he mountcd the platform Judge Byme, the divisional magistrate, forbade Mr. Blunt to bold the meeting, and ordered the pólice to clear the platform, which was done, and Mr. Blunt was taken to jaü, ljnt was soon released an baiL Over thirty persons were more or less Beriously injnred in the tracas, and the feeling agalnst the pólice runs very high. Two meetings were afterward held on the outekiits of the town, at which Blnnt's arrest was denounced. Six thousand Nationalists held a meeting Sunday near Kilnoch, in defiance of the authorities. Telegraph wlres were cut to prevent the summoning of the pólice.

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