The Wearing of the Green by A.M. Sullivan
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any idea that the public revulsion would become so alarmingly extensive,
the responsible ministers of the crown, specifically interrogated on the point, had, as we have seen, declared the funeral processions not to be illegal, and how, now, could the government interpose to prevent them? It certainly was a difficulty which there was no way of surmounting save by a proceeding which in any country constitutionally governed would cost its chief authors their lives on impeachment. The government, notwithstanding the words of its own responsible chiefs--_on the faith of which the Dublin procession was held, and numerous others were announced_--decided to treat as illegal the proceedings they had but a week before declared to be _not_ illegal; decided to prosecute the processionists who had acted on the government declarations; and decided to prevent, by sabre and cannon--by slaughter if necessary--the further processions announced in Killarney, Clonmel, Kilkenny, and elsewhere! On the evening of Thursday, the 12th December, Dublin city was flung into the most intense excitement by the issue of the following Government Proclamation:-- * * * * * BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT AND COUNCIL OF IRELAND. A PROCLAMATION. ABERCORN. Whereas it has been publicly announced that a meeting is to assemble in the city of _Kilkenny_, and that a procession is to take place there on Sunday, 15th day of December instant: |
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