Colonel
O’Callaghan’s son, George, objects
to unfair reporting of the evictions.
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people have nowhere
to go. They have paid
their rents up to September last, less the
reduction promised by the landlord, into
the Plan of Campaign, and some of them
have not a penny left.” This is as touching
as the widows’ mite, but really of what
use are tenants to a landlord who hold
farms from him and pay the rent to
someone else. The land “will gradually revert
to the bog and waste from which the
toil of the peasants had redeemed it.”
The greater part of this land was excellent
grazing, for which, when it was first
offered in lots to tenants over 50 years
ago, £2-7-6 per acre was willingly
bid. Then the “Pall Mall Gazette”
talks of tenants turned out home-
less, and receiving £15 a week out
door relief, though well aware
that they have one and all re-