Colonel
O’Callaghan’s son, George, objects
to unfair reporting of the evictions.
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taken possession
forcibly, and
concludes a paragraph with the
pious hope that some day there
will be a bloody reckoning. Truly
we live in the golden age of journalism.
It is nearly up to the form of the “Freemans
Journal” which thus describes the valley of
Bodyke (called alternately a bog and
a green valley by the “Pall Mall Gazette”)
“Where every prospect pleases and only
man is vile.” And the tenants live there,
the landlord does not.
I am sir
Your obedient servant
An Clare Ma Irishman
June 16th