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'98 AND CARLOW
A Look At The Historians

By Padraig O'Snodaigh


By kind permission of Michael Purcell c.2009

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Ar leacht mo shinsir athardha i reilg Bhaile na gCarraig tα seo le lιamh:

Captain Eamon J Snoddy
A Coy, 1st Batalion Carlow Brigade I.R.A.
who was killed on 5 January 1923.

Bνodh seo mar chloch bhreise ar charn a chuimhne, Tuigim dσ, tα sϊil agam.


DELUDED UNITED IRISHMEN!!!

LORD NORBURY
The Hanging Judge of '98

YOU have been driven by your deceivers to the verge of deftruction — One ftep more and your ruin would have been inevitable. — You have feen your countrymen pour forth in arms — as eager to defend the constitution, and fupport the government, as your wretched leaders were to overturn it — and if you had once the madnefs to have fhewn yourfelves in open force — THAT INSTANCE, you would  have been the victims of a juft but dreadful vengeance.

Where are now the boafted promifes of the men who mifled you? The horrors they were preparing for their unfufpecting neighbours — the fetters — the dungeons— and the deaths — are by the awful retribution of a merciful providence, falling to their own lot — and the incenfed juftice of their country, whofe lenient caution they fooifhly miftook for weaknefs, haftens at this moment to pour out its long provoked vengeance upon their guilty heads.

PROVOKE not that Power under which you fee your leaders falling — but which ftill is willing to fhew mercy upton you.— You cannot truft eatch other, — Every day — every hour is bringing out new difcoveries. Enlifted by your chiefs, to be instruments of rapine and cruelty, how could you hope that bloody ruffians — worfe than high-way robbers — could long keep faith with one another or with you.

Do not, then, go on to force thofe feverities which the mercy of government is unwilling to inflict — but which muft and will be inflicted, if you perfevere in provoking them. — Surrender, at once, the armis you have concealed — and prove by this act that you fee your madnefs, and by a peaceable and quiet conduct, are defirous to make atonement to your injured country — If you do, you will be humanely dealt with — your rulers wifh only to fee you penitent and quiet. — If you do not— tremble at the doom which awaits you — If you will have no mercy on yourfelves — you deferve none from others. — An opportunity is now offered — neglect it, and you have nothing to look for but dreadful - inevitable vengeance.

CITIZEN'S of a different defcripton! —-boneft and inoffenfive members of an abufed public — whofe properties and perfons were to have been facrificed to the hellifh ambition of a few dark and bloody traitors — let neither your own mifapprehetions, nor the mifreprefantations of your enemies, perfuadc you that you are diftrufted or intentionally ill-treated. — The preffure of the moment makes fummary meafures neceffary — but, with refpect to you, they are meafures not of infult but of fafety. — If you feel inconvenience from them, they who mde them neceffary, by the moft infernal and bloody confpiracy thar ever was brought to light, ought alone to bear the blame. — You arc called upon to give up your arms, merely left they fhould fall into the hands of thofe who would employ them in murdering you, — Miftake not then this inftance of an attentive and parental care — Yield to it — cooperate in it — and, by every means in your power, affist that government, which at this m moment feels no other anxiety, but to fave this country from havock and defolation, and to enfute to a leval virtuous people, the bleffings of Constitutional Protection and Undisturbed Tranquillity.

Government Proclamation against the United Irishmen.


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