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THE TIMES TIPPERARY, IRELAND - 1846

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March 14th 1846.

On Tuesday night last, a man named Daniel Berachree, who
resides in a mountain district near Newport, called the
Copper Mines?, retired to bed at an early hour, which
was his usual custom, and was followed by his wife and a
young man named Walsh, a servant of his, who lay with
him on each side. In the morning an alarm was given by
the wife, who says she saw four men quitting the house,
as she awoke, and found her husband,s skull fractured,
and a mark of a wound over one of his eyes. The outrage
upon this man is at present involved in much mystery. He
was rather advanced in years, and the wife is young and
well looking. The window of the room was fastened inside
by a boy, a son of Berachree, with a hatchet, and on
examination the next morning, the hatchet was found in
the house with blood and hair upon it. The unfortunate
man still lives, but there are no hopes of his recovery.

On Tuesday 5th as a man of the name of England was
returning from the market of Roscrea, he was followed by
three or four fellows who knocked him down with a stone.
England recovered and ran for home, but they followed
him, and knocked him down again, he again got up, and
ran to a house on the roadside , but was not admitted,
he was again knocked down, and pelted with stones in a
most savage manner. One of his assailants, more fiendish
than the rest, gave him a chop of a spade in the back of
the neck, they then decamped, leaving him for dead.
England lies in a precarious state.

October 4th 1846

The Times-From the Tipperary Vindicator 10-4-1846.
Emigration The Tipperary Vindicator truly observes,-
"Within our remembrance, the tide of emigration has been
seldom, if ever, so strong as at the present moment.
From the ports of Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Dublin,
Sligo, Galway etc. hundreds of the population are
quitting their native shores, determined to trust their
fortunes to the protection of Providence in other and
more favoured climes. From the North Riding of
Tipperary, and more particularly from the baronies of
Upper and Lower Ormond, the number of emigrants is
extraordinary. Nearly all of them are the more
comfortable class of farmers; at least, of those who
have not felt the pressure of distress. From Borrisokane
and its neighbourhood hundreds have gone out, or are
preparing to leave. From Ballygibbon Parish, we learn no
less than 100 persons have already gone. From
Derry-Castle estate we are informed that numbers of the
poor cottier teanantry on that property have left by way
of Limerick. The emigration returns, we are certain of,
this spring will announce a far more numerous quantity
of emigrants that have been returned for some years. The
Vindicator, in another column, has the following account
of the process of "emigration" on the compulsory
system:- "One of the most melancholy exhibitions ever
witnessed was presented in Limerick and Nenagh on
Monday-the departure, under a strong escort of the 13th
Light Dragoons, the 72d Highlanders, and a formidable
body of police, of the convicts tried at the last
assizes and sentenced to transportation, some for 7
years each, some for the period of their natural lives.
No less than 30 convicts entered Nenagh from Limerick,
some of them we believe were from Tralee and Ennis, and
to this number was added those who were left under
sentence in Nenagh Gaol, and who amounted to 9 or 10.
All these convicts were either handcuffed, or chained
one to the other, or chained down on the cars on which
they were placed, with the strong guard above mentioned
around them, and nothing could present a more degraded,
a more wretched, or a more pitiable appearance, as they
were driven off on their way to the Hulks at Dublin,
where, in the course of a few days, they are to take
their departure, some for life, never more to see
friends, relatives or families-those in whom their
affections are centered. The exhibition they made was
well calculated to impart a terrible lesson to all who
indulge in crime, and suffer themselves to become the
victims of the spy and informer.

Ireland-The Times-From the Tipperary Vindicator
10-4-1846. Mr. O'Connell and his Quondam "Friend". Mr.
Ryan of Liscahill-house whose name has been frequently
mentioned in the debates upon the Irish Coercion Bill,
has addressed a long letter to the Home-Secretary,
praying that a strict inquiry may be instituted into all
the outrages committed on him (Mr. Ryan) as stated in
his memorable letter to his friend the "Liberator"
"This" he says, "will not be as difficult as it may
appear at first view; because out of ten malicious
injuries, seven presentments only were sough for; and
each and every one of them passed, their merits being
discussed on oath before the magistrates and Cesspayers
at Road Sessions, and again by the grand jury-and I
insist they passed solely on my own evidence. The last
presentment I obtained was for the breaking of my window
at Liscahill in 1845. This must be the attack alluded to
by Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Maher. This latter gentleman
was on the grand jury, when 6s was awarded me for this
malicious injury, which he calls an unfounded attack,
and which Mr. O'Connell calls a fabrication. My windows
were broken before and the magistrates sent Delahenty,
who was caught in the act, to prison for two months.
There was no presentment sought in this case, nor in two
other cases, because the amount of compensation was not
worth looking for. This disposes of the then malicious
injuries; now as to the two attempts on my life. The
first attempt on my life was by a man named Delaney, who
struck me a blow on the side of my face with a stone.
Doctor Leahy of Templemore , who dressed the wound, can
prove if I were hit a half inch higher on the temple
that my life would have been lost. The second attempt on
my life, and indeed the lives of my family, was the
monstrous murderous attack on the night of the 7th of
last month, as stated in my letter to Mr. O'Connell. I
know not, I care not, what the report of any stipendiary
magistrate may be. I will prove beyond the possibility
of contradiction, and by the most unsullied testimony,
that every syllable in my letter was perfectly true and
correct; and I will show that, instead of exaggerating,
I have not recounted other outrages which I had
suffered. As to Mr. O'Connells allusion to my
insolvency, it was a mean, paltry, pitiful device, which
no man in his station ought to have resorted to, It was
a most miserable subterfuge by which to attempt to rebut
sound arguments, or controvert stubborn facts quite
beneath the dignity of a great statesman. I could with
much more propriety call on him to account for the
enormous sums which we have paid him in the shape of the
Repeal rent, and which account he has repeatedly refused
to give the public. In my letter I did not say one
disrespectful word to him. Whether the usages of the
house allow it or not, I request that my schedule will
be produced. By it will be proved the very reverse of
what he states. It will show that one of the most
improving tenants in Ireland was sacrificed by
oppressive landlords. I laid out on farms over 2000s in
building, manuring, planting, draining, and permanent
improvements, and besides losing all these improvements
without one shilling remuneration, the crops on the
lands were valued at three times the rent due to the
landlords. Yes, that schedule will show the small sums
that were due to other creditors-and the receipts of
those creditors will show that I have struggled to pay
them even after my discharge as an insolvent. It will
also show that what Mr. O'Connell states is not true,
when he asserts that Mr. Maher was a sufferer. Neither
he nor his predecessor  suffered one shilling up to the
day of my discharge-nor up to the present moment. And
when it is thrown on me by Mr. Maher to relate the part
he acted in the melancholy drama of my unexampled
misfortunes, I shudder lest the revealing of the truth
may be of further injury to my already grievously
afflicted family".

Ireland-The Times-From the Tipperary Vindicator
10-4-1846. >From our Correspondent. The Evictions at
Gurtmore. The Tipperary Vindicator of yesterday gives a
circumstantial account of the eviction of tenantry on
the lands of Gurtmore, the property of Mr. Tuthill, and
which was briefly noticed in a recent number of that
journal. As in all such cases, it is more than probable
that the subjoined detail will be met by a counter
statement in justification of the measures adopted on
the occasion; and, if so, it is not likely that the
aggrieved party will be denied the benefit of your
circulation. "We witnessed on Friday morning one of the
most melancholy spectacles that ever fell to the lot of
feeling humanity to behold, namely, the casting out of
nine wretched families from their miserable hovels on
the bleak roadside at Gurtmore. It was  a wet and stormy
morning, when a detachment of Her Majesty's 72d
Highlanders, under Captain Pollard, who were marched ten
miles on this unsoldier like duty, drew up on the public
road within a few hundred yards of the cabin of Mara,
the first of these poor tenants on whom was executed the
law of ejectment. A strong body of police was posted
opposite the house, and more about the door, to keep the
passage clear for the landlord, the sub-sheriff and the
bailiffs. It was disgusting to observe with what
recklessness the bailiffs dragged out every little
article of furniture which belonged to the wretched
inmates of each hovel they visited, and in some
instances, threw out the miserable remnant of rotten
potatoes which they had for subsistance. We have been
informed that the sheriff, on more occasions then one
(when we were not near him), reproved these fellows for
misconduct in discharge of their office, and checked
their wanton impropriety. Both the military and police
comported themselves on this occasion with the bearing
of men who knew and felt that they were performing a
disagreeable duty, but the soldiery openly expressed
their repugnance to this mode of campaigning. 'I have
been in the army (said a veteran) for 27 years; this is
the second time I have been called out on this duty, and
I hope it will be the last, for, by God, I would rather
face an enemy than withness what I have seen today'. Pat
Clancy was the second man dispossessed, and who showed
our reported a receipt for a half years rent up to
November. The commanding officer of the 72d met him at
the rear of his house, and expressed deep sympathy for
him as well as for his fellow sufferers. Another officer
said to Clancy's son, 'Well, my boy, where will you
sleep tonight?. 'I don't know Sir' said the boy. The
brave humane man put his hand in his purse and gave the
boy a shilling to procure lodging. A remarkable
circumstance occurred at the house of Clancy. One of the
Bailiffs was dragging a piece of frail furniture with
unnecessary force out of the house-Clancy's wife caught
him by the throat with her left hand, while in her right
hand she brandished a naked knife until she made the
ruffian relinquish his hold of the old table; meanwhile,
the military and police laughed heartily, and not a man
among them showed the slightest disposition to come to
his rescue. The third man ejected was Fennell, next door
to Clancy. They were in the act of carrying out a
cupboard from his kitchen, when he showed what was rent
in bank-notes, which he had a minute before offered to
his landlord and which was refused. A bailiff was
nailing a hasp to one of the doors, when a woman, with a
crying infant in her arms -'That is mightn't be long
till I hear the sound of the nail in your coffin, you
villian:, what she meant I can't say but the campaign of
the day had a ludicrous termination. Though ball
cartridges were not flying, the women, to the great
amusement of the force, both civil and military treated
the bailiffs to rotten potatoes and eggs of the same
quality. One fellow with an oilskin cap and a hangman
visage, smeared all over, appealed to the sheriff for
protection, and told his honour that was the third time
he had been pelted at by the same woman on that day.When
the bailiffs were send to drive the cattle of Herberts
land, they were followed by a crowd of women and boys,
who saluted them with missiles of all sorts, and it was
not until one woman tried 'what virtue was in stones'
that the police interfered to protect the detested
slaves of the law. It was upon the whole, fortunate,
that the country people did not expect this campaigning
visit, and thus the proceedings of the day passed off
without bloodshed or riot.

No Date

Committed to Nenagh Goal, by John G. Jones, R.M., Philip
Maher for the murder of Thomas Shanahan, process-server,
near Borrisoleigh, on the 21st Oct. 1844; also for the
robbery of Quinlan and Cormack, near Annameadle: Michael
Meares of Fantane. and Philip Maher for the attack on
Hogan, near Bawn, when John Hogan was severely injured
from a gunshot wound; Edmond Ryan, John Conway, Thomas
Dwyer, and John Kennedy , of Bawn, the latter being a
respectable farmers son, and the person who bought the
party to Hogan's house. This gang was connected with
several other persons who were engaged to go in all
directions in the North Riding of Tipperary committing
outrage and murder. Since these arrests several bad
characters have absconded. There is most satisfactory
evidence against the people arrested and the breaking up
of such a gang is looked on as one of the most important
events that could have occurred to this country. One of
the gang has turned approver, and it is thought that the
perpetrators of all the outrages will be shortly brought
to justice.