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Show IN HONOR OF HEROES. MONUMENT TO ALLEN, LARK IK AND O'BRIEN UNVEILED. Twenty Thousand Persons of Irish Blood Parade In Manchester A Mift-hty Demonstration Fol- the Martyrs to Irish Liberty. Little indeed did the English government govern-ment or the English people, who so brutally gloated over the execution of three obscure Irishmen in Salford jail In a period of panic and excitement, imagine that their memory would be cherished 33 years afterward with the intensity of feeling and devotion which on Sunday brought forth a demonstration demonstra-tion of Irishmen that will rank with the funeral of Terence McManus or the O'Connell centenary celebration, says a correspondent of the Dublin Freeman's Free-man's Journal, writing from Manchester Manches-ter on Ang. G. From almost every part of the three kingdoms came representative Irishmen Irish-men to testify by their presence in a great English city that the cause for which Allen, Larkin and O'Brien died on the scaffold is as vigorous and Unchangeable Un-changeable today as it has been any time this century. The scene enacted on Ang. 5 in Manchester, Man-chester, where the martyred three were condemned, gave the English onlookers an object lesson. Twenty thousand Irish men and women, with a clearly defined purpose, orderly in demeanor, respectable and intelligent, marched j in solid phalanx, with baud and banner j at their head, through the heart of the ! city to the Catholic cemetery at Mos-I Mos-I tyn, four miles out, to witness the un-' un-' veiling of a memorial to the Manches-i Manches-i ter martyrs, and after all the wonder j Is not that they should be there, but j that they should have faced a rainstorm rain-storm the like of which is seldom ex- perienced in these latitudes. The Irish National Foresters of Liverpool, in I their picturesque costumes and mount- j ed on horses, formed a striking fca- ture of the parade, and what a con- trast the conduct of the police offered j to that which we know of the conduct I of the Irish constabulary to have been i toward similar demonstrations in Ire- i land. In Manchester the police gave j every help to keep the route clear. and ! facilitated the precession in every way j that they could. Thousands of specta- i tors, sporting Irish emblems, lined the j route and cheered the procession, the j London. Dublin and Manchester Gaelic j Athletic association members, who car- ' ried their hurleys, receiving special ! ovations. The procession was headed j by Mr. John Carroll, who, on horse- ' w i A- MONUMENT tO ir.IS-I HEHOKS. : back, was chief marshal, an honor coa-; coa-; f erred on Mr. Carroll in view cf the j fact that he suffered four years im-i im-i prisonment for the same cause for i which Allen, Larkin and O'Brien died. " Arriving at the cemetery just as a perfect hurricane of rain had somewhat some-what subsided, a select number were admitted to the cemetery, the rest of the party gathering in a field close by where they could, witness the ceremony cere-mony of unveiling. The unveiling ceremony in the absence ab-sence of the Marchioness of Queens-berry Queens-berry was performed by Mr. John Daly, mayor of Limerick. No speeches were made at the unveiling, un-veiling, but the Dundalk band played "God Save Ireland," and the assembled assem-bled spectators sang it. The memorial to the martyrs takes the. form of a Celtic cross which, including in-cluding the pedestal, stands 25 feet high. The memorial committee purchased pur-chased in perpetuity the plot of land on which it stands. The cross Is a conspicuous object in the cemetery. The plinth, orbase, of the memorial is of Newry granite. On this are raised tiers of polished limestone, on the borders bor-ders of which are carved the arms of the four provinces. Surmounting these armorial bearings in bold relief are I seated figures representing Justice, Unity, Art and Literature. Standing out at either side are Irish wolf dogs representing Fidelity. Between the seated figures are richly carved inter-lacings inter-lacings of symbolic design. On one Bide of the stem of the cross and looking look-ing west toward Ireland Is a life size figure of Erin holding in either hand a shield and a sword and above her head a laurel wreath. At the reverse side i3 a round tower and on three side panels pan-els are carved heads of the martyrs and on the fourth a harp. The monument monu-ment is in brief a history of Ireland and is extremely creditable to the skill and ability of the sculptor, Mr. John Geraghty of Bootle. Irish World. |