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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER XV
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Mr.O'Leary fixed his residence for a time in Paris, and thence went to America, where he and Kickham were regarded as the leaders of the American branch of the I.R.

B.He returned to Ireland in 1885, his term of sentence having then expired, and it was shortly after his return that he gave to my correspondent the letter upon Irish affairs to which I have already referred.

He had been chosen President of the "Young Ireland Society" of Dublin before he returned, and in that capacity delivered at the Rotunda, in the Irish capital, before a vast crowd assembled to welcome him back, an address which showed how thoughtfully and calmly he had devoted himself during his long years of imprisonment and exile to the cause of Ireland.

Mr.William O'Brien, M.P., and Mr.Redmond, M.P., took part in this reception, but their subsequent course shows that they can hardly have relished Mr.O'Leary's fearless and outspoken protests against the intolerance and injustice of the agrarian organisation which controls their action.

In England, as well as well as in Ireland, Mr.O'Leary spoke to great multitudes of his countrymen, and always in the same sense.


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