School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)
- Location:
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Proinnsias
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0285
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- (continued from previous page)Rev. Fr. Carroll Adm. presided, and besides Michael Davitt, Mitchell Henry M.P. for Galway, Matt Harris and a number of the clergy spoke. Clanrickards among other Landlords spoke was invited - he sent the following reply - London, December 29 - 1879.Gentlemen,I have received the invitation you have been good enough to send me to attend a "Grand Land Meeting" at Loughrea on January 6th.. As I feel I should deserve most severe censure for attending a meeting so ill-timed in the actual disturbed state of Ireland about the Land, and for countenancing many of the resolutions to be proposed, I must decline your invitation to share the very heavy responsibility and its possible consequences, which the deliberate promoters of this meeting will not be permitted to evade, I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, Clanricards.At this meeting resolutions were adopted calling the attention of the English Government to the evictions and great distress prevalent in Connaught and emphasising the want of sympathy with their tenants shown by the Landlords.At the other meetings through out the year 1880 similar resolutions were passed.(continues on next page)
