THE TITHE WAR

"And the Tithes, the tenth of the land that St. Patrick and his Bishops
had settled for their own use, it was to Protestants it was given. And
there would have been a revolution out of that, but it was done away
with, and it is the landlord has to pay it now. The Pope has a great
power that is beyond all. There is one day and one minute in the year
he has that power if it pleases him to use it. At that minute it runs
through all the world, and every priest goes on his knees and the Pope
himself is on his knees, and that request cannot be refused, because
they are the grand jury of the world before God. A man was talking to me
about the burying of the Tithes; up on the top of the Devil's Bit it
was, and if you looked around you could see nothing but the police. Then
the boys came riding up, and white rods in their hands, and they dug a
grave, and the Tithes, some image of them, was buried. It was a wrong
thing for one religion to be paying for the board of the clergy of
another religion."


THE FIGHT AT CARRICKSHOCK

"The Tithe War, that was the time of the fight at Carrickshock. A narrow
passage that was in it, and the people were holding it against the
police that came with the Proctor. There was a Captain defending the
Proctor that had been through the Battle of Waterloo, and it was the
Proctor they fired at, but the Captain fell dead, and fourteen police
were killed with him. But the people were beat after, and were brought
into court for the trial, and the counsel for the Crown was against
them, Dougherty. They were tried in batches, and every batch was
condemned, Dougherty speaking out the case against them. But O'Connell,