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Identifier: irelandyesterday00suth_0 (find matches)
Title: Ireland yesterday and today
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sutherland, Hugh
Subjects: Land tenure Home rule
Publisher: Philadelphia, The North American
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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ge. The inspector, who hadbeen watching the battle critically, but with apparent indiffer-ence, stiffened into a combatant. Sharp orders rang out, theranks of the constabulary broke, men darted hither andthither, each intent on his duty, and within five minutes theserious business of reducing the stronghold began. Thistime something had to give way, and obviously it would notbe the constabulary. Some of them ran forward with a longladder, which was flung with a crash against the eaves. Menran up the rungs, shielding their faces as best they couldfrom the deadly shower of water and tar and lime, and,clinging to the ladder desperately, brandished iron rodswound with barbed wire over the apertures in the roof andwall. This, of course, was to keep the besieged men backfrom the openings. But the ruse was not effective againstthe well-handled buckets and spraying machines. From theevenings still came streams of material, and the dark greenuniforms were soon bedaubed with the mess. While the
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AN EVICTION 123 men on the ladder tried to keep back the defenders theirfollowers attacked in earnest the stone wall of the housebeneath them, where the barricade of trees had been clearedaway. Despite the pitiless bombardment, they hackedsteadily at the wall with picks and crowbars, and slowly, veryslowly, began to make an impression on the stones. Theassaults from within became more savage. Relentlessly thebesieged men poured out their bombardment of boiling waterand tar, with streams of powdered lime and liquid plaster,until the attacking party were literally unrecognizable. It was a disgusting scene, declared the eye-witness whodescribed it to me—a man whose sympathies, by the way,were with the defenders. I have seen many an eviction inbygone days, but never one so brutal. The men inside madea gallant stand in a hopeless light, but the men outside stoodthe worst punishment I ever witnessed. The remarkable part of it was the grim good nature ofthe constabulary. The men went forwa

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