Finally he related some anecdotes showing that the notorious outrage at Tralee where the rebels started a locomotive at full speed down a main line-with.no one in charge, Re- and a terrible disaster was only averted by the presence of mind of a signalman who switched it on to Sj} a siding, was only one of many similar examples of an idiot lust for wholesale murder and destruction:
Such stories prove that the old chronicler who wrote an. account of Ireland and the Irish for an edition of Camden's Brittania in 1753 and said that "Robberies here are not looked upon as infamous but are covhmitted with great Darbarity in all parts of the country. They (the Irish) are of opinion that neither violence, robbery, nor muther, are displeasing to God. Moreover they say they do but follow the example of
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