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[At Dundalk.]
"The old saying was as true now as in the days when Wolf Tone died, that 'England's difficulty, under the providence of God, was Ireland's opportunity.'"—United Ireland, April 18th, 1885.
[At Newcastle-on-Tyne.]
"Why have the Irish people voluntarily and heartily cheered the Mahdi? Chiefly because the Mahdi is the enemy of England, and his men are killing Englishmen. This is a hard and bitter, but most true, fact (hear, hear). The Irish cheer the Mahdi because he is the enemy of the English!"— United Ireland, May 23rd, 1885.
Mr. T. M. HEALY, M.P.
[At Boston, U.S.A.]
"We believe that landlordism is the prop of English rule, and we are working to take that prop away. To drive Out British rule from Ireland we must strike at the foundation, and that foundation is landlordism."—Irishman, December 24th, 1881.
[At Mullingar,]
June 1st, 1884.
"They could not, of course, unfortunately, send the British Government out of this country by a coup de main. But while the mere effervescing characteristics of that time might have passed away, there still remained behind a solid determination to work at that movement in which they and their friends had struggled." (applause).
[At Kilkenny.]
"Let the people cast aside all personal dissensions, and let them have one enemy only, and that enemy the British Government." (Cheers).—United Ireland, November 7th, 1885.
