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Kinvara – 1905

The Intermountain Catholic (Salt Lake City Utah)

The Fiddler
c. Clare O’Donnell

26th August, 1905, p2.
Mr Justice Meredith delivered judgment on Thursday in reference to the Kinvarra estate formerly owned by Mr. Blake Foster. He held that the Estates commissioners were entitled in the exercise of their discretion to declare the estate not ‘fit to be regarded as an estate’ on the ground that the security for the advance was insufficient.

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Marching in tune – 1868

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THE MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER 21ST JUNE 1868 P3
Two men, named Thomas Green and Michael Flynn, house painters, were recently arrested on a charge of illegal drilling, near Ennis. At petty sessions evidence was given by the police that on Sunday night May 10th, they met a party of men marching two deep, with a fiddler in front playing a tune.
Such words as ‘forward’, ‘keep the step’, and ‘mind your wheeling at the cross’, were used. One by the name of Hogan appeared to be the captain.
A witness was procured for the defense to prove that the men were merely returning from a dance and had brought a fiddler with them.