Bishop O’Dwyer of Limerick: speech at Limerick, September 14th, 1916

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experience for me , and I must be on my guard against its fascination , methods of the Plan of Campaign and boycotting as intrinsically unjust rettes upon it will probably be marooned in the end . Some of you will and the latter as essentially un-Christian ; and for that , and that alone , remember the early years of my episcopate , when the correct thing agitation were acceptable to God's laws . I was heartily in sympathy politically was to treat me as the enemy of my country , because I had the authority to think and to say that the methods of the political was held here in my own city , under the shadow of my own cathedral , with the farmers in their movement to emancipate themselves from the not indeed that I over attached much importance to it , or sought it . great humour conferred upon me , but I confess that I feel somewhat strange in these surroundings of public favour . Popularity is a novel in attempt was made to hound me down and silence me . A meeting yoke of an intolerable landlordism , but I condemned as immoral the We all know the folkleness of the popularis aura , and the man that Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen , I think you very heartily for the to the address presented to him by the Limerick Corporation , FIS Lordship , who was enthusiastically cheered on rising to reply speech Made by HIS LORDSHIP Conferring of the Freedom of the City of Limerick on him . The Most Rev. Dr. O'DWYER said : on the occasion of the on September 14th , 1916 .