Irish bishop speaks: The death of Thomas Ashe

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IRISH BISHOP SPEAKS THE DEATH OF THOMAS ASHE The Bishop of Killaloe's Protest. DEAR SIR, Permit me to thank you in your columns for your worthy protest against what I cannot otherwise designate than the slow murder of Thomas Ashe. It is horrible that the country has to stand silently by listening to the moans of the decent young Irish boys who are being slowly done to death behind the walls of Mountjoy Prison by brutal tyrants; or to see them thrown in their last gasp like dogs outside the jail door. They may die as poor Thomas Ashe has died, but with other results than Dublin Castle has dreamed of. Their Deaths will sanctify them in the memory of Ireland and surround their heartless torturers with inextinguishable hatred and ignominy. It is the sort of cruelty we were accustomed to hear of as possible only in the ancient Bastille, or the dungeons of Naples, or the bleak prisons of Russia; but as altogether impossible under English rule. We have no need to wait for the future to inform us; the world sees already in the hideous atrocities what the triumph of English Culture means for Small Nationalities. I am, Yours sincerely, M. FOGARTY, Bishop of Killaloe,