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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: !! Connaught Journal; June 28, 1824 "Cork"
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:36:53 -0500


THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL
Galway, Thursday, June 28, 1824

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE
CORK, JUNE 18- On the 8th instant, between twelve and one o'clock in the
morning, an outrage of a Whiteboy character was committed within five miles of
the town of Bantry. Two houses, the property of a man named Tyrell, were
maliciously burned, in consequence of his daring to become tenant to Mr. Murphy,
for some lands from which the former tenants had been evicted. All the furniture
and provisions belonging to the unfortunate man were consumed, and it was with
much difficulty that he and his family escaped being burned to
death!--[Advertiser.

In answer to this, The Cork Chronicle says- "Now, it gives us much pleasure
to say, that there is not, nor has there been, the slightest taint of
Whiteboyism in the part of the Country which is alluded to in the above
paragraph. It will be observed that The Advertiser is learning caution-thus
describing the burning as 'an outrage of a Whiteboy character,' leaves a loop
for the writer to escape through; at the same time nine hundred and ninety-nine
readers out of a thousand would suppose from the context that the Country was
infected by Whiteboyism. To be sure, burning a house is an outrage of a Whiteboy
character; but we are enabled, on good authority, to say, that the matter was
closely investigated before the Magistrates at the Petty Sessions in Bantry, on
Saturday last, and there was not a particle of evidence even to assume that the
outrage was the result of combination, or premeditated impropriety or
Whiteboyism. We wonder how The Advertiser, with such official sources of
information, as it owns, could be ignorant of the real circumstances of the
case."

Cathy Joynt Labath
Ireland Old News
http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/


MISREPRESENTATION
CORK, JUNE 23- The following Letter has been addressed to the Editor of the
Cork Advertiser:-
"SIR- Having seen a statement in your highly respectable paper, under the
head 'Whiteboyism,' I have the honor to inform you, that the circumstances which
occurred in this neighbourhood, proceeded from private malice; and I have the
satisfaction to state, this Barony and the Barony of Beer, are in the most
perfect state of tranquility. The Magistrates who attend the Petty Sessions
every Saturday would be happy at all times to communicate any circumstances that
might occur in this district.
"I am, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant,
"BANTRY.
"Bantry-House, June 19, 1824"



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