the famou~ Raparee of the seventeenth century and in support of this <.1uotcd the following tradition : "In the Conyngham House at Letterkenny was (and likely still is) preserved on the mantlepiece a stone on whieh it is recorded .................... . Redmond O'Hanlon once became separated from his followers and being weary he lay down to sleep. He was awakened two or three times by a lizard running over his face, and .at first was merely irritated ; but, as he became more aroused, he recollected the lizard's action to be accounted for as a warning. He therefore arose, looked around, and saw a wild boar ready to attack him. His encounte::- with the boar drew him into a wood, and in a direction contrary to that he was about to take. He was thus saved from a party of his enemies, who were lying in wait for him." O'Hart is not a re'.iable historian and we wonder how much of the above data is fact and h:nv rm:ch is fiction? J. C. Men . The Fenian Movement In County Donegal IN the month of October 1865, police, acting on information received, arrested three men in the town of Hamelton and hurried them off to Lifford !Gaol. The first was• a man named Rogers who proved to be a Captain in the United Slates Army. and his legal adviser complained that his army commission was one of the documents taken from him at the .. time of the arrest. This. complaint was forwarded to the American Consul at Derry. The ..second man, MacElwee, was also an American citizen and was believed to be a special trainee of the American Irish Republican Brotherhood. Both were natives of the Fanad district. THE owner of the house in Ramelton in which ,Rogers and 1MacElwee were captured was the third man arrested in this police swoop. His name was Galla1gher (Sic) and he was described as a Cooper by trade; who had been discharged from the Donegal Militia, after one period of training, on account of his treasonous language. Police observed that Gallagher and Rogers, "although they never knew each other before'', were constant compariions from the date of Rogers's return and this caused enquiries to be made into the motives behind the return of the two exiles. QNE of the hostile press reports. upon whi.ch this account of Fenian activity in County Done· gal is based, sneered at Gallag- .htor's an·oganee because .bt2 claimed to be descendant of "the great O'Gallagher" and persisted in calling himself Michael Carol O'Gallagher. VERY soon after these arrests were made the Royal Navy established a patrol along the coast of County Done_<tal. K. TAAFFE.
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