Dean Kenny 1867

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The Library website gives an account of the career of the Dean.
In March 1867, in the immediate aftermath of the Fenian rising,
he took part in a meeting in Ennis that condemned the rising.
At the same time he called on the government not to be severe in
its ongoing repressive actions.
In addition he made a significant link between the rising and the
land question, stating that where farmers had some security
of tenure [leases] there had been no insurrection.
This link between the national and land questions
is being made twelve years before the emergence of the Land League.
[Reference Limerick Chronicle, March 16, 1867]