[[3]] Captain O'Shea.
[[4]] He was to have addressed a meeting at Naas.
[[5]] Possibility of arrest.
CHAPTER XIV
KILMAINHAM DAYS
"Love is not a flower that grows on the dull earth;
Springs by the calendar; must wait for the sun.
* * * * * * *
E'en while you look the peerless flower is up
Consummate in the birth."—J. S. KNOWLES.
At the news of the arrest a wave of indignation swept through Ireland. In Dublin there were riots. In many places shops were closed and towns and villages went into mourning as if for the death of a king.
Five days later the Land League countered the arrest by issuing the No Rent manifesto.
Parnell was really opposed to it. Dillon openly so, but the majority of the leaders then in Kilmainham Gaol approved of it, and it was signed and published in United Ireland on October 17th. The signature is interesting, it runs thus:—