News: Pastoral to factions in the Parish of Emly and 
thereabouts, 10-11-1862 Times

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PASTORAL TO FACTIONS IN THE PARISH OF EMLY AND THEREABOUTS
    Most Rev. Doctor Leahy. Archbishop Of Cashel.

This pastoral is addressed "To those calling themselves the 
Three-year-old and the Four-year old factions in the Parish 
of Emly and thereabouts."

The Archbishop with grief complains that those 
people-"almost alone of the people of Ireland certainly 
alone of all the people of these dioceses"-have revived 
those wicked factions which some years ago were the disgrace 
of the County. Emly is the stronghold of the two 
factions-the "Three year olds and the "Four year olds". He 
then goes on at length about the two factions and then ends 
the Pastoral with a well authenticated detail of murders and 
maimings, and other grevious bodily injuries that have 
occurred in the district in the last six years.

Perhaps such a record was was never before embodied in any 
Bishop's pastoral.

9th July 1856. Denis Quinlan, (four year old), Parish of 
Emly, killed at the fair of Hospital.

August 1856-John Fitzgerald, (four year old) killed at his 
own door in Emly.

October 1856 -John Kenna, parish of Emly, killed at Rodus, 
in the same Parish, He did not belong to either faction.

September 1858-Michael Hayes, Parish of Hospital, (four year 
old) killed at the fair of Hospital.

1859 -James Brown, Knockany, received a stab wound, which 
put his life in danger.

1859-At a funeral in Kilteely, John McGrath of Emly, (four 
year old), badly fractured.

1860, Nov. 6th, Returning from the fair of Knockany, Edward 
Fitzgibbon was killed

1860, One Murphy, a three year old, was killed between 
Ballylanders and Galbally.

June 12th 1860-At the fair of Ballybrood, several persons 
were injured in a faction fight between the Mulcahys and 
Connollys of Caherline, and the Smalls of Kilteely on one 
side, and the Lundons and Conways of Kilteely on the other.

May 1861-At a funeral at Emly a wicked fight took place 
between the Three and Four year olds, from which nine 
persons from the Parish of Emly, and four from the parish of 
Hospital were punished by Sergeant Howley at the sessions of 
Cashel.

1861-John Moloney, a three year old, and Daniel Connors, a 
four year old, began to fight at the Chapel gate on a 
Sunday, and having retired to a field close by fought it out 
during Mass, in the presence of several spectators.

December 1861-At a hurling in the Parish of Emly a man named 
Taylor was badly fractured, for which a man named Kennedy 
was sentenced to three of four years penal servitude.

1861-A man named Callaghan, not of any party, returning from 
the fair of Emly, was killed.

1861-At a hurling in Kilteely, a man named Small was badly 
fractured by persons of the opposite faction. This 
occurrence arose out of a faction fight at the fair of 
Ballybrood, in 1860.

1862-At the fair of Kilteely, Moloney, a Three year old, 
badly beaten by Connolly, a four year old.

April 1862 -At the fair of Ballincreena,? Parish of 
Knocklong, Roger Egan was badly fractured by some of the 
three year olds, because he was seen in the company with 
some of the opposite party, though he did not belong to 
either.

August 22nd 1862. Edward Fitzgerald, Hospital, was killed in 
the same place

1862-Michael Buckley, of Emly was badly fractured.

The cause of the feud which has led to such deplorable 
results was so trivial and ludicrous that it would be almost 
incredible if given on a less authority than this pastoral. 
The cause was too ludicrous to be more than alluded to by 
the Archbishop. It was all about a BULL and the age of the 
Bull.