Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he was aware that a family called Bradfield are now in possession of a farm near Kinsale from which a former tenant called Driscoll was evicted twenty-three years ago, and that Driscoll was now claiming to be restored to the farm, and has applied to the Estates Commissioners under the Evicted Tenants Act for reinstatement; whether, seeing that Driscoll, the claimant, has boasted that he is an American citizen, inquiry will be made into this; and if British money would be advanced to an American citizen to expropriate British subjects?
§ The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Mr. Birrell)The Estates Commissioners have received an application from Patrick Driscoll for reinstatement in a holding on the Herrick Estate, formerly occupied by his mother and now in the occupation of Mrs. Bradfield. The Commissioners understand that Driscoll, whose application is under consideration, went to America after the eviction and returned to Ireland last year; but they are not aware that he became an American citizen.