The great herd of cattle that flowed along the Irish roads into cat-famed Kilkenny last week was no ordinary market-day job. For weeks Irish farmers have fought off government collectors come to get the annuity tax. Last week the tax collectors seized the delinquents' cows. A cordon of police accompanied the herd. Mad as Kilkenny cats, the farmers went ahead, felling trees across the road and cutting telephone and telegraph wires. Patiently cows, collectors and police plodded over all obstructions into Kilkenny (known to its own citizens as Cill Cainnig). A sullen...
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