text:  When it was intimated to him that the trial would not take place in Kilkenny he urged that the venue might be laid in Waterford or Tipperary or Wexford or Carlow or in the Queen's County where something was known of each of the parties; but no the venue was laid in the county of Dublin where the gentlemen who would form the special jury were all of the landlord class and nearly all belonging to the dominant church-and-state party