| Several offers were made to the organization responsible for the plaque to correct the number of rescued prisoners and eliminate the name of the one who was not rescued, O’Reilly. Finally, in 2004, the organization accepted an extraordinarily large anonymous grant to make the corrections. |
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| The Great Catalpa “Typo” Cast in Bronze New Bedford, MA |
| The Australians will object to their continent being referred to as a “colony," the grammarians will regret “Ships Agents” and the historians will lament that John Devoy (whose photo appears here) once again has been denied his due as the rescue organizer, but, at least John Boyle O’Reilly is no longer being rescued. |
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