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.
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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