IRISH PROFESSOR KILLED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 10

IRISH PROFESSOR KILLED.

Ireland has lost one of her most brilliant sons, arr' the University College, Dub•lin, a distinguished member of its' staff, by the death of Professor T. M. Kettle, who lias fallen in the .war. A writer oi much merit, an eloquent and humorous speaker, Professor Kettle, who was born in 1880, was a "son of Mr Andrew Kettle, a well-known Dublin County farmer, who figured prominently in the land movement. He became a member of the Irish Bar, and represented East Tyrone as a 'Nationalist from 1906 to 1910. In the days before the war, says the Daily Telegraph. Professor Kettle ranged himself on the side of the "irreconsilables" in Ireland. and it may be r< called that when England was fighting' the Boers he was distributing lanh-recruitmg leaflets At, the streets of Dublin. To his constituents in East Tyrone he once declared that in Ireland thc-v had no national independence to protect against foreign invasion, "and I confess," he said, "I see many reasons for preferring German invasion to British finance." But when me present war began there was no more vigorous chamoion of tho x\lhes than Professor Kettle. ~ The invasion and despoliation of Belgium fired him with an intense hatred of Germany, rle wrote a brilliant series of articles descriptive of the German outrages in Belgium, and threw himself into a recruiting campaign with all the energy that was in him. He addressed no fewer than 200 recruiting meetings, and he brought thousands of his countrymen to the colours. In Parliament, the slender, sloping figure, the pale, clean-shaven face, the soft voice, and the delivery, was sharply differential ed from '-hat of the other orators of his party. It was the utterance of one who was more than a politician, and who cared for the form in which he presented his thought In January last year he enlisted at Fermoy, and was given a commission in the Leinsters. Later he transferred to the Dublin Fusiliers. Professor Kettle married ; n ISO 9 Margaret, the daughter of Mr David Sheehy, M.P.. whose sister is the widow of tho late Mi Sheehy Skeffingtor.