OBITUARY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 47, 1 April 1914, Page 7

OBITUARY.

A WELL-KNOWN IRISHMAN. By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright (Received April 1, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. The death has occurred of MiTimothy Daniel Sullivan, the wellknown Irish journalist. [Timothy Daniel Sullivan was born in Bantry, County Cork, on May 29, 1827. In the years 1886 and 1887 he was made Lord Mayor of Dublin, and the following year he "spent two months in the Tullamore Gaol for an offence under the Coercion Act (publishing reports of the " Suppressed Branches " of the Land League). He was previously prosecuted with Mr Parnell and eighteen others at the jState trials in Dublin for taking part in the Land League movement. The jury disagreed, however, and it was not until five years later that he got an opportunity to write his famous " Prison Poems," composed behind the bars of Tullamore Gaol. He represented the Nationalists of Westmeath in Parliament from 1880 to 1885, and later sat for Dublin City and West Donegal. His parliamentary career finished in 1900. Amongst his best known writings were " Recollections of Troubled Times in Ireland," " Evergreen," and "Dunboy and Other Poems." He also composed thfi verses of the song, 1 ' God Save Ireland." His only hobbies were the writing of poetry and making model yachts.] REV. WILLIAM REDFERN. (Received April 1, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. The Reverend William Redfern, president of the United Methodist Conference, is dead.