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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 214, 1 June 1877, Page 13

His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught lately spent a few days in Kilkenny Castle, ODe of the most splendid mansions in the three kingdoms, the guest of the Marquis of Ormonde, who gathered round his Royal Highness not only the rank and station of that splendid county and its adjoining ones, Carlow, Wexford, Waterford, Tipperary, and Queen's, but also the middle and professional classes and the traders of the ancient city. In the hunting-field H.R.H. met some of the most accomplished sportsmen to be found in Europe, Kilkenny being classic ground for country gentry. la the noble picture gallery in the castle, the Duke of Connaught saw the portraits of more than one Butler, Catholic Archbishops of Cashel, one of them author of "Butler's Catechism," an outline of Christian doctrine familiar over the globe wherever a child of St. Patrick is to be found. His Royal Highness expressed to many the intense gratification afforded him by his visit. He examined the city where the Confederate Catholics in 1641 rallied for God, for the Church, for the King, and for the people ; James, Marquis of Ormonde, being then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. These visits of the Duke of Connaught must soon familiarise him with, the genialities of Irish life, and attach him to the warm-hearted) people amongst whom he is so cordially received.