Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 31 December 1886, Page 19

Irish News.

Antrim. — The Most Ber. Dr. McA-lister, Bishop of Down and Connor, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of £4 from Mr, James Feely Secretary, National League, Bishop Auckland, Durham, being the subscriptions of the members of the Bishop Auckland Branch of the National League towards the fund for the relief of the distress of the Catholics deprived of employment by means of the late riots in Belfast. Cavan. — The glimmerings of reason breaking in upon the minds of sellingly -disposed landlords (says Uwited Ireland) are beginning to spread and magnify; Some evidences of this fact are to hand. For instance, a batch of sales which are reported from County Cavan. William Erskin, Esq., Harcourt Temple, London, has sold his property in Loughdufi to his tenants at fifteen years' purchase, giving to each a large quantity of turbary free, and forgiving the current half-years' rent. These advantages make the terms equal to thirteen years' pur* chase. John Brskine, Esq., D.M., has sold his property in Mullahoran, County Cavan, to his tenants at fifteen years' purchase, with free turbary and the current half-years' rent forgiven. The sale was conducted by the agent, Mr. Frederick Gilford, Dublin, and accepted by the parish priest on the part of the tenants. Mrs. Juliette Harris, Dublin, has sold her estates in Loughduff, Co. Cavan, to her tenants at fifteen years' purchase, giving to each an acre of turbary and a large amount of unreclaimed land free, and forgiving the current half-year's rent— terms equal to 12 years' purchase. The sale was conducted by the agent, Mr. Alfred Killingby, and accepted by the parish priest, Bey. J. Corcoran, on behalf of the tenants. In all these cases the rents were judicially fixed in '82, by agreement, at a reduction of from 27 to 40 per cent, from the former rents. These were no hasty bargains. On the contrary, the landlords in «ach caße held out for a very much higher price as long as they were able, and they only gave in when they found that the tenants could not, according to the present position of the land market, possibly give more. Clabe. — About two hundred of the tenants of Lord James Butler met the agent, Mr Sydney Cox, at Kilrush, and paid their rents, getting an abatement of 37 J per per cent, with half rates and county cess. Dr. Counihan, Kilrush, granted his Querrin tenants an abatement of 16 per cent, off the judicial rents, and the tenants are paying. The tenants on the West Clare estates of the Marquis of Conyngham, Mr. Westby, Mr. Marcus Eeane, and the Stuart Tandeleur property met the agent, Mr Keane, at Kilrush concerning the rents due. In all cases applications for reductions of rent were made by the tenant* owing to the agricultural depression. The tenants of Mr. Eeane at Scattery Island, about twelve in number, were given no abatement, and only one tenant paid. Mr. Stuart Vandeleur gave an abatement of 20 per cent., and most of the tenants paid, and on the estates of Mr. Westby and Mr. Marcus Keane 15 per cent, abatement was granted. The tenants on the Clare properties of Lord Cavendish Bentinck, an English absentee landlord, and Robert Gardner, Dublin, decline to pay any rents unless a reduction of 25 per cent, is made. Through the exertions of the Bey. Thomas McMahon, P.P., ef Kilmihill, near Kilrush, and his curate, the Bey. J. Glynn, C.C;, the following landlords having estates in County Clare have made general reductions of rent owing to the present great agric«ltural depression : The Bight Hon. Judge Flanagan, Captain Charles George O'Callaghan, D. L., Ballinahinch, Lord James Butler, the Hon. Julia Celina Ball, of Fortfergus, near Ballinally ; Mr. Timothy McMahon, J.P., Carrahan, near Quinn ; Mr. Byan, J.P., Bruree, County Limerick. In vindication of the principles of the House League Mr. James Kelly, a shopkeeper of Kilrnsh suffered his place to be shut up by the sheriff and his property sold off sooner than pay a rackrent to the landlord, one John Moloney. The goods were bought in for Mr. Kelly by his brother-in-law, Mr. Moody. Cork — The Earl of Egmont still refuses to make a fair settlement with his tenauts, and Lord Bandon threatens to take legal measures if the rents— grinding as they are— are not immediately paid. Before Mr. Justice Monroe, on Oct. 4, counsel for Six George Colthurst, moved for a writ of possesion of certain lands in the county of Cork, now held by Julia Forrest. The plaintiff having obtained judgement in ejectment against the defendant, who owed £1,221, arrears of rent, on the 15th of last March, a writ for possession was issued out of the Exchequer Division, and on the 13th of August it was executed, and the defendant, Martin Forrest, was evicted. Subsequently, the doors of the house were broken open, and Forrest and his family retook possession. In September following Forrest was prosecuted for having taken forcible possession of the premises, and was by the Justices at Millstreet Sessions committed for trial, without bail, and was now in the gaol of Cork County. His wife and children held possession of the house and lands. Counsel said his client wanted either the laud or the crops. Mr Justice Monroe granted an order for possession. The Jamesbrook tenants of Capt. Adams have been allowed reductions in rent varying from 15 to 25 per cent; There recently died at the Presentation Convent, Youghal, Mother Mary Clare Hennessy in her 82nd year, 51 of which were spent in the religious state. Several seizures of cattle in lieu of rent have been made on the Ballybawn property ot Alexander McCarthy, of .Cork. The County Sub-Sheriff, accompanied by a force of 70 police, evicted a farmer named Dennis Hanlon at Pluckanes near Dononghmpre on the Townsend minors property, for the non-payment of rent, The tenant was subsequently .readmitted as a care-taker. There was a large crowd of excited people, and all the approaches to the

house were blocked up with large stones. The eviction was, however, effected quietly. Donegal.— Mr. O'Hea, M.P., addressed a large meeting at Morlogh, Donegal, on Sunday, Oct. 3, Bey. J. Mcllhatton occupied the chair. Mr. O'Hea dealt powerfully with the present situation. The fight, he said, would be at its hottest, but that would only nerve them for any eventualities. They were not strangers to repressive legislation, and they could profit by the lessons of a bitter past. Their enemies were exulting in the hope that the League would be suppressed ; but knowing the people as he did, he could confidently say that the Government could no more make an educated man illiterate by burning his books than they could stifle the demand of justice and stamp out their National aspirations by suppressing their organ. On Ootober 5, one of the steam trawlers belonging to the Donegal Bay Fishing Company, and 47 boats, all full of herrings, came to Donegal quay. The herrings were very large, and the fishermen say the bay is full of them. Down. — The Nationalists have reason to be gratified at the results of the revision in Newry Borough up to the present, and not* withstanding the combined efforts of the Tory party they have succeeded in establishing a large number of claims which will materially strengthen the Nationalist majority which they indisputably hold at the present time in the borough. In South Down, too, in the claims gone through the Nationalists in almost every case sustained their claims. The Unionists lost very heavily. Dublin.— The Orange papers remarked with much severity that the Nationalist guardians of the South Dublin Union did not attend Lord Castlereagh the Little, on the occasion of his visit to the South Dublin Workhouse— we suppose, to offer him their respectful congratulations on the life and labors of bis great-uncle, the base and blackguard. The disgraceful fact is also noted that not one of the Catholic officers of the institution put in an appearance. The really disgraceful fact, however, has escaped the notice of our contemporaries, that the only Catholic officer in the whole institution is the Catholic chaplain, all the rest of the establishment being officered by men taken from Orange and Freemason nurseries by the detestable gang of bigots who dominate the board, and whose only regret is that an over- punctilious Poor Law obliges them to appoint so much as a chaplain of the Romanist type. How sweetly this enlightened state of things in a union nine-tenths of whose ratepayers are Catholic contrasts with the fact mentioned by Mr. Alexander Bowman in a letter to a Northern paper this week, that of £8,400 a year paid by the Catholic and Nationalist Corporation of the City of Dublin as salaries to the superior class of civic officials, £4,000 is paid to Protestants. When (says United Ireland) it was announced that Sir B. O. Guinness, contemplated retiring from proprietorship of the great Dublin brewery, the West-British faction had for the moment another cry. It was secretly whispered that the big brewer had begun to fear for the stability of his property in Ireland, and had resolved to get rid of it ere the great crash came, Things were tending towards Home Rule, said the gloomy gobemouches ; and in that case there would be no security for such a property as Guinness's.^The answer given has been the most conclusive ever heard of. Twenty-one times over have the six millions which Sir E. C. Guinness put upon his brewery as its working value been subscribed ; and the bulk of the money has been subscribed in England I The answer to the West Briton alarmists has been crushing in its completeness. An Irish ' Parliament may come, but the English holders of more than a hundred millions are not a bit afraid of it. On Friday, the 22nd October, the pupils of the Young (Ireland Society celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Davis in a deeply interesting way. A concert was given, consisting exclusively of selections from the works of the poet. After this an eloquent address on the life and writings of Davis was delivered by Mr. J. F. Taylor, B. L., in which the speaker dwelt forcibly on the noble ideals Davis ever kept before him, and exhorted the pupils to take the lesson of his career thoroughly to heart. The annual prizes in connection with the classes were then presented by the President's sister, Miss O'Leary. Fbbmanaqh.— The revision of the lists for the North Fermanagh district was concluded on October 2. From a Nationalist point of view the result of the revision is a distinct triumph. The claims and objections were well sustained, owing to the care bestowed on the work of preparation by the Bey. John F. Magaire, CO., O. Ederney, and bis unwearied attendance in court during the whole sittings. It was only last week that the last was heard of the battle of the general election in County Fermanagh. A memorial of that event remained, in the shape of a prosecution against a policeman who had the effrontery to interfere with the sport of Mr. Frank Brooke's lambs. These playful gentlemen manifested their sentiments over Mr. Redmond's election by bludgeoning all the Nationalists they could meet, and the policemen in endeavouring to save some of the victims inflicted some injury upon some " loyal >r craninm. For this outrage he was prosecuted, but the evidence not being up to the mark, the matter was put off from one week to another ; and last week witnessed the utter collapse of the sham. In this connection it may be noted that Mr. Condon, solicitor, who has kept a friendly eye over the case while attending to the revision proceedings in Fermanagh, was the recipient of a very flattering compliment when leaving Enniskillen last Tuesday. He was escorted to the railway station by a great body of the townpeeple, headed by a band; and all the leading men of the place, clerical and lay, assembled on the platform to bid him farewell. Galway.— Colonel O'Hara, chairman of the Galway Harbour Commissioners, stated on October 7, at the meeting of the Town Board, that in reply to the memorial forwarded to the Chief Secretary, with reference to the establishment of the convict depot in Galway, and the construction of the breakwater, he had received a

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etter from that gentleman in which he alluded to the interest he personally felt in the project, and hoped in a little time to pay a visit to Gal way on the matter. The chairman said he had also an official reply stating that the matter was under the consideration of the d ovemment, so that there was every prospect that the works wonld go on. The usual notices have been served, and the other preliminaries arranged for bringing the project of the Loughrea-Attymon Railway (for which a presentment was obtained from the grand jury), before the Privy Council. It will now depend upon the convenience of the Privy Council when the matter shall be concluded. No opposition to the project is anticipated. On Sunday, Oct. 3, after eleven o'clock Mass, at the village of Claddaghduff, eight miles north of Clifden, a very large Nationalist meeting took place on the summit of a small mound in front of the chapel. The meeting was called for the double purpose of forming a branch of the National League, and advising the people as to the best means of dealing with their landlords on the approaching gale day. Rev. Father Collerun presided, and a resolution was adopted pledging all the members to pay no rent unless a redaction of 25 per cent, were given. Kbert. Two English barristers,who have been visiting North Kerry for the purpose ot studying the Land Question there, have started for Oahirciveen, in order to judge for themselves of the manner in which Trinity College treats its tenantry. At the Listowel Petty Sessions, Oct. 2. in a case in which objection was made to the renewal of a publican's license, on the ground that he had persistently refused to supply Mr. G. Sandes, the evicting landlord, with provisions, the magistrates, by two to three, decided to overrule the objection. On Sunday, Oct. 3, as two caretakers in charge of farms in the Castleisland district of Kerry were returning home, a number of men jumped over the fence from both sides of the road, and having taken their revolvers from them, disappeared as quickly as they had come. Kildabe. — The funeral of the late Very Rev. Dr. Kavanagh took place on Oct. 7, at Kildare, and was attended by a large assemblage of clergy and laity. Mr. R. J. Goff, J.P., auctioneer, has just offered for sale the interest of the extensive holding of Mrs. Todd, relict of the late Mr. Todd, at Tankardstown, Athy. The holding, which was situated on Lord Antjesley's property, contains about 208 Irish acrea, rent £297, and valuation £240. It is held under lease, 11 years of which are unexpired. and after a spirited bidding, the farm was knocked down to a Mr. Kelly for £760 with fees. It is stated that the buildings on the farm alone cost £3,000. Kilkenny. — Mr. Lapbam, Governor of Limerick Gaol, has given 20 per cent, reduction on their half-year's rent to his tenants near Kilmacow, County Kilkenny. At the last meeting of the Callan Union, a notice of eviction was pinned to the wall from Mr. Morris, Waterford, against George W. Dennis Brophy, for possession of lauds of Russpndry, birouy of Kells, containing 87 acres, Another notice was from Kight Hon. tbe Earl of Dufferin, and James Gardiner, against Maria Deegan, for farm and buildings at Ballybur, ia the barony of Kells. The Thomastown Guardians received a notice of evictioa at the suit of Lord Dunsany against Thomas Hanrehan, for recovery of that part of the lands of Coolroebeg containing 54a lr 6p . Kino's County. — At a large and representative meeting of the Catholic parishioners of Edeaderry on Sunday, Oct. 3, a memorial was adopted praying for a site for a new cnurch and convent in the town. It was signed by the tenants on the property and all ihe chief parishioners, and addressed to the trustees ot' the Marquis of Dowasbire, minor. There is uo reason why this unanimous prayer of the Catholic tenants, the want of which has hten long felt, should not be granted. The site asked is the only one suitable and available, aud the people have been frustrated in their noble and benevolent design these last two years. On Sunday, Oct. 3, a ceremony of profession took place at the Convent of the Holy Cross and Passion, Mount St JoSipn's, Bolton. The young ladies were Miss Catherine Purcell, Manchester (in religion, Sister Mary Basil), and Miss Catherine felan, Edenderry King's Co. (in religion, Sister Mary Silvester). Londonderby.— At Derry Petty Sessions on Oct. 7, Head Constable Patrick Moran was presented with a valuable gold watch, the gift of insurance companies, as a reward for hid services in stamping out the crime of arson, which had become prevalent in Londonderry. The resident magistrate and justices recommended the Head Constable for promotion as the onlj adequate recognition of his vigilance and skill in the public interest. The Educational Endowments Commission concluded their investigations in Derry, on Oct 8. The Rev. Professor Witheroe gave elaborate historical evidence relating to local foundations, especially Foyle College. The President suggested that practical suggestions for the future were more in the way of that commission. Dr. Witheroe maintained that Presbyterians and Catholics had claims on the college which should be recognised. The commissioners also heard evidence in respect of Magee College, Gvvyn's Institution, and some minor local charities. A bombshell has fallen in the Orange Unionist camp (says the United Ireland of Oct. 30). M r Lewis has fled from Derry, and the seat in Parliament for the iluiden City is now held by the Vicechairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party ! This astounding event is the result of the revelations at ttie hearing of the election pi tition. It was distinctly shown that a man named Neely, a labourer, earning eighteen shillings a week in Glasgow, had ben paid four pounds to come over and vote by a man named MacDerraott, Lewis's agent and agent of the Tory Re^istiation Hooh ty. f hih instance ot bribery was made bo clear that Mr. Sergeant O'Brien thiew up the sponge on Saturday. The MacDermott, Q.C., immediately claimed the seat, with coats, for Mr. Justin Jl't'arthy, and tbe Judges formally complied with the request on Monday. IlaJ bnbeiy not been proved, Mr. M'Carthy might still have gut the seat, as the battle over the

contested votes had resulted in giving him the majority. The flight of Lewis was a rem trkable one. It was not only that he himself disappeared, together with his..agent, but some members of his family, it is stated, and several shining lights of the Orange lodges, also made themselves scarce. The grief of the Tory organs over the disaster is touching and unaffected. With a beautiful simplicity the Bxprets consoles itself with the belief that another seat may be found for Mr. Lewis ; but if the Government does not shamefully abdicate its functions, the next public seat that bumptious attorney ought to occupy would be a seat in the dock, to be fullo.vcd by a seat in a convict cell. Wild consternation prevailed ia Derry when the dismal truth became known ; but the Orangemen and 'Prentice Boys didn't immediately rush to arms, nor have they as yet done so. On the other hand, the Nationalists of the North lost no time in fittingly celebrating an event so remarkable in the history of Ulster. Demonstrations of delight, hearty and spontaneous, burst out in many parts of the northern province when the glad news became known. At Buncrana the local band turned out and played through the town, afterwards stopping at the house of Mr. O'Doherty, the petitioner's agent, who briefly returned thanks. Afterwards the town was brilliantly illuminated. At Strabane a remarkable event happened. For the first time within historical memory the green flag was floated there. The brave old standard was run up on the tower of the Town Hall amid the plaudits of a joyous multitude and the music of the band. A torchlight procession and a general illumination of the houses were incidents of the occasion which will cause it to be remembered for years. In Ballyshannon, too, and indeed in every part of Derry and Donegal where the old spirit of Ulster still lingers, there were similar demonstrations of delight at the change which has come o'er the spirit of the dream of the " Maiden City." Maghera, Castlewellan, Dungannon, and Enniskillen may be mentioned also as centres at which the joy of the National party over their victory found gladsome but orderly expression. Louth.— Twenty -seven tenants in the mountainous townlands of Omeatb, owned by James Murphy, of Sugar Island, and Edwaid Ryan, of Castle street, Newry, have ejectment decrees hanging over their heads for one year's rent. These tenants offered the landlords 18s in the £1 of that one year's rent in January last. Their offer was refused. The costs heaped on in each case Bince January is £2 15s lOd, to which it is threatened to add a sheriff's fee of £1 ss, making in each case a cost of £4 Is. The landlord now threatens the terrors of the law against the unfortunate tenants. Mayo.— The Earl of Lucan has, through the intervention of Rev. Father Lyons, Adm., Castlebar, granted some concessions to his Clonkeen tenants. Owen O'Malley, J.P., Newcastle, High-Sheriff of Mayo, died on October 4. His remains were interred on the 7th, at Murisk Abbey. Meath. — The Navan guardians have made a record which other unions will find hard to break. Not less than eighty-one cottages will be ready for habitation before the winter sets in. This is a record that no union in Ireland can show at present. Qoebn's County. — There were three sheriff's sales at the Courthouse, Maryborough, recently. In the case of Bowens, minors, against O'Culleton, Mr. Corcoran, for the tenant, asked for an adjournment to enable thetenant to pay the amount claimed (£132). The representatives of the landlord objected to Mr. Corcoran's application, and the farm, was bought in by the landlord's representative for £5. In the other two cases there was no appearance for either landlord or tenant, and the cases were adjourned to a future day. Roscommoh.— On Oct. 7, Mr. O'Kelly, M.P., and Mr. J. R. Cox, M.P., addressed a large demonstration at Frenchpars, which was convened in reference to the rent question. Numerous contingents, with bands, attended from Fairymount, Killaraght, Tybohne, Cloonshanvill.', Breedogue, Ballinameen, etc. Mr. Wm. Morris, President of the Frenchpark branch of the National League, presided, and in addition to the above mentioned speaker, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Castlerea, Mr. Jasper Tully Boyle, and Mr. F. Beirne, Car rick, addressed the meeting. Sliqo. — Mr. Brett bag given his Tobercurry tenants a reduction of 7s in the pound steiling, on rents not fixed, and 4a on fixed rents. Tipperahy.— Mr. Walter Nolan, solicitor, of Cahir, has been appointed Sessional Crown Solicitor for the County Tipperary. Mr. Edmond Rice, the newly-appointed Crown Solicitor for County Tipperary, died on Oct. 2, somewhat unexpectedly, after an illness of only eight days. At the last meeting of the Tipperary Board, the report of the Sanitary Inspector of Tipperary town was read. The Inspector states that many parts of the town are in a very dirty and unhealthy condition, and the large pig fairs held in the public streets produced a peculiarly offensive unhealthy nuisance. The houses of the labourers and artisans are in some cases very miserable. The chairman attached the following minute to the report : " The pig fairs and the tolls arising therefrom are vested in the • lord of the soil ' (Mr. SmithBarry), over which the sanitary authority have no control ; but as soon as we get Home Rule that authority will make a move to have the fairs removed and the nuisance complained of thereby remedied. The sanitary authorities in Tipperary are, however, of opinion that the sanitary condition of the town is not at all as bad as represented above." The stars in their courses (cays United Ireland) are fighting against the rackrenters. It is not alone that meu ot their own class who are not alto ether devoid of reason or humanity are voluntarily i educing their rents, but the Laud Commissioners co ttinue to give in tlieir decisions the most striking proofs of thtiv ea.nest conviction that the fleecing process to which tenants have been so long subject raugt now perforce stop. Simultaneously with the news that a Tipperary landlord, Mr. Vincent Scully, has voluntarily given an abatement of 25 per cent, on judicial rents — the largest abatement ever made, it is stated, in the county — there was published this week the report of judicial decisions given at bixmilebridge on caett

recently heard by the Land Commission in Kildysart. The great feature about these decisions is that in many cases they reduce the judicial rent considerably below the valuation. Thus, on the estate of Mr. Hector S. Vandeleur the holding of Denis M'lnerney, valued by Griffith at £20 per annum, is declared to be worth no more than £16 10s, while the rent sought to be screwed from the unfortunate holder was £25 12s 6d. There were foar cases from the estate of Mr. John C. Scott, in which the total valuation was £90 15s. The total rent now fixed by the Commissioners is £78 6s, while the total rent formerly exacted was £11 15s. A little holding on Sir Bryan O'Loghlin 'a estate, valued at only 15s a year, was charged £3 ; and in thiscase the Commissioners tnought half that amount was the fair rent for the place. Watebeobd. — It is a fortunate thing for ancient Irish art (says the Dublin Free-man) that the Danes and Normans were not able to discover, and, of coarse, destroy, all the old Irish books and manuscripts, else we should have to depend to-day upon tradition as to the precise artistic merit of our forefathers, and to the sceptic we would have had nothing whatever to show in evidence of our lost civilisation bat the few scattered ruins and crosses that yet remain intact in different parts of the country. As it is, however, in the manuscripts that have been preserved we have the evidence of an artistic excellence in many departments in old days in Ireland that cannot be gainsaid, and an evidence of an art that is all our own, and that furthermore can be pointed to with pride and satisfaction by Irishmen. It. is well to find this Irish art perpetuated, and we are happy to be able to refer in this connection to the fourteen beautiful stained glass windows which have just been completed in the chapel of the Presentation Convent of Dungarvan, County Waterford. The chapel has recently been remodelled in the Hiberno-Norman style to the plans of Mr. W. Devlin, architect, of Dublin. Nine of the windows are in the nave, and consist of two lights each, circular headed, surmounted by an " oculus." The traceries on the panels are most elaborate and designed after old Irish examples ; and in the centre of each of the windows is a scene from the life of our Lord executed in tints unmarred by the defect of gaudinese, and producing a most harmonious effect. Four of the windows are in the sanctuary, and these are ornamented and embellished with figures of our Saviour, the Blessed Virgin, St. Brigid and St. Patrick, surrounded by borders of Celtic design, and the remaining one is in the dome over the altar. The lettering of the texts on all the windows is Irish, and the glass used is the real " antique," the colouring of which permeates the glass right through. The designs are by Messrs. Cox, Sons, Buckley and Co., of London and New York, and Mr. Buckley himself an artist and archaeologist, gave the utmost attention to the details, and deserves credit for having finished the work in a manner creditable alike to himself and to the ancient art of Ireland. Wexfobd.— The death is announced of Bey. A. Kinsella, C. C, Bannow. His death was rather sudden. The deceased gentleman, who was uncle of Key. A. Kinsella, Monamohn, was born in 1826, in Kilentrin, aud entered 6t. Peter's College at an early age. From thence he went to Maynooth, where he completed his studies and was ordained in 1856, and Bhortly after was appointed to the curacy of Blackwater. After being in several curacies, including Clongeen, Tintern, and Coolfancy, be was transferred about four years ago to Bannow. On October 12, the ceremony of blessing the statute of St. Bridget, for the New Convent which will shortly be occupied by the Nuns of the Order of Perpetual Adoratiou took place in the Church of the Assumption, Wexford, to which the New Convent is attached. The statute, which is a most beautiful one, is to be placed in a niche over the principal enirance to the convent, which is dedicated to the Patroness of Ireland, aud which stands near the sits of the old Church of St Bridget. Wicklow. — It has been decided to wind up the Wicklow Copper Mine Company.