THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 25, 21 June 1900, Page 10

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.

The Queen's visit (writes the Dublin correspondent of the Manehetter Guardian) necessarily calls for more than a passing remark. Royal visits to Ireland have been tojefwi* fa* between; so that if ' there were no special circumstances in the visit just ended the mere rarity of such an event would have made it memorable. But there have been many very special circumstances in the Queen's visit which are absolutely without any analogy or parallel in the past. I shall begin by mentioning the most noteworthy of these distinguishing marks before I make any comment on the visit as a whole. In the first place, this visit has been marked, so far as her Majesty's pecflbnal action could mark it, as a visit not to any so-called ' loyal ' section of the community, but to the Irißh public generally. 'J hat the Queen so intended it is abundantly proved by her acts during her stay at the Viceregal Lodge. Certainly it was not on any official suggestion that Cardinal Logue was invited to the R >yal table ; still less was it on each Advice that he was described in the Court Circular as 'Archbishop of Armagh,' without any such modifying epithet as ' Roman Catholic ' or ' titular.' In the next place, the Jesuit schools, which are illegal institutions by statute, were visited by the Queen in person, and the Jesuit Fathers were favored with Royal compliments for their educational work. So with the Vincentians and the Carmelites and other outlaws. Moreover/th* schools conducted by the Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of \lf erdy were visited by the Queen, Significantly, too, no visit was paid to Trinity College, and if the honored Provost was a guest at the Viceregal Lodge, so, too, was Dr. Molloy, the Rector of the Catholic University, although Dr. Molloy really only represents an aspiration. Now, these are notable things. It was the first time in Irish history that an English Sovereign and a Roman Cardinal dined at the same table.