Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 25, 22 June 1905, Page 9

Irish News

CORK— An Eviction In the early hours of April 26, long before the majority of islanders had arisen from their slumbers (writes a Dublin correspondent), one of his Majesty's ships, containing a force of two hundred policemen, three district inspectors, a county inspector, and a resident magistrate laid siege to Dursey Island, off the South-west coast of Ireland, and having met with but little opposition, captured it. When day broke the invading army proceeded to the house of Daniel Healy, who was under notice of eviction, and threw him and his family out on the roadside). Later on in the day Father Barton, P.P., and Mr. Gilhooly, M.P., landed in the island and interviewed the agents of Mr. Egerton Leigh White, the landlord, in order to try and effect a settlement, but their mission was in Vain. Tents having been erected and provisions landed, a force of thirty veterans was left in charge, and the remainder of the invading army sailed for Bantry. Father Barton, P.P., and his parishioners resolved to assist by every means poor Healy and the other islanders who are "in danger of eviction. DUBLIN— The Young: Ireland Party Mr. Martin M'Dermott, whose death took place on April 26 at Bristol, was the last sur-vivor but one of the leaders of the Young Ifelanders. Mr. M'Dermott was born in Dublin in 1823. He was educated in France, but returning to Ireland he became apprenticed lo Mr. Byrne, a Dublin architect, who was one lime vice-presi-dent of the Society of Irish Architects. On the founding of the Council of the Irish Confederation in 1848 by Sir Charles Gavan Tuffy young M'Dermott became a member. There were in all 37 members. He was sent to Paris to represent the Young Ireland party before the attempted ' Insurrection.' M'Dermott was one of the ' Nation ' poets, and his two best poems, ' Exiles Far Away ' and ' The Girl of the Red Mouth,' are all well known to readers of Anglo-Irish poetry. A few years ago at the request of Gavan Duffy he edited for the New Ireland Library series • The New Spirit of the Nation,' a collection of poems and ballads of the Young iTeland movement. Mr. M'Dermott, who resided in England for the past forty or fifty years, where he practised his profession, was for a time chief architect of the Khedive of Egypt. GALWAY- A Venerable Witness During the hearing of some defended chil bills at the last Quarter Sessions in Gal way a man named Duggan, aged 106 years, gave evidence in a very lucid manner. The! olid man was atlired in the regulation swallow-tail, knee-breeches, and shoes. Ola Mr. Duggan, for his years, is hale and hearty, and eunces no sign of illness or infirmity. A Meeting Proclaimed Mr. C. R. Devlin, M.P., the eloquent Irish-Canadian, who represents Galway City. (writes a Dublin correspondent), had an instructive experience on April 30, when he reached Tuam to address a public meeting arranged to take place at Carrowkeel, where there is an evicted farm, the property of Colonel Walter Nolan, the brother of Colonel Nolan, M.P. Directly Mr. Devlin reached Tuam he was beset by policemen. One of them served him with a document proclaiming the meeting Mr. Devlin had come to address. Arriving at Carrowkeel, Mr. Devlin and his party were met by a lorce of police, with whom the member for Galway took a very proper line, lie immediately asked the inspector, what was meant by his presence, and the inspector candidly replied that 'he was there to stop the meeting.' Mr. Devlin remonstrated, saying that he had come to address the people of Galway on political issues, and he had as much right to do so as any English or Scotch member had to speak in an English or Scotch constituency. The policeman replied that he would not argue, to which Mr. Devlin retorted that this was because he had no argument. He protested against having been doggevl by constalbles and his hotel watched night and day as if he woe a criminal. Such an attack on freedom and upon the rights of the people would not be attempted or tolerated in any country in the wide world. Mr. Iliggins attempted to hold the meeting, but six policemen caught him and threw him over a wall. Mr. Kennedy, another local speaker, began an address, but at the first words he was set upon by a crowd of policemen and thrown to the ground. Mr. Devlin besought the people not to allow the police to provoke them into conflict. That was) clearly what the police wanted, .that they might have the opportunity of striking them down. He

begged the people to follow him to Dunmore, another district close by, which was outside the area of the proclamation. There the meeting was held. KfcRRY— A General Exodus Emigration from Keirry to the United States of America during the month of April was,.of a most - appalling nature. The young men and -women of Brosna, Castleisland, Knocknagoshel, Scartaglin, and other districts left almost en masse for the West. Death of a '67 Man Widespread regret has been caused m Killarney and district by thel announcement of the death of Mr. John J. Healy, Killarney. Mr. Healy 'belonged to one of the oldest families settled in Killarney, and in his youth hei risked his liberty in furtherance of the National cause. In connection with the Fenian movement he was arrested on Christmas Day, 1867, and conveyed to Tralee Gaol, in which he was confined for a month, and subsequently incarcerated for two months in Mountjoy Prison. He was for many years a member of the Killaxney Town Commissioners, and merited the commendation of all who knew him for 'his upright and courageous discharge of his public duties. The sympathy of the general public with Mr. Healy's widow and family was manifested in a striking manner by the large and imposing cortege who followed his remains to Muckross, where they were laid to rest in tfie family vault in front of the historic abbey. Amongst the chief mourners was Mr. J. P. Gaynor, 8.L., Dublin, son-in-law of the deceased. LIMERICK— The Parliamentary Fund At a meeting of Limerick citizens in aid of the Irish Parliamentary Fund, it was announced that the Bishop of Limerick had subscribed £10 10s, and Mrs. O'Brien Smith Hill, £50, wihich brought that lady's subscriptions to the fund within the yeo,r up to £15-0. The Evicted Temnts Mr. John E. Moloney, Knocklong, hon. secretary to the Limerick and Clare Evicted Tenants' Association, wrote a few weqks since to the Chief Secretary, drawing his attention to the statements made by the judges during the holding of the Munster Assizes, as to there being 58 derelict farms in Limerick, and 144 in Kerry. Mr. Moloney says- that this is a grave state of affairs two years after the passing of the Land Act. Only 100, ou,t, of 40100 evicted tenants, have been provided for and at this rate it would take 100 years? to restore the whole number. To this communication Mr. J. J. TTary r lor, Mr. Long's private secretary, writes that he is directed b)y the Chief Secretary for Ireland "to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Moloney's letter on the subject of the reinstatement of the evicted tenants. TIPPERARY— A Centenary On April 3 the hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Christian Brothers' Schools in Carrick-on-Suir was observed with due solemnity. The Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford, presided at the celebration, a,nd the Very Rev. Dr. O'Hickey, Maynooth College, preached the centenary sermon. TYRONE— Alleged Boycotting On April 28, before Mr. Justice Barton, in the Chancery Division, Dublin, the hearing was resumed of the case of Sweeney v. Coote, which was an action by Miss Rose F. Sweeney, manual instructress in the National School of Kilfaiddy, Carntall, County Tyrone, to restrain the defendant, Mr. William Coote, J.P., from conspiring with people in the 'district, and in particular with Alexander Smitten and John Robinson, to injure her in her business as a, schoolmistress by inducing the parents o! the pupils to withdraw them from the school. She Is a Catholic, and in her statement of claim alleged that she had been appointed by the Rev. Mr. Bailey, Presbyterian minister, and manager of the school. Judgment was reserved. GENERAL The Land Act in Connaught The report of the Trish Estates Commissioners lately issued shows that the operation of the Land Act in Ireland has been of very little benefit to the most necessitous parts of the country. About three and a half millions of money have been advanced for land purchase up to December last, and of this sum only about a quarter of a million, in round figures, or something less Ihnn ono-tweMh of the whole, has e;one to Connaught, whero fho land trouble is most acute, ami where the destitution of \he people, through the rapacity of a n extortionate landlordism, is most pitiful. Mr Long's recent tour in Oon naught does not hold out much hope of improvement, for it is a question whether Mr. Long has any adequate knowledge of, or interest in, the subject.

Teachers in Congress In consequence of the very serious situation which has arisen owing to the promulgation by the Commissioners of a new rule which, if enforced, will certainly prove detrimental to the best interests of primary education, this year's congress of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation attracted a large share of public attention. The Town Hall of Sligo, in which the congress met, was filled with delegates, clergymen, and members of the Corporation. The Mayor of the city presided at the opening meeting, and delivered an able address, in the course of which he pointed out the evil results sure to follow the enforcement of Rule 127 (b) as it is officially called. Speeches were also delivered by Mr, McHoigh, M.P., Mr. O'Dowd, M.P., Very Rev. 'Dr. Kielty, President of Summershiel College, Very Rev, Father Ccvnnimgton, P.P., Rev. Dr. Ardill, Protestant recton of Calvy, Rev. Dr. Coulter, Protestant rector of Dromahair, and others, each of whom condemned the innovation as ibeing subversive of the righfs of parents, teachers and managers, and ruinous to the cause of primary education in Ireland. Matters affecting the general interests of the teachers occupied the attention of the delegates at the other meetings of congress. Mr. J. J. Hazlett, M.A., was elected president of the organisation, and; it was resolved to 'hold the next meeting in Waterfowl. A cable message received last week stated that Ijj, serious difficulty had arisen in the administration of primary education,, as the hierarchy have strongly protested against the National Board's new rule renderingi boysi under eight ineligible for enrolment in a boys' school where no woman teacher is employes. Archbishop Logue advises determined opposition, even if the education of the country is brought to a deadlock. Technical Expert Dr. John Ryan, Principal of the Paddington Technical School, has been elected expert adviser to the Dublin Technical Schools Committee. Dr. Ryan received his early education from the Fathers of the Institute of Charity at the College of the Immaculate Conception, Ratcliffe, Leicestershire. Very shortly after leaving Ratcliffe, in a competition open to all mechanical students of Great Britain—the six Whitworth Scholarships of £100 a year, tenable for three years— he took third place. Later on he gained the Clothworkers' Exhibition at Cambridge, and the Vintners' Exhibition, and taking up his studies at King's College, Cambridge, took his degree of M.A. in 1885, and three years later the LL.'M., being called to the .English Bar in 1891. His Doctor of Science degree was gained in 1883 at the London University, the degree being taken in electricity and cognate subjects. Since then Dr. Ryan held the Professorship of Physics and Engineering in University College, Nottingham, and the same Professorship in University College, Bristol, was first President of ,the Bristol Assioc^ntion of Engineers, was Principal of the Woolwich Polytechnic School for four years to 1903, and has been slUnce the Principal of the Padidington Technical Institute. The Reform Association It will be rememberefl that the Orange supporters of the Government forced Mr. Wyndham to resign the Under-Secretaryship of Ireland, owing to his supposed connection with Lord Dunraven's Devolution Scheme. The promoters of that Scheme were denounced by the Orange faction as disloyalists and Home Rulers in disguise. At a recent meeting these alleged disloyalists, who, by the way, are all Unionists, but do not come up to the standard of the Orange lodge, elected an executive committee composed of the following gentlemen : President, Lord Dunraven, K.P. ; vice-presidents— Lord Rossmore, Sir Algernon Coote, Bart , H.M.L. ; Sir' Timothy O'Brien, Bart., T. Clarence E. Goff, D.L. ; committee—Edward Archdale, D.L. ; Arthur Collum, D.L. ; J. O'Graidy Delmege, D.L. ; Lieut.-General W. G. Dunham Massy, C.8., D.L. ; Col. N. T. E\erard, DL. ; Moreton Frewen, J.P. ; H. F. S. Goold-Veischoyle, J.P.; Major Robert William Goodwin Hillas, D.L. • Lord Louth, D.L. : A. T. Magan, J. Stewart Moore, D.L. ; Win. O'Reilly, D.L. •. Capt John Shawe-Taylor, J.P. ; David Talbcjt-Croslbie, Lindsey Talbot-Crosbie, D.L ; Sir Anthony Weldon, Bart., D.L. It was decided that the defined objects of the association should be published. They are as follow :— ' (a) To encourage cooperation amiongst all Irishmen, irrespective of creed or class, for the development of the country's resources, and for the promotion of the welfare of the people, (b) To secure for Ireland such effective control of purely Irish affairs as may be compatible with tfic maintenance of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland, and with the "supremacy of the Imperial Parliament.'