People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 12 April 1906, Page 10

People We Hear About

The death is announced of Major Walter Redmond, uncle of Messrs. J. E. Redmond, M.P., and WilUnau Redmond, M.P. The deceased gentleman, who was born in January, 1851, was the third son of the late Patrick Walter iKedmond, D.L., of Robertstown House, County Wexford, and brother of the late William Archer Redmond, M.P., and the late General Redmond. Major Redmond had many friends amongst the Irishmen of London, and is deeply regretted. The Hon. Kric Drumiaond, who has just entered on his duties as private secretary to Lord Fitzmaurice, Parliamentary Undcr-Secretary of State lor Foreign Affairs, is the younger brother and heir-presumptive to "Viscount Strathallan, who is unmarried, and is ' de jure' thirteenth Earl ol Perth, though he has as yet taken no steps to prove his right to that ancient Scottish idignity. Mi. Eric Drummond is a convert to "the Catholic Churchy iand married a few years ago tne Hon.- Angela Maxwell, second daughter of Lord Ilernes, and sister of the Duchess of Norfolk. January 27 was the lfiOth anniversary of the birth of Mozart, and celebrations in honor ol the event .were held in all the leading} musical centres. Dublin may well ib»e/ proud of the fact that one of her musical sons, Michael Kelly, whose name is invariably written ' Ochelly ' by Mozart himself, was selected for the parts of Basilio and 'Don Uurno at the inaugural performance of ' Figaro 'on May 1, 1786. Kelly was a successful composer and ivine importer in the early years of the. last century, but owing to the suspicion that some of Ins airs were borrowed from Continental sources Sheridan wittily proposed that his signboard ought to read : ' Michael Kelly, Composer of Wines and Importer of Music. At the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, held recently, the veteran scholar, Dr. P. W. Joyce, was elected president, and Count Plunkett, F.S.A., vice-president for the province of Connaught. Both are Catholics. Dr. P. W. Joyce, M.A., T.C.D., is a retired civil servant. He was born at Limerick in 1827, and was married in 1856 to Caroline, daughter of Lieutenant J-ohn Waters, of Balting'lass, County Wicklow. He was educated at private schools and at ihome. Entering the service of the Commissioners of National Education, lielancl, in 1845, he held various posts, until 1M74, when he was appointed Professor, and subsequently Principal, of the, Commissioners' Training College, Dublin, retiring in 1803. He is one of the Commissioners for the publication of the Ancient Laws of Ireland. lie is the author of ' The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places ' (2 vols.) ; ' Ancient Irish Music,' a collection of hitherto unpublished 1 Irish airs and songs ; ' Old Celtic Romances,' twelve tales translated from the Gaelic ; ' A Short' History of Ireland to 1608 ' ; ' A Child's History of Ireland ' ; and ' A Social History of Ancient Ireland,' being a description of the whole social life of the Irish people. Count Plunkett is a Dublin man, born in 1851, and was educated at Nit© and at Clongowes College. He is a barrister 'and a member of learned societies by the dozen. He is a great traveller and an art student and critic, his work on ' Sanuro Botticelli ' being the standard work on the subject. In conjunction with the Rev. Dr. Hogan, F. R.U.1., he edited 'The Jacobite War in Ireland,' and hi<| is a regular contributor to all the leading reviews. He is an enthusiastic Irish scholar. The presence ol a band of between two and three dozen journalists is /onq of the strongly-marked features of the House of Commons. The following is a list of those connected with the press of Great Britain :— Mr. Percy Alden (ex-editor ' Echo '), Mr. Hilaire Belloc, Mr. Harold Cox, Mr. G. P. Gooch (' Speaker,' etc.), Mr. Hamar Greenwood, Mr. Archibald Grove, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Mr. Keir Hardle (' Labor Leader '), Mr. J. Ramsay M'Donald, Dr. Macnamara (' Schoolmaster'), Mr. F. Madison (ex-editor ' Railway Review '), Mr. C F. Masterman (' Daily News '), Mr/ L. G. Chiozza Money (' Daily News '), Mr. Frank Newnes, Sir George Newnes, Mr. Henry Norman (' World's Work '), Mr T P. O'Connor (' T.P.s Weekly '), Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, Mr." W. O'Malley (' Madame '), Mr. Herbert Paul ('Tribune,' etc.), Mr G. Toulmin ('Preston Guardian'), Mr. G. C. Wardle (editor ' Railway Re\iew '), Mr. T. P. Whittaker, Mr. P. W. Wilson (' Daily News '), Alderman Winfrey (' Spalding Free Press \). The following are amongst those connected with journals in Ireland : Mr. Boland, Mr. J. J. Clancy, Mr. C. R. Devlin, Mr. J. P. Hayden (' Westmeath Examiner '), Mr. W. O'Brien, Mr. Jonn-Ol>onnell (' Connaught Champion '), Mr. D. Sullivan, Mr. J. MacVeagh.