Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 16 May 1907, Page 27

Irish News

ANTRIM— The Redemptorist Order The appointment of the Very Rev, P. Murray, C.SS.R., Clonard, to the position of Provincial of the. - Order to which he belongs of the liish Province (which includes Australia and the colonies), will be welcome news (says the ' Irish Weekly ') to his many friends in Belfast. Father Murray has for some year? pas<t been attached to their house here, having been Rector for the oast three years. CORK— A Wise Resolve Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., in a letter to a constituent, points out that the Irish Party have with more or less grace accepted the Devolution Bill, and they were all therefore now on common ground. He proceeded—' Any further attempt of mine at this staige to induce the Party to adopt, a different attitude could only lead to controversies in the English Parliament, which I have always avoided. Under these circumstances, and as' one vote more or less cannot be of any 'importance to a Government with three hundred of a majority, I have resolved to abstain from any part in the present session. Now that the position of my fi lends and myself has been triumphantly vindicated personally and individually, the people of Cork will find that the course I intend, to take will remove the last excuse for intestine conflict in the country, and leave the responsible parties a perfectly free hand for realising the people's hopes for the University, Devolution, and Evicted Tenants Bills.' Police Returns The public (says- the 'Freeman's Journal') will endorse the observations made by Mr. Justice Johnson at the opening of the County Cork Assizes in regard to the dishing up of police returns regarding the conditions affecting, crime in the different counties to the going judges of assize, and the exploiting of these reports for political purposes. His lordship had before him very voluminous reports as usual from the County Inspectors for the two of Cork County, and he said it was his habit, and he would not now depart from that habit, not to discuss these reports toefore the Grand Jury. The police had quite enough to do, he said, to look after the peace of the county, and he thought they would be quite better employed in looking after it and doing that instead of clerk's work and making out statistics for the House of Cotnv mons. These are rather belated judicial observations on the subject, seeing that the public a c not in futaire likely to hear much of the terrible criminal condition of this country, now that the members have takpit to asking for information in Parliament about crime in England whenever any question regarding the state of Ireland is put by an English Unionist member at the instance of the Ulstet Tory representatives. DERRY— The Vacant See During the last week in March a meeting of the parish priests of the diocesie of Derry was held in St. Eugene's Cathedral for the purpose of recommjend'ing three to the Supreme Pontiff,, one of whom may be appointed by his Holiness, to fill the See rendered vacArat by the lamented death of Most Rev. John Keys O'Dotoerty. His Eminence Cardinal Logue presided. As a result of the voting, the names chosen to 'be submitted to his Holiness were :— Right Rev. Mgr. M'Hugih, D.D., P.P., Strabane, digniissimius, 23 votes ; Very Rev. Patrick Boyle, President Irish College, Paris, dignior, 6 votes; Very Rev. Dr. O'Kane, President St. Columb's College, Derry, dignus, 3 votes. DONEGAL— A Local Industry Some interesting information is given in the ' Ushaw Magazine ' about the manufacture of the very h'asndsome carpet which adorns the sanctuary of St. Cuthbert's Chapel in the College, and is the gift of the Right Rev. Bishop Wilkinson. It is a hand-tufted Doneg a l carpet - made at Killybegs, in the south-west of County Donegal, and is entirely made by harid. The material is I manufactured mostly from the long stapled wool of the Donegal sheep. r ih« warns of the carpet are stretched between two parallel horizontal beams according to the width required, and the girls sit in an erect position m front of this vertical warp. Each girl has part of the design corresponding to the part of the carpet she is placed at, and with her fingers she ties in the tufts that form the pile in such a manner that, when the tie wef, is shot over, the pattern is formed. These tufts are < afterwards beaten down with little iron hammers anl made thoroughly secure. The knot formed by these tufts is quite locked in, and can only be removed v

with cliflUuiity. The working of the carpet took some three rutniihfc., and cost" £200. DUBLIN— A Destructive Fire The Dominican Priory at Tallaght, County Dublin, was the scene of a_ destructive fire which occurred in- a portion of tfoe convent principally used as a laundry and machine storeroom, towards the end of March. The building, a three-sitorey one, was known as ' Tallaght House,' was formerly used as a navitiate, and h«ud-quito a 'history attachii/J to it. It was built about a century ago by Major Palmer, from materials taken from the dismantled Episcopal palace, which stood on . much the same > site. It was taken over by the Dominicans in, 1855, and the first Novioe Master of the young community was the famous Father Tom Burke. Music at the Exhibition Burton M'Guckin, the well-known tenor, who was so long connected- with the Carl Rosa Opera Comipany, has been appointed! musical adviser' in connection with' the Irish, International Exhibition, which was opened last week, : The International Exhibition An attractive international exhibition was opened at Dublin last wee!r. Mr. Cameron, of New Zealand, was in the procession with representatives of Canada, Italy,' France, and other countries. King Edward telegr a plbed expressing the hope that the exhibition would prove -a success, and demonstrate to Ireland the fruits of international progress. Lord Aberdeen (Lo'nd Lieutenant of Ireland) interpreted this as a pregnant message of solicitude for the development of Ireland's resources in every direction. New South Wales and Western Australia have small exhibits. GAL WAY— A New Line of Mail Steamers The County Galway Grand Jury have adopted the following resolution :— ' We, the Grand Jury of .County Galway, assembled at Spring Assizes, 1907, understanding that a soheme, supported by the Canadian Government for starting a fast line of mail steamers 'between Canada and some port on the west coast of Ireland is contemplated, desire earnestly to press the claims of Galway. No 'port in Ireland possesses the same 'advantages, both in its proximity to the Canadian ports and its direct communication by main line to Dublini and England.' KERRY— Death of a priest The death is announced of the Rev. Father M. A. Dillon, P.P., which occurred at lihe Presbytery, Duagh, County Kerry, on March 24. The deceased,.- who had spent forty-two years in the mission, was educated and ordained in Rome. His. collegiate career w!as a distinguished one. The interment took place in the parish church, after the celebration of a Requiem Mass. TYRONE— A Link with the Past In a recent issue of the ' Ulster Herald ' there appears an appreciative notice of the late Miss Rose Kavanagh, a gifted Tyrone writer, who was a frequent contributor to Irish periodicals twenty years ago'". This talented lady was iborn at Killadroy, Tyrone, in 1859, and received the rudiments of her education at -the neighboring National Schaol, completing her studies at the Loreto Convent, Oicagth. On leaving Omagh she went tO study drawing at tine School of Art in Kildare street, Dublin, and at the same time engaged in literary work, writing stories for ' Young Ireland,' and verse for the ' Irish Monthly.' Gradually literature pushed art into the (background, and after some time she assumed charge of the ' Fireside Club,' the children's page of the ' Weekly Freeman,' where she endeared herself to hundreds of yoiina; readers who knew her as ' Uncle Remus.' It may be 'mentioned thait, with another young/ lady as assistant, Miss Kavanagh edited ' United Ireland ' during the time that Mr. William O'Brien was imprisoned under the Coercion Act. A noteworthy trait of Miss Kavanagh's character was her intense love for her native county. Tyrone scenes anid Tyrone people figure in nearly all her stories, and much of her verse was inspired by its landscape and its legends. She was never of a robust constitution, but notwithstanding repeated attacks of illness she was always cheerful^ and hopeful. In 1891, in the thirtysecond year of her age, the fateful summons came, and death cut short a career which had ' promised to be a most brilliant one. GENERAL The Irish Party and the Colonial Premiers The Nationalist members in the House of Commons banqueted the visiting Premiers last week Those present included Lord Loreburn (Lord Chancellor), Mr. A. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland), Mr. John Morley

(Secretary for India), Mr. Winston Churchill (Undersecretary for the Colonies 1 ), and Mr. John Redmond, who presided. Mr. Redmond expressed the party's 1 gratitude to the colonial rep esentatives for their unvarying sympathy witfli Ireland. Return of the Envoys Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., and Mr. J. T. Donovan, the Irish envoys to Australia and New Zealand, and Mr. Hazleton, M,.P., arud Mr. tKtettle, M.P., the envoys to America, arrived in Queenstown on March 21 from' New York. They were presented with an address from the Queenstown Urban Council, and delivered interesting speeches in reply. The Pope and Irish Sodalities Pope Pius X. has sent his blessing to the •members of the Irish Sodalities of the Blessed Virgin affiliated to the Prima Primaria in Rome, who, at the instance of the rev. editor of ' Th© Madonna,' the organ of the Irish Sodia'Jists, recently forwardted to the Holy See their joint protest against the persecuting: policy of the French Government. This protest', which was adopted by eighty-six sodalities, and represented some thirteen thousand persons, was presented to his Holiness by Monsignor O'Riordan, Rector of the Irish College, Rome, handsomely printed on parchment, in Italian and* English. The Holy Father at the same time sent his blessing to the ' Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart.' Progress of Temperence It looks (writes a Dublin correspondent) as if the fervent aspiration given, expression 'to by the data A. M. Sullivan, in his words would ibe realised in the i^sar future. With the approach of legislative independence which we are promised, and which we shall certainly obtain sooner or Pater, there is also an advance towards a realisation of the most sanguine hope of temperance reformers. Evidence of the fact is to be found in the almost total aVbsence of drunkenness on St. Patrick's Day and the day following, which was a ban/k holiday in Ireland. The police this year had nothing to do but to watch the people enjoying their fieedom from work in a softer, manly fashion. In the extensive area controlled by the Dublin Metropolitan Police the number of arrests during the two days was insignificant, and the greater number of those arrested were habi'tuals. Trinity College and the Study of Irish Professor Kuno Meyer, responding to a toast at tihe Irish Nationalist banquet in Liverpool on March 18, spoke contemptuously of the attitude of Trinity College, Dublin, towards the movf/tnients for- the ex,ten6itoni of scholarships and the revival of the Irish language. .'He expressed the hope that when a national University came to be established in Ireland it would be on> widely different lines, such as would bring the Irish student once more into contact with the living world of science and scholarship. ! A Profession of Political Faith A cable message received a few weeks ago stated 1 that Dr. McNamara, Secetary of the Local Government Board, had joined a London branch of the United Irish League, anid that his action had considerable political significance. In the course of a letter to the ' Standard,' which criticised his action, he says :— As am Irishman, I am, and always Have been, on purely .democratic lines, a p-ofound believer in the right and capacity of the Irish people to govern their own affairs. I desire to see oompleted, as early as may be expedient, the good work commenced by Mr. George Wynd'ham in the late Government in . connection with the Irish local Government and the Irish Dand Acts— good work which' has already been still further prosecuted in the Irish; Laborers Act of last year, and the full completion of whiqh will, I hope, brinp; us to that day so devoutly desired by Lord Dudley, the Irish Lord Lieutenant in, the late Tory Government, when we shall govern Ireland according to Irish ideas. Having said all this, perhaps you will allow me to add, in the most sincere manner possible, that my emphatic conviction is that suoh a policy will deepen amd strengthen the prosperity and integrity of the British Empire.

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