Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1, 2 January 1908, Page 27

Irish News

ANTRIM— An Octogenarian . The death occurred, on November 7 at the .Holy Cross Monastery, Ardoyne, of the Rev. Brother " Mi- . chael, whose venerable figure has. for many years been familiar *to' worshippers at that church. * 'The deceased had attained the age of 85, and was 59 years in the Order, having joined at Aston Hall in Staffordshire, which was then the novitiate house of the Passionists at a time when the journey there from Ireland ■ cccv- 1 pied five days. He was born in Dublin in 1822, andreceived the habit ~in 1848, arriving at Aston Hall ■on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. Death of a Priest The news of the death of the Very Rev. P. Farrelly, V.F., pastor of Ballymoney, which occurred on, November 9 at Nazareth House, Ballynafeigh, was.-^re- .. ceived with sincere regret throughout the whole's! of Antrim. Father Farrelly was born at Mount Nugent in the diocese of Meath about 69, years ago. When -the signs of a vocation to the priesthood manifested them<selves, his parents sent him to the Diocesan College of Navan to prosecute the' preliminary- studies. These were perfected at the College of La Croix in France, and in 1863 he entered the Grand Seniinaire of Limoges. When his theological " course was completed, there being no vacancy in his native diocese, Dr. Nulty, Bishop of Meath, furnished him with commendatory letters to Dri Dorrian, Bishop of Down and Connor, and by him Father Farrelly wap ordained, together with Very Rev M. M'Cashin, P.P., V.F., X Lisburn, on September 22, 1867. ARMAGH— An Inheritance Matthew Mills, a newsvendor of Keady, County Armagh, Ireland, came in for an inheritance of over £15,000" by the death of an only brother in Melbourne. He died suddenly a few weeks after hearing of his good fortune. His brother and sister were burned to death in August last in a Melbourne suburb. CLARE— Encouraging Words The Right Rev. Dr. Fog;arty, Bishop of Killaloe, in the course of a letter to the secretary of a Nationalist demonstration held in a part of his diocese on November 10, wrote in part as follows : — I look upon a pledge-bound Parliamentary Party, governed by the sound tend sensible principle of majority rule, as the one effective engine we possess to maintain unity in our National ranks, and to win for Ireland the rootremedy for all her grievances— the right to manage her own affairs. The National Party, under the distinguished ieaders'hip of Mr. John Redmond, has by hard work and faithful 1 service won a notable' series_jDf ~ important successes for the national policy in the past. The session which lies before our representatives is an arduous and anxious one, but I have no doubt they shall be found equal to the occasion, notwithstanding the powerful opposition which they have to encounter. It is our duty to back them' up by a powerful organisation at home. Therefore, if -we desire to win Home Rule, a University Bill, or any one of the other great, measures _on the national programme, we must be prepared to support the National Movement by our sympathy and our money, and to set our face -against dissension in" our own ranks. County, Court Judgeship The -Lord Lieutenant has appointed Mr. M&thias M'Donnell .Bddki/i, K.C., to ."be County Court Judge and Chairman of ~ Quarter Sessions of and for the county ;q£i- Clare. DUBLIN— Irish Industries , At the t inaugural meeting of University College Literary' and Historical Society, Stephen's Green, Mr. Maurice F.t.Heaiy, son of Mr. Healy, solicitor, Cork; and formerly" member for that city, delivered an able ad-dress-entitled-'.The Irish Exodus.' The speakers on the occasion included the Bisihop of Raphoe, the Chief Secretary, Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., Mr. Arthur Oleary, 8.L., and Very Rev. W. Delany," 5.J.,- who presided. Dr. O'Donnell, in the course of an able address, said' no thorough. remedy would ever be found for the Irish exodus until native government was established in the country. -People might speak of Grattan's Parliament as if it was no good fox industry. If they travelled to the most remote -shores of Ireland they would fiind_ ruins there still of curing ■ stations, 1 erected by Grattan's Parliament to enable Irish fishermen to cure fish. Pending the restoration of a native Parliament, however, his Lordship said soirething could be done to develop the material and mental resources of Ireland.

QALWAY— A New Church A - great event in .connection with- the- Catholic Church in the West was signalised oh Sun-day, Novem-.-ber 10, when the solemn dedication and opening ceremony of- St. Joseph's Church, Clif den",' County \.Ga,lytay,' took place. ; - : / - * '„ '"' --\ ■ • -'_••/' KING'S COUNTY-diblitical Partisans on the Bench In the course of" a speech at Birr- on November 10,' Mr. John Redmond, -M.P., dealt with .the exhibition '•• of" political bias by the members of the ■ judicial Bench . 7 : -He~ said :— ln England mcii- appointed to the Bench" -for-. their professional fitness and qualities'; in Ireland,; as, we know," under successive Governments, men are., ap-j pointed to the Bench simply for political, services'- ;,\and ; the more bitter partisan a man is — the . more outspoken an enemy- he is to .the rights of the, people— th£~more"- ] certain he has been, '.in the past, -to' -find his way tbrbhe Bench. In England; when a politician is promoted Jto; the Bench, except in ,th~e rarest -cases,-; he leaves -~his^ politics behind himi ; but in -Ireland, -all through -' the.: century, down^ to this very moment, -the ~ Irish' people are familiar with the political; judge," the.\par--,-tizan on the ' Bench, with the- inevitable -re'sult ;that ttiei mass of the people have- no confidence whatever ih'the impartiality of -the tribunal. • Now I need not 'go backto the past for an illustration." ' Only ' the* other~ "d^y the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, in open - court, • attacked the Attorney-General because he did ,not - .prosecute certain prominent politicians. I- exceedingly regret that the Attorney-General did not respectfully ask his lordship to mind his own business. It was no business of his. The duty and the gorave responsibility of deciding who shall be prosecuted for political offences,, and who shall not, rests on the Attorney-General and the Executive Government of the day ; and for a judge on the Bench to- attempt to influence, or, as it might be said, to intimidate, the Attorney-General and "the Executive Government in the discbarge of this delicate and responsible duty is a scandal which, in my opinion, could take place nowhere in the civilised world except in Ireland. Just think for a moment what a serious matter this might be. Suppose tq-irorrow that the Lord Chief Justice goes down to his Court and orders the Attorney-General to prosecute me, . and suppose the Attorney-General - takes his 'orders and does prosecute me, then I am to be sent for - trial before the very judge who has ordered my indictment ; and, the Irish people, in the face of such things, are blamed because they have no confidence in the administration of justice. LElTRlM— Tenants, Purchase their Holdings The tenants on the estate of Mr. Johh'T. Hinds, situated at Ballyjkiityfea, near Cloone, County Leitrim, have agreed to purchase their holdings. On their behalf the Rev. Father O'Reilly arranged the terms of the sale with the agent, Mr. D. Kerigan. Mr. Hinds consents to accept three months' rent in lieu of all rent" and arrears up to November 1, 1907, and to sell to first-term, tenants at a reduction of 7s 6d in the £, equal to 19£ years' purchase, and to second-term tenants, at a reduction of 5s 6d in the £, equal to 22£ years' purchase. . — ....-' - Land Purchase _ • The tenants on Colonel Forbes' estate (Anndiuff), County Leitrim, have signed their^ purchase ' agree-: ments on the following terms First term tenants, a reduction of 7s in the £ (20 years' purchase) ; second term tenants, 5s in the '£> (23 years'' purchase) and the half-year's' rentl due forgiven. Mr. Crozier, solicitor, Dublin, acted for the landlord, -and \Mr. 8.:,F0x, Carrick-on-Shannon, for 'the tenants. _/:-. , LlMERlCK— Appointed Crown. Solicitor Mr. Jaanes Gaffney, who has been appointed Crown Solicitor for Limerick, is a brother of Mr. St. John Gaffney, American Consul-General at Dresden. TIPPERARY— An Appreciation At the annual meeting* of -.the Cauh'ty Tipperary Protestant Orphan Society, held v at Nenagh, the Right Rev. Dr.* Archdale, in the course 1 of -his- -'address^ .said he was very much in favor of" higher education for Catholics, and he thought every step should be taken to give the children of their Church that education that would enable them to compete with their Catholic brethren in obtaining respectable and remunerative positions. They in Ireland were -helped by their Ca-tholic •neighbors in the great fight for higher .education. Dr. Archdale- paid high tribute to the education given by the Christian Brothers and convent schools in Ireland. A Successful Football Team Clonmel High School possesses one of the most remarkable junior Gaelic football teams in Ireland. It is

six years in existence, and, though it has encountered many strong combinations from Cork, Waterford,- and Tipperary County, it has never yet suffered defeat. TYRONE— An Appointment Miss M. O'Sullivan, 8.A., who was until recently - teacher of Irish in the Loreto Convent, Omagh, has been appointed by the Commissioners of National Education an organiser of Irish language instruction. Miss O'Sullivan is the only lady so honored. WATERFORD — Proposed Improvements On November 8 a deputation consisting of representatives of public bodies in County Waterford waiting uponi the Chief Secretary for Ireland at his office in Dublin Castle for the purpose of asking him to bring before the Treasury an application for a grant of £35,000, "balance of certain, railway monies in the hands of the Treasury since the amalgamation of the Waterford and Limerick railway system, to be applied to the construction of an embankment at Dungarvan and connecting the town with the Cunnigar strand by a roadway and reclaiming 1300 acres of slobland on the western side of the bay. The scheme involved an expenditure of £25,000, and the remaining £10,000 to. be "-applied to the improvemenl of the navigation of the rivers Blackwater, Suir, and Bride. When the Waterford railway was (being built its estimated cost was £284,000, but it was subsequently found that that amount was not sufficient, and the Government advanced £93,000 on a mortgage to complete it. Since then the ratepayers had been paying off the mortgage, and at the time of the amalgamation, some years ago, of the Limerick and Waterford railway systems, the Government announced its of devoting the £93,000 to local purposes. Waterford City had been granted £33,000 for the freeing of the old toll bridge, and £25,000 is to be given to Cork as soon as the link line scheme was completed. The balance of £35,000 was claimed by Dungarvan for the works mentioned. Mr. Birrell expressed Ms sympathy with the representations of the deputation, and said he would lay the matter before the Treasury. GENERAL The University Question There can be no doubt of Mr. Birrell 's determination to remove the grievances under' which the Catholics of Ireland have so long labored un the matter of University education (says the ' Catholic Weekly ')• He has solemnly pledged himself to do ' the very best that mortal man can do in the next session of Parliament,' and he has further pledged himself to resign his office if he fails to effect a satisfactory solution. Mr. Birrell himself is very confident, and we trust that his confidence will be justified by events. The question cannot be settled except with the concurrence of the Front Opposition Bench. It is to be hoped that this Bench will proive as indifferent to the intolerant Orange section of its supporters as Mr. Birrell is to the intolerance of the Nonconformist wing of the Government. A Reminder In the United States (says the ' Catholic Times ')r leading Irishmen have iaken the occasion of Sir Antony MacDonnell's visit to remind him of the need of reparation, to> Ireland by the British Government. Mr. M. J. Ryan, President of the United Irish League of America, in a speech to a mass meeting at Boston, which was also addressed by Archbishop O'Cownell and Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, recited qtiite a catalqguel of charges against Ireland's rulers. During the reign of the late Queen no less than two Trillion people died in Irelajnd of starvation. Four millions were evicted/ from land which their kin had tilled- for generations. Five millions pf the Irish people fled from the clutch of Jamine and sought sustenance on, foreign shores. Not ■'■'only were forty thousand troops stationed in . various garrisons throughout the island, but there were fourteen thousand constables who were armed and acted as a military force. Acts were passed for. setting aside the ordinary forms of law, and it was still within the power of the executive to suspend trial by jury arbitrarily. Whilst the. population has been reduced to half, the taxation has been doubled,- and taxes in excess' of iher proper proportion to the extent pf £3,000,000 are wrung from Ireland annually.

At every great epoch in the Church's history, when she has imposed her. divine authority/ on society, a tempest of criticism has raged tfgaitfst her. But when the storm abated, and the clouds disappeared, her radiance has shone with greater effulgence, and her di me ' mission to humanity has appeared in clearer light.— • New World.'