Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 30 January 1908, Page 27

Irish News

ARMAGH— Death of a Canon The announcement of the death of Very Rev. Canon O'Brien, P.P., * Loughgall, at the Parochial House, Loughgall, caused deep regret. p ihe deceased. Canon, who was highly esteened throughout the archdiocese of Armagn, had been in failing health for a considerable time past. He bore his illness "with the most edifying Christian fortitude, and with that self-sacrificing regard for -duty which characterised him throughput life, ne was always to be found at his post. DERRY — A Venerable Religious On December 10, at the Long Tower Church, Deny, Bury ing-go: ound, the interment took place of the remains of Mother Mary Augustine, an esteemed and accomplished member of the Sisters 6t Mercy community of St. Peter's Convent, Derry. Deceased lady, who was connected with the consent for over " half a century, belonged to an old Derry family. of high esteem. DUBLlN— Acknowledged his Error Professor Beare, of Trinity College, in the course of a letter to the ' Statist ' recently, asserted that the staff of Maynooth College was composed entirely of Catholic priests. Such, of course, is not a fact, and the Professor has made the amende honorable by addressing a letter to the press in which he acknowledges his error and says., he has learned that there are several laymen of distinction in literature and science on the staff of Maynooth College. Viceregal Visit « , Their Excellencies Lord ar.d Lady Aberdeen paid a visit on December 8 to Artanc Industrial Schools, and were conducted over I,'re institution by the Rev. Brother Ryan, the manager. They expressed the pleasure which they had derived from the visit. „ The Christian Brothers - -. Very Rev. Dr. Butler, who preached in St. Paul's Church, Arran Quay, Dublin, on Sunday, December .''', •on behalf of the Christian Brothers' schools of the parish, paid tribute to the members of this great teaching Order. If .-they were in other countries' where the ' fight was raging fiercely with regard to moral and rudigaci-.s educiatio>i., they would, he said, realise what was being done. Not only in Ireland, but all over the world, the preacher had seen their wor>. In Australia, in America, in India, in Gibraltar, and in England he saw the enormous amount of good they were doing. They were missionaries of the highest and most sterling kind, because they were training youth in intellect, in morals, and in religion. He had often pleaded for them in many lands, and he always did it with the greatest possible pleasure, becatise he recognised the enormous amount of p,ood these mem were doing to the Catholic Church and to the cause of Ireland the world over. Wherever the Irish Christian Brothers were, there also- was the spirit of Irish Nationality as well as of religion. The Manufacture of Poplin One of the specialties of Dublin, made nowhere elsc^ in the world, though even here it now employs but few people, is the making of pio-ulin. This industry was introduced by the Huguenots in 1693. The material is made of specially pure' ard good sillc as the warp, and very fine wool as the weft! Fifteen hundred or more looms used to be employed, but fashions ~ have changed, though the material is more beautiful than ever, both in color and texture. Its nature does not', however, admit of very great variety in patterns, as only the silk warp must appear on the surface. It is somewhat costly. The same kind .of looms are employed as were in "use one hundred years ago, an* are worked with or "without a fly. -Hardly any machinery is used except those handlooms ar.-d the Jacq.uard apparatus for making patterns. The Late Lord Gormanston The late Viscount Goriranston7~of Gormanston Castle, Balbiriggari, ' County, Dublin, who died on October 29 last, aged seventy years, left estate valued -at £13,672 18s lid in the United Kingdom, exclusive of the value of h,is real estate in Ireland. Viscount- - Gormanston left to the parish priests of Stamullen. and NoWber £50; each for Massers^and £50 each for the poor. Trinity College According to Dr. Trail, Provost of Trinity'College, that seat of 'learning is to be preserved intact in its

constitution and ' endowments, although an effort will be made during the coming session of Parliament to provide equality in educational mailers for Catholics -and Protestants. It. is to be hoped (writes" a Dublin correspondent) .that the Chief Secretary may succeed in an undertaking which has -baffled the powers of many well-meani'ng politicians and brought to grjief not a lew. It is well known that" Trinity__.lives on the confisca- ' • ted property of Catholics and the rack-rents extracted from' tenant farmers on estates of which the rightful owners were deprived in. ovil days. Secure in their ill-gotten- gains, the upholders, of Trinity College, strenuously objected to Catholics obtaining facilities "for University education. Owirg to the force of public opinion, however, a prospect arose within recent years of Trinity being compelled to share its endowments and advantages- with the great majority- of Irishmen. TlUs fact, and this alone, brought the monopolists to a sense of justice for the time being. Now that the Ascendancy party is, according to Dr. Trail, secure again, it is to be hoped that Mr. Birrell's scheme will . not. be injuriously affected by opposition. QALWAY— A Hearty Reception - Rev. Thomas Burke, P.P., -Kinvara, County G-alway, met. with a hearty reception from his. parishioners 'on arriving from Bournemouth after a long illness. He was presented with an address and, a purse of sovereigns as a token of the regard in /'which he 'is held by. the people. ' ; ~ ± A Popular Pastor ." At the presbytery, Corofin, parish" cf Cummer, -a numerous deputation from the North ,Galway UnitedIrish League Executive ' waited recently on the Rev." Mark , Eagleton, President of the Executive, and', presented, him with a beautifully illuminatied .address 1 'bearing hisj portrait aiid -tendering coaig.ratuljirbiions an*lmany good wishes on his return home from France,' greatly -improved in health. KILKENNY— Bravery Recognised The Royal Humane Society has -presented Mr. Pat-" rick Dooley, Rosebercon; .County Kilkenny, Ireland, with' a medal and certificate for his heroic .act in saving, another life from the waters' cf the, -River Barrow at New Ross. Mr. Dooley began his life-sa\ing career at the early age of thirteen years!. Between that time and the 10th of March last, he rescued fifteen persons, from drowning in the River Barrow, New Ross, the Rivers Nore, Suir, Shannon, from the Mersey at Liverpool, ' aiid from> the waters of Lake Michigan. H'is last successful and' heroic rescue of a young man named Nolan was from the River Barrow at New Ross. Mr. Dooley is in Lis 58th year, and at the time was suffering from a maimed foot. He jumped off the battlement of the bridge into the strong tide, a distance of about twenty-four feet. The young man had disappeared, and Mr. Dooley had to dive for him. Twice he dived and failed ; a third time he descended as with a last despairing effort, and forth from - the waters brought the fifteenth Life. LIMERICK— A Crimean Chaplain Our Home exchanges report the death of Father William J. Ronan, S.J. It took place at Mungret College,-. Limerick, -on December 11. - Father Ronan. was in his 83rd year. He made his ecclesiastical studies in' Maynooth. He joined the Jesuits in 1850. He was one of the Catholic chaplains during the Crimean War. An Irish Journalist Passes Away The. _ death at Bournemouth is announced of Mrr Francis John Joseph Q'Ne'ill, a distinguished IrishAmerican journalist. Mr. O'Neill was aged~ 47 years, and. was the eldest son cf .Mr. Michael O'Neill, of Limerick. He b£gan his journalistic career on the 1 Belfast Morning News,' and later emigrated to Washr ing'ton, where he continued his career as a journalist and qualified 1 for the Bar, but never practised. He '-•was for a time managing editor of -the '.Washington Post' and 'also of the l Washington' News '; but later became assistant manager to Mr. Frohman, and managed' several of the Frohman theatrical companies. During the past four years he was on the staff of the Associated Press, of America", and for the last year and a half was editor in the London Bureau of the agency. ' Bogus Irish Hams v At a meeting of the Council of the Dublin Industrial Development Association the secretary reported .that it -had come to his knowledge that hams and bacon were being imported into Ireland from different parts of the world for the- purpose cf being- dressed here .and branded with an Irish brand in order to secure ready sale in the French market. It was pointed out that the only way of preventing the injustice was

by every Irish manufacturer adopting the Irish trade • mark and bfandiag their goods with it, so that the genuine article may be readily recognised. The Couiircil also agreed to forward to .the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Paris, a copy of the Irish trade regulations, etc., so as to acquaint them of its character, so that goods bearing this mark may be easily recognised.

MAYO — Ireland and Canada The advantages of Blacksod Bay, Ireland, as the eastern "terminus of a line of fast steamers ' to and from Canada has been laid before Sir Wilfrid- Laurierand several of his colleagues by Dr. Clancy, Catholic Bishop of Elphin, and by Dr. Ambrose, M.P. The deputatiofc stated that the 'distance from Blacksod Bay to Halifax was 2113 n iles, as compared with 2650 miles from Liverpool and 2530 miles from Southampton. Twenty-five-knot vessels would make the Transatlantic trip in 3£ days, and as Blacksod Bay is free from fog, as well as the finest harbor in the British Isles, there would "be absolutely nothing to- delay steamers. Tilie from Blacksod Bay to London could .be covered in 13£ hours. WEXFORD— Reinstatement of Tenants The announced settlement of the case of the Coolroe j evicted tenants has given great pleasure throughout Wexford. The estate has remained untenanted since 1888. At Ballycullane, near Coolroe, Mr. Peter Ffrench, M.P., attended' a few weeks ago to inform the evicted tenants that the landlord had accepted the Essates Commissioners' ofier of purchase for the reinstatement of the evicted tenants. 'Most of the tenants, or their representatives, were present. Unfor- • tunately three of the tenants ha~ve not lived to enjoy the re-entry into their own again, but their children will participate in the reinstatement.. Mr. William A. Cullen, son of one of the pluckiest of the evicted, presided at the meeting, and announced that he returned from his ten years' exile in America with the hope of getting back to the old homestead. GENERAL Sir Anthony McDonnell The curious circle of life is remarkably illustrated in the invitation extended to Sir Anthony McDonnell by his fellow-voyager, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to visit the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It was in this tity that Mr. Carnegie built up his millions, and a granduncle of Sir Anthony's was actually one of the founders of the city of I ittsburg. James O'Hara, a Mayo man,- established a metal ]n\ e factory on the banks of the Allegheny. James O'Hara was famous in the War of Independence as a Quartermaster-General under Wofj;an, and as General O'Hara enjoyed the confidence and friendship of ' the Father cf the Nation.' ! Inebriate Homes Lord Chief Justice O'Brien, during the progress of a case at the Munster Winter Assizes, expressed the O'pinion that inebriate homes do no good. Mr. O'Brien on Cattle Driving In the course of an interview, given to a representative of the London ' Morning. Post,' Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., had this to say about cattle-dri ing":— Another result cf the prominence given in the English press to everything which is discreditable, and of the suppression of every reference to the great and peaceful revolution of feeling which is now going on in Ireland, is that a grotesquely exaggerated idea prevails in Kngdand as to the extent of this cattle-drrvir.g craze. For instance, throughout the whole of "Munster, which has been at all times the chief seat of the Nationalist movement, the people would scarcely know what you were talking about if you asked them their opinion on the subject of cattle-driving. In the ' Irish National Party itself, so far asl T<now, not more than, half a dozen menvbiers — and none of them of any personal importance — have given any countenance to the movement. I have myself repeatedly at huge public assemblies denounced and ridiculed the foolery, but, of course,, as usual, without ever attracting the attention of the English press to my words. The disorganised condition of the Irish Party up to the present " has doubtless prevented Mr. Redmond from giving more practical effect to what everybody knows to be his own opinion on the subject. It is thus one of Ihe results we may look forward to from a .reunion of the Irish Nationalist members that more • definite action on the subject of cattle-drivingv will inevitably, and I hone unanimously, be taken. Np thinking Nationalist that" I know has a second opinion as to the "hopeless unwisdom and stupidity of the campaign.