Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6, 6 February 1908, Page 27

Irish News

ANTRIM -A very Sudden Death On December 18, Mr. James A. Moore, M.R.C.V.S., - who as a veterinary soa-geon was well 'known in North Antrim and Derry, died instantaneously in Portrush, wheie he had been practising for ab.out twelve months. Re had been going about auring the day apparently in his usual health. In the evening, while in the act of sitting down in a chair, he suddenly collapsed, fell forward, and expired immediately. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause of death. ARMAGH— Visit oi the Chief Secretary On December 17, Mr. Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, accompanied by his private secretary, arrived in Arma/gh. They were met at the railway terminus by the carriage of his Eminence Cardinal Logue, and drove to Ara Coeli, the Cardinal's Palace, where they were entertained to< luncheon by his Eminence. The interview between his Eminence and the Chief Secretary was private. i CLARE— The Duty of the Government In a recent letter, his Lordship Bishop Fogarty, of Killaloe, commjents severely on British Government, in Ireland. ' Whatever may ,be said of individual Ministers, whose friendly disposition is not to be doubted, each succeeding Biitish Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Gladstone's, seems content ' (writes his Lordship) ' to. lcok on with callous indifference, while this country of ours, the government of which they have assumed, is dying" daily before, their eyes ; its population steadily decreasing, and its industries languishing at almost expiring point. Any Government which had a paternal interest in the prospeiity of the community, would years ago have grappled effectively and thoroughly with what are the three most clamorous needs of social Ireland— nimely, to put the people back upon the land on living terms ; to build up the industrial life of the country and to ghe the nation an acceptable and integral system of education. It was tha operation of English law in the past-in limes which it is painful to look back upon— that cleared the people offi the land, deliberately Killed our industius, and closed down our schools. What^ hav e our modern, rulers done to repair the national run, which, as the handiwork of their predecessors they cannot contemplate with pleasure ? The answer to that question will furnish the true explanation of the widespread and angry f L el ngs of discontent which to our sorrow, affect the entire community, and shows very clearly that ths rcot remedy for the greatest grievances of this country is Home Rule or the right toi manage our own affairs. At the same time I earnestly " appenl To the Peonle, while they struggle uncompromisingly and manfully for a rectification of thoir many wrongs to keep w-tlun the limits of what is just, and lawful tor no gocd cause is served by violence.' CORK— The Infamy of the Union . SpeaHng at the Cork Industrial Development Association s Exhibition, Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., Vicei resident of the Department, of Agriculture, said :— £ow, gentlemen, although lam stranger to Cork, you know me sufficiently well to realise mat I am not in t?P Jm < I H e ! y J to underr ate the guilt of England in her treatment of industrial Ireland in the past. It was of a th! cC h,- o T al l ¥u r policy in those da y s - No one readiu. nrLnif™ 1 ' 7 t°- IthoSe1 thoSe times ~^e wanton suppression of was SP thou^J n fh "f"* I**"1 **" £ ecau se they endangered, as was thought the trade of England ; the infamous su,pnl In \ o£ he Inahl Parli amen,t at a time when Irish prosperity was greater than ever it had been in, history ' helrt££i 0S ii lol o ? al l lonff P 6r P etuati «^ of a cruel and neartless land system, which robbed and beggared the "bred chs\ Tll Ct ° f educati^ S the tyranny of a fay and read a w th n 1S a x ? alter o£ llistor y- «is known estimatP +h by all men. I 'am not the man to under''vernment t /^f, leSUlts of such a s y stem of go- " a i "i I -^ Ireland has come through and survived it SciS d afe± 7 ,?- be8 5l5 l to feel * llc Sreatb ofa more -minaShT, tn + V e A an ? a^ 8 coenisa nt of strong deterS"3SSi*S Se c S£SS£ K/S wm a view DUBLlN— Trinity College and Catholics

ing afhrms the declaration contained in the statement; issued by the Dublin University Defence Committee in •March, the effect of which was to< express the satisfaction that would be felt should the Government" be able to submit a scheme that would meet the demands of Gat'hoLcs without interfeiing with existing . universities.. Government by the House of Lords After distributing the prizes to the successful stiideni.s at Synge streec Lhris uan Brothers' School, Dublin, his Grace the "Aroh'ttishoiJ, Most Rev.. Dr. Walsh, paid a high tribute to the brothers for the unsurpassed'success that had attended^ th.tr pupils at the previous examination. He commented upon- a speech made by Mr. Birre.l in Belfast, in which the Chief Secretary spoke in such terms as to imply, or almost imply, that he regarded, the intermediate system as a very disreputable kind of thing that no person with sound ideas of education could associate himself with without considerable danger of losing his character. His Grace had been associated very closely w.Hh the administration of trie system, and claimed to have some knowledge of its good points and its bad points. He was able ' to point to one important defect, for the continued existence Mr^rii ?# ?w eU W \ S the onl y P^son responsible. Aimo n* l \ n J^* Sl lf? ch also re£err ed to some of- the difficulties of his position in Ireland, and he had \ his fi-e as simply impossible. On the other hand/ as "• was ThTtilT ersto <>d.. *J» Chief Secretary was 'convinced that the only way m- which the country could the ~SCßssfally governed under the English- Crown was^ bv : Ks beuiß allowed t 0 govern itablf, somevbat Tike CanXo? tt 1 ? 1 / NN JWJ W Zealand - On Mother haSM*Mr Birrell had to bear, wbat must have seemed Sim-tlfe a mOStm oS t intolerable burden of endeavoring to admffisW c Hnfv'll ml*?.m 1 *?. CoVnt , Vy aS best he COU W witK?Kei a c vn 3 ry at his disposal, and try to keep thingsvpeaceL t,7; r a ! ! * hls Ul I der a system which perhaps might H.^ ce p cs r lbed as G O' v^mcnt , not' so much 'by "the British Parliament as by" the House- of Lords. "r" r < " tady Aberdeen, Complimented . , - V . to L dv a ! a Sd^ rCllb^' h(>P Walsh Paid a * hi & h compliment to L,.dy Aberdeen at a meeting held i n connection with M,. Lawrence's Uatholic Home-* home for p?ovidW en alieady has been attained in the rapid growth of the movement for the extirpation of tubeLulosi^n Ire In Ihp' rr ?S? S GlaCe ' due IXO doubt to ' man y causes w +f P^sent stage of that work, her Excellency has 1 ad the help of many skilled and earnest worker*? but SUS f Ve "S le »»^ Papers have SeeJ lead, euc ft Vv J aie b ? eil a -l»<=red. Many o[ theie eflnrls have, no doulrt, borne practical fruit" But we have oulv Deficit on the Exhibition mated deficit of £103 all IS V ' leavi . n S an estiQALWAY — Mansion partly Destroyed i 3" The left wing of Lord de Cliffprd's mansion at Dal-gan-Park, Shrule, Tuam, has been destroyed by fire.

LlMEßlCK— Pfimary and Higher Education Speaking at LimeiiCii ou December 12, Mr. T. W. RusseJ, M.jf., said tnat trie Irish primary system.- of Education was defective and the intermediate system letjuired amending. Wth regard to fcha University Education, he rejoiced that the long struggle was aboit to be settled. at last on lines satisfactory to all conccrne-l. This would be about the greatest miracle ever performed ' in Ireland. A Military Chaplain In the cemetery attached to Mungret College, Limerick, on uecemuer 12, the mortal remains of the Rev. William Ronan, S.J., were laid to rest in a quiet spot whxh deceased himself had chosen for his last restingplace long before his death. leather Ronan, who' had attained the age of eighty-two years, was born in, the County Down and made his ecclesiastical studies at " Maynooth, where he was oidjined in 1848. After a few years on the mission Father Ronan joined the Society of Jesus, of which he remained a zealous and distinguished member ever since, working tirelessly and successf«lly for the Salvation of souls. During the Crimean war ha acted as- chaplah to the British forces, ministering day and ni^ht to the sick and dying. Speaking to fcir William Butler, who regarded him as a saintly old veteran of the highest and truest type, a few days before -he passed away, Father Ronan said that in the hospital near Scutari more than one" thousand poor soldiers were prepared for death by him and he never doubted for one moment that every one of their souls went to Heaven. Returning home he ministered in many houses of his O] der, in some of which he was Superior. While in Limerick he founded the Irish Apostolic School, since transferred to Mungret, a collere that has sent soldiers of the Cross all o rr er the world. Some twenty years ago he travelled extensively in the United States to procure funds with whirh to put on a secure basis the Apostolic School, which hitherto had depended on the support of th<> clergy find laity of Ireland. Back again in Ireland, he entered with zest into missionary work until failing health compelled him to retire to Mungret, wh^re he spent the declining years of his life as Smrii-ual Guardian of Ihe house. The attendance at the ob s ewes was a touching manifestation of the love and esteem in which deceased was held. SLIGO— Land Purchase At a meeting of tenanis on the Asihley estate held at Grange, to consider the terms of purchase, the Very Rev. Father Hynes presided. The terms agreed upon between the representatives of the tenants and the landlord were approved of. Ihere are about 500 holdings on the estate. WATERFORD— Death of Religious The death has taken place in the. Presentation Convent, Can:ic.<-onrSiiir of Sister Mary Ursula Murphy. The deceased religious was a daughter of the late Mr. PMlip Murphy, Waterford. I n the Mercy Convent the death has taken place of Sister Mary Emilda Cullinan. The deceased lady was a native of Carrick,beg, Carrick-on-Suir. -- I A Successful Bazaar The recent bazaar in aid cf the Christian Brothers' Schools, Mount Zion, Wat.rford, was very successful. At the drawing of the prizes in th!e Art Union Rev. Brother Mullan, Superior of Mount Zion, announced that the gross receipts in connection with the bazaar amounted to £3560. "The expenses amounted to £1325, and their net profit was £2235. The result amply repaid all the labor and anxiety connected with It. GENERAL A Definition A Bridge of Weir gSntleman, having asked Mr. John Redmond, M.P., what he meant in his recent G-lasgow speech by Autonomy or Home Rule for Ireland, has received the following reply :— ' Our position has never changed since 1886. We^then acceipted Mr. Gladstone's Bill, and thooigh not wedded to its details, -we claim a measure of Autonomy in the sense that his Bill provided Autonomy, and are willing to accept such a measure now as we were thrn. Of course, all we ask is Autonomy in purely Irish affairs.'