Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 2 February 1911, Page 205

Irish News

ANTRlM— Election Rioting in Belfast Street rioting occurred in Belfast in the evening after the declaration of the poll in the West Belfast Division. Thousands of people marched in the direction of Great •Victoria street, but beyond some window smashing nothing very serious occurred until the Independent Orange Hall was reached. The Unionists allege that their defeat was due to the action of the Independent Orangemen, and as a result a fierce attack was made on the Hail. The police were unable to stop the stone-throwing, and windows were smashed amid much shouting and booing. When the disturbance was at its height some explosive missile was thrown at the hall and burst near the door. A man who was near by had his ankle fractured and his toe blown away by the explosion. The police then made a charge, and. the crowd quickly dispersed. ARMAGH —Sobriety and Freedom In the course of an address to the members of the Armagh Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, Cardinal Logue said that they all longed for national freedom, and the hope of its near approach was daily growing stronger and brighter. But, he proceeded, Home Rule might be a useless and disappointing inheritance if there were not a sober nation to enter into it. When freedom dawned, the people of Ireland, regenerated and uplifted, would, his Eminence trusted, be able to turn the gift to wise and useful account. CLARE — A Step in the Right Direction There has just been completed in Clare a project which should arrest attention in every other county where the question of combating consumption has been discussed (says the Freeman's Journal). Lady Inchiquin, president of the County Clare Health Association, offered to erect, at her own expense, a cottage sanatorium for the treatment of residents of the county in the early ( stages of the disease. The Women's National Health Association undertook to provide the necessary funds for the complete equipment of the institution, the staffing, and so forth; and local doctors expressed their willingness to give their services free. But it was necessary that the County Council should, as they are empowered to do by the Tuberculosis Prevention Act, guarantee the cost of maintenance, and this they have now decided to do. This cottage hospital will afford accommodation to six patients but, as the course of treatment for victims in the early stages of consumption does not as a rule last more than about ten weeks, it will be possible for at least thirty different patients from within the county to benefit yearly by treatment in the six-bed sanatorium, which, the site being spacious, could, if necessary, be enlarged so as to provide for thirty beds. DONEGAL—An Example of « Persecution ' Canon McFadden, P.P., the Catholic priest of Glenties, was the proposer of Mr. Hugh Law. who was returned unopposed for West Donegal. In handing the nomination paper to the Sub-Sheriff, the Canon remarked: 'This is the way we Catholics of Donegal persecute our Protestant fellow-countrymen—by conferring on them time and again the highest honors at our disposal.' DOWN — Serious Fire in Newry Damage estimated at anything from £70,000 to £IOO,OOO was done by tire during the first week in December in Newry, and which resulted in a complete block of buildings being destroyed, embracing the Newry Oat Mills, the printing establishment ami offices' of the Newry Reporter newspaper, a store belonging to Messrs. H. Thomson and Co., and premises occupied by Mr. Hutchison, Mill street. The fire broke out about four o'clock in the morning, and it is supposed that it originated between the boiler in the mills and Messrs. Thomson's stores. It was found at the roll-call that Fireman Fagan was missing. He had entered the mill at the early stages of the fire, and was never seen again. He leaves a wife and five children, with whom the utmost sympathy is expressed. DUBLIN— Temperance Movement At the annual meeting of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, held in St. Xavier's Hall, Sherrard street Dublin, on December 8, the Rev. Dr. Murphy, Provincial C.b.fep., Blackrock, who presided, said it was a privilege to take a part, however small, in that great cause of temperance, which, from human as well as the higher motive of religion, was one of the noblest in which they could engage. True progress in that, as in other countries, was bound up with the question of temperance. Rev. Father Cullen, S.J., said the Pioneer standard was now firmly planted, and no better evidence of the progress of the association could be given than by saying it numbered after twelve years 175,000 members. The Viceroy and Home Rule As we were informed by cable at the time, Mr. G. M Henderson, Liberal candidate for Aberdeenshire, received

the following message from Lord Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: —' You are entirely at liberty to quote me as declaring to you that after years of continuous residence in Ireland, watching affairs and meeting people of every class and creed, I am profoundly impressed as to the absolute baselessness of the alarm about the consequences of Home Rule.' Lord Aberdeen sent the following further telegram to Mr. G. M. Henderson, the Liberal candidate for West Aberdeenshire, on Home Rule for Ireland: —' I emphasise the opinion of my former telegrams, especially regarding the apprehension of religious intolerance. Numerous Protestant ministers in Roman Catholic parts of Ireland support me in this view.' The Press Association states that the attention of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland having been called to the fact that a letter addressed to him has been printed and circulated as an election leaflet, Lord Aberdeen telegraphed as follows: observe that a letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland complaining of the alleged interference of a Catholic priest in a domestic matter has been circulated as an election leaflet in England. This has been done without my sanction being asked or obtained, and it is improper that the King's representative should, even indirectly, be brought into political controversy, especially as he is debarred from making observations in , public on a subject which has come before him officially.Aberdeen.' The National University To commemorate the opening of the academical year of University College, Dublin, Solemn High Mass was celebrated on Sunday, December 11, in the Catholic "University Church, St. Stephen's Green. The attendance, which was large, included his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Chan, cellor of the National University; the Right Rev. Dr O'Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe; the Right Rev. Dr. Foley" Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin; the Right Rev. Dr. Donnelly, Bishop of Canea; the Right Rev. Mgr, Mannix, President of St. Patrick's College, Mavnooth; several distinguished ecclesiastics, Sir Christopher Nixon, Vice-Chancellor of the National University; Dr. Denis Coffey, President of University Collofc<; the Lord Mavor of the city; the professorial staff of University College; about 600 students, and several laymen prominent in educational circles. After the religious ceremonies had ended, Dr. Coffey, President of University College, entertained a large number of guests to luncheon in the Aula Maxima of the institution. Replying to the toast of his health, the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh said it was but natural that he should take an interest in the work of the college, for he was a student there in the days of Newman. That was certainly a memorable day in the annals of the college. For the. first time in its brief existence, the Catholic members of the governing body the professorial staff, and the Catholic students had assembled to take part in a great act of public worship. There was however, one drawback, grievous indeed in point of principle, but not very grievous in actual fact. The governing body was hindered by the provision of the Universities Act from spending one farthing of its' endowments for the provision or the maintenance of any church or chapel or other place of religious worship. The result'was that the church in which they had participated in a magnificent service that day had to be borrowed for the occasion. It was not the first time that matter was brought before them and he thought that at least one voice should be raised to protest, against it. He failed to see on what principle it rested.- They found in Oxford and Cambridge Universities prominent amongst the college buildings was the college chapel. No one would contemplate without dismay the introduction of a system which would remove religion from the place, of honor in these venerable homes of learning Me was familiar with the statutes of these colleges, and he did not remember one case in which the colleges of either of these Universities was not described as a place of religion as well as a place of education and learning That was true nearer home. Many as the proposals were which hev) : ad heard put forward from time to time for reforms m trinity College, it had never been suggested by anv reasonable man that reforms should begin by the closing of the college Cl , el Why should they ™t have a college chapel, he asked, as well as Trinity College? Marked as had been the success of University College all along the the n nothing had that success, been more marked than in the department of religious instruction. His Grace said that, excluding the students at Mavnooth College the number of students in attendance at lectures at the University College, Dublin, was 656. The students in attendance at University College, Cork, were 382, and at Sway 133, which gave a total of 1171. Striking as these figures were m themselves, they failed to give any actuate idea of the progress that had been made. equate idea GALWAY— Finances for Education His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Healy presided at +l, a annual distribution of prizes in the Chrfstfan Brothers' Schools, Tuam, on December 9, and in referring to the finances of the Intermediate Education Board"said that in no other country in Europe was education p'rovided for upon similar conditions. It was a scandal W -*La I£ income of the Board dependant on the amount of taxation derived from consumption of drink. taxation MAYO—Death of a Popular Official M , %£ 9!tt%»3 swa say

of the Congested Districts Board, and his duties brought him closely into contact with the people of the South and West, with whom he was very popular. ’ TIPPERARY —A Patriotic Pastor Very Rev. Canon Ryan, P.P., V.F., pastor of the united parishes of Aherlow and Galbally, in the great archdiocese of Cashel, died on December 12, after a few weeks’ illness, at the age of 78 years, 53 of which were spent in the sacred ministry. Religion, education, and nationality had in the late Canon a powerful champion at ail times. He built a suitable and ornate church in the historic glen of Aherlow, and renovated the Galbaily church at a cost of £IOOO. He built comfortable schools and improved many others. During the stirring days of the Land League and its successor, the. Rational League, his voice was raised with no uncertain sound on behalf of the people. Indeed, while health was spared to him he was ever at their service. Before he died ho had the happiness of seeing nearly every farmer in his united parishes turned into a peasant proprietor. On June 23, 1907, he celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination, when his Grace -the Most Rev. Dr. Pennelly, Archbishop of Cashel, the priests of the archdiocese, and the people amongst whom he labored, paid a spontaneous tribute to his sterling qualities. GENERAL v, Religious Toleration and Home Rule . Several of the Liberal daily papers (says the Catholic Times) have treated with good-humored banter the threats made in the name of the Orangemen by the champions of the Peers’ co-use and the. agonising appeals of Sir Edward Carson for help on behalf of the menaced Protestants of Ireland. It is, of course, absolutely correct to assume that the stage thunder and the heart-breaking cries have all been prepared for the occasion with the utmost deliberation. The Liberal journalists are, therefore, rather cruel in spoiling by ridicule the carefully calculated game of make-believe. So far as the Protestants who are living in the most Catholic parts of Ireland are concerned, they are not calling out for help. Their tone is very different. Professor Oldham, a Dublin Protestant, speaking at the Town Hall, Rathmines, said 1 he recognised every day that the spirit of equal justice ran in the very life-blood of the Irish Catholic, and moreover he believed that in an Irish Parliament the Protestants would hold the balance of power.’ The Rev. George McCutchan, Protestant Rector of Kenmare, writes to Mr. J. P. Boland, candidate for South Kerry; ‘I have for over thirty years lived .in the midst of a population mostly Roman Catholic, and I have found them kind and obliging neighbors from whom no sign of persecution has ever been manifested.’ The concession of Horne Rule will not only establish permanent peace and friendliness between Ireland and Great Britain, but will improve the relations between the Protestants and the Catholics in Ulster, the only province in which there is room for improvement. Vice-Regal Appointments On the recommendation of the Lord Lieutenant, there have been nominated as members of the First Senate of the National University of Ireland, Mr. T. P. Gill, in room of the late General Sir Win. Butler, and Mr. T. P. Molohan, Professor of Latin in University College, Cork, in the room of Mr. Win. F. T. Butler, M.A., resigned. Encouraging Messages During the course of the general election Mr. John Redmond received the following cablegrams from South Africa and Tasmania; Johannesburg, December 5. To John Redmond, Dublin, —That this meeting of Johannesburg Irishmen has entire confidence in Redmond and Party, and endorses demand for self-government.’ ‘ Hobart, December 5. To John Redmond, Gresham Hotel, Dublin, — Tasmanians wish you every success, followed by Home Rule.’