Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 10 August 1911, Page 1531

Irish News

CORK—A Link with Nelson The death occurred on July 3, at Ardmanagh House, Glenbrook, County Cork, the residence of her.;;, son-in-law, Edward V. McCarthy, J.P., of the firm of McCarthy and Sons, Limited, Dublin and Cork, of j Mrs. Caroline Creagh Hickie, widow of the late William Creagh Hickie, D.L. and J.P., Kileton, County Kerry, and who was High Sheriff of that county in 1873. Mrs. Hickie (nee Scott) was granddaughter of Mr. John Scott, the confidential friend and secretary of Lord Nelson, and who was killed with him in action . on board the Victory at Trafalgar. On the- deck 6f the Victory, Nelson's flagship, now in Portsmouth Harbor, there is a brass plate marking the spot.where both Nelson and Scott fell, October 21, , 1805. DUBLIN—Irish Industrial Conference The seventh All-Ireland Industrial Conference wasopened on June, 14 in the City Hall, Dublin, by Lord Mayor Farrell, who welcomed the delegates as the future Irish nation builders., The report for the past year dealt with the success achieved in preventing nonIrish firms selling goods bearing misleading Irish titles or designs. Since the last annual meeting the Irish trade-mark had been registered in Prance, the United States of America, Australia, and New Zealand. Over 500 Irish firms now use the Irish trade-mark. The Lord .Mayor said that, in his opinion, there never had existed a body to which Ireland owed more gratitude than it did to the Industrial Development Association. In his presidential address, Mr. J. P. McKnight said that, fortunately, the industrial movement no longer required vindication, for it had rapidly become part of the business life of the country. _ Their platform was so broad that all interested in Ireland's welfare might take part, and that day they had representatives present from every part of the country, north and south, east and west. Referring to emigration, he said to Irish youths who were contemplating emigration : ' Surely your-birth-place has the first claim upon you, although you may have seen a fine picture of life in a colony at some railway station. Recall the old saying, "Far-off fields look green." Give the old land another chance, and help to make it the hive of industry we wish to see it.' FERMANAGH— County Council •"»-!- The Earl of Erne has been ousted from the chairmanship of the Fermanagh County Council by the Liberal nominee, Mr. John Callum, who was elected by 14 votes to 12. KERRY—Ardtully Copper Mines '''flTsMw? ot ho.isao ; ; A few weeks ago the first shipload of copper ore from the Ardtully Copper Mines, near Kenmare, was despatched to Swansea. Great interest is naturally being taken in the revived prospects of the mines, which were working up to fifty years ago. The reports of the experts, ft is said, are highly satisfactory. A new company is in process of formation. The Ideals of Nationality Very Rev. Charles O'Sullivan, Dean of Kerry, who opened the Tralee Feis and Industrial Exhibition in historic Desmond Castle on Thursday, June 15, addressing the great gathering of people assembled from all parts of 'the kingdom,' said they in Kerry had always been proud, and justly proud, of their, country and its history. They, were assembled there to promote and foster the ideals and spirit, which had always constituted the essence of the distinct nationality of their country promote and foster their ancient civilisation, and all it embraced— national language, the customs, the traditions, and the ideals of their /race. *.<--•■' KlLDAßE—Ordinations at Maynooth .. The annual ordinations were held in St. Patricks College, Maynooth, on Sunday,;. June 18, when sixty students were raised to the priesthood. A special

train from the Broadstone took hundreds of the young priests' friends to the impressive ceremony. ■'■.-. ■•■-^ New Dean of Maynooth The Rev. Malaehy Eaton, St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, has "been appointed Dean of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, in place of the Right Rev. Dr. Morrisroe, the Bishop-elect of Achonry. "* ' LEITRIM— National Bank Sir John Purcell, K.C.8., has been appointed chairman of the National Bank of Ireland; He has had much experience of financial matters since he entered the Inland Revenue. Department in 1856, . There is an old saying that wherever you go you will meet a Carrick man. Sir John Purcell is a native of Car-rick-on-Shannona son of Dr. Purcell; and his predecessor (Mr. Henry F. Slattery) was born in Carrick-on-Suir. Sir John was formerly a Major in the London Rifle Volunteers, of which corps he was one of the six promoters. It is said that the new chairman of the National Bank bears a remarkable likeness to the late General Sir William Butler, of Bansha Castle. ROSCOMMON—The First Teacher Mr. M. O'Callaghan, who is secretary of the County Roscommon National Teachers' Association, has been co-opted a member of the Castlerea Rural District Council. Mr. O'Callaghan' by his co-option gains the distinction of being the first teacher in Ireland selected for membership of the Councils. TIPPERARY— of Secondary Education The annual distribution of prizes took place at Rockwell College on June 18, and was attended by a large number of the clergy of the archdiocese. The Very Rev. Canon Arthur Ryan, P.P., V.G., Tipperary, presided. The Very Rev. T. A. Pembroke (president), on behalf of the professors, students, and on his own behalf, thanked Canon Ryan very sincerely for his kindness in coming there to preside. In asking him to preside at that function he was actuated by two motives especially, one of admiration and : one of gratitude—admiration on account of his fearless advocacy of the cause of the Irish language, and gratitude for his able assistance in helping the headmasters of their Intermediate schools and colleges to obtain, through their members of Parliament, from the British Treasury, some measure of financial assistance for their almost bankrupt Intermediate system. Though protest then seemed useless, and it was rumored that the Board would not yield to popular clamor, still the agitation was kept up in the press and on the platform, with the happy result that in the new programme of 1912. Irish history would be taught to every boy and girl in their Intermediate schools, and 'the National language was no longer . differentiated against, but was on a perfectly even footing with the other modern languages for exhibitions and prizes. : Canon Ryan did more than a good man's part in bringing about this result. It was a well known fact that the more the wave of temperance spread over the land, and consequently the more the Government's income from the sale of whiskey was reduced, the more also the funds available for secondary education were diminished, since a big part of the Intermediate Board's annual income, about £72,000, was derived from the 'whiskey money.' The original £72,000 had fallen last year to £16,000. The obvious deduction was that Ireland sober meant Ireland ignorant and Irish secondary education bankrupt. Canon Ryan's able statement of the case. helped very materially to interest their Parliamentary, representatives in this important question, with this result that the Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted quite recently the justice of their demand for equal treatment with the secondary schools of England, Wales, and Scotland with respect to an Exchequer grant, and promised to give a substantial sum this year to prevent the absolute failure of their Intermediate system. .... *■ < WATERFORD—A Distinguished Visitor . Commodore Power of the Ecuador Fleet, South America, where he has been for the past thirty years, arrived in Waterford early in June, accompanied by

his wife. This distinguished gentleman is a native of .Waterford. WEXFORD— Political Than Sectarian Mr. Peacocke, a non-Catholic who was elected unanimously vice-chairman of the Wexford County Council at the annual meeting, in returning thanks, said the "action of the council in electing him to the vice-chair cut the ground from underneath the feet of the opponents of Home Rule, who cry about the interests of religion was more political than sectarian. That was his view as an old man mixing with the people. ... The fact of the council electing him from amongst the minority gave force to the present movement in favor of legislation for the country, and not only that, but it gave everyone to understand the generosity of the majority towards the minority. It gave a stability to the National movement, and he hoped all would work together under the leadership of the Irish Party for the sake of the country. In proposing the co-option of Lord Stopford, Gorey, on the Council, Mr. Fanning said they were all aware that Home Rule was now imminent. Difficulties in the way were disappearing day by day. The chief difficulty that prevailed amongst their Protestant fellow-countrymen, the Unionists, was that under Home Rule they would be persecuted. Of course, everyone knew they would not be persecuted. To remove any uneasiness that might exist in the county in that direction, he thought that Lord Stopford should be co-opted. Lord Stopford was then elected. " : : / GENERAL Toleration in the South In the Westminster Gazette of June 12 'A Presbyterian writes as follows —' The attempt is constantly being made by a certain section of Irish. Protestants to lead their co-religionists in England to believe that Protestants in the South of Ireland are badly treated by the Roman Catholic population, and that this ill-treating would be intensified under Home Rule, How is it, then, that the Presbyterian population is shown by the census to have increased in Leinster and Munster At a public breakfast given in Belfast to members of the Presbyterian General Assembly the other day, the Rev. Thomas Brown, of Bandon, Co. Cork, made a statement which ought to be widely known on this side of the Irish Sea. He spoke of the goodwill shown to Presbyterian ministers and those of other Protestant denominations by their Roman Catholic neighbors. And he added: "Last week at the PoorLaw elections in Cork, Miss Day, a Protestant, was returned at the head of the poll; in Bandon the Earl of Bandon, a Protestant, was chairman of the Town Commissioners in Kinsale, Mr. David Acton was chairman, and he was also a. Protestant while in Skibbereen the same pleasant conditions existed, the chairman 'there, Mr. William W. Wolfe, being another Protestant." These facts speak for themselves.' Sympathy with the Church in Portugal ■// At a meeting of the Hierarchy at Maynooth College, on June 20, the following resolution, with regard to the persecution of the Church in Portugal, was passed:'That as the Bishops of a people who have known what it is to suffer for the Faith, in whose solidarity we are united with all Catholics throughout the world, we join our voices to the voice of the Supreme Pontiff in earnest protest against the atrocious aggression on religion that is in progress in Portugal. & We deeply sympathise with our brother-Bishops, their clergy, and flocks in that country now face to face with an avowed campaign to despoil, enslave, and overthrow the Church; and we rejoice at the determination that has been shown to uphold the principles of faith and true liberty, be the cost what it may.'"