Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 2 November 1911, Page 2203

Irish News

ANTRIM—A Centenarian Mr. George k Kelly, who passed away at Armoj, County Antrixfi, recently, had reached the great ago of 102 years, and up till a year or two ago had enjoyed splendid health. He was a native of County Derry, and attributed his longevity to an active, outdoor life. CORK —A Veteran Nationalist While staying at Glengariffe recently, Mr. T. D. Sullivan was presented with an address on behalf of the Bantry Town Commissioners. It referred in warm terms to his long and glorious career, of devotion to his country’s capse, and his noble efforts in battling for her rights by voice and pen, in song and story, on the platform, from the editorial chair, from the dock, the prison cell, and in the British Parliament. In the course of a touching reply Mr. Sullivan thanked the Council and the people of his native town for their kindness in remembering him so well and appreciating perhaps too highly—whatever little help he had been able to render to the cause of their dear old land. Many of his companions had long since passed away, as he too expected to do ere long, but before that sad time arrived, he sincerely hoped that the little differences which at present kept good and true nationalists apart would be healed, and that they would all be united once more in the final struggle to make their beloved country a nation once again. Mr. Sullivan’s wishes are sincerely re-echoed by all genuine Irish Nationalists, Not in a Hostile Spirit Mr. T. M. Healy, M.P., speaking at Cork, said they did not wish to take up the Government’s proposals with regard to Home Rule, whatever they may be, in a factious or hostile spirit. They would give them fair play. The Government so framed the Parliament Bill as to take completely into pawn the entire power, machinery, and votes of the Irish Party for the next three years. He did not think it rash to say, . having regard to the divisions in the Government ranks, that the Gordian knot may be cut before Home Rule arrived and a fresh General Election resorted to. DUBLIN—A Golden Jubilee V Rev. Mother de Sales ’ Mulvin, Superioress of the Presentation Convent, Lucan, Co. Dublin, one of the Sisters who founded the institution, celebrated -her golden jubilee about the beginning of September. After High Mass the. jubilarian, kneeling at the entrance to the sanctuary, was crowned with the jubilee wreath. A Memorial The people of Kingstown have erected a beautifully carved oak pulpit in St. Michael’s Church in memory of the late Rev. Edward Cullen. The Very Rev. Canon Murphy, who preached the inaugural sermon, referred to Father Cullen’s long association with the parish and to the connection of his distinguished family with the Catholic Church in Ireland, especially his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, and Mrs. Cullen, of the Sisters of Charity. Incidentally, the preacher said it was the first time in the forty years of his ministry that he had occasion to preach from a new pulpit. The memorial is a handsome addition to the parochial church of the premier township and a worthy monument to the beloved clergyman whose memory it will long perpetuate. KILDARE— Bishop and the Irish Party ■; The Most Rev; Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, in the course of a letter enclosing his annual subscription to the Parliamentary Fund says it gives him great pleasure to assist the Irish Parly in the noble work to which they must now devote themselves —of exposing the sophisms and falsehoods by which Unionists are endeavouring to persuade the predominant partner that Home Rule would mean the ruin of all they hold dear, their property, their religion, and even their very lives. In view of the efforts which had recently been made to make political capital out of

incidents which had nothing to do with politics, it appears to his Lordship that what tli3 propagators of these calumnies are really aiming at is not the prevention of Home Rule, which most of them must feel is inevitable, but to extract from Parliament certain safeguards which will enable them to entrench themselves in that position of power and privilege from the outposts of which they are gradually being dislodged. In concluding a trenchant letter, Dr. Foley says nothing could be meaner than the use which they "sought to make of the Ne Tentere decree, their ignorance of which was only equalled by their offensiveness. LIMERICK—-Sad Drowning Fatality A sad drowning accident occurred at Corbally, Co. Limerick, on September 7, Edward O’Sullivan, 18 years of age, of Tournafoulla, Abbeyfeale, a student at the Redemptorist College, losing his life while bathing along with several companions. He sank befoje assistance could be rendered. MAYOThe Temperance Movement Mr. John Fitzgibbon, M.P., addressing a meeting of the Castlebar Total Abstinence Society, said he looked upon the temperance movement as the basis for building up a happy and prosperous Ireland, and those present should do their part in preaching temperance by force and example. The ambition off every man was to be happy, but he maintained there could be no happy home in the strict sense of the word unless the people were temperate. And there could be mo halfway in this temperance movement he believed the only safety was in total abstinence. All Irish questions, he did not care what they were, were in importance beneath this temperance question. It was, in his opinion, a question that was more important to Ireland even than the winning of Home Rule. He appealed to his audience not to be content with being temperate themselves, but to enlist members in that grand association. Prelates Visit Their Native Place The two Bishops who were consecrated recently paid a visit on Sunday afternoon, September 10, to Chailestown, the native place of both Dr. Morrisroe and Dr. o‘Doherty, and, as might be expected, the whole town was en fete for their - reception. People came from all parts to welcome the new prelates, and the church was crowded, one of the functions being the induction of Father Heveney to a Canonry of Achonry Cathedral by Dr. Morrisroe. The Bishop afterwards preached, and with much feeling alluded to the reception he had received. Dr, O’Doherty followed with a sympathetic address, and the proceedings closed with Benediction. * The Diocese of Killala . The diocese of Killala is one of the most famous in the history of the'lrish Church. It is one of the five Suffragan Sees of the ecclesiastical province of Tuam, and comprises twenty-two parishes in NorthWest Mayo and the barony of Tireragh in County Sligo. The diocese was founded in 443 by St. Patrick, who placed it in charge of his saintly relative and disciple, the great Muredach, whose church ‘Cell Alaid’ gave the present name to the town and See. MEATH—Sixty Years’ Service Mr. John Cowley, the doyei of Irish workhouse masters, died at Navan, County Meath, early in September, in his 81st year. He had been identified with the Navan Workhouse for over 60 years, and succeeded to the mastership on the death of his father, who was the first master. Mr. Cowley married the first matron of the workhouse, who predeceased him twenty years ago. J ROSCOMMONSheep for Australia _ During the recent Horse Carnival of the Royal Dublin Society at Ballsbridgo quite a number of the Australian visitors were attracted to the sheep section Mr. Ross Munro, of Brisbane, Queensland, an extensive landowner, became fascinated with" the native breed of Roscontmon sheep, and after inquiry as to freights, etc., placed an order with Mr. .Gavin Low for ....... . > . ’ , . . • :

the nucleus of a purebred Roscommon flock. Two shearling rams were procured from the flock of that prominent breeder and exhibitor, Mr. John Keane, Baltacken, Moyvore, and the ewes from that of Major Balfe, of South Park, Castlerea, who owns one of the oldest-established flocks in Roscommon, WEXFORD —Cottage Gardening Under the auspices of the local Technical Instruction committee, the chairman of which is the Very Rev. Canon Doyle, P.P., competitions in cottage gardening in the parish of Tagoat, County Wexford, are, bearing splendid results. This plan was inaugurated five years ago for the purpose of promoting a more extensive cultivation of the cottagers’ plots. The production of vegetables was especially aimed at. We learn that from the very beginning the cottagers entered into, the spirit of the experiment. Vegetables of every kind were sown in the plots, and fruit trees were gradually introduced, so that now every cottager in the district who hopes to take a prize is able to point to a plot in which fruits, as well as vegetables are growing. WICKLOW—Tom Moore’s Oak The people of Ovoca (says the Freeman’s Journal Are much exercised over the fall of the tree immortalised by Thomas Moore, traditionally said to have sheltered the Irish bard, underneath the shadow of which he is said to have penned his exquisite lyric, ‘ The Meeting of the Waters,’ commencing ‘ There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet.’ Sober fact rather discounts the tradition, and Moore himself wrote to Lord John Russell that he did not write the song at the Vale of Ovoca, but that the glorious view under Castle Howard suggested to him the verses. The actual ‘ meeting of the waters ’ is at the confluence of the Avonmore and Avonbeg which here unite, and the united streams flow through the Vale of Ovoca. It is gratifying to learn that the people of Ovoca have resolved to replant the old tree, .and to preserve it in the same way as was done some years ago with the venerable yew at Muckross Abbey, also to erect a railing around it to protect it from further vandalism. A Graceful Tribute A memorial tablet was unveiled recently in Kilquade Church to the late W. J. Corbet, of Spring Farm, Delgany, who, as politician, litterateur, and sportsman, possessed varied claims to distinction. His connection with the Irish Party in its early troublous days made him a link with the Nationalist cause of no- means of importance, and it is to this fact that the tablet draws attention when it recalls his twenty years of faithful service in Parliament for the Cause of Faith and Fatherland.’ Mr William Redmond, M.P., has been largely instrumetnal in its erection, and it is a graceful tribute from one of the most noted Irish leaders to the memory of a comrade, GENERAL A' Splendid Potato Crop A splendid potato crop is promised in all parts of Ireland, and some giant specimens have been produced. The Independent records receipt of one from Mr. James Coll, Magharoarty, County Donegal, which measured close on ten inches in length and weighed 21b loz. Another from the land of Mrs. Brady, Granard, County Meath, scaled 21b, A Convert to Home Rule Speaking at a Primrose League gathering at Newtown of the contributory Montgomery Burghs, Colonel Pryce ; Jones, M.P., who won the seat for the Unionists at the last election, said he would say frankly that the Irish people ought to have a reasonable measure of Home Rule or an extension of local government when they sent into Parliament, generation after-generation, 80 out of 103 members pledged to Horae Rule. He prayed that the Government would bring in an Irish Bill to which there was some chance of the English, Welsh, and Scottish members agreeing.