Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 14 December 1911, Page 2539

Irish News

ANTRIMThe Insurance Bill t A great meeting of the men and women workers of Lisburn was held on October, 20, when resolutions were carried welcoming the State Insurance Bill, , and urging the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to exclude Irish workers from the working of the measure. The principal speaker was Mr. Wm. Walker, J.P., Belfast. ' ARMAGH —Detrimental to the Interest of Labor Mr. McKeown, an organiser of the Transport Union, at a meeting held in Dundalk on October 16, made an attack on Cardinal Logue for the course he took in connection with the recent railway strike, and stated that the resolutions of the Irish Bishops were directed against the workmen alone. . This attack is resented by all classes in the town, but by none more than by the thirty-five unfortunate workmen who have not been reinstated, and on whose behalf his Eminence has written to the directors of the Great Northern Railway Company, a letter urging them to be merciful and take back their late employees. At a meeting they held a few days later, the following resolution was passed unanimously: ‘ That this meeting of all grades of railwaymen now out of employment, recognising the efforts of his Eminence Cardinal Logue on our behalf, most strongly protest against the uncalled-for references to his Eminence made by Mr. McKeown in his speech ; that we thoroughly recognise that his Eminence is only a trustee for the shares held in his name in the Great Northern Railway Company, and as such derives no personal benefit therefrom; that we hereby gratefully - acknowledge what his Eminence has already done and what he is at present endeavoring to do on our behalf to secure our reinstatement ; that such language and such attacks as Mr. McKeown has made are detrimental to the interest of Labor and calculated to injure our cause,’ CORKProtestants Give Testimony In view of the campaign of calumny which has been set on foot against Catholics, for purely political purposes, it would be well if Irish Protestants who are living in amity with their neighbors came forward and gave publicly accounts of their, experience. Some few have done so already, and with good results. Mr. Green, C.E., a Protestant, at the quarterly meeting of the Youghal Rural Council, said he had been officially connected with that body and with the Board of Guardians for the last twenty-five years, and during that time he had received nothing but kindness and good-will, not alone from the members of the public bodies, but from everybody with whom he,came in contact. The secretary of the Clare Council, in a letter to the press, bears similar testimony. DOWN-r-Serious Fire in Newry Over £IO,OOO damage was caused by a fire which broke out on the morning of October 24 in the premises of Messrs. Redmond and Co., Ltd., Newry. Adjoining the timber yard is a boxmaking factory. Owing to the inflammable contents of the concerns involved the Fire Brigade’s task was from the outset hopeless, the - flames spreading with remarkable rapidity, and both f premises were gutted. DUBLlN—Praise for the Christian Brothers At the meeting of the Protestant Diocesan Synods of Dublin, GlendalougH and Kildare, Archbishop Peacocke presiding, Mr. Fitzpatrick said that their diocesan schools were doing useful work, but the Protestants had no such teaching facilities as were afforded by the Christian Brothers for Catholics. One of the pupils of the Christian Brothers had just been gazetted to the Indian Civil Service. What Protestant in humble circumstances could hope to have his son educated so as. to be able to pass such an examination ? A long debate followed, in the course of which some of the speakers complained of . the want of subscriptions from Protestants for educational purposes in Ireland. The oppor-

tunities provided for education were so great for , Catholics that it was to be feared that in Ireland the Protestants would become the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. KERRY — Abbey ' ■ - Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, the new owners of Muckross, are .effecting extensive changes in the old Abbey (says the Daily Chronicle ) since they acquired the romantic estate from Lord Ardilaun in the spring of this year. The most approved method of electric lighting will replace the old paraffin lamps so long in use at the Abbey, and spacious stables and garage are being added. Mrs. Vincent is the daughter of a Californian millionaire. A great sportswoman, she has seen a good deal of life on the prairie, and has tamed some of the wildest bronchos. LOUTH CiviI and Religious Liberty The president of the Dundalk Division of the A.O.H. has received the following letter from Mr. Joseph Louden, assistant-secretary, Louth County Council, and a well known member of the Methodist Church: As president of the A.O.H. Division 566, will you kindly convey to the members my kind appreciation and warmest thanks for suspending the band practices during my recent long illness, and also for their kind and best wishes for my recovery,' which I fully and deeply appreciate ? This is the second time since your division came to this locality that I have experienced then' true spirit of Christian charity towards members of other religious persuasions. When your division first came to their present hall (next the Methodist church) youi then president called upon me to ascertain the hours of Divine worship, so as to make arrangements not to disturb the services in any way. This, to my mind, has the true ring of civil and religious liberty, which we hear so much about nowadays. As a nextdoor neighbor, I may be permitted to say of your division that I never saw a better-conducted set of young men I wish your division every success, and may your membership increase, as it deserves/ The New Lieutenant of the County It is not often (says the Glasgow Observer ) that one Catholic succeeds another as the King's Lieutenant in an Irish county, but such is the case in County Louth where Sir Alan Henry Bellingham has been appointed in succession to the late Lord Bellew. Sir Henry, whose younger daughter is married to the Marquis of Bute is a convert to Catholicism, and an M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. His family hails originally from the W orth of England ; and on a window of Levens Hall their old seat in Westmoreland, is to be read the quaint inscription, ‘ Amicus amico Alanus Belliger belligefo Belhnghamus/ Sir Edward Bellingham was Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1548, and his descendant was granted the Gormanstown estate in Louth, which he re-named Castle Bellingham. The present house was built to replace the old castle, burned to the ground a few days before the Battle of the Boyne. Sir Henry’s first wife was a sister of the present Earl of Gainsborough, and he married after her death the Hon. Lelgarde Clifton. daughter of the twenty-third Baroness Grey de Ruthym He was a Private Chamberlain to both Pius IX. and Leo XIII., and is well known for his devotion to GathintSei ts ™ His elder, daughter is a nun of the Order of the Holy Child. MAYO—Neither Privileges nor Disabilities His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Healy dedicated the new Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel at Claremorris County Mayo, early in October. The Most Rev. l)r. Gilmartin preached on the occasion. At a banquet held subsequently, the Bishop of Elphin said that some people were afraid that Home Rule meant Rome Rule. Ihey wanted under Home Rule no privileges/ but neither would they, tolerate any disabilities. ’ TlPPEßAßY— Consecration .of an Abbot The Rev. P. Justin McCarthy . was solemnly consecrated Lord Abbot of Mount St. Joseph’s Monastery Roscrea, on October 18, in the presence of a large gathering of clergy and laity. The consecrating prelate was Right Rev. Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe, who

was assisted by Fathers Boniface and Francis. The Abbot-elect was assisted by the Right Rev. Abbot Maurus, of Mount Melleray, and the Right Rev. Abbot Edmond, an American religious. The ceremony, which was deeply impressive, lasted two hours, and was followed throughout by the congregation with the closest attention. At its conclusion Right Rev. Dr. Fogarty conducted the new Lord Abbot to the throne, where he intoned the ‘ Te Deum,’ the entire community joining in it. WEXFORD—A Memorial to Michael Davitt Mr. J. L. Doyle, at the U.I.L. meeting near Enniscorthy, said that he trusted the first public function that the Ministers of the coming Irish Parliament would be called on to perform would be to unveil a fitting memorial to Michael Davitt, that noble but humble peasant, the founder of the Land League. WICKLOW —The Campaign of Calumny At a public meeting held in Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, on October 22, Mr. John Redmond said the Home Rule Bill was not only in course of preparation, but was almost completed. Both in its principles and in its details it would be a Bill satisfactory to Ireland. He clearly understood the conditions that were necessary to make a final settlement from the financial as well as'from the political point of view, and he would ask his colleagues to refrain from criticising until the moment came, from which they were now separated only by a few weeks, when the Bill in all its details would be before the Irish public. He asked the Nationalists of Ireland to help to wreck the campaign of calumny which had been started. If he found a case of religious intolerance on the part of Catholics anywhere he would denounce it, and he requested the members of the United Irish League to send him particulars of every case which had been used in England to prove that they in Ireland were an intolerant people. GENERAL Remarkable Longevity The death is announced of Patrick Gillespie, of Glenngivney, Lower Moville, Innishowen, who had attained the patriarchal age of 120 years. For the first nine years of his life he lived under the authority of the old Irish Parliament in College Green. : The death took place about the middle of October of Mrs. Dolan, mother of Mr. Andrew Dolan, Stonebridge, near Clones, at the age of 110 years. Deceased spent a life of industry, and was blessed with good health, and had a vivid recollection of all the stirring events of the past century. The death has occurred at Bangor, Co. Down, of Mrs, Christie, at the great age of 103 years. _ During the- early part of October seven old Bangor residents passed away. Their ages aggregated a total of 652 years. In Favor of the Voluntary Principle Speaking at North Shields, Mr. T. P. O’Connor said that if, in the coming Home Rule Bill, provision was made for safeguarding Protestant civil and religious rights in Ireland, the Irish Party would support it. The Irish party would also support a provision against the establishment of the Catholic or any other Church, because they believed the voluntary principle was the life-blood of religious fervour and spirit.