Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 15 May 1913, Page 39

Irish News

GENERAL. ./ . :; : ., , A suffragette was captured last week in the Dublin Art Gallery daubing Mr. Redmond's'' bust with green paint, in revenge for the manner he voted on the Dickinson Suffrage Bill. Mr. T. M. Healy has .written a book, just published by Longmans, entitled Stolen Waters, and dealing with the appropriation of Lough Neagh and its fishing rights by private owners on the strength of Crown grants to individuals alleged to have been made centuries ago, and never enforced till now. The funeral took place during Holy Week to Foulstoun, near Kilkenny, of Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, widow of the late Mr. James Sullivan, proprietor of the Kilkenny Brewery. .The deceased lady was granddaughter of the Liberator, J her father being Mr. John O'Connell, third son of Daniel O'Connell. At Fermoy, on St. Patrick's Day, some stripling of an officer ordered a sergeant of twenty years' service to take a shamrock out of his cap. The sergeant disobeyed the order, and was placed under arrest, but the General in command of the district; coming to hear of the matter, ordered the charge against the sergeant to be withdrawn.

The death occurred rather suddenly on March 25 of the Rev. J. Nolan, Adm., Crusheen, Clare, in his 65th year. He attended the services in the church on Good Friday. He had been ten years in charge of Crusheen parish, and previously was curate in Clarecastle and Borrisokane. He was a native of Nenagh district, and had a distinguished collegiate course. Much regret has been occasioned throughout North Kildare, by the lamented death of the : Very Rev. Philip McCarthy, P.P., Ballymore Eustace. Father McCarthy, who was a Cork man, having been born at Kahturk, had reached an advanced age, and for some time past, owing to infirmity, was unable to discharge the duties of his sacred office. He officiated in Eadestown before going to Ballymore Eustace, and succeeded the late Very Rev. Canon Horgan in the latter parish. Amongst Nationalists, especially in .the South, there is deep regret at the news of the death of Right Rev. Mgr. O'Callaghan, St. Augustine's Church, Boston, U.S.A. Born in Macroom, County Cork, 72 years ago, he was for nearly fifty years attached to the parish of St. Augustine, where he was greatly beloved and in which his ministrations were very generally appreciated. An Irishman and a patriot to the heart's core, he always, whenever his clerical duties permitted, took an active part in all matters bearing upon Irish affairs,, in connection with the progress of which he frequently visited his native country. CORK PRIEST'S ADVICE TO IRISHMEN. Speaking at a St. Patrick's Day demonsrtation in Cork, Very Rev. Father Mathew, O.S.F.C, referring to Ireland's future, advised his hearers to avoid intemperance, to study the history of their country, and to preserve the noble characteristics of their race. They were in sight of the promised land. The long night of persecution had passed, and the day-star of freedom had appeared. The nation was throbbing with new life, and soon the struggle of centuries would be crowned with victory. BISHOP O'CALLAGHAN ON MANLY SPORT. .; The Right Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan, Bishop of Cork in presenting a cup to the Farranferris College Hurling Club a few weeks ago, said that, despite his many cares he followed with the keenest interest the life of the students. Their success in the intellectual and the physical arena was a source of genuine pleasure to him The national game of hurling was an excellent one for Irish boys, played as they played it. It was a clean and manly sport which built up the frame and taught self-reliance and self-control. In time to come many

of them who to-day brought honor to their college would as priests be in a position to do much for the physical and moral well-being of the young men. ■'" -.--'-- SYMPATHY WITH IRELAND'S DEMANDS. • Referring to the strong support given to the Home Rule movement by Sir Joseph Ward, ex-Premier of New Zealand, the Irish Press Agency recalls that he was responsible for New Zealand's gift of a Dreadnought to the British Navy. In New Zealand the ; anti-Home Rulers could be reckoned at any number between a score and a hundred—not more—of the population. ' As one who wants to see conditions existing within the Empire that make for unity and strength,' said Sir Joseph, 'I would do much to see Ireland and her sons and daughters beyond the seas pacified. So, in my humble opinion, should everyone who wishes well of the Empire.,;-"'.lt' is a great work.' ; The magnitude of the work has been indicated by : : the expressions of opinion from the United States of America which have been given to the . worlddespite the stupid. silence of the Tory press in Ireland and Great Britain—during the past few months. The President of the Republic, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, is a strong Home Ruler. Colonel W. J. Bryan, his Chief Officer of State, ? is the same. Ex-President Roosevelt and Mr. Champ Clark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington, have written enthusiastically in support of Ireland's demand. Since January last, no less than seventeen of the States of the American Union have passed resolutions in favor of it. Twelve State Governors, twentyfour Senators, and fifty-six Congressmen, have written expressing satisfaction at the passage of the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill, hailing it as a great measure of justice, and as tending to more friendly relationship between America and England. The press of the United' States, without any known exception,; is most outspoken in favor of the Bill. Such an outpouring of representative public opinion on the part of the Republic in regard to a matter not directly affecting itself is without a precedent; and it possesses a significance which only those who are wilfully blinding themselves can ignore. *. " ' • •-? / - ——tt - - : : . ' "'/ : :■': IRISH ATHLETE A SUCCESSFUL TEACHER. Students of the Atlantic School of Wireless Telegraphy, Caherciveen, the first wireless school established in Ireland—students of the college from places as far apart as Iveragh, Tralee, Cork, and Dublin passed the Marconi examination with distinction in March, and a further batch of earnest students hope to emulate them at the next opportunity. The principal of the college, Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, A.M.1.E.E., is not less known as an all-round athlete than as a teacher of the mysteries of wireless telegraphy. He severed his connection with the Direct United States Cable Company at their Ballinskelligs office to embark on the project of a ' wireless ' college in the same neighbourhood. That the district is an ideal one for the purpose will be gathered from the fact that what promises to be one of the largest ' wireless stations in the world is being erected in Valentia, within a few miles of the new college. Moreover, three of the leading transatlantic cable companies have their European termini there—at Ballinskelligs, Waterville, and Valentia. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. The late Mr. P. J. Power, M.P., of Newtown House, Tramore, who sat for East Waterford, left personal estate valued at £5743. He left £IOO to his brother, Father Matthew Power, S.J., Sacred Heart Church, Edinburgh; a life annuity of £SO to his sisters, Mary, Anne, and Elizabeth ; a perpetual annuity of £SO to his sister, Mrs. Smithwick ; a perpetual annuity .of £2O to his sister, Mrs. P. McCann; £25 to the Superioress of the Sisters of Charity, Tramore, Co. Waterford, for ' the relief of poor children attending the schools 4 ,,0f the community; £SO to the Abbot of Mount Melleray for Masses; £SO to the parish priests and curates of Tramore for Masses. The residue of his property he left to his brother, Daniel Power.

CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN DERRY. Here is a sample of civil arid religious liberty as understood by some of „ those who - most blatantly preached it. At 7 a recent meeting in Derry of the Waterside Ward Unionist Association it was ' mentioned - that the Ward committee had ; expressed their dissatisfaction at the recent action of Alderman M. A. ; Ballantirie, D.L., in the Corporation, and had called upon' him to resign. The meeting unanimously approved of the action of the committee,, and directed the hon. secretary: to write Alderman Ballantirie calling upon him to resign. Alderman Ballantine is a staunch Unionist, and has given notable service to the cause. A merchant of high standing, he has been honored by his fellow-citizens and their representatives in the Corporation. He has filled the positions of Mayor and High Sheriff, and quite recently was co-opted on. the Harbor Board. But his ' action in the Corporation' has now given offence to the official Unionist body, and that action wasvoting for a professional gentleman who, being exceptionally well qualified, sought the position of Coroner but who happened to be a Catholic! IRISH TEACHERS' GRIEVANCES. The proceedings of the forty-sixth annual congress of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation commenced in Dublin on March 25. Lady Aberdeen presided. The congress was opened by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who described trie treatment of the teachers with regard to salary and fixity of tenure as discreditable to a Christian State. Miss Catherine Mahon, president for the year, said that the administration of the National Board was the cancer root to which the discontent of the teachers, and even the injustice of the Treasury, were directly or indirectly traceable. The Teachers' Organisation had cut off all communication with the Board until Mr. Mansfield, a . teacher in County Tipperary, who had been dismissed for making a political speech, be reinstated. A crisis had now arisen in the relations of the Board and the teachers, which rendered it impossible for them ever to work together again in harmony and confidence. The teachers were filled with resentment at their treatment during the past thirteen years. The administration of that period had been characterised by distrust of the teachers, disregard for their vested rights, and hostility to their organisation. It was a. period remarkable for enslaving, humiliating, and penalising rules and circulars. She suggested the election of a popular Board of Education, the county councils, the managers' associations, the Teachers' Organisation, and the State electing five members each. Such a board should be responsible to Parliament (whether English or Irish), and the members should be elected for a term of three or five years, at the end of which time all the unsatisfactory members could ,be rejected. *' THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR. The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Right Hon. Ignatius J. O'Brien, K.C., to be Lord Chancellor of Ireland in succession to the Right Hon. Redmond Barry, K.C., who has vacated the office on the ground of ill-health. The new Lord Chancellor of Ireland is the son of Mr. Mark Joseph O'Brien, of Cork. _ Born in the year 1857 he was educated in the Catholic University, where he had a distinguished career as a student, giving early indications of the talents and ability which enabled him to achieve so large a measure of success when he entered on a legal career. In 1899 he was called to the Inner Bar, and eight years later he was made a Bencher of King's Inns. He had a large practice both as a junior and as a King's Counsel, and his eminent merits as a member of the legal profession won him very general and most deserved recognition, not merely amongst the members of his profession, but also amongst the wider public, -by whom he was held in the highest esteem. In 1910 he was created Serjeant-at-Law, and that honor was followed by his appointment in 1911 as Solicitor-General for Ireland. Last year he was appointed Attorney-General. The latest news concerning his further advancement to the highest position in the Irish Judiciary has been received by his many friends with feelings of keen satisfaction accompanied with many expressions of hearty goodwill.