Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, 16 October 1913, Page 39

Irish News

• GENERAL. _V -■ * The Right Rev. Dr. McKenna, Bishop of Clogher, has been unanimously elected chairman of the County Monaghan Sanatoria Committee. : The members of the Third Order of St. Francis in Cork, numbering over 1000, made a pilgrimage on Sunday, August 24, to Timoleague Abbey, in the ruins of which Mass was celebrated, the first time for 600 years. The death is reported of the Very Rev. Canon Kearney, Moate, who passed away on August 21. The Canon had attained the venerable age of ninety years, and continued to discharge his sacred duties almost until the end. A magnificent cross, the gift of the Irish pilgrims and associates to Lourdes, has been sent from Waterford via London to its destination. It stands seventeen feet high, is carved out of Kilkenny limestone, and is a credit to Irish skill and workmanship. A magnificent high altar, the gift of his Grace the Most Rev. Dr, Prendergast, Archbishop of Philadelphia, has been erected in the Presentation Convent, Lismore, County Waterford. The Archbishop is a brother of Mother Mary Peter, a devoted member of the community.

When the last mail left Home Canon Patrick Sheehan, D.D., the well-known novelist was seriously ill. Canon Sheehan, who is parish priest of Doneraile, Cork, was born at Mallow sixty-one years ago. After ordination in 1875, he served two years on the English mission in Devonshire.

The Most Rev. Dr. Clune, Archbishop of Perth, addressing a meeting of the Ennis Confraternity of the Holy Family, said that thirty-five years ago he had the privilege of being made a member of it by its founder, the late Father Fogarty. He had come back with all the joy of a child to see his old friends.

A large number of German and Austrian physicians, accompanied by seventy ladies, visited Dublin on August 22. After having seen some of the principal hospitals and educational institutions, they were received in the afternoon by the Lord Lieutenant at the Viceregal Lodge. The visitors left the city in. the evening, and sailed from Kingstown for the Channel Islands.

Miss Honan, Cork, has bequeathed £3OOO each to St. Patrick's Church and the North Infirmary; £ISOO to the Mercy Hospital £IOO each to the South Infirmary, County Hospital, and the City Convents. Private bequests amount to £IO,OOO, and the residue of the estate, which is estimated at about £200,000, has been left in equal shares to the Honan Home, Montenotte; the North Infirmary, and St. Patrick's Incurable Hospital.

The death occurred in Cork on August 24 of a noted Cork priest, Rev. Timothy Twomey, Conna. The rev. gentleman was born in Kilnamartyn fifty-nine years ago, and was extremely popular. Father Twomey had a most brilliant career as a student at Maynooth, and during the thirty-six years of his ministry he was curate at Inchigeela, Kilbrin, Charleville, Coachford, Liscarroll, Freemount, Donoghmore, Castlemagner, and Conna. His two brothers are priests of the Cloyne diocese.

On Friday, August 15, the Feast of our Lady, a grand ceremony took plac« in the grounds of Castlebellingham. At 6 p.m. the people forming the solemn procession of the Blessed Sacrament from the oratory at the castle took up their places and marched down the grand avenue, round the Crucifix in the village, and back again to the porch at the castle, where a temporary altar had been erected.. The parish priest, Father P. Fagan, preached on the joys of heaven to a very large number of. people, including most of the parishioners and many strangers. After the sermon Solemn Benediction was given from the steps of the castle porch. " .""' - '■'■'"

Preaching at Wandsworth on the Feast of St. Bartholomew, Father Cooney, the rector, made reference to the various so-called massacres that had been used by bigoted non-Catholics against the) Church, and in the connection mentioned that the alleged massacre of Protestants Catholics in Ireland in 1541, which had done duty for over 200 years, and had figured recently in political discussions, had been disposed of during the week in a volume of State papers edited by a Mr, Dunlop. The remarkable part about the matter was that Mr. Dunlop was making research in order to definitely use this massacre against Irish Catholics, but, discovering that the whole thing was a mare’s nest, he very handsomely stated- this fact in the plainest manner possible. ' FATHER BERNARD VAUGHAN IN DUBLIN. Father Bernard Vaughan’s visit to Kingstown, County Dublin, on Sunday, August 24, was signalised by the presence of a large and fashionable audience in the Pavilion to hear his lecture, entitled ‘lreland in America,’ in aid of the new organ to be erected in St. Michael’s Church, Kingstown. Very Rev. Canon Murphy, P.P., in introducing the eminent preacher, referred to him as a man of very strong individuality and character, and one who had made his mark, and was making his mark, on the history of their times as preacher, teacher, lecturer, traveller, and missionary to the highest and the lowest. One of the proofs of Father Vaughan’s love for the Irish people was to be found in his labors among the poorer Irish in London.* AUSTRALIA AND THE PARLIAMENTARY FUND. . rK In the course of a letter to Mr. John Redmond, Dr. N. M. O’Donnell, of Melbourne, says:—‘Enclosed please find draft for T4OO which the Home Rulers of Victoria, through the United Irish League, have contributed to enable you and the Irish Party to surmount the third and final obstacle in the way of Ireland’s freedom. Australia is proud of you and the loyal supporters behind you for having brought Home Rule not only into the position of practical politics, but for having forced it in a few short years to the very verge of realisation. To your wisdom, foresight, and discretion, and to their fidelity and self-sacrifice this wonderful achievement is solely due, and history will appreciate your services to Ireland, and rank the present Irish Parliamentary Party and its leader, John Redmond, among the noblest band of children that has ever blessed our sorrowing Mother Eire.’ CATHOLIC TORY PROTEST. Mr. N. Grattan Doyle, of Birtley, a Catholic and a prospective Tory candidate for Newcastle-on-Tyne, finds the Reformed Presbyterian Manifesto too much for him. In a letter to the Newcastle Daily Chronicle , he says : —‘ I cannot but regard this manifesto as a most un-Christian publication, and a deplorable instance of this spirit of religious intolerance which unhappily exists in Ireland to-day amongst a small section of the community. I am convinced that more real harm is done to the cause of the Union and to the Unionist Party in this country by the publications of such effusions than ■is effected by all the speeches and writings of political opponents, and I protest against such wanton injury being inflicted upon the party which I have the honor, in a humble way, to represent. Apart from the damage it inflicts upon Unionist prospects at the next election, this manifesto is an unwarrantable aspersion on the Earl Marshal of England, the Chief Whip of the Unionist Party, Catholic Unionist members of both Houses of Parliament, and Catholic Unionist candidates, and is an insult _to the hundreds of thousands of Catholic Unionist electors in this country and in Ireland, as i- well as to the millions of the Catholic subjects of his Majesty throughout, the Empire. I repudiate • the suggestion that Home Rule is a religious and not a political question, and deprecate the introduction of religious bigotry into political controversy.’ t

THE DUBLIN HORSE SHOW. The Dublin Horse Show, which opened on Tuesday, August 26, was favored with warm, though not brilliant weather. The show this year was in every respect one of the best on record. There was a large increase in the number of hunters, the entries being 542, against 464 last year. Harness horses also showed an increase from 108 to 120. The total number of horses was 1183, against 1115 last year. Compare these figures with 368 at the first show in 1868 and with 589 at the first show at Ballsbridge in 1881. They fall short, however, of the total, of 1390 in 1911. One explanation of this is that the standard is so high that people realise that it is no use sending up ‘ weeds ’ either for sale or show. THE DERRY RIOTS. Every Irishman who values the good name of his country must feel pained and humiliated at the riots which have recently disgraced the City of Derry, resulting, as they have done, in the loss of innocent lives. Such things ought to be impossible in a Christian country (says the Irish Press 'Agency). And they would not occur in Derry or in any other part of Ulster were it not that it still serves the interest of certain politicians to keep fanning the flames of religious bigotry amongst the most ignorant section of the Protestant population. A few years ago the spirit of sectarianism in ‘ Ulster ’ was dying. There were signs of a breaking-down of the old barriers which had kept Protestant and Catholic divided, and questions like Home Rule were beginning to be discussed on their merits. But this did not serve the purpose of the ascendancy party. If Catholic and Protestant could unite, ascendancy was doomed. And so Home Rule was represented as meaning Rome Rule, and from press and platform and pulpit the old calumnies against Irish Catholics were repeated afresh, with the results witnessed in the Belfast shipyards last July, and in Derry City within the past few weeks. These results are the natural growth of the seed of hatred which has been scattered so lavishly in Ulster during the past two or three years. If men sow in hate, they must not be surprised if they reap in blood. It is not the poor, misguided Orangemen of, Derry, the * armed and diciplined Volunteers/ forsooth, whose revolvers proved more dangerous to themselves than those. they would attack with them, who are to blame for what has occurred. The blame rests with those who have poisoned their minds against' their Catholic countrymen, and who have encouraged them to arm to resist the enforcement of legislation enacted by the Crown and Parliament. THE DUBLIN TRAM STRIKE. Probably one of the most ill-considered and foolish strikes ever witnessed in this or any country is that into which a- few deluded employees of the Dublin United Tramways Company have allowed themselves to be drawn by the notorious ‘ Jim ’ Larkin (remarks the Irish Catholic of August 30). Happily the great majority of the Tramways’ staff are too intelligent and respectable to confederate with the type. of persons who form the bulk of Larkin’s dupes, but it is impossible not to feel some pity for their unfortunate colleagues, whose timidity or enthusiasm has now, in all probability, worked their ruin. There never was, even for a single moment, a prospect that the strike would be a success, but its complete failure is now a certaintya result largely due to the courage and determination of the chairman of the company and his wise reliance on the common sense and fidelity of his staff.

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