IRISH NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1919, Page 31

IRISH NEWS.

general. v C 'j':.., The oldest nun in the South of Ireland, Mother Mary de Pazzi, who has just at 85 celebrated her diamond jubilee as a nun, entered the Convent of the Presentation at Midleton, Co. Cork, 65 years ago, and took her vows in December, 1,858. Miss Hickey, a Dublin Corporation employee who was bayoneted by a sentry on duty in the City Hall ni September, has .been offered .£5 compensation by the military authorities, as an “act of grace ... in tuil discharge of all compensation alleged to be due to her. : She was stabbed through the neck, and for a time her life was in danger. i a on : T: J • % al b the Irish Premier of Queensland, who is at present on a visit to the Home countries is the only Prune Minister in the Empire who volunteered for war service. lie was of military age. The military authorities decided that his political work was ot such importance that he would be of more service to the Empire by retaining (he Queensland i leuuersliip than by relinquishing if The London correspondent of (he I n<(c pendent rays it is recognised on all sides that his “maladroit and malevolent speech m the House of Commons recently on the Irish situation Mr. lan Macpherson, rn- !•’ c , camiot long continue to hold office as Irish Unci Secretary. If is statement that no change in the Irish Government could take place so long as Ireland remains m its present unsettled condition is poor statesmanship and poorer policy. The duty of any Government is to remedy and remove, not to perpetuate unrest and disaffection. Mis reference to Irish “dirt” came extremely ill from, a quondam Scotch Radical nisei the son of a Highland rah,,ret (comments the (rlatyow Oh.-rrrn). It is rumored that his successor may be Mr Cecil narmsworth, who if not much of a political stalwart is at least an Irishman.

HOW LORD FRENCH BECAME A HOME RULER. Discussing what he calls the evolution of Lord French, Mr. Hugh Martin, representative of the Daily Aew* in Lublin, says: The Viceroy wanted certain things done at the Castle, and he was surprised "they were not done. "First," he continues, "there was Mr. Short*, who steadily refused to recognise the obvious fact that Ireland had been placed under a military Governor-General. Then there were the Sinn Feiners, among whom simplicity is not exactly conspicuous. There was Dillon, too, and the Cattle machine and the Kildare Street Club, and a man called Carson appearing and disappearing, like some omnipotent genius. All most disconcerting to a simple soldier. Obviously the straightforward thing to do was to get real, unquestioned, supreme control, and run the show.' Get rid of Shortt, hold the Sinn Seiners, abolish Dillon, make terms with the Club smash Carson, and supersede the Castle machine' Lord French took it all. on, as they say, in army sporting circles. Lord French," he adds "was undoubtedly staggered to find that the enemy he had to tackle was nothing more nor less than the British Government, and, the experience transformed him in a few months from an eminently theoretical Home Ruler into an out-and-out self-government man, an enemy of absentee rule, even (let it only be whispered) a Viceroy able to sympathise with, while condemning, the extravagance of Sinn Fein. In short, Lord French had travelled the same road as so many other conscientious men on the spot. He had found the Union out."