Here and There

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 15, 19 April 1923, Page 37

Here and There

. \ Mr. William Doyle, Assistant Superintendent, Central Telegraph Office, Amiens Street, Dublin, retired recently after 38 years' service. He was very popular with his colleagues, who ceased, work for two minutes to give him a hearty send-off. A native of Dun Laoghaire, Mr. Doyle has spent his entire service in Dublin, is a telegraph expert whoso experience has also included a period of five years as postmaster in College Green, the principal mercantile office in the city. He is well known to Irish pressmen, and has, especially- in time of crisis, been of the greatest assistance in securing rapid and efficient work. His departure is generally regretted in the service.

Abbot Marmion, whose death was announced during the past 1 week (says the Edinburgh Catholic Herald for February 10), was an Irishman by birth although the Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Alaredsous in Belgium. The daily papers describe him as “the brother of Dr. Marmion of Dungannon,” but he was a Dublin man by birth and for five years was Professor of Philosophy at Clonliffe College. His ecclesiastical studies were made -partly in Rome and partly in Belgium, a circumstance which probably led to his joining the Belgian Benedictines. He was Abbot of Maredsous, which is in the Namur province of Belgium, since 1909.

The family of Senator Bagwell, whose disappearance caused such a sensation, was identified with Clonmel for centuries, and members of it have represented that ancient borough in the Irish and British Parliaments. Marlfield, which was recently destroyed by incendiaries, was the residence of Mr. John Bagwell, father of the kidnapped Senator, and who sat in the British Parliament from 1857 until 1874 as the member for Clonmel. In the Irish Parliament Mr. Wm. Bagwell was one of the representatives of the town from 1727-1760. The first member to represent Clonmel after the Act of Union was Mr. Wm. Bagwell, who was a Lieut.-Colonel of the Tipperary Regiment of Militia, Up to 1820, the Parliamentary representative continued to be a Bagwell, but there was a break in the continuity until 1857, when Mr. John Bagwell was returned.' Before the period of the reformed Corporation in 1843, the Bagwell family wielded great power over (the burgesses for generations.

Air. Keating, the new R.H.A., is now famous for his paintings of what were once called Sinn Fein subjects. Not very long after the Rising of 1916, he finished his first remarkable work, “The Men of the West,” in which, by the way, his own portrait appears. The canvas, a fine, bold piece of character study, represents three peasants in the typical garb of Connacht standing armed on guard of a Tricolor. They were stern and imperturbable men waiting calmly for the foe. The facial painting is exceptionally striking, as it is in all Mr, Keating’s works. Another painting, “The Ambush,” also a vivid and extraordniarily realistic composition with superb facial studies, was painted for the Fine Art Exhibition in connection with the Tailteann Festival, which had to be abandoned, but when shown in the Arts Hall at Ballsbridge during last Horse Show attracted the very greatest attention, and was keenly admired. Mr. Keating is in his prime, and may be expected to do many and great things yet.

Captain Stephen Gwynn, whose house has been blown up, comes of a notable family of scholars and sportsmen. His father was the beloved and venerable Rev. Dr. Gwynn, Regius Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, and in his time one of the best-known figures in Dublin’s academic life. His wife was a member of the O’Brien family of Clare, and through her Oapt. Gwynn claims relationship with the illustrious ’4B leader, Smith O’Brien, who was sentenced to death in Clonmel Courthouse after the abortive rising, Capt. Gwynn’s brother, Lucius, was one of the greatest Irish Rugby players that ever wore an international cap, and he it was whom, on a memorable occasion, the late Jacques McCarthy, of Sport, described as “bursting over the line to score for Ireland festooned wtih Saxons.” Lucius was also a fine cricketer and a scholar of eminence. Other members of the family have also shone in academical circles, one of them being a notable Gaelic scholar. Captain Stephen Gwynn some years ago also devoted himself

to the study of Gaelic, in which he became proficient. He is the author of several “interesting books dealing with Ireland, notably The Fair Hills of Donegal and To-day and To-morrow in Ireland. t

Apropos of the recent reference to Michael Dwyer, the insurgent leader, who died in New South Wales, the late Major W. Redmond, M.P., in his book, Through ihe New Commonwealth, mentioned that the remains of the Wicklow patriot and his wife were exhumed and reburied at Waverley Cemetery, Sydney. It was found that the body of Dwyer s wife was in a state of perfect preservation, though it had lam for 40 years in an Australian grave. A magnifluent monument of white marble to their memory and the men of 98 was erectd over their graves. It is in the form each sideirV 3 1 and of gleeful proportions, and on each side below it are panels in bronze depicting the arrest th L ° Edward Fitzgerald, the battle of Oulart Hill and he heads of Emmet, Tone, Fitzgerald, Michael Dwyer £23«n r M u. y and Henry J °y McCracken. It Li said Major Redmond, writing » appreciation of it exists in all the 7® ‘ “ T beautiM memorial Waverlev Irish mem T l " in the truest «™ a Ivmk'of art, it is something far greater and far beyond art-if fa PuroltTlL^S'nolh^cTn C 'Sroy™T 0 d n fa faT fcf MaL t Tn;rsffcU I, Tr t t«'rr y t of ti: ° so wh ° ** m every part of the world.” UP * and sacred

,S 30 years ago since the last man was executed fn T / H^her aTdTTTaTs D “ W Ha " ky - •“<*- together uiT he was convicted of themurdcr”‘of Zokur"” 1 TZ’*’ a small shop in Barudarrig. Co Wicklow ’ were defended by the late Mr. John Redmonder he practised on the Leinster n;,. ,•+ , ( ” . ’> "hen defence that th. jury disagreed on’tiro Sk ”l'" 1 ~ his the third the accused were found gudl W ° K important links in the chain of”: Y ' P °.° f the most against them was the discovery of °l ro,,mstallt,a ! ovidenca which belonged to the murdered “Z'T Baron Palles was so impressed l,„ +i„. f . l ate C,ll<lf played by Mr. Redmond that he appealed '■*““ V* Mr" ° f ,?°! Uios a,ld “ nfi ' le himself'™ movement The County Council occupied the Hall after the destruction of the Wevfnrd n j.i y Hall, that the lenders of the rising in ’9B-BaoeTal Ha'™ ’T™ iat the leaders of the rising in ’9B TTnr r nehus Grogan, and John Solclongh-Z ZS’ aiid their heads impaled on the spikes of the Con"’ A thrill of pain (says the London Catholic Time edithorn Zd" T 7°“®' *T I,enrt of "-any an Irishman at ome and abroad as he learns that Dr. Sigerson whose songs have touched the emotions of his fellow-countrymen for so many years, has felt called upon to resign his posi him m Dr h S InSh Senate . because of threats addressed to pLer “Thfonr’ °I 8 yeara of to a reporter. The only reason I had was that I received a letter threatening incendiarism—to burn down my house and property-and consequently, as I did not want my patients £ 6 d C r „ -“IW- 1 resigned Potion as Sen! Tu • . hre 18 absolutely no other reason for the action »tt°' V d d a ?r n ' Idd " 0t mind the threats of shooting and attended the meetings of the House, as was my duty! but atdl Wt g T°l S Urn ‘ n if d ° Wn my IlolSe is another matter, to ml felt I had no alternative but to resign, having regard to my family and their property.” Dr. Sigerson has been for some years President of the Irish National Literary Society. He was connected with the old Catholic University Medical School and is Professor of Biology in the National University.