IRISH NEWS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 36, 13 September 1923, Page 43

IRISH NEWS

THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.—ORANGE BOASTING.—IRELAND AND FRANCE.— JOHN KELTS tnhpami

At a meeting of the Chapter of the Diocese held immediately after the funeral obsequies of the Bishop of Limerick, the Right Rev. Mgr. O’Donnell, P.P., V.G., Rathkeale, was appointed Vicar-Capitular. In the course of his address at Boyle Synod meeting, Right Rev. Dr. Moore, Protestant Bishop of Kilmore, declared: “I am still of the opinion which I expressed last year, that the partition of our country is very unfortunate} but as long as it remains divided, it is the duty of the citizens of each . State to be loyal to their own Government in all that is consistent with the Divine Law.” An Englishman, unaware of the Customs regulations as between Great Britain and the Free State, purchased a five-naggin bottle of whisky in '‘Northern” Ireland, and was proceeding to Donegal to visit preparatory to his departure for America. In addition to the whisky he had an alarm clock in his possession. At the Free State Customs station he declared what he was carrying and to his surprise was compelled to pay 9s 2d duty on the whisky and Is 2d on the clock, "Some price for a treat,” was his comment. A meeting of the Senate of the National University was held in July, and the following professors and lecturers, whose tenure of office was about to expire, in accordance with the Statutes, were re-appointed: University College, Dublin. Law Professorships.—Roman Law and Jurisprudence: Professor Murnaghan. Constitutional Law and Law of Torts; Professor Swift Mac Neill. Property and Contracts- Professor Clery. University Lectureships.—Mathematic; Rev. M. F Egan, S.J., M.A. Physics: John J. Dowling, M.A. Irish Language: Agnes O’F'arrolly, ALA—(AII win time.) Special Pathology: William M. Crofton, M.D., B.A. Accountancy: Donai O’Conn.r, A C.A. Banking and Finance; Francis Leet, LL.D. Municipal History: John J. Webb, ALA., LL.D.—AII part time.) The Grand Lodge of the Loyal Orange Institution of England met in Liverpool the other week, after an absoace of 18 years. About 100 officers and representatives of provinces and groups, including one from Australia, had dinner at the Midland Adelphi Hotel, at the invitation of ‘..he Liverpool Province. Councillor John Walker, Provisional Grand Master of Liverpool, presided. Mr. William Coote, M.P., Grand Alaster of the Order, responding to the toast, “The Grand Lodge of England” (proposed by the chairman), spoke of the outlook in Ireland. Mr. Lloyd George, he said, had got his quietus for all time through his treatment of “Southern” Ireland, The late British Government threw to the wolves 300,000 people, whose only crime was that they were loyal to the flag and believed that Great Britain would be true to them. “Southern” Ireland was rent asunder, and the Catholics themselves did not know what would happen next. The loyalists of .the “North” could take care of themselves. They were drilling and preparing, and the British Government was standing by them and granting every reasonable expenditure in order that they might be as efficient as possible to roll back the rebels from their gate, if necessary. L’Oeuvre, one of the most influential of the French newspapers, publishes a stimulating article on the part which Ireland is likely to play among the world’s Powers as a result of her entry into the League of Nations. Under the heading, “Ireland is About to Become an International Power,” it writes: —“For some time past the press has ceased publishing reports on Irish affairs; the civil war is over. When Ireland was in the throes of its agony, we were passionately interested in her fate. Now that she begins to live, our interest is dying away. She is right

we are wrong. Ireland has only one passion: her independence. She has no imperialism; she has not to shape a policy according to the needs of varying interests or alliances; she has no traditions that must be respected. She is free: that is her pride, and if we wish, that is also our advantage. For Ireland will, in a very short time, be obliged to choose her path. The responsibilities of liberty await her. Ireland is about to make her entry into the League of Nations. The next assembly (which will be held in September) will admit her with all the respect due to her long martyrdom. ’ Not only will Ireland be acclaimed; she will exercise influence. She will bring with her the prestige of a glorious past as well as that of right triumphant. It has been said of England that the Dominions, on entering the League, had followed in her footsteps like so many faithful vassals. Who will dare to say so of Ireland? Ireland will bring with her to Geneva other forces. - Twelve million Irishmen live in the United States. they govern the United States, as has often been asserted, by the discipline of their political organisations. Ireland precedes America in the League of Nations; she will be her unofficial representative.

Alany poets (says Chevalier Grattan Flood, Mus.D.) have achieved immortality by one song. Howard Payne wrote “Home Sweet Home” Charles Wolfe with “The Burial of Sir John Aloore”; and John Kells Ingram was author of “Who Fears to Speak of ’98?” also known as the “Memory of the Dead. ’ It is, therefore, fitting that the centenary of the birth of, Dr. Ingram should not pass by unnoticed. John Kells Ingram was born at Templecarne Rectory, hear Pettigo, Co. Donegal, the son of Rev. Wm, Ingram (curate of Templecarne), and of Elizabeth Cooke. The date .of his birth was July 7, 1823. His father, who had obtained a. scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1790), died in 1829, and, in the following year, his devoted -mother sent him to be educated at Dr. Lyon’s school at Newry, where for six years he had a good training in “Greek and Latin lore.” From the circumstance of Ingram having spent his early years at Newry, it has frequently been stated that he was a native of that town, but the fact remains that he was born in “dark Donegal,” and spent his childhood on the shore of Lower Loch Crue, not far from the famous Pilgrimage of Lough Derg. His widowed mother, after the death of her husband, opened a milliner’s shop in Newry in 1830, and saw that her son received a good classical education—a boon to which he afterwards referred in “A Filial Tribute” — “Aly mother thy laborious widowed days Have won for me these boonsah! ill repaid By this my heartfelt but too tardy praise.” So brilliant did young Ingram become that —though unsuccessful at his first try for Sizarship at Trinity . College, Dublin, on May 23, 1837-he won first place at the Trinity entrance examination on October 13, 1837, at the age of 14, and obtained a Sizarship on June 13, 1838, becoming Scholar in 1840, and B.A. at Alichaelmas Term, 1842 ally gaining the much-coveted Fellowship of T.C.D., in 1846. As a boy at Newry, Ingram contributed various stories and articles to the local press, and, in his early years at Trinity College, he wrote two sonnets for Dublin , University Magazine (February, 1840). As a member of the Historical Society, in 1842, he formed the acquaintance of John O’Hagan, Thomas Davis, John Edward Pigot, David Pigot, and AY. Neilson Hancock.