"ONLY AN IRISHMAN."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 81, 22 March 1876, Page 4

"ONLY AN IRISHMAN."

An American paper, in an article ] under the title of " Only an Irishman," called ■ forth by the flippant remarks of a young fop who, reading of an accijdent, said, " After all, it is only an Irishman," says :—- --' Berkley, the philosopher, was only an Irishman. ■, „ .- Robert Fulton, the inventor of steam navigation, was only an Irishman, by descent. Curran, the inimitable orator and wit, was only an Irishman. '■ Duns Sootus, the most subtle philosopher of the Middle Ages, was only an Irishman. Donegan, editor of the most comprehensive Greek lexicon, was only an Irishman. ' Dre. Kane and Hayes, the Arctic explorers, were only, Irishmen.

j Marshal Neil, ther celebrated -;jengineer, was onlyCan/irisbjpfin, Lbjjf descent. ' Captairi O'Hara Burke, the explorer [of the Australian continent, was only iao-Inehman. . ' i ! Ossian, the Jwt of th^ heroio age, i was only an Irishman. ° * ; Charles O'CoDor, the head of the I American bar, is only an Irishman by ; descent. ? • ; Sarefield, Marshal of; France, and the" hero of Fomerioy, was only an Irishman. , Kavanagh and Prince Nugent, Mar* shals of Austria, were only Irishmen St. Brendan, held by eminent authorities to hare been the first discoverer of the continent of America, was only ao irishman. ■ '' ' ' Edmund Burke, the greatest statesman that ever stood in the English House of Parliament, was only an Irishman. . . M'Cormick, the inventor of M'Cormick's Steam Reaping Machines, , is jonly an Irishman. ! Marshal Macmahon, the present head of the Frenob nation, is only an Irishman, by descent. Tom Moore, " the, poet of alloircles, and the idol of hit own," was only an ! Irishman. Marshal O'Donoell, Field Marshal, Prime Minister of Spain, and Dictator jat one time, wav only an Irishman, by i descent. O'Connell, the Hercules .of ; moral : force agitators, was only an Irishman. Virgilius, a biabop who flourished in the eighth century, and whp wa.s thq first to discover the spberity of the earth, was only an Irishman. Grattan — "ever glorious Grattan" — was only an Irishman. , Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance, was only an Irishman. r Horace Greely, the great, journalist*, statesman, and sociologist, was only an Irishman, by descent. William H. Seward, the ablest Secretary of State America ever had, was . ouly an Irishmao, by descent. . A. T. Stewart, the most successful merchant in the United States, is only an Irishman. * Doyle,, the caricaturist, perhaps' the most versatile of modern artists., was only an Irishman. The San Francisco JVetcs letter . says this list is manifestly incomplete, and jocularly adds :— Christopher Columbus was an Irishman, by descent. , He was a great grandson of St. Columbkill. Bismarck is an Irishman, al« ; though born in Germany. The family -name is O'Sbachnessy, and he has many relatives now living in Gonnemara. Eugene M'Carty is an Irishman, or he was before, he lost his front teeth. Michael Angelo was am Irishman, and was commonly, called '.Mike/ by hia brother architects. Con, "of j the Hundred Battles," who carried his standards to the foot of the Alps, was an Irishman. Confucius, was also an Irishman. Peabody, the banker, who dispensed millions. in_ 'charity, often : wished he was an Irishman.