People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 25 October 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

Lord , and Lady Emly have just celebrated the silver jubilee of their wedding. Lord Emly, who succeeded to the title in . 1894, was State ..Steward in the household during "the Lord Lieutenancy, of Lord.Cowper in. 1880-82, and Gentleman Usher during, the Lord' Lieutenancy of Lord Spencer. Both Lord and Lady Emly take -an active part in public functions, the former being a member of the Limerick County Council, while Lady Emly had the distinction of winning a contested election for the Board of Guardians. ■

The indifferent health experienced by the ex-Empress Eugenic of late is only what might be expected,- considering her many trials and sorrows, and her ageshe is now an octogenarian, having been born in- 1826, only seven years after the late Queen Victoria. It argues r marvellous vitality that she has been able for so long to resist the sorrows which began to fall on her so thickly just six and thirty years ago, when she and her consort lost their Empire, and' the still heavier blow of nine years later, when her only son fell under the assegais of the Zulus.

The unwavering support . which Mrs. J. R. Green, the widow of the eminent historian, has given to the Irish National Movement, reminds the ' Freeman's Journal ' -that Mr. Green himself was from a very early period in the history of the Home Rule agitation a warm friend and pronounced advocate of the principle of Irish Legislative Independence. In May," 1871, when Mr. Swift MacNeill, then an undergraduate at Oxford, brought forward at the Oxford Union a motion •in favor of Home Rule for Ireland, which was debated for two evenings, and was the first motion of the kmd ever proposed before a purely British audience, Mr. J. R. Green, then a tutor at Oxford, and lone before he had written the works which have given him so great a reputation, came down and delivered an eloquent and masterly speech in favor of the complete restoration of Irish rights.

The sixtieth anniversary of the consecration of Archbishop Murphy fell on October H, but owing to the annual retreat of the clergy of the archdiocese the formal celebration of the anniversary was postponed to Sunday, October 14, the feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This was the feast on which his Grace was consecrated in 1816. In June last ' his Grace entered on his 92nd year. His Holiness Pius X. was only three years of age when the venerable Archbishop of Hobart was ordained priest. He was consecrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Cork, in October, 1816, in the parish church at Kinsale, of which his- brother was parish priest. In 1848 Dr. Murphy was appointed Bishop to the newly-erec-ted Vicariate-Apostolic of Hyderabad, Deccan, India In consequence of failing health Pope Pius IX. transferred him from India to Tasmania in 1865, appointing him Bishop of Hobart in succession to the late Dr. Willson. In 1888, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his priesthood, Hobart was erected into an archbishopric, and he became the first Metropolitan

Among recent visitors to Ireland was the Hon Mr Justice Keogh, o f< the Chancery Division of the ' New York Supreme Court, who was accompanied by Mrs Keogh and family. Mrs., Keoe-h is a member of the well known Emmet family of New York Durinc his stay in Ireland Judge. Keogh had a most delightful motor tour through Wexford, Waterford, over to Galway, through the Donegal Highlands, and thence via Armagh and back to Dublin, where he met many prominent men, by whom he was entertained. While in Dublin a touching little incident took place. The judge haying taken his two little boys, aged respectively about eight and ten years, to the notorious Green street Courthouse, and placed, them in the dock there, which if not the actual dock out of which their mother's great-grand uncle, the illustrious Robert JEmmet stood and delivered his immortal speech before sentence of death was pronounced oh - him, , for his efforts in' the cause of Ireland's liberty, nevertheless is upon" the identical spot where the great' patriot stood over one hundred years' ago.' The boys," young though they are, ' know something of their ancestry, and" realised' that they were in a memorable place, as they stood erect •in the dock of that grim courthouse, which has been the scene of -many n6ted trials. The presence of the distinguished party, and the recollections it woke uo became evident very soon, and many were eager to shake hands with the little boys, who were the centre of interest hi the dock a moment before. It was for Judep Keogh and his wife a visit of no ordinary