The 'Eagle's Eye

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1906, Page 22

The ' Eagle' s Eye

Some people achieve fame.; some just ' happen ' into fame; and some "have fame ,_ thrust upon them. The editor of the Skibbereen ' Eagle ' (whose death is recorded in another column) partly" achieved fame, partly 1 happened ' into it, and partly had it thrust upon him. His threat* to f keep our eye upon the Czar of Russia ' gave" a phrase to .the language, added to the gaiety of the nations," and made the Skibbereon ' Eagle ' known wherever the English tongue is spoken. The lucky (or" .unlucky) . phrase- -brought "him fame ''enough to fill _ the ambition of a private, man.' But the non-Catholic 'Eagle' editor's best -epitaph is, perhaps, this : that he kept fighting the cause of his country when it was neither safe nor profitable to do so.