Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 28 March 1907, Page 27

Irish News

CARLOW— A Token. of Esteem Mr. George MacDcmagh, brother of Messrs. Michael" and Frank MacDonagh, both well known journalists; has been appointed editor of .the Carlow 'Nationalist.'., - He was presented - by his press friends in Limerick with a substantial token of their esteem for him, before leaving for his .new home. • • CORK—A Presentation Rev. Father M'Cullagh, P.P, Douglas, has been presented with an address on behalf of the parishioners of Blackrock, who, while congratulating him on.'liis appointment, regret his departure from amongst them/ In acknowledging 'the address, Father M'Cullagh expressed his high appreciation of the parishioners of Blackrock, among whom he 'spent twenty years. The French Persecution Resolutions protesting against the persecution 'to - which the Church' is being subjected by ' "the French Government continue to be adopted by public 'bodies all over Ireland and sent on to the authorities in France and to the Holy See. Cardinal Merry del Val, in aqknowledging the receipt of a resolution passed by the^ Macroom Urban, Council,- says his Holiness read with* pleasure the expression of, the noble sentiments which it contained, and praised the constancy of the people in professing their devotion and attachment to the Holy See. The Marquis MacSwiney, who also wrote to Very Rev. Canon Murphy, P.P., D.D., Ma-crobm, stated that the Holy Father had said his -troubles would be very light indeed if the people of France were as good as the people of Ireland. DOWN— Death of a Priest The death took place on -February 2 of the Very Rev. M. Lynch, P.P., ~Rostrevor. The deceased was born at Rathfriland in 1845, and received his early education in the Diocesan Seminary, Violet Hill, Newry, subsequently goinjg .to the> University of Sa/lamanca, Spain. He was ordained there in 1868, and ministered as curate in the parishes of Dromore, Annaclone, and Mayobridge. He was. afterwards appointed parish priest at - Loughbrickland. On the death of Very Rev. P. O'Neill, P.P., Rostrevor, in 1890, he was selected to undertake the pastoral charge there. By all sections of the community, Catholic and Protestant alike, he was highly esteemed. DUBLIN— A Venerable Religious Mother M. Dominic Purcell died on January 31, at the Dominican Convent, .Cabra, Dublin, in the ' hundredth year of her age and the seventy-fifth of herreligious profession. A Varied Career The remains of the late Captain John Kirwan, of New York, were laid to, rest in Glasnevin Cemetery, on January 31, Deceased, who had a varied career, served in the - English Army, the Dublin Police, the _ American Army, and the Papal Brigade. He took part also in the Fenian rising, and was severely, wounded at Tallaght, County Dublin^ An Octogenarian - Sir Ralph Cusack, the octogenarian knight, whose sre^ tirement from the of the Irish Railway" Clearing House is announced (says the. ' Pall; Mall Gazette'), filled the office of Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland from 1858 to 1881. His predecessor in this office was Mr. John -O'Gonnell, son_of- the Liberator, "and has successor in the Irish Leadership. One of the last writs issued' by Sir Ralph •'in '1881 was that - under which Mr. John " ".RedmKMud; \ the . present? - Irish v leader, was returned:-- to Parliament as member for New Ross. J " "* Death of a Jesuit Rev. Father , Butlery v of i St. Francis .Xa-vier's Church-, Dublin, passed -away "oh -'Sexagesirria Sunday. -Father Butler was born at Galway in 1848. He was one of the first pupils in the school opened by the Jesuit Fathers in his native town in 1859. Father Halpin, S.J # „ took a special . interest in the" boy on account of his extraordinary musically talent, reaching even to genius. This .gift" he cultivated with." enthusiasm through life and attained wonderful proficiency on a great variety of instruments, especially the violin. .Of his priestly , life" several years were spent on the staff

of St. Stanislaus' College, Tullamore. He was subsequently one of the band of missionaries giving missions and retreats in various parishes and communities -throughout Ireland; and the last twelve years of his life, with a brief stay- in Limerick, were-- spent at St.'Francis Xavier's r , Upper Gardiner street, [Dublin; -. ■''< -V The Parliamentary Party . -A,/.., ■'; '?V . . :^1 ' A meeting of the Irish Parliamentary Party , ; wks. held on February 4 in the Mansion House, Dublin! Fifty-nine members of the .Party were present. -• Mr..John E. Redmond, ,M.P., was unanimously re-elected* Chairman -of the Party. • The Whips, Treasurers, - and Secretaries of the Party "were re-elected.. Messrs. Crean* and .Gilhooly dissented from the re-election of Messrs. v Abraham, Mooney, M'Kiilop, and Meehan as Treasurers' of the Party.. The • Chairman made > a statement - 'i^. reference to the action of Mr. John. G'Donnell, . M.P.", " and Mr. D. D. Sheehan, M.P., and a resolution was ' passed approving of the .Chairman's action- in their" cases. Messrs. Harrington, 1 . Crean, rand, Gilbooly <iissen^~ ted from, it/he resolution.-- A; '^resolution was passed,. Messrs. -Crean and, GUlhpoly.idiss'ehtimg, 4 "resolving, ' "ttiatMr.. Sheehan be not readmitted to .j;he Party. A . re- . solution "was also passed, -'Messrs. 'C^ean ami : Gilhooly dissenting,, " requesting the officials to;', remove tfie Lname of Mr. John OTJonnell'. from 'the list of the; '"Party ':'\.., . GALWAY — Lady. Appointed County Surveyor Miss Alice Perry, the first lady in .Ireland ,to * qualify -for an engineer, has-been elected -County* Surveyor' for Galway at - a salary" of £500 a year. LIMERICK— Defects of Primary Education The Bishop of. Limerick- in,,- a letter to Dean Shaoiahan, P.P., V",G~, says the defects of the Irish primary schools might' be and were gradually being remedied. But- reform and progress were very different things from fundamental and revolutionary change, which under "the "specious pretext of popular control would inevitably throw a good -part of- the cost of the Schools upon . those who exercised that control,, and who,*-- by ■ poverty, would -be driven to economy; which could only be exercised at the cost af the teachers. MAYO— Primary Education On . February 2 a meeting was held in Castlebar, under the chairmanship of the Very Rev. Canon Lyons, P.P., V.F., in reference to the present defective • system of primary education in Ireland- and the grievances of the National Teachers. Speeches were delivered by the Very Rev. chairman and Mr. John Murphy, M.P., and letters approving- of the object cif the meeting , were received. from his Grace the Most Rev: Dr. Healy, Archbishop of Tuam, the Most Rev./ Dr. Conmy, Bishop .of Killala, and Mr. John Dillon, M.P. - MONAGHAN— Tenants Purchase their Holdings The tenants on the estate of Captain Hamilton, which comprises the townlands of Drumacoona and Davagh (County Monaghan) and Drumbrusghar (County Fermanagh), have just purchased their holdings . under the Irish Land Act, 1903, on the following terms':— Second-term tenants, 4s in the £, or 20 per .cent ; firstterm tenants, 6s in the £, or 30 per- cent., one year to be added to the purchase, tenants to pay interest at ■ the rate of 3£ per cent, from Ist November, 1906, ' till date of signing agreements. y A Centenarian The -death has taken "place of Hugh M'Elroy, Tonyscallan, Dooihamlet, County' Monaghan, " at the age . of 108 -years. Up to the time, of his death- he~ had the full possession of all his mental faculties. TIPPERARY— A Respected Resident Passes Away Mr. William Tobin, of Mullinahone, County Tipper--a-ry, the father of Mr. Patrick Tobin, secretary of the Paving and Improvements ComnrJittee of the Dublin -Corporation, has just died at an advanced ..age. Mr. Tobiin was connected with the "(tfationaf ' movement since the days of O'Connell, with whom, he had' a personal acquaintance. He owned the land upon which -Shaun Gow's forge, celebrated in the -story of ' Rnock- ■ nagow,' stood. A wide circle of people no€ only in Tipperary, but also in Dublin and elsewhere, will deeply regret his death.' WATERFORD— Death of a Town Councillor - Deep regret was felt by the citizens of Waterford when the the announcement was made of Vhe death of Mr . W. 'J. Manning, T.C., ' brother of Mr-. M.. A. Manning,, the Town Clerk of Kingstown, as., the result of an accident. ' :■ ~<

WESTMEATH— Death of an M.P. The death is announced, of Mr. Donal Sullivan, M.P. He was brother to T. D.- Sullivan, ex-M.P., and of the late A.M. Sullivan. He was one of the most regular attendants at Westminster .among the Irish members, scarcely ever missing a division. And he was popular with all parties.