Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 27

Irish News

ARMAGH— Cardinal Logue His Eminence Cardinal Logue left Queenstown for New York on Easter Sunday morning, for the purpose of assisting at the celebrations of the centenary of the Archdiocese of New York. His Eminence was accompanied by the Eight Eev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Cloyne, and the Very Eev. M. Quinn, Adm., Armagh. White Gloves for the Judge At the Armagh Spring Quarter Sessions Judge Kisbey was presented with white gloves. He congratulated the Grand Jury on the peaceful state of the County. It was a matter for congratulation that there were now no party riots nor disturbances of that character in the County, and that good feeling existed between all parties. CLARE— A New Canon The Very Eev. Denis Cleary, o 'Callaghan'sn 's Mills, Co. Clare, has been appointed a member of the Killaloe Chapter by Bishop Fogarty. The new Canon has been pastor of his present parish for thirty years, and during that long period has enjoyed the respect and veneration of his people, to whom the honour done their pastor has given keen satisfaction. CORK— Tenant Reinstated Through the exertions of Mr. John Moloney, solicitor, Midleton, an evicted tenant named David Keily has been restored to his former holding at Ballybraher, some eight miles from Midleton, on the estate of Mr. Charles Durdon, from which Keily was evicted several years ago for nonpayment of rent. Negotiations were opened up recently by Mr. Moloney with the Estates Commissioners for Keily 's reinstatement. Notification has been received by him that the Commissioners have been pleased to restore Keily to his derelict farm, and grant him, in addition, £75 for stock, and £50 for buildings as free gifts, besides a loan of £100. DUBLIN— In Memory of Father Mathew In celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Temperance movement by Father Mathew, a new library was opened at the Father Mathew Hall, Church street, Dublin. Well Deserved Punishment Prosecutions of several Dublin shopkeepers for having sold and kept for sale indecent post-cards have been brought in the Police Courts at the instance of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and heavy punishments inflicted. The Function of a University Speaking at a recent meeting of the Castleknock College Debating Society, Sir Thomas Myles, a distinguished Protestant citizen of Dublin, said that high ideals did not grow of themselves : they were the product of good culture and good souls. Both these were abundantly manifested in the address. As to the new University Bill, keen Irishman though he was, he felt he was a bit of an outsider in the matter. Still, he assured them that no man could sympathise more deeply than he did in this question with his Catholic fellow-countrymen. Long ago the Eoman Tribune said to St. Paul, "Tell me, art thou a Eoman?" but he said "Tea." And the Tribune answered, "I obtained the being free of this city with a great sum." And Paul said, "But I was born so." Might he put in the mouths of his Catholic countrymen, "We also were born free." They had fought and struggled, and all that was great in a nation was brought out in Btruggle. The first function of the University must be to make men — men with a stiff back and a stiff upper lip, men not afraid to look their fellow-men in the face. He looked forward with happy hopes to the new Irish University, and he was confident that amongst its alumni not the least distinguished would be those brought up there in Castleknock by his old friend the President. The New University We understand (says the 'London Daily. Chronicle') that the post of President of the new Dublin University, which is to be created by Mr. Birrell's Bill, will in all likelihood be offered to Mr. Denis J. Coffey, Dean of the Medical

Faculty at the Catholic University School, Dublin. Mr. Coffey has had a distinguished academical careerj and is a great teacher. He is a Fellow of the Eoyal University of Ireland. A correspondent of the 'Westminster Gazette' says it is understood that Sir William Butler is to be Chancellor of the new Dublin University. A Great Experiment The principal speaker at a recent meeting of the Castleknock College Debating Society was Mr. T. M. Healy, M.P., who, referring to the University Bill, said they were on the threshold of a great experiment — an experiment of deep interest to those who learned, and to those who taught— he referred to the new University Bill. They were leaving the darkness and coming to the light, and the present moment must assuredly be an anxious moment to fathers and mothers, to professors, and to colleges such as that. Many things were expected from University- training. Speaking for himself, he had always hoped and worked for a University, and what he looked forward to in that University was the restoration of their National pride. They were a down-trodden and dispirited people. Their industries were gone ; their language was almost gone ; their Celtic mode of thought was gone ; their National pride was shattered. Nowadays everything seemed, to be in favour of large nations against small nations ; in favour of the strong against the weak. It had been their lot to be thus crushed by their sister isle, and they felt all the disabilities that sprang from their being a weak and impotent nation. Ih the new University, the first and chief aim of the Professors should be to galvanise the mind of the country with a new spirit. They must receive new hope. They must be reminded of their past. They must be taught to admire that past ; seek out its heroes at home and abroad, speak of them, honour them — boom them, in other words. He looked forward with hope to the new University to see that kind of culture instilled and engrafted on its alumni. His view, therefore, of the new University was that it should restore them their National pride. KlLKENNY— Patronised by Royalty One of the most prominent of Kilkenny City merchants has had a distinguished compliment paid him in having received an order for her Majesty Queen Alexandra, for dress tweed manufactured by the Kilkenny Woollen Mills, Limited. This recognition of a local industry by the order given to the Monster House will act as a powerful incentive to the sale of these goods, particularly in England. Amongst other distinguished patrons, the Monster House has already been favoured with orders from Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Lady Ormonde, Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew, Lady Constance Butler, Lady Burghelere, and the Countess-Dowager of Desart, for goods manufactured by the Kilkenny Woollen Mills, Limited, and other Irish makers. LIMERICK— The Glin Estate At a meeting of the Kniglit of Glin's tenants, the Key. Father Coleman, who presided, said the landlord was willing to sell on the following conditions : — First term tenants to receive a reduction of 7s. in the pound — viz., 20 years' purchase ; second term tenants to receive a reduction of 55.in the pound — 22 years' purchase. The Chairman said he would take a poll of those present, as some of their number were making the recognition of Mr.- M. Dore's claim to the land held by his father for many years an essential condition of purchase. Twenty-two voted for not buying unless the claim was allowed, and fifty voted for buying on the terms offered by the Knight. * " Tenants Purchase Their Holdings : . ". The tenants on the Glenagragra and Ballyguillenane property of Mr. George Goggin have signed the , requisite purchase papers constituting them owners of their holdings. All game and mineral rights pass to the purchasers; amongst whom the turbary is. also to be proportionately parcelled out. _ MONAGHAN— The Soldiers of the Land War Nearly seventy evicted tenants on the Shirley Estatej near Carrickmacross, have been reinstated in .their farms from which they had been evicted in the eighties. The terms of purchase under which portion" of this estate was recently sold provided that the landlord would agree to sell all the evicted holdings on the entire estate to the Estates

Commissioners. The minimum reduction on the old rents under which the tenant was evicted was 11s. in the pound, and in some cases the reduction -reached 13s. in the pound. Free grants for the provision of stock and the erection of buildings to. the extent of £140 were announced by the inspector as payable by the Estates Commissioners. TlPPEßAßY— Partitioning Estates Early in April two of the biggest ranches in Tipperary County — Dundrum, the Earl De Montalt's estate, and-Bar-nane, the Carden Estate, round which the chief part of the land war in Tipperary has been waged for years — were partitioned amongst / those selected for holdings. About sixty or seventy families have been provided for. WESTMEATH— A Lady Doctor Miss Kathleen Dillon, Ballina, has been elected assistant medical officer to Mullingar Asylum. GENERAL Sporting Rights At a meeting of the Central Branch of the United Irish League on March 27, Mr. Murrough O'Brien read a paper on 'Sporting Rights under the Purchase Acts.' He gave ' a timely warning in the following words : — 'Now, if -in any impending Land Bill an attempt is made to reserve these sporting rights from purchasers, it will mean that the former landlord or the Land Commission will be able to license whom they will to trespass on farms which the purchasers think will be their absolute property. They will not. And I hope the United Irish League will use its influence, and set its face against any such invasion of the ordinary rights of landed property, made under the specious plea that these rights are a valuable national asset. Their reservation will seriously detract from the charm of ownership, and be an everlasting cause of annoyance to the owners and the public. ' Reinstating Evicted Tenants In the House of Commons last week, Mr. Birrell announced the introduction of a short bill to make it clear that, with the consent of the occupying planter, the Irish Estates Commissioners may reinstate evicted tenants. The proposed measure is to meet the difficulty raised by the Irish Court of Appeal, which ruled that the Commissioners could not acquire such land against the will of the landlord. Expenditure on Education The estimates of expenditure on education in the three Kingdoms (says the 'Freeman's Journal') have been laid on the table of the House, and are, as usual, worth the closest attention of all interested in Irish education. It is said that there is to be a supplementary estimate for Ireland. Meantime, it is well to get the measure of the deficiency on the estimates as presented.- They are as follows: — England, £13,594,150 ; Scotland, £2,048,557 ; Ireland, £1,408,360. A glance at the figures- is sufficient to show the inadequacy of the Irish estimate. The proposed expenditure per head of even the estimated populations of the three countries in 1906 works out :—lreland,: — Ireland, 6s. 5d.; England, 7s. 10% d.; Scotland, Bs. Bd. Ireland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer admits, has not been* receiving justice in the Education votes. Australian Visitors On April 11 there arrived in Dublin (says the 'Ffeeman's Journal ') four Irish- Australian prießts, home for a holiday, after many years of absence, on the sacred mission . in various parts of the Commonwealth. They are Very Eev. T. F. O^Neill, Gawler (Adelaide); Eev. P. O'Neill, of Castorton (Ballarat); Eev. James O'Neill, Castlemaine (Melbourne); and the Eev. E. Luby, Brunswick (Melbourne). The Eev. Fathers O'Neill are natives of Hospital, County Limerick, and the three brothers have spent close on twentyeight years on active missionary duty in Australia, and now return to the^jOld Land for the first visit since they left. Father Luby is a native of Cashel, and has spent over thirty years in the sacred ministry in the Archdiocese of .Mel-, bourne. This also is Father Luby's first visit home since he left Ireland on his ordination.