The Thanks of the Hierarchy

New Zealand Tablet, 24 December 1908, Page 36

The Thanks of the Hierarchy

' Speaking recently at a dinner at University College, Stephen's Green, the Archbishop of Tuam referred to the new Universities, and said the Bishops of Ireland had taken as they were bound to take, the deepest interest in tho promotion of higher education in Ireland; and, what was more, lie knew that for the last 25 years, at any rate, they had always ungrudgingly lent their best exertions in every practical way they could to bring about, a satisfactory settlement of the question of higher education in Ireland and he thought.he was bound to say that the settlement of the question was to them mainly due. If the Catholic Bishops were listless or indifferent, the question would not • have been settled on the lines on which it had been settled. N He took that opportunity of expressing his thanks and,'be must. say, the thanks of the Bishops of Ireland^ as a body to Mr. Birrell for his strenuous exertions in getting the Bill passed through Parliament.,