NEWTOWNSANDES
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ST. BRENDAN is called the foster-child of St. Ita, having spent his infancy under her pious care. His first monastery was in the Dingle peninsula, where his own cell and oratory, on the very summit of Mount Brandon, looked out over the boundless sea. The great waste of waters, a mirror of God’s immensity, filled him with a strange longing to travel and explore. With fourteen monks he set out in his currach, and for seven years, so the legend runs, they sailed away to the west, meeting many marvels on their way, till at length they reached a beautiful and fertile land, where an angel bade them go back and tell of the wonders they had seen. After this journey Brendan had many disciples and founded many monasteries, Ardfert, Inchiquin on Lough Corrib, and Clonfert, are the most famous. He also visited Iona and preached along the Scottish coast. He died May 15, 577, at the nunnery of his sister, St. Briga, at Annaghdown, and he was buried in Clonfert.
Prayer of St Brendan: Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown. Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You. Christ of the mysteries, I trust You to be stronger than each storm within me. I will trust in the darkness and know that my times, even now, are in Your hand. Tune my spirit to the music of heaven, and somehow, make my obedience count for You. Amen.
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Thought for the Day: We could ask how is the Risen Lord with us? The New Testament and the church tradition offer a rich array of “presences.” Christ is present in the neighbour in need, in created reality beautiful and awe-inspiring, whenever the disciples gather, in the word proclaimed, in the sacrament celebrated and through the Holy Spirit. Perhaps we do not always feel this presence, but the words of Jesus are a guarantee that no matter what is going on in my life or my community or my church, he is with us, our Emmanuel.
Prayer: Emmanuel, God is with us, we thank you that you are indeed always with us. Help us to find you and recognise where you truly are and not just where we want you to be. Amen. (Fr Kieran O’Mahony)
Pope Leo XIV on X: The Lord commands us to love one another as He has loved us (cf. Jn 13:34): it is the love of Jesus that gives birth to love in us. Christ Himself is the criterion of true love: love that is faithful forever, pure and unconditional, love that gives without wanting to possess.
The Pope’s Intention for May: That everyone might have food: Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food.
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Ireland Live reporter
08 Jan 2026 3:58 PM
Irish companies have been talking a great deal about rising expenses, yet one area that often escapes attention is the steady build-up of paper, files and unused items inside offices. Time is lost in small moments throughout the week as staff work around clutter that has quietly accumulated.
When businesses review where their working hours actually go, many are surprised by how much effort is spent managing material that no longer serves a purpose.
The Small Delays That Interrupt the Day
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Cyberpunk Dreams in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s The Line promised a futuristic desert city, but the ambitious project now faces delays and an uncertain future.
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First Communion
Praise God for this United States representative!
United States Representative Riley Moore recently celebrated his daughter’s first communion in a viral X (Formerly Twitter) post.
Moore, who represents West Virginia's 2nd District in Congress, published several photos of the beautiful day. He says seeing his daughter receive her first Holy Communion was “one of the most moving days” of his life.
The pictures depict his daughter in her First Communion dress, along with his family in St. James the Greater Catholic Church in Charles Town, West Virginia.
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Thought for the Week: Lord of all hopefulness.
Easter makes us a hopeful people. The hope we have does not come from
anything in ourselves; it is rooted in the Lord’s faithfulness to us. We are
hopeful because we know that the Lord will never turn away from us; we are
hopeful because we know that his ‘yes’ is always stronger than our ‘no’
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Reflect
A NOTE FROM FR. JIM Lenihan ......
In today’s Gospel we continue to listen to Jesus ‘Farewell Discourse’. Such a powerful
message and so essential for our spiritual lives. It often reminds me of a moment in my
own family. In 2002, my mother was invited to her nephew’s wedding in Florida. She
was delighted—but faced what she considered a serious dilemma: who would look after
her “boys” —Dad and my three brothers—while she was away? In the end, she decided
to go… but not without preparation. I remember coming home one day from my parish
to find the kitchen in full operation. Pots bubbling, ovens on, containers everywhere.
She had cooked a full week’s worth of dinners, each one carefully labelled with names
and days. All they had to do was take them from the freezer, heat them, and eat.
(Though, truth be told, I think Mam may have overestimated their ability even to do
that much!) And she didn’t stop there. Clothes were washed, ironed, folded, and
labelled for each person. When I asked her about it, she simply said: “It will be as if
I’m not gone at all.” And in many ways, she was right. Her care lingered—in every meal
and every neatly folded shirt. Even in her absence, she had found a way to remain
present. I’ve always felt Jesus had the same dilemma leaving His beloved disciples (and
us) who completely depended on Him. His brainwave wasn’t frozen lunches or folded
clothes but rather something else entirely and amazing, the Holy Spirit. His very own
life poured into each human heart in baptism to enable every person to become
another Christ - “divinization”. His life abiding within us. As the words of my mother
come to mind - “It will be as if I’m not gone at all.” And that was is loving plan all along.
So if you feel in anyway alone, ill equipped, anxious or in any tight corner know that
you’re not alone Jesus is closer to you now than when he was physically with His
disciples. And remember He promised “And surely I am with you always, to the very
end of the age.” — Matthew 28:20
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Cleaning;
Bryan Griffin, founder of Patriot Maids Cleaning Services, told HuffPost that his team is there to clean the space, not organise it. “When everything is picked up, they can actually focus on scrubbing, dusting, and disinfecting instead of moving piles around,” he said. “It makes a noticeable difference in the final result.”
Also, if you have any post, documents or other important papers lying around, be sure to stash those in a secure place so they don’t end up in a random drawer where you can’t find them – or worse, in the bin by mistake.
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Thought for the Day: The historical Jesus was guarded in declaring his identity but by the time the Fourth Gospel was written, Christians had arrived at a rich understanding of the mystery of Jesus, the Son of God. John’s Gospel puts before the believer a grand assemblage of 7 I AM sentences, rooted in the name of God in Exodus 3:14, I am who I am. I am the bread of life. (Jn 6:35, 48, 51); I am the light of the world (Jn 8:12; 9:5); I am the gate for the sheep (Jn 10:7, 9); I am the good shepherd (Jn 10:11, 14); I am the resurrection and the life (Jn 11:25); I am the way, and the truth, and the life (Jn 14:6); I am the true vine (Jn 15:1, 5). We are reminded that we believe first of all in a person, not in a philosophy. Any one of these images would take us deeply into our encounter with the Risen Lord, none more so than “I am the resurrection and the life.” Prayer: Jesus, present to us always, you wept at the tomb of your friend Lazarus. As we face the mystery of death, our own and that of those we love, help us to place our trust in you, the resurrection and the life. Fr Kieran O’Mahony
Pope Leo XIV on X: On behalf of the Christians of the Middle East, and of all women and men of good will, I appeal to those responsible for this conflict: cease fire! May paths of dialogue be reopened! Violence can never lead to the justice, stability and peace for which the peoples are waiting.
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John Lynch collection Christmas concert Moyvane 2015
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John Lynch collection St Patrick's day parade Listowel 2002
https://youtu.be/2VwilSMXQuQ?si=w33G1KdRnvx5Dsve
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OIL:
You said- present oil crisis government urge all to reduce usage
Gemini said
The current oil crisis in March 2026 is being driven by a severe conflict in the Middle East, specifically centering on a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This transit point is responsible for approximately one-fifth of the world’s crude oil, and its effective closure has sent global energy markets into a tailspin.
Here is a breakdown of the current situation and the measures being urged by governments:
The 2026 Oil Shock: Key Facts
Price Surge: Brent crude oil surpassed $100 per barrel on March 8, 2026, for the first time in four years. Prices have since peaked as high as $126 per barrel, with some analysts warning they could hit $150 if the conflict persists.
Supply Disruption: Global oil supply is projected to plunge by 8 million barrels per day (mb/d) this month. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has described this as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
The Blockade: Iran’s military actions in the Strait of Hormuz have made the route "effectively closed" for many tankers due to the removal of war-risk insurance and direct attacks on merchant vessels.
Government & International Response
In response to the "unprecedented challenges," governments and international bodies have moved from monitoring to active intervention:
Historic Reserve Release: On March 11, 2026, IEA member countries (including the U.S., EU nations, and Japan) agreed to the largest coordinated emergency oil release in history—400 million barrels. This is more than double the amount released during the 2022 Ukraine crisis.
Urging Reduced Usage: Beyond releasing reserves, the IEA and the European Commission are pushing for immediate demand reduction. They argue that energy savings in high-consumption sectors (like aviation and heavy industry) and private households are the only "lasting impact" measures until shipping resumes.
Financial Protections: Some governments (notably in Ireland and parts of the UK) have extended VAT reductions on energy and expanded fuel allowances to shield low-income families from the 20–40% spikes seen at gas pumps.
How You Are Being Asked to Help
While specific mandates vary by country, the general "energy saving" guidance from 2026 policy papers includes:
Transport: Reducing non-essential travel and utilizing public transit where possible to lower gasoline and diesel demand.
Heating: Shifting toward more efficient energy use in homes (e.g., lower thermostat settings, improved insulation) to preserve heating oil stocks.
Aviation: Acknowledging and accepting widespread flight cancellations as airlines struggle with jet fuel shortages and rising costs.
What’s Next?
The IEA has stated that the 400-million-barrel release is a "stop-gap measure." The primary factor for stabilizing the market remains the safe reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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March 2026 update from Athea Community Council including update on Athea Community Council Building Project, Athea Playground, Graveyard Collection, Christmas Lighting and Funds.
(1)New Projects
*Athea Community Council Building Redevelopment*
We recently received the letter of offer for funding of €495,884 from the DRCD Town & Village Renewal Fund towards the cost of the redevelopment of the Athea Community Council Building which includes;
• Ground floor multi-use space including tea station, office and toilets. This room will have foldable walls so the room can be used/suitably divided for a variety of present and future needs
• Two story parish workshop to the rear for the development of Men/Women’s Shed and home for Athea CE Scheme
• Two bed apartment on Floor 1
The future use of this building was determined by the results of a feasibility study that was carried out in 2024. It is important to note that this funding only covers funding for multi-use spaces, and would not fund a single use space. With our Community Hall operating at almost full capacity this building will complement the offerings of community rental space available within our parish. We have already received expressions of interest from individuals/groups interesting in utilising this space once works are complete. We were also successful in securing funding of €86,364 from the SSE Renewables towards this project. This leaves us with a shortfall of funding of €115,000. We are hopeful of also receiving funding from the Housing Department to cover the costs associated with fitting out the two bed apartment and making it available for social housing. The total cost of the project is estimated to be €697,564.00 with a project completion date of Qtr 1 2028.
*Athea Playground – Inclusive Community Recreation Project*
Initiated in 2023 following a public meeting attended by over 150 residents, the project responds to a clear local need. Athea currently has no accessible playground or recreation facilities, despite nearly 200 children attending the local primary school, including three autism classrooms and several preschool groups.
The project is based on an All-Abilities philosophy, integrating inclusive design throughout the playground rather than separating “special needs” equipment. Planned features include a wheelchair-accessible swing, accessible trampoline, sensory walls, communication boards, and a quiet sensory garden. The space is also designed for intergenerational use, with walking routes, seating areas, outdoor fitness elements, and a community garden to encourage social interaction and engagement with nature.
A multi-use all-weather sports pitch will support year-round activity for both youth and adults. Supporting infrastructure will include a 20-space car park with accessible bays, EV chargers, universal design pathways, and a WC/utility building to ensure accessibility and long-term usability.
Since the project began, the committee has been working extensively behind the scenes to move the development forward. This has involved preparing detailed grant applications, liaising with representatives from Limerick County Council, and engaging with engineers, architects, playground designers, construction specialists, and contractors to ensure the project is properly planned and delivered to the highest standards.
The project is being delivered under the governance of Athea Community Council (CLG), providing strong financial and administrative oversight. The initiative remains debt-free and is supported through community fundraisers, a weekly lotto, philanthropic donations, and grant funding. Confirmed funding to date includes €100,000 from Mayor Moran, €65,000 through CLÁR 2025, and €50,000 from SSE Renewables, with further applications planned for LEADER, the JP McManus Fund, and the National Lottery.
Land access for the development has now been secured. As of March 9th 2026, the community has been granted a 30-year lease for the 1.28-acre site located north of Hillside Drive, ensuring a long-term home for the facility.
The committee is currently awaiting playground design proposals from Kompan, which are being developed based on feedback gathered through a community survey conducted in October 2024.
Delivery of the project will follow a three-phase plan:
Phase 1: Site access and groundworks, including entrance upgrades, car parking, and EV charging infrastructure.
Phase 2: Construction of the inclusive playground, safety surfacing, sensory features, and landscaping.
Phase 3: Development of the all-weather sports pitch, perimeter fencing, and WC/utility building.
(2) Ongoing Projects
*Christmas Lighting*
Athea was well illuminated throughout the Christmas period. Thanks to Haulie and Ian Liston for once again installing the lighting for us. We were delighted to receive support towards the Christmas lighting this year from The Fealy Family Knockdown and Enright Kitchens. The total cost of the Christmas Lighting this year was €1786.29 (ESB, Installation & replacement bulbs), with donations of €600 received. We have also submitted receipts for same to Limerick City & County Council Christmas Street Lighting Grant. Our plan is to review our Christmas lighting for the 2026 festive period and look into sustainable lighting options going forward.
*Graveyard Collection*
Thank you to everyone who contributed towards the Graveyard Collection 2025. The total amount collected was €2078. The first project for 2026 will involve the washing & painting of the wall at the Giants Garden leading up to the graveyard. This will commence when weather conditions allow.
(3) Funds
Current balance of ACC Accounts at time of update
Athea Community Council Fund - €67,130.98
Athea Graveyard Fund - € 10,491.33
Athea Playground Fund – €14,155.75
Athea Community Council has also drafted a Financial Management Policy which will guide us in implementing good governance controls. The 2024 & 2025 Accounts are currently being prepared by our Auditor Michael Dooley in preparation for our AGM in the next few weeks (date to be confirmed). All accounts/ receipts are available for inspection at any time by any member of the community wishing to do so.
We would encourage everyone to support our weekly draw which is the main fundraiser for ACC’s activities. The jackpot is currently €29,800. 12 month or 6 month subscription options are also available to purchase. Thanks to those of you who support our weekly draw, and our loyal sellers, we continue to build up our funds in the hope of having the match funding in place, and to continue to support the ongoing projects of ACC. As per our permit, our jackpot can only reach €30,000. If this jackpot is reached, we plan to offer further lucky dip prizes per week.
The current directors of ACC are Donal de Barra, Damien Ahern, Lal Browne, Julie Moloney and Stephanie Barrett. ACC would greatly benefit from some new members joining the committee to continue to build on the positive development of our parish. Please contact any member of the committee or email [email protected] for further information. Ní neart go cur le chéile
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Lent;
“Where are you from?” is one of the first questions asked when meeting someone new. It may give a clue as to whether we have something in common or what interests of type of personality that person may have.
In today’s Gospel, the inhabitants of Jerusalem thought the Messiah would appear suddenly on the scene from some mysterious nowhere. And so, since they assumed they knew Jesus’ background, they figured he couldn’t be their Messiah. Jesus’ true origin was the Father, but his making that claim was seen as blasphemy and soon it became his death sentence.
As brothers and sisters of Christ, we, too, have a heavenly Father. And how we make that claim — reveal that truth to others — is by living our lives based on what Jesus has taught us.
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Prayer For Lent
Bless me heavenly Father
forgive my erring ways.
Grant me the strength to serve Thee
put purpose in my days.
Give me understanding
enough to make me kind.
So I may judge all people
with my heart and not my mind.
Teach me to be patient
in everything I do.
Content to trust your wisdom
and to follow after You.
Help me when I falter
and hear me when I pray
and receive me in Thy kingdom
to dwell with Thee someday.
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Thought for the Week: Come forth!
The best fertiliser stinks. It is out of that very stink that something amazing
grows. So, it is with us: it is the dead and decaying parts of our lives, the
rotting resentments, blistering wounds of old hurts, and festering fears that
are the points where we are most likely to be able to experience something
new. The only way that happens is to bring them into the light of the day,
unbind them, and set them free – just as Lazarus was unbound and set free
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JOURNEY WITH US THROUGH LENT
Each Week we will have a different theme as we try to deepen our
faith commitment . This week we focus on Family. The following
might be helpful for your own private prayer and reflection, as well as
a focus in our Masses for the time ahead.
5TH WEEK OF LENT: FAMILY
Mon: We pray for the gift of Family
Tues: We pray for our own role in the family
Wed: We pray for legislators that they protect the family
Thurs: We pray for healing of the broken families
Fri: We pray for families who are carrying the burden of illness
Sat: We pray for all emigrant families who have come among us
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REFLECTION
I believe in death.
I believe that it is part of life.
I believe we were born to die,
to die that we may live more fully;
born to die a little each day
to selfishness, to pretence, and to sin.
I believe that every time we pass
from one stage to another,
something in us dies and something new is born.
I believe we taste death in moments of loneliness,
rejection, sorrow, disappointment, and failure.
I believe that we are dying before our time
when we live in bitterness, in hatred, and in isolation.
I believe that each day we are creating our own death
by the way we live.
for those with faith, death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
FINAL BLESSING
Lord God, through the resurrection of your Son, you have kindled in our hearts
the hope of eternal lives. Guard this hope with your grace, and bring it to fulfilment in
the kingdom of heaven. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
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Uruguay bets on wind and hydro
After the financial crisis in 2008, unease about a reliance on oil and gas imports was what drove Uruguay to go all in on renewables.
Two decades ago, the small South American country with a population of 3.5 million embarked on a plan to phase fossil fuels out of its power grid by rapidly expanding wind farms.
Today, more than 90% of the country's electricity comes from renewables — mainly wind, solar, hydropower and biofuels. That figure has reached 98% in some particularly wet and windy years.
"It shows us that a 100% renewable electricity grid is fully possible," said Adib, adding that Uruguay has managed to do so without the massive amounts of storage required for when the sun isn't shining and wind isn't blowing.
https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-roils-oil-trade-casting-doubt-on-us-fossil-fuel-push/a-76294122
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POLLUTION: India's environment ministry has told state pollution boards to let restaurants and hotels temporarily switch to biomass (wood, dried crops, animal manure), fuel pellets, kerosene and coal for a month, prioritising cooking gas for households and essential sectors.
Government programmes have rapidly expanded LPG use for cooking in India, replacing kerosene and traditional biomass like firewood and dung. But with 60% of its LPG imported, India is now the world's second-largest importer after China.
The shift is stark: kerosene output has fallen from 7.5 million tonnes in 2014–15 to under one million tonnes in 2023–24, government data shows.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d6vyy9v61o?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb
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Lent
In today’s Gospel, the authorities scoff at those who think this preaching, miracle-working Galilean could possibly be the Messiah.
The Messiah has since appeared from more improbable places than Galilee, and in more improbable guises than a poor carpenter’s son. St. Francis of Assisi saw him in a leper; St. Vincent de Paul saw him in the poor of Paris; St. Teresa saw him in those dying on the streets of Calcutta. We can see him shuffling up the aisle in church at Communion time, begging at an intersection, or in any one of more than eight billion faces on this earth.
After all, Jesus tells us in Matthew 25:40, “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”
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CLIMATE: By Mark Saludes, LiCAS News
Catholic bishops from Africa, Asia, and Latin America have called on governments to adopt a global treaty to halt fossil fuel expansion and guide a just transition to renewable energy.
The appeal is contained in the “Manifesto of the Churches of the Global South for our Common Home,” issued by continental episcopal bodies representing the Catholic Church across the Global South, with accompanying support from church leaders in Europe and Oceania.
In the document sent to LiCAS News, the Bishops say communities across Africa, Latin America, and Asia are already experiencing the consequences of climate change and unsustainable economic systems.
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Irish American heritage month
ST. PATRICK’S BATTALION OF THE MEXICAN ARMY
St. Patrick’s Battalion of The Mexican Army (Batallón de San Patricio) was made up primarily of Irish Catholic immigrants (along with some Germans and Poles). They deserted the US Army to join the Mexicans in the Mexican – American War (1846-1848). These men fled the Great Hunger in Ireland and joined the US Army. They deserted because of ill-treatment rooted in anti-Catholic sectarianism. Many also felt the US war with Mexico was unjust. The battalion was commanded by Captain John Riley; who gained experience in the British and US Armies. Riley came from Clifden, Co. Galway. They served as an artillery unit for much of the war. Despite later being formally designated as two infantry companies, it still retained artillery pieces throughout the conflict.
The end of the San Patricios came at the battle of Churubusco, a vicious fight that signaled the end of the war and ended only after hand-to-hand combat inside the walls of a Catholic convent. Ulysses Grant said it was the most hard-fought battle of the entire war.
The US Army considered them traitors and a total of 50 were executed by hanging by the order of General Winfield Scott after their capture on three separate occasions. The U.S. government denied the existence of the San Patricios for more than 60 years, in large part to cover up the high rate of desertions during the Mexican-American War. “I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on Mexico,” Ulysses Grant wrote decades later. “I thought so at the time, yet I lacked the moral courage to resign.”
They are considered National Martyrs and heroes in Mexico. They are honored every St. Patrick’s Day and September 12, the accepted anniversary of their executions.
The Mexican Government erected a monument to Major John Riley in Clifden, Co. Galway as a gift. The San Patricio monument at San Jacinto Plaza in Mexico City reads in Spanish:
“In memory of the Irish soldiers of the heroic St. Patrick’s Battalion, Martyrs who gave their lives for the cause of Mexico during the unjust North American (US) Invasion Of 1847.”
From The History of Ireland in Song by Kevin B. Westley T.M.R.F.
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Reflect
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” What response does this preaching of Jesus require?
Today’s Gospel answers by describing the responses of Peter, Andrew, James and John. They heard Jesus say, “Follow me!”
Understand that Jesus didn’t simply call these men to leave part-time jobs they’d taken on the side. They weren’t just on duty as fishermen. They were fishermen. This identity was central to their self-understanding.
These men also left their families. As we see, Jesus first met James and John as they were working alongside their father, Zebedee. Peter and Andrew were also brothers.
It’s safe to say that, in first-century Galilee, these men would never imagine themselves as anything but fishermen.
O God, help us to answer your Son’s call without hesitation.
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Rabbi David Wolpe
January 15, 2026 10:04 am
Several years ago, my book on King David was optioned for a movie by Warner Brothers. A few scripts were written and then it fell into the void of Hollywood projects that languish for eternity. The studio concluded it just wasn’t the right time for a major biblical epic.
Apparently, it is now.
Several shows about David are suddenly dotting the streaming landscape. There is an animated film, a forthcoming docudrama and a streaming TV show. Why the sudden surge of interest in the ancient Israelite king?
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Indian health officials are scrambling to contain a deadly virus after five cases of the incurable disease were detected near one of the country's biggest cities.
The bat-borne Nipah virus has been identified in West Bengal, close to the state capital Kolkata, India's third-most populous city, prompting urgent contact tracing and quarantines.
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The team is tracing contacts of the two patients and testing all those who may have been exposed to the virus.
“As of now, we are yet to pinpoint how these nurses caught the infection, but their condition remains critical,” a source in the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) under the health ministry said.
This is the ninth recorded outbreak of Nipah virus in India since it was first identified in Malaysia in 1999.
The first two Indian outbreaks were reported from West Bengal and were linked to the consumption of raw date palm sap.
Subsequently, between 2018 and 2025, outbreaks were reported almost annually from Kerala.
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India Kerala
On this Special Report, Maria Shakeel examines the deepening internal friction within the Congress party in Kerala ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. The focus is on
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Afghanistan claims lives
The UK suffered the second highest number of military deaths – 457 – in the Afghanistan conflict, behind the US, which saw 2,461 deaths.
In total, America’s allies suffered 1,160 deaths in the conflict, around a third of the total coalition deaths.
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ERIE Canal: History Oasis
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The Erie Canal transformed the United States when it opened in 1825. This 363-mile waterway connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie, creating the first navigable route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Before the canal, transporting goods over the Appalachian Mountains was expensive and slow—a journey from New York to Cleveland took two and a half weeks by land. The canal cut transportation costs by 95 percent and reduced travel time dramatically.
Construction began in 1817 under New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, despite critics calling it "Clinton's Folly." The project required innovative engineering solutions from surveyors and engineers who had little formal training. Workers—many of them Irish immigrants—built the canal using basic tools, animal power, and newly developed techniques like hydraulic cement. The entire project cost $7.143 million and took eight years to complete, finishing ahead of pessimistic predictions.
The canal's impact was immediate and profound. Toll revenue covered the state's construction debt within the first year. New York City became the nation's dominant port, while canal cities like Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse experienced explosive growth. Buffalo grew from 200 settlers in 1820 to over 18,000 by 1840. The canal opened the Midwest to settlement and trade, fundamentally reshaping America's economic geography.
The Erie Canal peaked in 1855 with 33,000 commercial shipments. It remained competitive with railroads until 1902, when tolls were abolished. The canal was substantially rebuilt between 1905 and 1918 as the "Barge Canal," abandoning much of the original route. Commercial traffic declined in the twentieth century due to railroads, highways, and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Today, the 351-mile canal serves primarily recreational boaters and tourists.
The Erie Canal proved that ambitious infrastructure could unite a young nation and drive unprecedented prosperity. It demonstrated American engineering capability and established New York as the "Empire State." The canal's success sparked nationwide canal construction and elevated public respect for practical education and technical innovation.
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Lady Heath;
On November 17, 1886, Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in was born in Knockaderry County Limerick - a little village close to Newcastlewest.
She would later become one of the world’s leading aviators along with the likes of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, though her story is a little less known.
Growing up in the same village, June O’Sullivan never even heard about this world-famous pilot until she was in her 20s but the Kerry-based author and teacher has never forgotten her tragic beginning and, out of such adversity, her amazing achievements.
More; Kerry-based author June O’Sullivan hopes her new novel 'does justice' to the record-breaking pilot Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, who was later known as Lady Heath.
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Reflect:
When Jesus drove out demons, people usually responded with wonder and gratitude. But in today’s Gospel, scribes from Jerusalem accused Jesus of working for Satan himself.
Jesus gave no validating sign, but instead, responded with a commonsense argument, based on reason and logic, to counter their absurd claims.
Faith goes beyond reason but reason and common sense are neither unspiritual nor anti-spiritual. They’re God-given faculties to aid us in our faith.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), that great thinker and scholar, wrote: ‘‘Reason in man is rather like God in the world.’’ And St. Francis de Sales taught: ‘‘Natural reason is a good tree which God has planted in us; the fruits which spring from it cannot but be good.’’
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HEALED: In September 2025, Walker said she was visited by George Issa, a Lebanese friend who had been healed through the intercession of St. Charbel Makhlouf three years earlier. Issa brought with him a small vial of oil associated with the saint and encouraged her to pray for his intercession and anoint her wound with the oil.
The use of blessed oil has long been an established practice in the Eastern Christian tradition and continues to this day. In the case of St. Charbel, this ancient custom remains actively observed. Monks at the Monastery of Saint Maron in Annaya continue to bless oil using the saint’s relics and distribute it to the faithful who request his intercession for healing and other graces.
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John Moriarty in Killarney
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Knocknagoshel
Knocknagoshel will once again become a hub of reflection, conversation and community as the Body and Mind Philosophy Festival returns for its second year on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th January 2026.
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JOBS: More than 700,000 university graduates are out of work and claiming welfare benefits, new analysis by a think tank suggests.
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said 400,000 graduates were not in work and claiming Universal Credit, according to the latest statistics.
There were 240,000 graduates who said they could not work due to health reasons, the think tank said, with that figure having more than doubled since 2019.
The government says it is investing money in getting young people into work, and has commissioned a review into "what's holding the younger generation back".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1klry2rjm0o?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb
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Pause and reflect this Christmas at Limerick's very own labyrinth
Fr Frank O'Dea and Geraldine O'Sullivan, Dromcollogher Community Council, showing the Labyrinth outside Dromcollogher Church |PICTURE: Brendan Gleeson
Norma Prendville
19 Dec 2021 [email protected]
AT its best, the newly constructed labyrinth in Dromcollogher could bring spiritual ease and a quietening of the mind. But even if these gifts elude you, there is something good to be taken away from this latest addition to the town.
The Dromcollogher Labyrinth is a replica of the Medieval Pathway labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France and is built on the site of the former parochial house which was burned down in September 2008, just a stone’s throw from the church.
The big question, parish priest Fr Frank O’Dea explained, was what to do with the derelict site left behind.
That question was answered following a number of visits to the Glencomeragh House, a hermitage and house of prayer in Co Waterford once run by the Rosminians but now by the Waterford Lismore Diocese.
There is a replica of the Chartres labyrinth in the grounds of Glencomeragh House and Fr O’Dea found it impressive.
With the idea of a labyrinth now in mind, a delegation from the Pastoral Council and from the Community Council went to inspect and, according to Fr O’Dea, “were all of the same opinion”.
Generous funding from a Covid Resilience fund through Limerick City and County Council helped transform the idea into reality.
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Built of limestone and granite, the labyrinth is 42 feet in diameter but to complete the walk is almost one kilometre. A number of features make it uniquely Dromcollogher.
The starting slab, for example, is a hearth stone from the Costello family home, a family that gave long service to the local church and some terracotta tiles from the porch of the now-gone parochial house are inset nearby.
Labyrinths go back a long way. Some date from Neolithic Times and have existed in legend as well as in most religious traditions. In medieval times, the labyrinth in Chartres was designated a final stage in a pilgrimage. But as Fr O’Dea explained about the Dromcollogher one, it is Celtic. “It is religious but it can be neutral. It is about mindfulness and reflecting.”
For those who want to get the most out of the labyrinth or sacred path, Fr O’Dea explained the three stages of walking. the purgation or releasing as you walk to the centre, opening your heart, asking yourself ‘what do I need to let go of’. This is followed by illumination or receiving, as you enter the centre where you are advised to spend as much time as your want or need. This is the time to quiet your mind and just listen.
The third stage is union or returning where the journey out of the labyrinth is the time to reflect on your experience and to integrate what you have taken from it and bring it with you as you walk back into your life again.
Take a trip to Dromcollogher to experience it for yourself.
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Embattled Democrat Jay Jones, who spent recent weeks embroiled in a scandal surrounding violent text messages he sent in 2022, won Virginia’s off-year attorney general contest on Tuesday evening against GOP
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Submarine canyons are deep, large-scale incisions found on most of the world's continental margins. In Antarctica, canyons are widespread features driving mesoscale oceanographic processes with significant implications for global climate and circulation, connecting shallow to deep sedimentary processes and positively influencing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The understanding of their oceanographic, climatic, geological and ecological significance is limited by the detail, accuracy and extent of canyon inventory.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322725001331?via%3Dihub
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By Nicholas Waigwa
Kinshasa, 03 November, 2025 / 11:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The Catholic Church’s global development agency Caritas Internationalis (CI) is urging swift intervention to help the 21 million Congolese who are suffering from the “worsening funding crisis.”
In a statement on October 30 ahead of the just-concluded Paris Conference for Peace and Prosperity in the Great Lakes Region, CI expressed concern that out of the “more than 21 million people in dire need of humanitarian assistance today,” only 6.8 million are targeted in the United Nations’ revised Humanitarian Response Plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project, supported with funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, seeks to identify all of the conflict-related fatalities in Ireland between the opening shots of the Civil War on 28 June 1922 and the ceasefire and dump arms order on 24 May 1923.
https://www.ucc.ie/en/theirishrevolution/irish-civil-war-fatalities-project/
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Civil War Fatalities
Hayes, Cornelius, Newtownsandes- Occupation: Postman; Organisation: National Army
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Thought for the day: Today we celebrate the community of faith, being in communion with all the saints, a day of both thanksgiving and vision. Thanksgiving because of the example and inspiration of the saints, who have come to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. (Ephesians 4:13). Vision because our Gospel today describes the path we must take to make the same journey home to God. If we wish to join the saints both now and into eternity, we must make our own the “mission statement” of Jesus, which is the Sermon on the Mount and especially the opening invitation to true happiness.
Prayer: Jesus you are our teacher within and today we ask your help. Just as you have brought our brothers and sisters to full maturity in you, so also guide us and be with us as we walk your Way. By your grace, may we too be counted among the saints in the present moment and in the life to come. Amen. (Fr Kieran O’Mahony)
Why Sunday Matters – The Irish Catholic Bishops have published a Pastoral Letter on Why Sunday Matters – an invitation to reflect on Sunday Mass. It can be downloaded from, www.dioceseofkerry.ie There is also an accompanying video series entitled Sunday Mass – Digging Deeper,
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SUPERIOR: Kayley Hardiman 05 Nov 2025 8:00 AM
Email: [email protected]
A FORMER Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJ principal has been chosen as the new general superior of the Faithful Companions of Jesus, (FCJ) an international religious congregation with members serving around the world.
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But the bitter and paradoxical reality, again, is that although we might live in the age of “connectivity,” we are more lonely, more isolated, and more anxious than ever before. In his 2024 book, Jonathan Haidt called us — referring especially to children and teenagers — “the anxious generation.” In his 2025 Superbloom, Nicholas Carr tells the story of how our “technologies of connection [are] tear[ing] us apart.” In 2024 Anton Barba-Kay wrote about how we have been caught within a technological “web of our own making.” And before that, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam said that we are the age of those who go “bowling alone,” while MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle called us the generation that lives “alone, together.”
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MYANMAR:
Victoria Cardiel/CNA/Aci Prensa Vatican
November 5, 2025
Pope Leo XIV appealed on Wednesday for the international community not to abandon the people of Myanmar as the country remains gripped by civil war and severe humanitarian need. He made the appeal during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, which also included a catechesis on how the resurrection of Christ sheds light on suffering and death.
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CCAG: 50/50 – Mary P Casey, Foxfort
Thought for the Week: We are God’s living Temple.
As God’s temple, we’re called to live with integrity, charity, and faith. The
life-giving waters of Ezekiel remind us that God’s grace flows through us to
heal and renew others. We build this temple through acts of love,
forgiveness, and service, united with Christ, our cornerstone. On this feast,
let us recommit to being God’s holy temple
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By Francesca Pollio Fenton
Vatican City, 18 October, 2025 / 7:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan considered the “doctor of the poor.”
The canonizations, previously approved by the late Pope Francis, will be presided over by Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 19 at the Vatican. The group includes three women and four men, with two martyrs, three laypeople, and two founders of religious orders. Among them are Papua New Guinea’s first saint and the first two saints from Venezuela.
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Courtney Mares
By Courtney Mares
Vatican City, 13 November, 2024 / 1:35 pm (ACI Africa).
The Vatican and Microsoft have created a 3D digital model of St. Peter’s Basilica using the latest in artificial intelligence to offer a new way to experience the nearly 2,000-year history of the tomb of St. Peter.
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What implications does our round-the-clock world have on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being?
Experts agree that it is important to balance activity with rest. Physical, mental, and emotional strain depletes your energy and produces feelings of tension and fatigue. Rest gives your body a chance to replenish itself.
But there’s a spiritual component involved, too. Pope Benedict XVI warned: “The men and women in our technical age risk becoming victims of their own intellectual and technical achievements, ending up in spiritual barrenness and emptiness of heart.”
When we observe Sunday as a day of rest, it offers us physical and spiritual renewal. Sunday offers us the opportunity to reflect on the spiritual side of our existence, to appreciate our blessings, and to draw closer to God.
Set aside time this Sunday for prayer, family and true rest—attend Mass with intention, turn off distractions and remember your worth is found not in work, but in being God’s beloved.
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Our Local Studies Department is now providing free access to Find My Past’s ‘World’ subscription which includes an enormous collection of UK, US, Canadian, Australasian, colonial and other historical and genealogical records direct relating to the Irish Disapora.
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In Memory of Brendan
and Martin Mulvihill
This immersive, experiential week draws you into the heart of Glin, County Limerick, where the River Shannon meets the music of memory. Through song, story, and local voice, the week-long festival honors the enduring legacy of Brendan and Martin Mulvihill.
Brendan and Martin understood that traditional music is more than melody; it is the breath of a place, the echo of its people. Their lives were a testament to this truth. As sons of West Limerick, they carried its tunes in their bones—and when they crossed the ocean to America, they carried the spirit of the Shannon with them.
Their emigration did not mark a departure, but a widening of the circle. From concert halls to kitchen sessions, from classrooms to quiet moments of sharing, they passed on the music of Glin with reverence and joy. In their hands, the old tunes found new life—played, taught, composed, remembered.
Brendan, a masterful composer and gifted teacher, saw music as a living bridge between past and present, land and longing. He delved into the airs and dances of West Limerick, the ancient strains of O’Carolan, the songs his father once played—and gave them back to the world with grace and brilliance.
This week is a homecoming—not just to a place, but to a tradition. It invites all who gather to listen, to learn, and to celebrate the music that shaped two remarkable lives, and continues to ripple out, like the river itself, across time and tide. The goal is for this week to continue annually to ensure that musicians can share the legacy of Brendan and Martin Mulvihill for generations to come. Please consider supporting this trad week with a donation or membership as described further below.
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In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the majority of facilitating a two-track system of justice: One for those with the resources to challenge illegal actions, and a second where those without recourse are subjected to the president’s illegal whims. “The law-free zone that results from this Court’s near elimination of universal injunctions is not an unfamiliar archetype,” Jackson wrote. It is, she added, “eerily echoing history’s horrors” that “the zone of lawlessness the majority has now authorized will disproportionately impact the poor, the uneducated, and the unpopular.”
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Phyllis, the youngest of the Moriartys celebrates her 80th birthday today.
Care for family, community and nature is her simple lived philosophy. ❤️ Connection with the Earth and the rhythms of nature was not something Phyllis ever had to learn from books because she has lived it every day for 80 years.
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“After school one evening, when I was five or six years old my mother sent me back up to the village for sugar and soap.
Seeing me from the door of Brosnan's pub, Mikie Welsh the postman waved a letter at me. It had something big and soft in it. As soon as she felt it, my mother knew what it was, a nipple for Phyllis's bottle, and she was delighted, because this was during the war, and over the past few months not a nipple was to be found in Bally, Tarbert, Newtown or Listowel.
How strange, I thought, remembering it now, this mammalian aid to mammalian care for our own kind coming to us out of the London blitz.”
“Over the next three or four days I visited all our neighbours. I visited Phyllis and her family, the only one of us to have inherited my mother's wit, the fun of it, if not the Götterdammerung of it.”
John Moriarty – Nostos
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Limerick Library
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Our Local Studies Department is now providing free access to Find My Past’s ‘World’ subscription which includes an enormous collection of UK, US, Canadian, Australasian, colonial and other historical and genealogical records direct relating to the Irish Disapora.
These include census returns (UK 1841-1921 and USA 1790-1940), immigration and naturalization records, army registers, electoral lists, and occupational and institutional directories.
To book a research session contact the Local Studies Department directly :
☎️ 061-557727
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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
Scientists have uncovered the first paleontologically substantial amber deposit ever discovered in South America.
The deposit contains pieces of plant and animal material, or bio-inclusions, which paint an incredible picture of the Gondwana supercontinent 112 million years ago.
Researchers hope that further study of the site, along with comparison to other Gondwana landmasses (Antarctica, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand), will reveal new data about the Albian age during the Cretaceous period.
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John Stack pictures
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Weekly Newsletter
19th Sunday after Pentecost
19th October 2025
Dear Friends of Sacred Heart Church,
In today’s Epistle, Saint Paul exhorts us in a very particular way: ‘Brethren: Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, which has been created according to God in justice and holiness of truth.’ Indeed, from sons of sins and wrath that we were with the original sin at birth, we became by God’s grace and Baptism sons of light and of the Kingdom.
However, striving for our vocation to our holiness is a constant and uphill battle, requiring us to strive against the old man that tries to drag us into old or new bad habits that can tamper with our salvation. Let us pray the Holy Ghost that we may persevere in the ways of grace, so that fully reborn in a New Man in Christ, we may enjoy eternal life with Him.
World Mission Sunday
Today, being the fourth Sunday of October, is also known as World Mission Sunday. This is a special day of prayer for the Church, particularly focused on its missions of evangelisation around the world, so that we may, as disciples of Christ, support with our intercession for the continuous growth of the Church, so that the message of the Gospel may reach all nations and bring God’s grace and forgiveness to the ends of the Earth.
Therefore, today our usual prayer for the Holy Father will be replaced by a prayer For the Propagation of the Faith, or Pro Fidei Propagatione. Please join us in our prayers for the conversion of the world to the Truth of the Faith, asking particularly the intercession of Saint Therese, patroness of both our Institute and also all the missions in the world.
Next Sunday: Solemnity of Christ the King
As is prescribed by the traditional calendar and the provisional of the encyclical Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI, as the next Sunday–26th of
October – is the last of October and the last before All Saints’ Day, we will be celebrating the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King! It is, of course, a very date for us as it is the titular feast of our community, and a liturgical celebration that embodies in its institution the embodiment of our charism to bring the reign of Christ to the ends of the world.
As we want our mission to expand and grow, we turn–just like every year–towards assisting our International Seminary in Gricigliano near Florence, Italy, where our young seminarians (including our dear Irish vocations) are forming themselves today to be your priests of tomorrow. Our International Seminary runs exclusively on donations, with all of the expenses expected in an establishment with housing and superior education. During this Feast Day, we will have a second collection at the attention of the seminary after the Masses, at the back of the church. We humbly beg you the most of your generosity to help us in this occasion to help us continue and expand our mission!
We hope that you will be able to join us, as part of the family that is proud to reside and serve in the Sacred Heart Church. And, as is the case every year for this occasion, the Holy See grants a plenary indulgence to all the faithful who attend Mass at this feast in any of the churches or chapels of our Institute. Be sure to not miss this gift coming from the treasure of the Church!
Car for Galway Needed
We give thanks to Providence for having sent us more new priests to further assist us in our apostolate in the Irish Province! But of course, with new manpower at your service must unfortunately come more expenses to make sure our needs for the apostolate are met. Canon Poucin–the new Pro-Prior of our new house in Galway – will need to find an affordable that he can use to make the necessary travels for his apostolate. This means we are now looking for reasonable offers, and gather a few funds to pay for both the car and the insurance without taking financial a toll on our community.
If you have any information for a possibility of acquiring an used car for a reasonable price, we’d be very thankful to be informed. If you would like to help us cover these new expenses, please mention “Car” in your donation enveloppe.
Thank you very much for your generosity. May God bless you!
Community News
We would like to give thanks to God and Saint Therese for the wonderful pilgrimage we’ve had last week to Lisieux, as well as to Mount Saint-Michel and other beautiful places and shrines around Normandy. May it bring forth to us many graces for more vocations for our community, but also for our conversion and sanctification!
We also give thanks for the beautiful First Mass that Canon Bunnens celebrated for us last Sunday. Right now, he is in the North to celebrate a First Mass and temporarily assist our apostolate in Belfast.
Canon Duarte is leaving once again this week, this time to go to the convent of our Sisters Adorers in France, to make his annual retreat.
We would appreciate any prayers of intercession that you could spare, particularly during this beautiful month of the Rosary, for the good success and safety of these trips and retreat, so that we may be filled with new energy to serve you. Please feel free to join us whenever you can in the Rosaries that we’re reciting every day before the Most Blessed Sacrament exposed.
Wishing you a blessed week,
Canon Lebocq
Prior of Sacred Heart Church
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UNHOUSED: Jan 7, 2022 CNBC
The Covid pandemic caused a surge in housing costs and a rise in unemployment, leaving nearly 600,000 Americans unhoused in 2020. So how is the U.S. addressing the homelessness crisis and can the current housing first policy approach solve it?
“What people don’t typically realize when they walk past a person who’s homeless is that this person is costing taxpayers a lot of money,” said Sam Tsemberis, chief executive officer at Pathways Housing First Institute.
In 2019, New York City spent a record-breaking $3 billion to support its homeless population. California is also expected to break its record, allocating $4.8 billion to the same issue over the next two years.
Despite the rising budget, overall homelessness in the U.S. has improved by only 10% compared with 2007. It’s even worse for certain subgroups, such as individual homelessness, which dropped by only 1% in the same period.
https://youtu.be/VMjTKbUTaMs?si=7MckUfqDvvcSh9NO
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Our Best Stuff From Another Week of the Government Shutdown
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Abraham and Isaac
Kevin D. Williamson
John Brown, a father of 20 who outlived all but eight of his children, left three dead sons on the battlefields of his war of liberation: one at Osawatomie in 1856, two at Harpers Ferry. Another escaped to exile in sunny California, thereby adding another great American archetype to the Brown family collection. Brown’s first wife died in childbirth, with Brown’s seventh child, another son, dying with her. Abraham Lincoln had four sons and lost two of them before his own assassination: 3-year-old Eddie died of tuberculosis in 1850, and then 11-year-old Willie was lost to typhoid fever while Lincoln served in the White House. (A third Lincoln son, Tad, died a few years after his father at 18 years of age.)
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1822. Lord Bantry not renewing lease of any of his Tenantry involved in Smuggling.https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=25396&action=edit
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West Cork History
https://durrushistory.com/
West Cork History
Smuggling in West Cork
By durrushistory on October 18, 2025
Re smuggling in the 17th century it is worth recalling the context.
After the end of the English Civil War when Parliament prevailed there was a strong view that the English army should be abolished as they might present a threat to the new dispensation. The compromise was a largely reduced army with a standing garrison of 15,000 to be based in new barracks in Ireland. This was to be a charge on the Irish Exchequer. The building of these barracks gave arise to the Irish Barack towns, many of which only closed in the last 30 or so years. So whenever an old lad in the 1740s had a smathán or smoked his pipe not only was he contributing to the British occupation of Ireland but paying for their garrison.
Clearly when the ‘legal’ price of excitable items excess the market price by a wide margin the opportunities for smuggling are immense
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VICTIMHOOD: The problem is compounded by the victimhood status that feminism has granted to women - that any woman, as a minority, is a victim or oppressed, while any man, just by being male, is an oppressor. These clearly Marxist categories not only blur reality, but also provide a hiding place for women when their bad behaviour is called out, with many oscillating between brazen actions and victimhood status justifying bad behaviour.
So how, then, do we help women out of this cycle or to avoid it altogether? Here are five ways.
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LADY HUNT:
Lady Hunt was the first woman who ever brought livestock across the Atlantic by herself.
An account of her extraordinary achievements was reported in the Belfast Letter of September 20, 1906. Lady Hunt stated ‘since I was 20 years of age, I have been facing the battle of life by myself. As long as I can remember I have had a roving disposition and have been fond of two things - horses and the sea. By the age of 24, I had rounded the Horn of Africa, and I was a volunteer night staff nurse during the Boer War. A few months later, I went to Australia in a sailing boat, returning in another vessel. I returned to Ireland for two years and then I sailed with my husband to Nagasaki. For five months we cruised in Japanese waters, visiting many places never before visited by Europeans. Upon my return I was a nurse at Liverpool and at the Dudley-Guest Hospital, Worcestershire.’
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So, what is GitHub? It’s where over 100 million developers create, share, and ship the best code possible. It’s a place for anyone, from anywhere, to build anything—it’s where the world builds software.
What is GitHub?:https://gh.io/AArrfxs
Want to see the audio descriptive version? Head here • What is GitHub - Audio descriptive version
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Great Irish Fair
Jerry Forest Memorial Award 2016
September 21, 2016
Presented in the name of a founder of the Irish American Building Society. Jerry Forest and the Irish American Building Society were an integral part of the revitalization of the Great Irish Fair. He was a man who loved Ireland and was dedicated to the Irish cause. The award is given to a person who is recognized for leadership and service to family, friends and community.
Civil engineering designer Caitlin Bowen is receiving the Jerry Forest Memorial Award.
https://thetablet.org/jerry-forest-memorial-award-2016/
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Born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1833, young Margaret Mary Healy and her family found passage to the United States to escape the famine when she was 12. Her mother already having died, her father died shortly after the family arrived, and Healy was taken by relatives from Virginia to Texas to Mexico.
She married newspaper editor John Murphy at age 16. She returned to Texas and ministered to yellow fever victims as far as 35 miles away.
Settling in Corpus Christi, Texas, before the start of the Civil War, Healy Murphy cooked meals for those in need. After the war, a yellow fever outbreak hit the city, claiming the life of her parish pastor. The daughter of another victim was entrusted to Healy Murphy, who had been caring for the woman.
She and her husband also accepted into their home a niece whose parents had died and paid for the education of the girls, both of whom became nuns.
After her husband died, Healy Murphy opened a tuberculosis sanitorium in Corpus Christi and, after a request by some priests, used her own funds to establish a school for Black children.
After moving to San Antonio, she built the first church and school for Black Catholics in the city and founded a religious order in 1893 known then as the Sisters of the Holy Ghost, whose charism is “manifesting the compassion of Jesus to the poor.”
As foundress of her order, she became Mother Murphy. She died in 1907 at age 74. The order continues to serve in the United States and Zambia.
https://thetablet.org/bishops-give-their-ok-to-advance-sainthood-causes-of-three-u-s-catholics/
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BUSHWICK — For more than six decades, Msgr. James Kelly’s law office on Wyckoff Avenue has handled standing-room-only crowds of clients seeking U.S. citizenship. So, it is not surprising that in the days following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, this 87-year-old diocesan priest from Limerick, Ireland, has become an interview “get” for multiple news outlets. Just look at his appointment calendar.
A Feb. 19 interview with The Tablet followed reports by Currents News, EWTN, and the New York Times. An interview with another newspaper was set for Feb. 20. Journalists want to know Msgr. Kelly’s take on Trump 2.0’s immigration plans, but he doesn’t have much to tell them — at least not yet.
https://thetablet.org/district-three-immigration-services-bushwick-msgr-james-kelly/
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In 1870, Bishop John Loughlin, the first bishop for the Diocese of Brooklyn, created St. John’s in Brooklyn with help from Vincentian fathers. In the 1950s, the campus moved to the Hillcrest neighborhood of Queens. The university now has satellite campuses in Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, while international campuses are open in Rome, Paris, and Limerick, Ireland.
The university offers more than one hundred degree programs to its current enrollment of 15,700 undergrads and 4,450 graduate students; 1,400 full and part-time faculty members teach them.
https://thetablet.org/it-was-like-an-answer-to-a-prayer-for-me/
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MARY: Jesus says that those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed and included in his family of disciples. Mary fits this description. From the very beginning, she accepts God’s word and calls herself the servant of the Lord.
When Mary visits Elizabeth as soon as she learns of her pregnancy, not only will Elizabeth call Mary blessed for believing God’s word, but Mary herself will say that all generations will call her blessed. Similarly, like a good disciple who hears God’s word and keeps it, Mary will “keep in her heart” the angel’s joyous message at Jesus’ birth and Jesus’ words to her when she finds him in the Temple.
In the Gospel of John, Mary is also presented as a disciple. This is seen in the story of Marriage Feast at Cana. She not only informs her son that they "have no wine" but informs the waiters, "Do whatever he tells you."
Mary witnesses to Jesus not only by getting him to perform a sign (turning water into wine). She also encourages others to do what Jesus asks of them. Every would-be disciple of Jesus is called to do likewise.
As the Church marks its Jubilee of Marian Spirituality Oct. 11-12, let us deepen our prayer with Mary and imitation of her witness.
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SOUTH America; In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, or FSLN) overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ending a forty-two-year-old family dynasty and marking the first time that socialist revolutionaries seized control of a Latin American country since the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
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CARBON: The average person today produces 11 times more carbon emissions than someone in 1961. From driving gas-powered cars and running air conditioning to eating red meat and wasting electricity, nearly everything we do leaves a carbon footprint.
https://greencitizen.com/blog/how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint/
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GREEN: According to the Global Footprint Network, we currently consume more resources per year than our planet can produce in the same timeframe. Their calculations show that it takes the planet 18 months to regenerate everything that we use in a 12 month period. In 2024,
https://en.reset.org/reducing-your-carbon-footprint-a-how-to-guide/
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TINY Homes: One study of tiny homes in Australia–which has the second-largest houses in the world after the US–found that tiny homes can reduce per-person carbon emissions by 70 percent over its lifespan compared to a traditional home. For a traditional home to achieve lower per-person emissions than a tiny house, at least 10 people would need to live there
https://ideas.ted.com/impact-of-tiny-homes-on-the-environment-and-affordable-housing/
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Uncovering Irish American history at Notre Dame
Patrick Griffin, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, looks at some of the "Irish surprises" housed at the Indiana university.
Patrick Griffin @IrishCentral Dec 18, 2024
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/irish-american-history-notre-dame
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Griffin Search
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IRISH in USA: There are Irish, it seems, in every corner of every school that we researched. And Irish
Studies programs are springing up all over the country, chock full of eager students wanting to immerse themselves in all things Irish. There really is nothing like flavoring a higher education with some Irish spice. I graduated from Adelphi University on Long Island in 1987 – the university’s president, Robert A. Scott, is one of our Education 100 honorees – and was eager to learn as much
about Ireland as I could.
https://www.irishcentral.com/documents/IrishVoice_IrishEducation100_2009.pdf
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The potential for solar energy to be harnessed as solar power is enormous, since about 200,000 times the world’s total daily electric-generating capacity is received by Earth every day in the form of solar energy. Unfortunately, though solar energy itself is free, the high cost of its collection, conversion, and storage still limits its exploitation in many places. Solar radiation can be converted either into thermal energy (heat) or into electrical energy, though the former is easier to accomplish.
Uses; https://www.britannica.com/science/solar-energy
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... Kennelly, Paul Durcan, and Paula Meehan. The Irish Writers' Centre and Poetry Ireland actively promote contemporary literature in prose and verse. Bloomsday ...
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Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de
Contributed by McCabe, Desmond
Strzelecki, Sir Paul Edmund de (1797–1873), explorer and humanitarian, was born 20 July 1797 into the Polish aristocracy in Prussian-occupied Poland, the son of Francis Strzelecki and his wife Anna (née Raczynski). The family went into exile in the UK in the early 1800s. Strzelecki was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, matriculated (1815) at Oxford, and graduated Bachelor of Arts (1820). He lived the life of a gentleman of independent means in England until 1834, when he set out on a privately funded expedition of inquiry to China and the Far East.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/strzelecki-sir-paul-edmund-de-a8359
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O'Daly, Daniel (Dominic; Domingos do Rosario)
While in Madrid he obtained the consent of King Philip IV to establish a college for Irish Dominicans in Lisbon with the assurance of financial stability. The founding of Corpo Santo, first as a hospice for the clerics returning to Ireland, and subsequently as a seminary and college for Irish Dominican students, was central to O'Daly's aspirations. He was further inspired to found in Belém, near Lisbon, a convent for Irish women, forbidden by civil law to establish convents in Ireland. As part of the agreement with Philip IV, O'Daly went back to Munster to recruit a body of Irish soldiers for Spanish service. This arrangement earned for the convent the reputation that it was ‘purchased with Irish blood’. A Lisbon widow, the countess of Atalya, endowed it handsomely and the convent of Bom Sucesso came into existence, 12 November 1639. It remains (2004) with its large school the oldest Irish Dominican convent.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/odaly-daniel-dominic-domingos-do-rosario-a6665
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O'Rahilly, Michael Joseph (‘The O'Rahilly’)
O'Rahilly, Michael Joseph (‘The O'Rahilly’) (1875–1916), nationalist and journalist, was born at Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, on 22 April 1875, third child and only son of Richard Rahilly, businessman and magistrate, and his wife, Ellen (née Mangan); his father claimed collateral descent…...
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Raymond
West, Sir Raymond (1832–1912), Indian civil servant and judge, was born 18 September 1832 at Ballyloughrane, Co. Kerry, son of Frederick Henry West, journalist, and his wife Frances, daughter of Richard Raymond of Ballyloughrane.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/west-sir-raymond-a8973
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Dear Friends of Sacred Heart Church,
Today, we celebrate with great solemnity the Feast of Christ the King, a major solemnity for
our community in the Holy Catholic Church.
This feast, proclaimed by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Quas Primas, calls us to acknowledge the sovereign reign of Christ over all nations and hearts: Jesus Christ is not only the King of the universe but also the rightful ruler over every aspect of human life. At our seminary, this time of year is dedicated to reading this major encyclical in the teaching of the Church.
At the end of today’s Mass, we will have Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, accompanied by the Litanies of the Sacred Heart and the recitation of the Act of Consecration of the human race to the Sacred Heart. There will be no 12 noon catechism today.
By attending this Mass, you may gain a plenary indulgence under the usual conditions.
As previously announced, today’s feast is also an opportunity to extend special support for the priestly vocation of our community. A second collection will be taken at the end of Mass to benefit our seminary. Abbé Lally, our resident seminarian, will be present at the back of the church with a basket for your donations. Kindly use an additional weekly donation envelope and label it “Seminary” to ensure your contribution goes toward this important cause.
In recent days, I have been blessed to lead a group of 17 pilgrims on a journey through France. We visited the Cathedral of Chartres, celebrated Mass at the Carmel of Alençon and the birthplace of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. We then culminated our pilgrimage in Lisieux, where we joined hundreds of other pilgrims in prayer for vocations. On the final day, I had the privilege of celebrating Sunday Mass in Port-Marly, near Versailles.
While my dear Irish pilgrims flew back to cloudy Dublin, I continued on to the south of France to lead a chant workshop for the Dominican Sisters in St. Maximin la Sainte Baume. This is a place of deep reverence as it is home to the relics of St. Mary Magdalene. This might well be a destination for an upcoming pilgrimage!
Please also join me in keeping Abbé Malinowski’s mother in your prayers. Abbé Malinowski has traveled to Canada to be with her during a serious illness, and we pray for her complete and speedy recovery.
As we approach the end of October, I encourage everyone to make a special effort to attend the daily recitation of the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament at 5:00 pm.
This coming week will be particularly eventful from a liturgical standpoint.
On Friday, we will celebrate the Feast of All Saints, a Holy Day of Obligation in Ireland, which also coincides with First Friday. Then, on Saturday, we enter the month of November with the Commemoration of All Souls. We invite you to join us for the 10:30 am Requiem Mass, followed by the Absolution for the Faithful Departed.
The month of November is a time dedicated to the souls in purgatory, and I urge all of us to continue praying fervently for them throughout the month. Each year, I find this devotion becomes increasingly important, as it calls us to an even deeper sense of compassion and charity for those who have gone before us.
You still have time this week to update your November list of the dead. Please take note of the dates for the Requiem Masses and the Novena for the Holy Souls, which will be offered throughout November.
Next Sunday, November 3rd, children are invited to dress up as their favorite Saint, and we’ll have fun guessing who they are! For this reason, there will be no catechism.
Join us for this joyful celebration—see you there!
Canon Lebocq
Prior of Sacred Heart Church
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Climate; https://youtu.be/3XNQFqUwCnU?si=OorRL31BywZi1FHe
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Brett & Kate McKay • October 28, 2024
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love,” Charlie Brown once said. Indeed, being spurned by one’s crush, or, for that matter, by a friend or potential employer, not only ruins the taste of one’s favorite sandwich spread, but causes great psychological distress and even physical pain.
Here to walk us through one of life’s worst feelings is Mark Leary, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, and the editor of Interpersonal Rejection. Today on the show, Mark unpacks the experience of social rejection, including why we’re so sensitive to it and the emotions and behaviors it causes, which can be positive and prosocial or maladaptive and even violent. We discuss the role that is played by the sociometer, a concept Mark originated, in monitoring our social acceptance and rejection and what influences its sensitivity to fluctuations in your relational value. And Mark offers advice on how to remove some of the sting of rejection and civilly reject others.
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By Jonah McKeown
CNA Staff, Oct 28, 2024 / 16:05 pm
Tropical Storm Trami (also known as Typhoon Kristine) moved over the Philippines in recent days leaving more than 150 people dead and entire communities ravaged by flooding and mudslides.
Trami hit the island of Luzon, which includes the capital Manila, bringing two months’ worth of rain to some areas in just 24 hours. It made landfill at the Vietnamese city of Danang on Sunday after crossing the South China Sea.
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By John Harrington
A letter detailing the first reference of Gaelic games being played outside of Ireland is part of the Foundations to Future exhibition currently on display at the GAA Museum in Croke Park.
The letter, dated in 1747, was sent by the Marquis de Lostanges, a French brigadier, to Colonel Richard Warren of the Irish Brigade, who served the King of France at the time, and reveals that hurling was played in France by members of the Irish Brigade.
The Irish Brigade was formed in 1692 in the wake of the Williamite war between King James 2nd and William of Orange.
After the Treaty of Limerick came what was known as the ‘Flight of the Wild Geese’ when Patrick Sarsfield and the Jacobite army loyal to King James were forced to leave Ireland.
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Yet if Creagh’s sole concern was what he perceived to be the economic exploitation of the poor through ‘usurious percentage’, he needed have looked no further than his own flock. Limerick’s leading private lenders were Christians and ‘the credit extended by non-Jewish traders … dwarfed that supplied’ by Jews.[10]
Creagh claimed in his first sermon that Limerick’s Mayor’s Court of Conscience (where small debts were recovered) had become ‘a special court for the whole benefit of the Jews’, who had taken 337 actions there in 1902 and 226 in 1903. These figures cannot be verified as the court ledgers for 1900-1908 have, mysteriously, been lost.
What is clear is that an analysis of this court’s records for the periods prior to and post-1904 (viz. 1895/99 and 1909/17) indicates that Jewish traders were not then over-represented in terms of summonses issued.
https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/revisiting-the-limerick-pogrom-of-1904/
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Despite its overly dramatic name (violence compared to that in Eastern Europe was minor), the “Limerick Pogrom” marked a dark chapter in Ireland’s generally tolerant experience with Jews.
The first Jews arrived in Ireland in the 17th Century, but they numbered only a handful and their numbers grew slowly over the next 200 years. In 1881, Ireland was home to just 394 Jews out of a total population of 5 million. But that was the year anti-Jewish riots known as pogroms broke out all across the Russian empire and soon spread to most of eastern Europe. The deadly violence created a massive flow of refugees to Western Europe and the U.S. By 1904 there were more than 3,000 Jews living in Ireland (compared to 150,000 in England and 1 million in the U.S.). Of them, about 170 (25 families) lived in Limerick.
https://group.irishecho.com/2011/02/98-years-ago-the-limerick-pogrom-2/
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Info on Church of the Assumption Abbeyfeale County Limerick.
The Church of the Assumption was built during the years 1966 – 1968 under the leadership of Philip Canon Enright, who is buried in the grounds. The Church replaced St Mary’s Church which was located in New Street and where St Mary’s Boys National School now resides. The land was kindly donated by the Broderick family and the Sisters of Mercy Abbeyfeale. It provides valuable parking for those entering the town of Abbeyfeale today.
In the grounds of the Church, there is a statue to the memory of James Joseph Sheehy who died in 1948 in Chicago. Mr. Sheehy was a native of the area and it was erected by Fr. Vincent J. Sheehy in 1985 who was a priest in Miami. The Holy Water font in the grounds is believed to come from the original Cistercian Abbey. A Grotto has also been erected to the right of the Church.
To the left of the Church, there is a small plot where priests who served in the area or came from the area are buried. Three members of the McEnery family are buried here. Thomas, Patrick and Denis were all priests in the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota. Also, two brothers of the Murphy family, Seán and T. J. were priests in Rockhampton, Australia. Two other priests who preached the Gospels in far-flung places were J. Downey in Canberra, Australia, and Monsignor Daniel P. Collins in Los Angeles. Two local priests are also buried here, Monsignor Dan Gallagher and Canon O’Donoghue.
There is a stained glass window of Mary at the back of the church. In the left Transept, there is a stained glass window depicting Jesus healing the sick. There is also a Crucifix in this Transept. The adjoining plaque states that the crucifix is to Denis Bailey of Rockchapel, who contributed to the Sheltered Housing Scheme.
An interesting feature of this church is the small chapel to Jesus attached to the left transept. To the left of the altar in this Chapel, there is a statue of the Sacred Heart, while to the right is a statue of Mary. Stained glass windows in this Chapel depict the resurrection of Jesus, the Holy Spirit descending on the apostles, the Crucifixion, and the bread and wine of Mass. These stained glass windows are donated in memory of Denis and Mary Lyons of Port, Abbeyfeale, Dick and Mary Hartnett of Port, Sr. Theresa, Joe and Eily, Connie, Sr. Immaculata, and Bridie Hartnett of Port, and James and Julia Quirke respectively. The chapel was opened in June 1991 by Bishop Newman.
In the main Church, there is a stained glass window of the Good Samaritan on the left behind the altar, while the stained glass window on the right depicts Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. There is a shrine to Mary Immaculate to the left of the main Altar. In the right Transept of the church there are two shrines, one to St Joseph, and one to Mary. The stained glass window in the right Transept depicts the healing of the lepers.
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Archive of The Weekly Observer unearths fascinating insight into the history of Newcastle West
Weekly Observer archives give a fascinating insight into the reaction to the Easter Rising in Newcastle West
Archive of The Weekly Observer unearths fascinating insight into the history of Newcastle West
A fascinating insight into the history of Newcastle West in the early 20th century has been unveiled.
The archive consists of five historically significant years of the Newcastle West newspaper, The Weekly Observer, from 1915 to 1919, and is available to the public in both online and hardcopy formats.
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It consists of all issues of The Weekly Observer, from its inception in August 1915 through to the end of 1919.
This is a critical period of newspaper coverage of historical events in Ireland, tracking the local impact of the First World War, then the Easter Rising of 1916 and all of the consequences of that event.
Further issues of the newspaper for following years are to be added at a later date.
Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Cllr Michael Collins said, “I am delighted to launch this fabulous new resource for the people of Limerick and for history researchers all around the world.”
“One of the most interesting aspects of the archive is to track the changing editorial policy of the newspaper in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Up until then you can see the newspaper had quite a conservative policy in relation to nationalist politics. But, from the moment the rebels were executed there is a complete turnaround in how the newspaper reported on such matters. This is really fascinating to see, as it reflects the understanding we have of how events developed in Ireland after 1916.”
Limerick City and County Librarian, Damien Brady said: “This valuable archive has been made possible through the very kind donation by West Limerick local historian, John Cussen, of his microfilm collection of the newspaper to the Limerick City and County Library Service.”
“This archive is just the latest of many historical resources we are making available on the Council website. We have also recently added some County parish journals and books of local history. This is part of an ongoing digitisation project and we are continuing to add more materials all the time.”
Hardcopy volumes have also been printed and will be available for viewing at Newcastle West Library and at the library’s Local Studies Department when the Covid-19 related restrictions are sufficiently relaxed that the public can again access these services in person.
http://www.limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies/BooksJournals/WeeklyObserverNewcastleWest/
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Reflect
The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
When we were going to school we were told of a great conflict between God and the Devil and that eventually God overcame his enemy and sent him to Hell to reign there forever and torture us poor humans who had the misfortune to die in mortal sin. It was a struggle between good and evil and whether we believe it or not there is one thing certain; evil not only exists but is thriving in the world today. It is not so long ago that Hitler and his Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews as they perceived them as being inferior beings that could contaminate the “pure” white race. It wasn’t just that they tried to exterminate them but the way they went about it was particularly barbaric. I don’t need to go into detail here because it is well documented but it is difficult to understand how human beings could treat each other like that. It is also difficult to understand how one race of people can think themselves superior to others and with such fervour that they are prepared to do unspeakable things to achieve their aims of getting total power. The world today is full of what are called “hard right wing” organisations who want to rid the world of people who are not like themselves. They are not just a small minority, as can be seen in the USA where people like Donald Trump are backing them, but can be found all over the world. Ireland, unfortunately, is no exception. Over the past few days, gangs of men in Dublin have set fire to tents being occupied by asylum seekers who came to this country for protection only to find the government has no accommodation for them. Luckily, the Gardaí had got wind of it and had removed the occupants to safety before the fire was set. The same thing would have happened again on Saturday except this time the asylum seekers had moved on. The group responsible for the attack call themselves patriots who want to keep “Ireland for the Irish” or some such rubbish. There was a group that marched in Listowel recently protesting at the housing of Ukrainians in the town and it was surprising how much support they had. As I am writing this, news is coming through of a blockade of a hotel in Clare to prevent busses bringing in asylum seekers. These are locals who feel they are not consulted and have other reasons for what they are doing but they should show more compassion for those less fortunate than themselves. We Irish should be the last nation on earth to protest against refugees and asylum seekers. Our own people had to emigrate, after the famine, to all parts of the world and had to make new lives for themselves. Suppose they were treated with the same hostility that these right wing groups show to outsiders; would we be happy about that? For a long time we were thought of as an inferior people. We were labelled the “fighting Irish” and the “drunken Irish” and were the butt of comedian’s jokes. To be Irish was to be “thick” and it wasn’t uncommon to see signs in British boarding house windows “no blacks, no dogs, no Irish”. Yes we have thrown off those labels and are now well respected throughout the world but we should not have short memories when it comes to treating migrants. Of course there will be some who try to enter this country illegally but the vast majority are those who are fleeing wars and persecution sometimes leaving their families behind. They deserve to be treated with dignity and compassion as we would have wished to have our forefathers treated all those years ago when the coffin ships arrived in America.
I cannot let this week go without mentioning the Eurovision Song Contest. Ireland’s entry did not make it out of the semi’s once again and, although I do not think it was a great song with a genuine chance of winning, it was far better than most of the others that got through. Since the voting system changed, some years ago, we don’t seem to have any chance of getting to the final. The public vote is not a true reflection of quality; it is more about popularity and voting for neighbours. We have seen that happen here in “Dancing with the Stars”. Week after week, popular celebrities are voted in by the public at the expense of others who are far better dancers. I think the whole thing has gone crazy. It is no longer a song contest as such but an entertainment contest with whatever country puts on the most bizarre show being rewarded. A singer cannot sing now without being surrounded by dancers, or should I say acrobats, jumping and tumbling all over the place to the loudest of backing music and an array of flashing lights. That the song being sung is meaningless and is basically a repetition of a catchy line is neither here or there. Was there even one decent song in the final on Saturday night? I think not. People may say I am an old fogey and out of touch with modern trends and that may be true but, I have watched X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent and there are some really good singers and entertainers on those shows who do not feel the need to dress up in ridiculous costumes, or ones so skimpy that they may as well be naked, to impress the judges. Unless the rules are changed and the judging returns to a panel of experts in each country, Ireland might as well throw in the towel. For many years we were the flag bearers but that day has gone. If we do stay in we need to have a proper contest to find a good entry but I won’t be holding my breath.
The delighted Athea supporters who travelled to Mallow last Thursday and saw Limerick get the Cup following their great victory against Tipperary
I was up the bog road over towards Keale recently and it made me sad. When I was growing up the bogs would be alive with people at this time of the year, stripping and cutting the turf, but now there is no one to be seen until it is time for turning the sods as they dry. Most of the bog is now cut away with just a few bins spread here and there. It is the same in Park bog and, I presume, all the bogs around. It may make Eamon Ryan and his Green Party happy but the bogs were the backbone of the local economy for decades. Not only did they provide fuel for the winter but the extra sleán cut would generate a bit of much needed finance when times were really tough in this country. We are coming to the end of an era and I, for one, will miss it.
https://www.athea.ie/category/news/
Reflect; We are into the middle of May already. The 17th May always stands out in my mind. The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 were a series of co-ordinated bombings in counties Dublin and Monaghan. Three bombs exploded in Dublin during the evening rush hour and a fourth exploded in Monaghan almost ninety minutes later. They killed 33 civilians and injured almost 300. There is a personal story behind this for my family. My sister Helen and I were working in Dublin at that time; it was a Friday evening we were coming home for the weekend by train and my father was expecting us. We were just getting onto the train in Heuston station when word came through that there was a bomb in the city centre. Meanwhile at home Dad heard about in on the news and was hoping we were not caught up on it. No mobile phones that time! No phones at all. Dad had been working on the Kerryline with the Co. Council that day as they were tarring the road back around Glasha I think. Around 7 pm there was a knock on Dad’s door and when he opened it two guards were standing there. My younger sisters, who were at home with him, said they never saw anybody to go so white and Dad barely got the words out “They’re gone, are they?” thinking that my sister and I had been killed in the bombs. The poor man nearly died but all the guards came to tell him was that some of the lamps on the road that had been left there after the tarring weren’t lighting or some such trivial problem! It was the only time the guards ever came to our door in all the years! I still feel sorry for my father getting such a fright. Anyway we landed safely home later. It turned out also that that my working colleague Jim, now my husband, had just passed by the place in Parnell St. where one of the bombs blew up. He had a narrow escape. So the 17th May is a topic of conversation every year!
By Peg Prendeville, 16 May 2023
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In 1947, Roswell started a modern mania with its reports of crashed “aliens” and has been the global center of attention for such matters ever since. What is less well known is that, one year after the incident, and with much less publicity but much greater significance, that same city welcomed its first contemplative community, namely, the Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
They are the true center of an ongoing Roswell “incident.”
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Weekly Newsletter
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost- 28th August 2022
Dear Friends of Sacred Heart Church,
A special thank you for all your congratulatory remarks on the 10th anniversary of the purchase of the Sacred Heart Church last Sunday. I felt that the description of all these years and the tremendous work that was accomplished demanded the extra time I devoted to it in my sermon. I know many of you were delighted to get this detail however, let me apologise if I spent too much time on it in my enthusiasm to show you what can be achieved when we work and pray together.
This week the Annual Chapter Meeting of the Institute is taking place at our International seminary in Gricigliano, near Florence, Italy. All canons gather for one week. We use the occasion to pray the Divine Office together and celebrate daily Solemn Mass, as well as receive conferences from our superiors. This week also allows us to share our common joys and the possible difficulties in our ministries, which help us to find a united approach in dealing with them.
Then also the expected moment arrives when each of us receives the envelope containing his appointment for the coming year. Thank you for your prayer assistance in helping our superiors in all their decisions in this regard.
We already know that Canon de Martin will be appointed to Switzerland. He will be leaving Ireland for good on Tuesday 6th September. If you would like to greet him, please join us for tea in the residence on Saturday 3rd September after the 10:30 am Mass.
Another Institute Canon will be appointed to Limerick. He is one of our former community members but what is his name? Send your guess to [email protected] and pray for him!
I have already arrived in Italy for the Institute Annual Chapter Meeting this Sunday. Canon Ryan Post flew especially to Ireland from UK to help in Limerick during my absence. He is the celebrant and homilist at the 10:30 am Mass. He will be happy to make your acquaintance!
I found some time on the scaffolding last week to check the painting of the church. The portion Randel has been working on is now almost complete. I know that it is still a little bit difficult to see the result as the scaffolding prevents a view of the ceiling from the floor, but I have confidence that you will all be happy and well impressed when you see the splendour of the finished product!
Once this portion is finished, I have two options: to either take a break and resume after Christmas, or to keep going by moving the scaffolding above the sanctuary. This last option is of course my favourite but finances have become difficult…
Would any of your friends be interested by making a donation towards this project? If so, this would be very helpful!
Cheques can be made out to “Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest”.
Wishing you a blessed week,
Yours in Christ,
Canon Lebocq- Prior of Sacred Heart Church
North Cork Creameries wins Overall National Gold Award for Butter
By TheCork.ie on 29th October, 2019Comments Off on North Cork Creameries wins Overall National Gold Award for Butter
29 October 2019- By Elaine Murphy- [email protected]
North Cork Butter announced as Ireland’s Gold Q Winner across 105 food and drink categories
North Cork Creameries has won the overall national Gold Q Award, at the Irish Quality Food Awards, for butter which the co-operative makes using milk supplied by local dairy farmers throughout the north Cork and north Kerry regions.
https://www.thecork.ie/2019/10/29/north-cork-creameries-wins-overall-national-gold-award-for-butter/
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Athea Notes Kerryman 20 2 1987 page 34.
Best wishes to Knockanure who beat Brosna by one point in the NKL last Sunday. Also mentioned the arrival of free milk from the EEC last Thursday, it was distributed by the SVP Society.
Kerryman 1904-current, Friday, February 14, 1997; Page: 43
Moyvane / Knockanure Notes
OUR Primary School basketball, teams were very successful, in the annual Duagh blitz, which was held in the Listowel Sports Centre. Our senior team went through their competition 'undefeated with wins over Dromclough, Ballybunion, Moyderwell (Tralee) and '_Naomh Laichtin and our junior team reached the final of their competition which 'they lost to Dromclough. '
It was a great day for Moyvane team, captain,,, Suzanne Keane was presented with the Mary O'Carroll Memorial, Trophy by Lenamore's Irish international player, Ciara 'Neville.
Moyvane senior: Suzanne Keane, Caroline Hanrahan, Aine Hanrahan, Deborah O'Flaherty, Deirdre Moloney, Karrie Fitzmaurice, Valerie Brosnan, Martina Sweeney, Rebecca Kiely, Michelle Lynch. '
Moyvane Junior: Lisa Healy, Maria Vaughan, 'Catherine Vaughan, Margaret Foley , Tara, Mulvihill, Aisling Fitzmaurice,, Regina, Galvin, Bridle Hanrahan, Olivia Hanrahan, Selina Mulvihill, Aobhlinn O'Connor, Michelle 'O'Connell, Maggie Lynch. - C o a c h e s : Leona Fitzmaurice and Aoife Keane.
MOYVANE GAA: Our juniors were defeated by Finuge on, Sunday in the final, of the North Kerry 'League. Finuge backboned by five of their senior championship team were much sharper and fitter and their f o r w a, r d s, particularly corner-forward and Man of the Match in, the senior championship final Paul Galvin were very capable of taking their scores. ' Moyvane tried their 'best but ¦ in, fairness were outclassed. Final score: Finuge 2-14, Moyvane 2-5.
CONGRATULATIONS to our solo singer Elaine Foley and to our group singers Julie Mulvihill, Josephine Moloney, Karen Carmody and Niamh and, Ciara Moloney, who won on 'Friday night in Siamsa Tire in Tralee for the Minister finals which will be held on March 1.1997
Kerryman 1904-current, Friday, February 14, 1997; Page: 43
OPENING Sunday May 25 1997 will, be a big day in local Walsh, Memorial Park in Asdee . Clare will provide the opposition to the Kerry seniors, one of the many events to take place on the day.
Kerryman 1904-current, Friday, February 14, 1997; Page: 43
RUGBY: Abbeyfeale were beaten 28-12 by Castleisland, in the final of the 1,996 McElligott.
Liam Quirke kicked four penalties, for Abbeyfeale.
Team: Kevin, Prendeviile, Redmond Qigley, Packy O'Connor, Murty Aherne, Ted Cronin, Liam Quirke (Capt), Jimmy Lane, Dominic Moloney, Seanie Naughton, Paul S h a n a h a n, D e cl a n Smith, Bill Stack, Ivor Browne, Liam Hartnett. Sub James McCarthy.
Abbeyfeale under IS drew 2)0 points all with Clonmel. Paul, Collins scored, two tries for Abbeyfeale and there were tries also by Mike Murphy and Noel Lane. Team: Noel Downey, Andrew Scanneil, T J Riordan.. Mike Murphy, Davy Curt in, Noel Lane, Paul McCarthy, Ronan O'Rourke, Morgan M c M a h o n, P a ul Collins, Bobby McCarthy,, Michael Scannell, Denis McAuIiffe, Eamon Cabill, Dan Smith.
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DEATHS: The death occurred, of Fr Jerry Downey, New Street. Sympathy is extended to his bereaved sister Hannah Mai, nephew Dei-mot, niece Breda and all his relatives and friends.
DEATH The entire community of Ballydonoghue were shocked when they heard of the news that Diaimuid 0 Cathain passed away. Diarmuid was widely known in the area through Comhaltas and his love for all thing It Irish.
Death of Maud Collins nee Walsh of Ballydonoghue, her husband Denis died in Sept. 1995
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 39, 28 September 1905, Page 9
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KERRY— A Centenarian John Curtin, whose age exceeded 100 years, has just died at Brosna, County Kerry. He maintained remarkable vigour up to the last, and was never troubled with serious illness. His reminiscences of the terrible days of '47 were always listened to with profound interest.
LIMERICK— Evicted Tenant Reinstated Mr. James Dore, evicted tenant, Carrandeela, near Rathkeale, on Lord Southwell's property, has received, through the Very Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, P.P., V.G., the documents entitling him to restoration to his old homestead, after being out for eight years Dr. O'Donnell took a great interest in the family, and is largely responsible for their reinstatement.
Sad Drowning" Fatality The Rev. John Conway, Shanagolden, was drowned whilst! 'bathing at Ballybunion, County Kerry, on August 3. 1905, The interment took place at Mount St. Laurence Cemetery, after a requiem service in St. John's Cathedral. The Bishop, Most Rev. Dr. O Dwyer, officiated, and there was a large attendance of priests. The; Rev. P. Conway, London, was one of the chief mourners
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 52, 26 December 1907, Page 27
Centenarians According to the annual report of the Local Government for Ireland, just issued, there were' twenty- one -centenarians who died in various work houses in Ireland 'during the year ending March, 1907. Of these twenty-one fifteen were women, three of whom reached the ripe ages of 109, 107 and 105 respectively.
The Irish Nationalist Funds A great "Irish meeting was held, at Boston, -U.S.A., on October 28, under the auspices of the United Irish League. Archbishop William O'Connell, the new Archbishop of Boston, made his first public appearance since his elevation to the See, and a letter was read 'from Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia. An additional sum of ten thousand' dollars promised to the Irish Nationalist Funds.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 16 July 1903, Page 9
GENERAL Expected Loss New Ireland makes the announcement that Maynooth College, the great seminary of the Irish priesthood will lose over £3000 a year as a result of the redemption of Irish land mortgages under the Land Bill, and Trinity College, Dublin, will lose about £7000 a year.
End of the Struggle Mr J E Redmond, M.P., speaking at Burnley (England) last week, declared that the end of the struggle for Irish rights had fairly arrived. He advised Irish voters in Britain not to pledge themselves upon the fiscal question, but to await the word of command as in 1885. He would not vote on the merits of the fiscal issue, except in the way that would best serve the Irish cause. The Nationalist party were bound to pursue a selfish policy if they wished to see Ireland successful.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 24, 15 June 1905, Page 9
CORK— A Loss to Education The death of Rev. Brother Shine, Superior-General of the Presentation Brothers, took place on Thursday, April 20,1905 at Cork. Deceased was a man of rare ability, which he devoted ungrudgingly to the cause of education, with splendid results. The Most Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan, Bishop of the diocese, presided at the funeral obsequies.
The Limerick Chronicle, 12 March 1770
Doctor Mathew O'Brien, cautions those who want servants, from hiring Ellen Dwyer, and Michael Conway, who were turned out of his service about the 17th of last December without discharges, for being strongly suspected to be the persons who opened Mr. Glenville's desk and taken there from 14l. in gold and there was a 40s piece in the money that was stolen.
NZ Tablet April 1896
PEACEFUL KERRY.— At the Killarney Quarter Sessions, Judge Shaw was presented with white gloves for tbe jfourth time within the past few yearß. Still the number of extra police in the district has not been reduced.
A GRUESOME FIND. While some prisoners were quarrying in a field at the back of Tralee gaol, on January 10, they dug up two skeletons.
MORE EVICTIONS.— Notices of impending evictions at the suit of AiLbur Blennert aesett, of Tralee, against Margaret and Thomas Egar and Daniel Murpby, who live near Killorglin, have beun served.
FIRE AT LISTOWEL.— The steam mills with large stores and other offices connected therewith, at Listowei, owned by J. P. En* right, were burned to the ground.
The remains of Sir Maurice O'Oonnell, B«t, were brought to Cahirciveen from Beaufort House, Killarney, for interment in tbe family burial place. A large cortege followed tbe mournful proceision as far as Killorglin, by road, showing the great esteem in which the deceased was held.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 31 December 1886, Page 19
Kerry; Two English barristers,who have been visiting North Kerry for the purpose ot studying the Land Question there, have started for Oahirciveen, in order to judge for themselves of the manner in which Trinity College treats its tenantry. At the Listowel Petty Sessions, Oct. 2. in a case in which objection was made to the renewal of a publican's license, on the ground that he had persistently refused to supply Mr. G. Sandes, the evicting landlord, with provisions, the magistrates, by two to three, decided to overrule the objection. On Sunday, Oct. 3, as two caretakers in charge of farms in the Castleisland district of Kerry were returning home, a number of men jumped over the fence from both sides of the road, and having taken their revolvers from them, disappeared as quickly as they had come.
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Sr Magdalen of St John of God, Perth, 24th April 1896, her father died.
Cork, YET ANOTHER CENTENARIAN.— Mr Patrick Tobin, ex-national teacher, White, -ate, passed away a few days ago at the extraordinary age of 110 years. Born close to New Rubs, in the County of Wexf^rd, in tbe early eighties of the last century, he left his home at the age of sixteen for tbe purpose of si caring an educatio a difficult work at tbat period travelling from one country to another, now to a famous arithmetician, and again ti a science teacher, spending six months with each, and then away to a teacher of grammar, for in those days each had a speciality. Mr Tobm found bis way to Cork County, where he began to teach himself «i Gougane Barra, Rathcormic, Ballincolhg, V 'Ughal, Oioyne, and Carlisle, from which he removed to Ballyknock under the National Board, tben in its inception, receiving the munificent salary of £6 per annum. After some years his school was removed to Whitest?, where be labonred up to 1880, when be retired under the Pension Act, having served forty-five years, t-ince his retirement he lived in Whitfgate, enjoying the re9pect of all who knew bim, and was very frequently bantered by gray-headed men who were hiß pupils Bixty years ago. He was a short tima ill, and possessed bis mental faculties to tbe last, in fact, only a few weeks since he could read his newspaper
NZ Tablet July 1906
Return of Evictions A return of the evictions in Ireland for the quarter ending March 31 last shows that under Section 7 of the Land' Act of 1887 the number of tenants dispossessed of their holdings was 36. The numJber of tenancies determined by notice under Section 7 v for Ih<> same quarter was 566,, the number by provinces being— Ulster, 142 Leinster, 82 Connaught, 238 and Munster, 104.
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 17, 21 August 1896, Page 17
The news of the death of Jeremiah Enright, which took place at Nightcap 3on the 14th Aug 1896, was received with general regret in this district. The deceased, who was a comparatively young man, was born (writes an occasional correspondent) at Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, and came to this Colony about twenty years ago. He resided for the last twelve or thirteen years in the Wrey'e Bush district, where he was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him He complained of a cold about ten days before his death, and, n )t withstanding all that medical skill and careful nursing could do, he succumbed to his illness on tbe 14th of August. His funeral *ns one of tte largest seen in iha district. He was buried in the Wrey’s Bush cemetery. The Very Rev Father, Walsh officiated at the grave.
A WONDERFUL BALL. THE WAY THE PRINCE OF WALES SPENDS HIS MONEY.
Daily Southern Cross, 23 November 1874
6th Feb 1902
LIMERICK.— Over a century. The announcement of the death of the oldest man in County Limerick, Mr. James Howard, of Derrawlin Ballingarry, at the age of 108 years,' has been received all over the district with feelings of cegret. Up to only two years ago he was a constant spectator at the assembly of the County Hunt Club when" the members met at Garryfin fox covert, And participated m' the sport as actiely <is those who were not half his great age. Jn the autumn of 1899, being then 3 ott years old, he with his own hands cut down his field of corn
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 6 February 1902, Page 9
DONEGAL.— A brave doctor. The members of the medical profession in this country, and, in fact, all Irishmen, (writes a Dublin correspondent) may well feel proud of the late Dr, Smyth, of Burtonport, County Donegal, who died recently, and also to his predecessor, Dr. Sullivan, a son of Mr. T. D. Sullivan. Both gentlemen died martyrs to duty. Owing to the terror nspired by the typhus scourge, they found it impossible to obtain any lay assistance in the place. Day after day, in storm and calm, Dr. Smyth, unaided, rowed his own boat to Arranmore Island, some four miles distant. There he acted both as nurse and doctor to the afflicted people, who lived in hovels unfit for human beings. At length, seeing that their only hope of recovery lay in removal to the mainland, with the assistance of Dr. Brendan McCarthy, a son of the late Mr. Denis Florence McCarthy, he brought them to the boat and rowed them to the shore, where they are now on the road to recovery. Dr. Smyth caught the contagion, and died, leaving a widow and eight young children to mourn his loss. Dr. Sullivan acted a similarly noble part. When no aid could be had, with his own arms he lifted the poor patients from their miserable huts, placed them on his car and drove them to the hospital. He, too, paid the penalty of his unselfish devotion to duty with his young life. In this materialistic age such noble acts deserve wide publicity
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 9
KERRY; No Work for the Judge There is no county in Ireland where the Irish League has a (inner footing than in Kerry, yet there seems to be an almost total absence of crime there. At the Tralee Quarter Sessions Judge Shaw was presented with a pair of white gloves as there was no criminal business for disposal. The following interesting conversation took place on the occasion. His Honour— It is extremely satisfactory that I have no Court business in this county at all during these sessions either at Killarney or Listowel or here 1 don't know whether it is equally satisfactory to the members of the legal profession. Crown Solicitor It is, sir, to me, anyhow, very satisfactory. As your honour has got gloves at Killarney, Listowel, and Tralee, I was suggesting to the Sheriff that he should give you a pair for the county-at-large.
Ejectment Decrees. At Rathkeale Quarter Sessions recently close on 40 eviction decrees were- obtained against tenants on the Ellis estate. His Honour Judge Adams, after hearing the evidence, in giving a decree for a half-year's rent, delivered the following judgment I wish to say that this is the most painful case I was ever called upon to dispose of. Here is a number of tenants coming, into Court, apparently respectable men. What, may happen in this case God only knows, it may be the first act in another drama. I would earnestly ask both parties to try to come to terms. On one side is the agent, a descendent of a princely line, the noble and honoured Fitzgeralds and on the other is the patriotic pastor of Abbeyfeale, Father Casey. I hope a spirit of goodwill will prevail. This day's proceedings alone will cost from £250 to £300. I again appeal to both parties to come to fair terms, and I must say that the manner in which the tenants' cause was put forward by Mr. Leahy, as well as Mr. Blood-Smith for the landlord deserves credit.
West Coast Times , Issue 4654, 28 June 1884, Page 3
During a stormy passage in a small steamer on the New Zealand coast, I bad some interesting chats with an Irish gentleman who had met and talked with Sir Walter Scott in a chapel in Italy, during the closing scenes of that busy life. I may add that at Listowel, in Ontario, I was privileged to meet the brother of Dr Livingston, and was much struck with the facial resemblance between him and the great traveller.
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Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Tuesday 18 November 1947, page 4
18 Nov 1947
FUNERAL OF MR.
P. O'SHEA
Mr. Patrick O'Shea, 177 Chapple St.. died at the Hospital on Sunday night. Born at Knocknagoshel, County Kerry, Ireland, 78 years ago, lie came to Australia in 1924 and to Broken Hill the following yeal'. Commencing work on the mines, he later . worked for the Municipal Council, where he re- mained until retirement 10 years ago. He was a member of the Municipal Employees' Union.
He is survived by a widow, eight sons (Messrs. George, William, and John, all ol' England; Harry, Daniel. Patrick, James and Dereck, of Broken Hill) and three daughters (Mesdames J. McMahon, A. Parker and M. Peatz). Requiem Mass for the repose of his soul was celebrated at the Cathedral yesterday .
The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld : 1875 - 1929), Saturday 10 March 1888, page 11, 12
An extraordinary case of boycotting is re ported from county Kerry. Three months ago a man named Connor was postmaster for tbe Knocknagoshel district, and be was dismissed, aa he refused to relinquish the chairmanship of the local National League. A Mr. ConneU was then appointed in Connor's stead. Con nell was denounced by the National League for accepting the position ; but he held on, and became rather popular by giving liberal subscriptions to tbe various funds etarted for Government victims. A few days ago Conucll was requested by the Postmaster General to surrender the various documents connected with the post-office to Mr. Sullivan, national school teacher, who had been appointed postmaster in bis stead. The latter has been rigidly boycotted for some time for taking and holding an evicted farm. Since his appointment no letters have passed through the post office save those for tbe police magis trate and his friends. The boycotters have had their letters addressed to the neighbouring town of Abbeyfeale, and a postman has been elected, and is paid by the National League to go there every day and distribute them. The school of which Mr. Sullivan is teacher has been boycotted , and the parents af tlte few children who attend have also been boycotted.
TILE STATE OF IRELAND. 1879
A summons-borvor, named M'Noill, WOB fired at in tho Traleo district on Tuesday, ufter having served a summons for trespass on an evicted farm. One bullet passed his ear and a second near his leg. Two other shots wero fired at him. It is stated that M'Neill had been previously shot at lit Tralee.
Thoro was n disturbance at Galway on Mon- day night, when soldiers were attacked by a mob armed with sticks and stones. Ono soldier was struck on the hoad with a loaded whip, and others wore knocked down and kicked Thoy took refuge in shops and private houses, and but for the interference of the polico matters would have been serious. A Dublin correspondent states that tho rioting aroso through tho priests objecting to the youug girls in the town walking out with accompanied by a party of fifty or sixty y'ouug men, and when they found n young woman in company with a
accompanied by a party of fifty or sixty y'ouug men, and when they found n young woman in company with a soldier she was subjected to insult and abuso. Her hat or shawl or cloak was taken from her and con- veyed as trophies to the Collego-houao, tho residence of the priests. In many cases the girls were drugged or knocked about in a dis- graceful manner. On ono or two occasions the soldiers resented the treatment, and even used their belts ; but still the practice went on until this week, whe.i the garrison determined to tolerate the treatment they wero receiving no longer.
The Limerick Assizes wero brought to a sudden close on Wednesday. In con^equenco of the largo number of acquittals the authorities deemed the verdicts of tho jurors very unsatis- factory, and accordingly Mr. Laue, Q.C., representing the Crown, applied to Judge Johnstone for the adjournment of tho remaining coses for disposal to the next assizes. Tho Judgo acceded to tho application, and so busi- ness terminated rather unexpectedly.
A party of ruffians recently visited the house of a farmer in the neighbourhood of Killarney, whom they found with only his daughter in the house. The gill ching to her father to save him from violence, and was laid hold of by one of the miscreants, who grossly insulted her and endeavoured to drag her away. The old man indignantly resisted his con- duct; but another miscreant, drawing a revolver, presented it at the old man's head mid threatened to shoot him if ho interfered. The girl was then carried off and outraged, whilo her father was kept in terror of his lifo.
Another outrage is reported from New Pallas. A shed containing fifteen head of cattlo was set on fire ; nine of the poor beasts perished in the flames, and a tenth died later from its injuries. Their owner received severe burns in his efforts to save the animals. The house of a postmaster, named Heffernan, at Dromkeen, wa3 fired into on Saturday night, but no harm
was done to the inmates.
A band of armed and disguised Moonlighters visited the house of a farmer named Somers, near Listowel, on Sunday night. They demanded arms, and obtained a gun. Ono of the Moonlighters, when retreating, fired a Fhot through a bedroom door, behind which Mi«s Somers was standing. One slug lodged in her arm. Another attack by Moonlighters was made on a house at Fealo Bridge, North Kerry, on Sunday night; but as the men were entering the houso tho polico patrol carno upon the scene. The Moonlighters thereupon ran off, leaving two double-barrelledgunBbehind them.
Tho polico stationed nt Knocknagoshel, county Kerry, on returning to their barracks
at an early hour on Monday morning after seven hours'patrolling tho surrounding conutry, heard four shots fired in their neighbourhood. On inquiring into the cause thoy found that the houses of two farmers named Doro and Mangan had just boen forcibly entered by seven dis- guised men, armed with guns and revolvers. At both houses shots wera fired, ono of theso being discharged through a window of tho room in which Mungon's sorvant was sleeping, and a portion of the charge lodged in tho wall close to his head. Tho polico, on their way to the plaoe, arrested two brothers named Keane aud a mau named Sullivan. In Sulli- van's possession they found two largo re- volvers and somo ammunition. Tho prisoners wero brought beforo a magistrate ami
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Cussen, Sir Leo Finn Bernard (1859–1933)
by Jenny Cook and B. Keon-Cohen
Sir Leo Finn Bernard Cussen (1859-1933), judge, was born on 29 November 1859 at Portland, Victoria, fourth surviving son of Maurice Cussen (d.1880) and his wife Margaret, née Finn. Maurice Cussen had been head tenant at Creveen House on the Rattoo estate in County Kerry, Ireland, before migrating to Sydney in 1841. He established himself as a grocer and provision dealer in Sydney and married in May 1850. In 1854 he joined his brother-in-law at Portland, Victoria, where he set up business as a grocer and general dealer. In 1860 the family moved to the near-by township of Merino.
Leo was educated at the local school and, after winning a scholarship, entered Hamilton College as a boarder in 1875. He became captain of the school next year, when he matriculated with credits in mathematics. In 1877 he entered the University of Melbourne, completing his certificate in civil engineering in 1879. Cussen played for the university football and cricket teams, and was awarded a full blue for cricket in 1879. He also played football for West Melbourne and took part in amateur athletics. On graduation he joined the Victorian Railways and after a year as a draftsman went into the field with assistant engineer W. Curtois. He worked on surveys of several important lines, including Ballan to Bacchus Marsh, and reported on the feasibility of a line from Alexandra to Mansfield through the Puzzle Ranges. Cussen later recalled: 'I liked the life, and the survey camps were comfortable. I grew as strong as a horse with the open-air life. The excessive walking spoilt me as a runner, but it seemed as if I had left athletics behind me'.
At 25 he decided to become a lawyer. He returned to the university, completing his B.A. in 1884 and the first and second years of his law degree in 1885-86 (LL.B., 1886; M.A., 1887). On 1 September 1886 he was admitted to the Victorian Bar. He read with (Sir) John Madden and occupied 35 Selborne Chambers. To supplement his earnings after graduation, he taught international law at the university; between 1890 and 1900 he also lectured in the law of obligations. He wrote legal articles and in 1897 was reputedly the first Victorian to have an article published in the London Law Quarterly Review. He also became a reporter for the Australian Law Times and the Victorian Law Reports.
Working long hours, Cussen soon became one of the most sought after and highly paid barristers, renowned for thorough preparation, clarity of argument and sound knowledge of legal principles. He developed a wide-ranging practice, with the exception of criminal law; his engineering experience led him to specialize in local government, patent and engineering cases. He quickly emerged as a leading counsel among a strong Bar which included such men as James Purves, (Sir) Isaac Isaacs, Henry Bourne Higgins, Frank Gavan Duffy, (Sir) William Irvine and Theyre à Beckett Weigall. In 1901 and 1902 Cussen was elected to the Bar committee.
He achieved a remarkable reputation for advocacy, opinion and wit. Anecdotes abound from this period. 'It almost became a maxim that if a solicitor had a difficult case and did not consult Cussen, he was guilty of negligence'. However he never took silk, preferring to remain a stuff gownsman along with others such as (Sir) Hayden Starke. While taking no part in the Federal constitutional conventions of the 1890s, he harboured some interest in politics and in 1901 stood for the House of Representatives seat of Wannon, his childhood country. Samuel Cooke soundly defeated him.
On 8 April 1890 at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, Cussen had married Johanna, daughter of John Bevan; they raised six sons and one daughter. In 1903 he took his wife and two sons for the first of his three trips to Europe, Great Britain and Ireland, and developed interests in church architecture, music and art.
In March 1906 (Sir) Thomas Bent's government appointed Cussen to the Victorian Supreme Court. Cabinet was divided over the matter but the appointment was warmly welcomed by bench, Bar and the press, which noted that he was a popular and genial figure with the reputation of being the 'hardest worked and perhaps highest paid of present Melbourne barristers'. His salary of £2500 represented a considerable financial sacrifice; it was not reviewed or raised during his twenty-seven years on the bench. His work is recorded in many important judgments in the Victorian Law Reports. He was a judge for both the parties and the profession, deciding cases with insight and with just discrimination of fact and argument. He was a master at summing up to a jury and discussed and developed with precision and scholarly thoroughness legal principles involved in cases before him, thereby often setting the law on a solid basis for years ahead. In 1924, and again in 1931-32, Cussen was appointed chief justice in the absence of Irvine.
Apart from these judicial contributions, Cussen undertook massive projects of statutory consolidation for the Victorian parliament. This he did in his spare time, entirely gratuitously, and probably at the expense of his health. In 1908 he began working, almost single-handed, on the Victorian statutes. The task had twice previously been carried out by George Higinbotham, in 1865-66 and 1890, but much new legislation required attention. Cussen modernized the language of many provisions, and included many amendments and valuable and substantial annotations. The finished work, in five volumes, appeared in 1915. For this achievement, he was thanked by both Houses of the Victorian parliament.
Three years later Cussen began work on an even larger and more complex task of statutory consolidation, which culminated in the Imperial Acts Application Act of 1922. This project involved an exhaustive and definitive examination of over 7000 English and Australian Acts dating back to the thirteenth century, to determine exactly which English and colonial Acts were applicable in Victoria. He was assisted by Professor (Sir) Harrison Moore. On completion of this work Cussen was given leave of absence to recover his health, for he had undergone surgery earlier in 1922 to remove part of the large intestine. Now Sir Leo Cussen—he had been knighted in January—he took his wife and daughter on an extensive tour of Europe.
In 1929 Cussen completed his second consolidation of Victorian statutes and presented them to the Victorian parliament for enactment. He was assisted by six barristers and acted as editor, taking responsibility for the whole work; as before, he was thanked by parliament for his services. The achievement was, however, marred by a squabble in parliament over whether an honorarium of £2500 be paid, in addition to granting him a year's leave of absence. In the end the government deferred the grant and it was not proposed again. His leave was lengthened to two years (from August 1929), because of illness.
Cussen was a trustee from October 1916 and from September 1928 president of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria. He was a member of the Felton Bequest Committee and prepared a report on the law of copyright and works of art, which unfortunately has been lost. He was a member of the law faculty of the University of Melbourne for forty-three years and from 1902 a member of the university council. He was also a member of the Council of Legal Education and vice-president of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Research. As president of the Melbourne Cricket Club from 1907 he was noted for his 'tact and kindliness as an administrator' and his ability to preserve harmony and goodwill. At the turn of the century he had regularly represented the Bar in annual cricket matches; as his sons grew up he enjoyed playing cricket with them and with their friends from near-by Xavier College in an adjacent paddock. He followed with interest his sons' sporting careers at school and university. He belonged to the Melbourne, Yorick and University clubs.
On 17 May 1933 Cussen died suddenly at his home in Hawthorn. He had been sitting in court only two days before. A huge public funeral and procession followed, with Archbishop Daniel Mannix presiding at pontifical Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral. He was survived by his wife and children. Of his six sons, one died in boyhood, one became a distinguished Melbourne physician and the others prominent lawyers. In 1964 the Sir Leo Cussen chair of law was created at Monash University and in 1972 the Leo Cussen Institute for Continuing Legal Education was founded in Melbourne. (Sir) Robert Menzies, at Cussen's death, described him as 'one of the great judges of the English-speaking world'. Members of the law profession stressed his deep learning 'unaccompanied by pedantry', his soundness of judgment, dignity of demeanour, humanity, natural courtesy and sense of public duty. Sir Owen Dixon considered it an extraordinary error by governments not to have appointed him chief justice of the High Court of Australia or of the Victorian Supreme Court.
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Davies, Robert Rowland (1805–1880)
by P. R. Hart
Robert Rowland Davies (1805-1880), Church of England clergyman, was born on 15 September 1805 at Northgate Barracks, Canterbury, England, the eldest son of Robert Davies of Mallow and his wife Harriett, née Batt, of Saltash, Cornwall. He was descended from an old Irish clerical and landowning family dating back to the seventeenth century; one of his ancestors was Dean Rowland Davies, chaplain to William III. His father was a surgeon in the 11th Dragoons, and later practised at Marlborough, County Cork, Ireland, where he died in 1826. After his mother's death in 1812 Robert Davies went to Dr Bell's grammar school at Youghal, to the grammar school at Mallow in 1820 and to Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1826). He then studied at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he became friendly with Dr Thomas Chalmers, professor of moral philosophy and political economy. Ordained deacon in September 1828, he was appointed to the curacy of Kilbrin and Listowel, Ireland, and private chaplain to Lord Muskerry. In May 1829 he was priested and appointed a chaplain to Van Diemen's Land, through his friend Lord Arden. He was encouraged to emigrate by enthusiastic letters from Dr W. H. Browne. Soon after arrival in Hobart Town on 11 April 1830, he was appointed to Norfolk Plains (Longford), where among other philanthropic work he opened a savings bank.
Davies was married on 26 February 1833 to Maria (1816-1902), the daughter of Captain William Thomas Lyttleton, police magistrate of Launceston, and his wife Ann, née Hortle. Owing to his wife's illness Davies left for England in January 1840. He returned in July 1841 with a loan of £1000 for the new Longford Church from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Soon after Bishop Francis Nixon's arrival in 1843 he became surrogate in Tasmania, and next year rural dean of Longford. When Nixon went to England in 1846, Davies was made vicar-general and commissary. He became archdeacon of Launceston in September 1850, and two years later succeeded Rev. William Bedford at St David's, Hobart Town. He was appointed archdeacon of Hobart in November 1854 after Fitzherbert Marriott resigned. When Nixon vacated the see, Davies again became commissary in February 1862, and presided over the next two annual synods. Through failing health he resigned the incumbency of the cathedral in September 1866 and retired on a government pension, although he retained the title of archdeacon after his resignation. He died at Hobart on 13 November 1880.
Davies was instrumental in building churches at Longford and Perth, and attempted to set the Church of England on a firm economic footing, especially through glebes and endowments. He showed much interest in the establishment of Christ's College, becoming a trustee in 1845 and an honorary fellow in 1856; he sold 400 pamphlets and books, many in first and rare editions, to the college library in 1852. He was an inspector of schools at Longford and became a trustee of the Hutchins School in 1853. In the ritualist controversy of the 1850s he strongly sided with his friend, Bishop Nixon, against the latter's critics. Davies himself suffered from minor Evangelical intolerance when some of his own congregation raised petitions in 1845 against his 'Puseyite' innovations of the surplice and weekly offertory. A keen horticulturist, he introduced many plants into Tasmania, and was president and guiding spirit of the Launceston Horticultural Society. In politics he was friendly with the various governors, but a strong opponent of transportation, petitioning the Queen against it in 1848.
His engaging Irish wit, genial temperament and liberal mind won him friends from all denominations, who united in presenting addresses and gifts on his departure from Launceston. Jane Williams, an intelligent critic, praised the tastefulness of his home and brilliant sermons, commenting that 'if there were more men in the country like him, the Wesleyans would have no followers among the educated class of the people'.
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Corbett, James Francis (1834–1912)
by Monica Starke
James Francis Corbett (1834?-1912), Catholic bishop, was born at Limerick, Ireland, eldest child of James Corbett and his second wife Catherine, née Reeves. After secondary education in France at Cambrai, he studied for the priesthood at Bruges in Belgium and Le Mans in France. He was ordained 'for Limerick' on 29 May 1858. For the next five years he worked in his native diocese, earning golden opinions from his bishop who was reluctant to release him to answer Archbishop Goold's appeal for priests in Victoria.
On arrival in Melbourne on 29 August 1863 in the Lightning, Corbett was appointed to the St Kilda mission and soon became Goold's right-hand man and private secretary. His parish extended over the municipalities of St Kilda, Prahran, Caulfield and Gardiner, and under his vigorous administration developed into one of the richest in Australia. In 1876 he received from Rome an honorary doctorate of sacred theology and in 1879 he was appointed chancellor of the archdiocese and vicar forane.
In 1887 Corbett was chosen as bishop of the newly created diocese of Sale; he was consecrated at St Mary's Church, St Kilda, on 25 August. Although no longer young, and not a born horseman, he applied himself to his rugged charge with undiminished vigour. He was handicapped by an acute shortage of priests. However, he established new parishes, built churches, presbyteries, convents and schools, introduced nuns, recruited priests, and organized Catholic education in Gippsland. Honours, clerical and secular, came to him: the Papal Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Pilgrim's Cross of Jerusalem and, in 1889, the Freedom of the City of Limerick. After 1907 he was the senior priest in Victoria, and in 1911 Pope Pius X appointed him assistant bishop at the papal throne.
Corbett's foreign education was reflected in his appearance. Bearded, with immense dignity and a courtly manner when offering his snuff box, he impressed more as a polished man of the world than a missionary. He was, however, of ascetic habits, adding the discipline of a Tertiary of St Francis to that of a priest. He was a fine scholar with a nice appreciation of art and letters, a passion for clocks and a love of dogs. His knowledge of the rubrics was legendary and he was a recognized authority on ecclesiastical law.
The bishop was a very effective if not a great preacher, and an outspoken critic whenever he believed censure was deserved. In the debates on the Education Act, 1872, Corbett was an eloquent champion of the Catholic Church's stand against secularization of education in government-funded schools. His major contribution to the system of Catholic education, evolved in opposition to the 1872 Act, was the introduction to St Kilda of the Presentation Nuns (1873) and the Christian Brothers (1878), and to Sale of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion (1890). He was a disciplinarian, but was beloved by his priests for the support and understanding he gave them in their difficulties.
Corbett died at Sale, aged 79, on 29 May 1912 after a hernia operation, and was buried in St Mary's Cathedral, which he had planned to consecrate to celebrate his silver jubilee as a bishop.
Enright, Walter John (1874–1949)
by W. A. G. Enright
Walter John Enright (1874-1949), solicitor and scientist, was born on 10 March 1874 at West Maitland, New South Wales, eldest of seven children of John Enright, a dealer (auctioneer) from Limerick, Ireland, and his locally born wife Julia, née Maher. Educated at West Maitland at St Mary's Dominican Convent and at the Sacred Heart College under Fr P. V. Dwyer, he went on to St John's College, University of Sydney (B.A., 1893). At the university he studied modern languages and geology; Professor (Sir) Edgeworth David made a lifelong impression on him.
On completing his articles of clerkship, Enright was admitted as a solicitor on 22 August 1896. He successfully practised at Maitland and throughout the Hunter valley until the end of his life; he found a knowledge of geology very useful in coal-mining cases. Active in local affairs, he was elected to the West Maitland Municipal Council in 1899, was mayor in 1906 and president of the hospital board in 1914. He was a member of the Maitland French Circle and fluent in German and Italian. On 31 December 1914 at St Mary's Catholic Church, Clermont, Queensland, he married Adelaide Abelia Appleton.
Enright's absorbing interest was in his total environment. An 'amateur scientist of distinctly high calibre', he gladly assisted those 'seeking information in local geology, entomology, forestry, ichthyology and anthropology'. He helped to organize visits to the Maitland area of sections of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914 and the second Pan Pacific Science Congress in 1923. From his youth he had associated with local Aboriginals and his interest in anthropology was stimulated by R. H. Mathews, and later by A. P. Elkin, who became a close friend. He contributed many notes to such journals as Mankind and Oceania. He was a member of the Royal, Linnean and Geographical societies of New South Wales, the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, the Australasian (Australian and New Zealand) Association for the Advancement of Science, the Numismatic Society of New South Wales, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and the Royal Geographical Society of London.
In his youth Enright played cricket and Rugby football and belonged to the Maitland Rowing Club; later he enjoyed tennis and bowls. Throughout his life a practising and reasoning Catholic, he had strong ecumenical leanings; he was a lay fellow of St John's College in 1916-28. Enright died at his Maitland home on 27 September 1949 and was buried in Campbell's Hill cemetery. He was survived by his wife and two sons. His estate was valued for probate at £22,702.
Courier Mail Brisbane 27 Nov 1937
Captain Neville Stack As Instructor In Turkey
ISTANBUL. November 26.
Captain Neville Stack, the British airman, has obtained a contract as instructor to the Turkish civil air services-
Ail Airman's Death'
INQUIRY IN KARACHI
Karachi, March 15 1949, Squadron-' Leader Thomas Neville Stack has arrived to attend the official in quiry into the death of his father, Captain Neville Stack, a British airman who was knocked down and killed by a lorry last month. Squadron-Leader Stack and his
brother, Anthony, wish to clear their father's name from the sug gestion of suicide. Captain Stack, who was general manager of Orient Airways, a Pakistan-owned company, had been told by the police to re main -in Karachi pending inquiries into the sale of a Dakota.
CALCUTTA, September l8.1933 Courier Mail
An SOS call on the newly-installed wireless telephone between Calcutta and London, from the son of the Maharaja of Nepal, to a distinguished Harley Street surgeon, had its sequel yesterday, when Dr. H. S. Souttar, accompanied by an anaesthetist. Dr. J. H. Challis, and Nurse M. A. Brad- ford, left Heston aerodrome on an air dash to India.
The doctor's aeroplane is being piloted by Captain Neville Stack, the famous airman, who made the first flight in a light aeroplane to India. It is expected that the journey will occupy six days, and that the cost will be £25,000.
The patient, the wife, of the Crown Prince of Nepal, was advised to go to Europe for an urgent operation, but she is not permitted to cross the water, owing to caste difficulties.
Jan 9th 1933
LONDON,-January 9. J.
. Courtenay, the well-known airman who accompanied Neville '. Stack to India, pointa ont that with . long distance flyers, especially record breaking, where every minute is precious even for sending telegrams, no .news is generally good : news, whereas if there had been a : crash . it would have been reported within 24 hours» Hinkler
could have reached Aleppo non-. : stop. Quite likely he had: refuelled at some small 'drome and : flew over Aleppo and Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. He would not .
be sornrisedif the first news came from Bushire. : .
FILM OF THE RACE.
The Western Australian
Exclusive Pictures for Perth.25 Oct 1934
The Fox Australian Movietone organis ation has arranged to bring to Perth ex clusive pictures of the finish of the cen tenary air race from Eneland to Mel
bourne. Mr. A. E. Llghtfoot, West Aus tralian manager for Fox Films, said yes
terday that cameramen had been sent to Charleville, Flemington and Laverton, so that all phases of the finish would be covered. The picture, which will be screened on Monday next, at the Capi tol, Ambassadors and Prince of Wales theatres, also covers the preparatory ar rangements, and includes a speech by the donor of the cup, Sir Macpherson Robertson. The picture will also show the frantic efforts by the airmen and me chanics to mend the disabled engine, en abling the airman to again take off and continue his record-breaking flight to Melbourne. Mr. Scott's dash past the winning post at Flemington, his arrival at Laverton and the speeches of welcome from the dais at Flemington are also in cluded. 'We are. indeed proud,' continued Mr. Lightfoot, 'to be able to bring these pic tures before the people of this State We had made arrangements for films of the start of the race to be brought to Aus tralia by Captain Neville Stack, but un fortunately this airman was forced down. However, these pictures will be dispatched to Australia with all speed.'
25 April 1925
OUTRAGES IN EGYPT.
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HAPPENINGS SINCE 1920.
Egypt has been bubbling with unrest for years, and many British residents have paid the penalty of living in that country and attempting to guide its destinies. Ever since the death of General Gordon, in the eighties at Khartum, a circumstance which stirred Britain to the depths as did the recent assassination of Sir Lee Stack, there has been a long line of martyrs in the interest of the Empire. More recent happenings in Egypt have been most disturbing, and since 1920 the following Englishmen have been murdered or seriously wounded by Egyptian assassins:- Captain Knight, shot, November,1920. Mr. E. Hatton, railway official, fatally shot, December, 1921.Mr. Alfred Brown, Controller of Egyptian Ministry of Education, murdered,
February, 1922. Other Englishmen attacked. J. McIntosh Bey, Egyptian railway official, shot. Bimbachi W. Cunliffe Cave, Cairo Police Force, shot dead, May, 1922.Lieutenant Colonel A. F. H. Pigott, Pay Officer, shot in lungs, July, 1922.Professor T. W. Brown, of Horticultural Research Department, shot, wounded, August, 1922. Dr. Newby Robson, Professor of Law School, shot dead, December,
1922. Professor E. W. Shoebridge, Egyptian Ministry of Education, murdered, January, 1923.Mr. Travers Allan, of Montreal, murdered near Luxor, February, 1923.Corporal Ryan, a British airman, fatally stabbed at Heliopolis, April,1924.Sir Lee Stack, the Sirdar, shot November, 1924. Attempts to murder at least a dozen prominent Egyptians, including Zaghlul Pasha himself, have also been made.
LONDON, Sunday.19 Oct 1938
THE PERFECT GSRL
THE BRIDE
Twenty thousand people packed the Cathedral Square, Glasgow, when Britain's 'perfect girl,' Miss Prunella Stack, 22 year-old leader of the Women's League of Health and Beauty and a member of the National Fitness Council, married Lord David Douglas-Hamilton.
The police made arrangements similar to those at a foot ball match but stampeding women and girls broke the cordon. Many scrambling women fainted and thereby missed the coveted sight of Scotland's ideal wedding of Britain's number one health and beauty girl to the handsome athletic son of a duke. Six of the prettiest little Scottish society girls and two adult bridesmaids accompanied the bride who swept up the aisle in her parchment velvet gown with leg-of-mutton sleeves and train five yards long. Groom Wore Kilts The bridegroom and best man wore the full Royal Stuart highland dress while a piper played the bridal party from the church. Prunella, who contributes to the Press 'Beautygrains,' which show i how to secure perfect feminine
development, received a cheque for i £300 from 150 members of the j Beauty League as a wedding pre sent. ' Prunella Stack is the most photo graphed girl in Britain. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton is the youngest son of the Duke of Hamilton and a brother of the Marquis of Clydesdale, the 'boxing peer'' and celebrated airman. Miner, Pilot Prunella took over from her mother, who died three years ago, an organisation of 140,000 members. She was appointed to the National Fitness Council last year ? Lord David, noted amateur boxer (captain of the Oxford team 193.4-35), is a follower of the same cult. He is a mountaineer, has worked in lumber camps and as a coal miner, and he is a. qualified airman. The couple have known each other for about 18 months. Both strenuously denied their engagement last January, but officially announced it in May. Lord David's solicitor in January even called at newspaper offices in London and emphasised there was no foundation for the report.
Stack Clan
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It is not oiten that the larjdlord faction use thtir position on the magisterial bet eh to revenge themselves oa opponents in the popular ranks after bo flagrant a lashioo as some members of the garrison occupjing seats on ihe Tarbert (county Kerry) petty sessions bench would betm to have done the other d H y when adjudicating in the cas,o of aitspectable old rnrtn named Scanlm. wby was summoned before them for assault. The alleged assault consisted in a'• wigging,"
which old Scanlan had administered to a j oungster whom he found tampering with the village pump, of which he had charge, and great was the astonishment of the people of the district when it became known that the defendant was summarily sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment, and to a further term of three months should he fail to give security for good behaviour at the end o£ that period. An application to have the term of imprisonment increased to four weeks was refused, and this old man of seventy years was hurried off to the county gaol at Tralee with all speed. It is openly alleged that the explanation of the magisterial action in this matter is to be found in the fact that Mr. Scanlan'a son, who is a prominent member of the local branch of the National League, was mainly instrumental in having the name of the village in which he lives changed from that of Newtownsandes to Newtowndillon, in compliment to the member for East Mayo. This change has, it seems, incensed the landlord party down there beyond measure, and it is pointed out as a remarkable coincidence that one of the magistrates presiding a Mr. Sandes, whose family name the village formerly bore— should hare turned up to adjudicate in old Scanlan 'a case, though he had not attended petty sessions more than twice for the past two years. Mr, Dillon has been requested to bring the conduct of the Tarbert lawt givers in this matter under the notice of the House of Commons, and it will be interesting to hear what defence can be made for it.
LIMERICK— The Parliamentary Fund At a meeting of Limerick citizens in aid of the Irish Parliamentary Fund, it was announced that the Bishop of Limerick had subscribed £10 10s, and Mrs. O'Brien Smith Hill, £50, wihich brought that lady's subscriptions to the fund within the yeo,r up to £15-0. The Evicted Temnts Mr. John E. Moloney, Knocklong, hon. secretary to the Limerick and Clare Evicted Tenants' Association, wrote a few weqks since to the Chief Secretary, drawing his attention to the statements made by the judges during the holding of the Munster Assizes, as to there being 58 derelict farms in Limerick, and 144 in Kerry. Mr. Moloney says- that this is a grave state of affairs two years after the passing of the Land Act. Only 100, ou,t, of 40100 evicted tenants, have been provided for and at this rate it would take 100 years? to restore the whole number. To this communication Mr. J. J. TTary r lor, Mr. Long's private secretary, writes that he is directed b)y the Chief Secretary for Ireland "to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Moloney's letter on the subject of the reinstatement of the evicted tenants.
Irish News.
New Zealand Tablet, 25 November 1887
On August 28 and 29, the second annual Hurling and Football Tournament and Athletic Carnival of the Newcastle West Gaelic Athletic Association was held. The arrangements were perfect Special trains were ran by the Waterford and Limerick and Kerry' Bailway Companies, and they were most largely availed of The g-aod stand was crowded. The Newcastle National Band played a choice -election of music. The first contest was a football match— the Laimh Laider Aboos, Kanturk, v. Castlemahon. Both teams wera well ma' ched. and from the commencement the play was carried on with great vi ;oar. Tie Laimh Laider Aboos were declared winners by a forfeit point. The next match, and the ma»- hof the day was the Lord Edwards, Newcastle West, v. St. Michael's, Limerick. When time was called the score was 1 goal and 3 points for St. Michael's to 4 points for Lord Edwards. The next football match was the Grocers' Juniors, Limerick, v. the Emmet Juniors, Newcastle West. Tbia match was spiritedly contested, and ended in a tie. The next event w. aa hurling match, the Faugh-a Ballagh, Adare, v. the St. Michael's Limerick When time was called the score was 2 goals and 6 points for the Faugh-a-Ballaghs to St. Michael's nil. Grocers' Juniors, Lmerick, v. St. Michael's Juniors, Limerick.— This match was well contested, and when time was called the score was— for Grocers' 2 points to 1 point for St. Michael's. The 100-yards handicap was won by J. O'Sullivan, Killorgin, and he also won at throwing the hammer, with a throw of 92ft. Bin. running hop-step and jump, with a leap of 46 ft. 6in., and the running long jump at 19ft. llin. The quarter-mile handicap was won by Michael Roche, Newcastle West the running high jump by M. Connery, KiMnane, with a jump of sft 9in.; the 120-yards hurdle by J. Moouey, Ballyhea slinging 561b5. by D. O'Sullivan, Inchbawn, with a sling of 22ft. 2in., and the pole jump by Michael Maher, Foynes, who cleared the bar at Bft. lOin.
The evicHons on the O'Grady estate, near Herbertstown, com menced on August 30. There was a large force of police and military —forming the escort of Mr. Hobson and his bailiffs— the whole party being under command of Captain Plunkett. The military prepara. tions were of the most elaborate character. Police gathered from all the neighboring stations, and the previous evening cavalry arrived from Kildare to make preparations. A troop of the 3d King's Hussars and 70 men of the 2nd Battalion of the Leinßter Regiment comprised the military force. Father Matthew Ryan and several Englishmen were present. The O'Grady was himself in attendance, but Mr. Beauchamp, solicitor and agent to the landlord, took np possession from the Sheriff. A large crowd was present, and the police made several baton charges. The first victim was John Carroll, but he did not live in the house and there was no resistance. Stonei and water were thrown on the bailiffs out of the next house, thst of Hannah Cremins. Part of the sidewall was thrown down and the police arrested six roe i, and three women were arrested and handcuffed. The eviction of a man named Ryan was carried out without resistance being offure t, but the roads were cut up and other obstacles thrown in the way of the bailiffs. The evictions were resumed next mornin-', and Captain Plunkett was again in charge. On the way from Kilballyowen to Herbertstown the road wa° blocked in several pans, and there were long delays in getting the ambulance waggon through. The first house visited was that of Margaret Moloney, a widow. Dr. Cleary certified that she was unfit to be removed, but the eviction was nevertheless carried out, the sick woman being taken out on a tick. Stones were thrown at the police, who charged the people with batons. At a public meeting after the evictions Mr. William O'Brien spoke and denounced the conduct of Captain Plunkett the previous day for refusing permission to the representatives of the Press and English visitors to approach the hoasea and remarked that, notwithstanding this, the English people are discovering what was going on. A day of reckoning was coming, and big as was the force protecting O'Grady that day there was a greater army gathering in England, under the banner of William Ewart Gladstone, to grant them justice. There were other speeches, and then the crowd quietly dispersed.
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Agrarian Outrage in Ireland.
Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XV, Issue 2314, 1 August 1888, Page 2
Agrarian Outrage in Ireland.
London. Jalv 3.)
Two agrarian murders hay-> been committed at Listowel, Kantu-rk. The victims were boycotted farmers and the murderers!, who were masked. escaped, notwithstanding that the crime was perpetrated in broad davligbt.
A Desperate Fight.
Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XI, Issue 1261, 3 May 1882, Page 2
A Desperate Fight.
A gang of marauders, attacked, jft, house at Listowel, County Kerry, as midnight. The police wero hurriedly summoned, and a terrible affray en* sued, which resulted in twenty of th<* gang being wounded and captured.
THREE PLACES CAPTURED.
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, 7 August 1922, Page 5
THREE PLACES CAPTURED.
d* CAHLB-PKiiSS ASSOCIATKHJ-COrraiUHl LONDON, Aug. 5 i National troops captured "ralee a,,d./iaffaert, ai'S now advancing on Listowel. j
Tralee, Ballylongford and Tarbert captured.
NZ Tablet 2-2- 1883
Lixnaw.
MARRIAGES.
Farbkll— O'CONNELL.-On the- 9th January, 1883, at St. Joseph s Church, Temuka, by the Rev. Father Fauvel, Thomas, eldest Eon Of Mr. James Farrell, County Wicklow, Ireland, to Mary, second daughter of Mr. John O'Connell, Lixnaw, County Kerry, Ireland Walsh— Lennon.- On the 9th January, at the residence of the Rev. W. B. Purton, 0.8.8., Mtuselburgh, Duuedin, Robert Chamber Walsh, to Mary Lennon.
Poverty Bay Herald
10 May 1888
AN AGRARAIN MURDER.
SENTENCED TO DEATH
A London cablegram of a recent date stated that two men named Hayes and Moriarty have been aeatenced t" death for the murder of James Fitzmaurioo, a farmer afc Listowel. on the 3lßb January. The following are the particulars of tlna orime aa given in the English papers 11 The victim was a farmer naraea James Fitzmaurice, aged about 60 years, who lived about two miles from the village of Lixnaw. Two yeara ago the deceased held a farm jointly with Mr Samuel Huasey, but both were evicted. Almost immediately afterwards James Fitzmaurice took the farm on his own account, and thus incurred popular displeasure. He was rigidly boycotted, and for six months past he has been under special police protection. He left home in a cart, accompanied by one of his daughters, aged 20 years, for the purpose of taking a couple of piga to Listowel market. He was accompanied for some distance by two policemen, but at his request they left him at a point about a mile from the scene of the subsequent tragedy. After passing through Lixnaw, Fitzmaurice noticed a young man who was walking along the road behind. Shortly aftorwarda the man was joined by another.and both commenced to run after the cart. The old man, against his daughter's advice jumped out of the cart, and walked along behind it. He did nob apparently apprehend any danger, and when the men came near him he walked back to meet them, again disregarding the girl's entreaties. The girl Baw the men meet, and it wa3 evident thab words passed between them, although ahe could not hear distinctly what was said. Fitzmaorice seemed to lose hiatemper, for he raised his whip as if to strike the two men, who immediately seized him by the collar, drew their revolvers, and fired point blank into the unfortunate man's body. The noise frightened the horse, which started off at a gallop, and the girl was unable to pull up until the cart had gone some considerable distance. As soon as sho could she got out of the cart, and ran to her father's assistance. The murderers had rushed off in the direction of Lixnaw. The old man tried to follow after the cart, but he had walked only 40 paces when he sank to the ground exhausted with the loss of blood, and never again rallied. The girl rushed to a honse some 20 yards away, and having obtained assistance, carried the poor old man into the place. In June last the following resolution was passed by the Lixuaw branch of the Land Lea»ue: That as Janie3 Fitzmuurice, of Ahabeg, Still persists iv allowing his cattle to graze on the farm from which his brother Edmond was recently evicted, and refuses to give any information to the league in extenuation of his conduct, we hereby call on the public to mark him as a landgrabber of the most inhuman type."
Otago Witness 27 -4-1899
PRIVATE VIEWS OF THE BRITISH CABINET.
ITS ACRES, WEALTH, AND DISTINCTIONS. It is doubtful whether the Government of Great Britain has ever been administered by a body of men richer in estates and titles- "that the present Cabinet. The 19 members who constitute the Cabinet of to-day are, among them, lords of as nearly as possible 500,000 acres, or more land than constitutes the entire counties of Middlesex. Huntingdon, and Rutland. Their combined estate would require a fence 176 miles in length, or almost as long as from London to Chester, to surround it, and would be 78 miles long and 10 miles wide while their average estate would be 10 miles long by four miles wide. They appropriate among them 35 titles of peerage and baronetage, iv addition to almost every state and academic distinction open to Britons and they boast no fewer than 45 lordly pleasure hoiises for their accommodation. '-their aggregate private income may safely be assessed at £450,000 a year, or an average distribution of about £24,000 a year, a revenue which at least places their patriotism above suspicion ot money-seeking. More than four-fifths of the Cabinet's real estate is vested in three of its members, who, between them, possess 417,000 acres, or more than twice the area of Huntingdonshire. The Duke of Devonshire beads the list of landed proprietors with 186.000 acres Lord Lansdowne follows with 143,000 and, to the surjorise, no doubt, of many readers, Mr A. J. Balfour makes a good third with 88.000 acres, or nearly half the area of Middlesex. In fact, Mr Balfour owns- more than four acres for every acre of his uncle, the Premier, who is only credited with 20.300 acres. Only nine members of the Cabinet are men of many acres, so that each landowner's average holding would be no less than 86 square miles. The Marquis of Lansdowne appropriates no fewer than 11 titles, or almost one out of every three titles enjoyed by the entire Cabinet. The Marquis of Salisbury's oldest title is a thing of yesterday compared with the Barony of Kerry and Lixnaw, dating from the twelfth century, of which Lord Lansdowne can boast. In addition to this crusted barony, he has three other titles of Baron, three of Viscount, three of Earl, and one of Marquis. The Duke of Devonshire is a bad second in the list of peerages, with only six titles of Baron, Earl, Marquis, and Duke, none of them earlier than the seventeenth century. Lords Salisbury and Cadogan are content with four titles each, and Lord Halsbury is richer than he ever expected to be with three. Seven members of the Cabinet are blessed with a single title, and seven have none at all. B} r far the most blessed amongst Ministers is the Duke of Devonshire, who in land and revenue represents quite a third of the entire Cabinet, while he has sufficient houses to satisfy the architectural vanity of seven statesmen. The rents of his many mansions, to make any return on the capital sunk in them, would be more than sufficient to support our Cahinet in perpetuity. Chatsworth House alone is estimated to have cost, in building and equipment, a million of money, at least while Devonshire House in Piccadilly accounts for quite another million, to say nothing of the glories of Hardwicke Hall, Holker Hall, Bolton Abbey, and Lismore Castle. Lord Salisbury has four English homes, and a charming villa, designed by Lady Salisbury, near Nice and Lord Lansdowne shows his cosmopolitan sympathies by having two houses in England, one in Scotland, and a fourth in Ireland. Lord 3 Halsbury and Cadogan have three homes each. Although the Cabinet is rich in honorary degrees, its University career has been singularly undistinguished. One member only, Sir Matthew White Ridley, bad a brilliant record at the Universities like his brother, Mr Justice Ridley, he took a First Class in the Final Schools at Oxford, and won a Fellowship at All Souls. Lord Salisbury also became a Fellow of All Souls when the Home Secretary was a small boy at Harrow but no other member of the Cabinet appears to have distinguished himself academically.
The last Liberal Ministry, although it must yield the palm of titles and possessions to Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, was far richer in University honours, for it included among its members four Fellowships and as many First Classes at Oxford and Cambridge.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 22 October 1903
Irish News
CLARE.— Tenant Reinstated Much satisfaction is"" felt in the Labasheeda (County Clare) district at the reinstatement of Mr. John Kelly, of Kilkerrin, to the farm from which he was evicted five years ago. Mr. Kelly was the recipient of many congratulations, and was presented with an address from his neighbors in Labasheeda. Charming Embroidery The charming designs of Clare embroidery as now seen in various colors in children's frocks and pinafores (says the Freeman's Journal owe their origin to Mrs. Vere O'Brien, Ballyalla, Ennis, famous as one of the pioneers of the revival of Irish lace. The embroidery is worked from designs drawn by Mrs. O'Brien with her well-known artistic taste and skill. This interesting Irish industry of which classes have been established by Mrs. O'Brien at Ballyalla, presided over by herself at the Convent of Mercy, Ennis, presided over by the directress of nleedlework, and at Mount Callan, presided over by Mrs. Tottenham gives employment to numbers of young girls in the neighborhood. It is owing to her kindly zeal, Limerick lace— an industry which flourished during the early Victorian period, but later became, from various causes, almost extinct— has been revived to its former glory. CORK The Exhibition Speaking at a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Cork Exhibition Sir Edward Fitzgerald, Lord Mayor of Cork, said that the success of the Exhibition, which would close on November Ist, was> already assured. DUBLIN.— The Horse Show Notwithstanding the very inclement weather, 54,838 persons attended the Dublin Horse Show. There was a decrease of over 1000 as compared with last year. An Australian Visitor An Irish priest who has made for himself a brilliant name all over the Continent of Australia and in New Zealand, the Rev. G-. A. Robinson, 8.A., is (says the Irish Catholic of August 15) at present on a visit to his native city, Dublin, in the diocesan college of which at Clonlifte he made his clerical studies before proceeding to the Irish College in Rome. Death of Monsignor Gargan As briefly reported in our columns at the time the Right Rev. Mgr. Gargan, president oi St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, passed to his eternal reward on September 1, at the venerable age of 84 years. Dr. Gargan was a native of County Meath, in which his fathei, Mr. Patrick Gargan, was a large grazier. He was born in 1819. His earliest education was imparted by a private tutor, and he subsequently became a pupil in the Diocesan College, Navan. He matriculated in Maynooth in J 836, and entered for logic. He was ordained priest in 1843. His studies were attended with great brilliancy, and before the end of his Dunboyne course he was appointed Professor of Metaphysics in the Irish College in Pans, under the well-known Dr. McSweeney. In 1845 he competed for the Chair of Humanity in Maynooth College, and was successful in securing the appointment. In 1859 he succeeded Dr. Kelly as Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Maynooth. He continued to hold that chair until October," 1885, when he was elected vice-president of the College. In 1894 he was elevated by the Board of Trustees to the presidency, rendered vacant by the promotion of Monsignor Brown to the See of Cloyne. Dr. Gargan was a theologian of uncommon attainments, while his acquaintance with the whole field of Church history enabled him to speak and write upon that subject with masterly erudition and authority. He found time during his active career in the service of the Church to write a number of valuable works on ecclesiastical and historical subjects. GALVVAY.— The Bishop of Clonfert On Sunday, August 30, the new Bishop of Clonfert, Dr. ODea, was solemnly consecrated at Loughrea. His Eminence Cardinal Logue presided. The consecrating prelate was his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam, and the assistant prelates were the Bishops of Galway and Achonry. There were also present Their Lordships the Bishops of Cloyne, Elphin, Canea, Kildare, Ardagh, Killaloe, Derry, Raphoe, Dromore, Clogher, Waterford, Sandhurst (Victoria), Gou'lburn (New South Wales), and Rockhampton (Queensland), and a very large representation of the clergy. The Bishop of Elpin preached. Subsequently a number of addresses were presented to the newly-consecrated Bishop, and in replying to these, Dr. ODea said though his office was spiritual he should not on that account fail to take a keen interest
in what concerned the people's welfare. It was the excellence of their faith to reconcile temporal and eternal and one of its fundamental teachings was that a rightful use of this world was a condition and a help to qualify for the next. He hoped, therefore, to take a part in future, however limited, in ejvery movement for the temporal well-being of the diocese or of the country at large. He would take a special interest in those problems which he conceived to be at the root of their economic and national progress, the restoration of the land to the people, the revival of their industries, a betterment in the conditions of labor, a nation self-centered in its government and ideas, the advancement of education in all its branches, and the development among the masses of the moral qualities of self-reliance, industry, temperance, fidelity to engagements, and public justice. KERRY.— A Fair-minded Landlord Mr. J. E. J. Julian, 8.L., landlord of Kilfeighmey, near Lixnaw, has informed his tenants that he would give them 30 per cent, reduction on their first term rents under the new Land Act. This is considered by all the farmers round as being a most generous act. Mr. Julian is well known as a splendid type of landlord. Railway Management At a meeting of the Tralee Union Council, Mr. T. Slattery (chairman) proposed the following resolutions (1) That from a national point of view we regard with alarm the ruinous effects on the industries and commerce of) this country if such a| .transit system be oontjjti'ued and respectfully call on the Government to take immediate and effective steps- to remedy it. (2) That we condemn the anti-Catholic and anti-Irish policy of the principal railway companies in Ireland, and call on the Catholics and fair-minded Protestant shareholders in these companies to organise their forces and put a stop to such scandalous and disastrous proceedings. KING'S COUNTY.— A Change Allowed The County Council of King's County have succeeded in getting it officially arranged that the post town formerly known as Frankford shall in future be called Kilcormac, its original name. About a century ago, it appears, an old military officer took it upon himself to name the place Frankfard, after Frankfort-on-the-Rhine. Some months ago, however, the County Council restored the ancient appellation which it received on account of Ihe fact that St. Cormac had a monastery there. Judge Curran, at a recent Quarterly Sessions, expressed his strong disapproval of the change, which he described as ridiculous and nonsensical, though he admitted the legality of the Council's action and, subsequently, the Local Government Board refused to sanction it on the ground that the Council had no power to take such a step. The Postmaster-General, however, has now decided to officially recognise the town as Kilcormac in future, which is a decided victory for the Council. LIMERICK.-— An Auckland Visitor Mr. Walter J. Kirby, who is a well-known Australian tenor, is (says the Irish People on a visit to his uncle, the very popular member for East Limerick, Mr. William Lundon, M P Kilteoly. Mr Kirby was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1878, and from an early age he was engaged in singing at all the churches and theatres throughout Australia and New 2ealand. Last year he toured Australia with Madame Melba Since his arrival in Kilteely he has sung in the local Catholic Church, and also in Kilkee and other centres. MEATH.— A Bye-Election A cable message received last week stated that at a bye-election m South Meath Mr. David Sheehy, Nationalist, was elected, his opponent being a candidate approved of by the Dublin Daily Independent This seat was represented by Mr J. L.-Carew, whose death was reported in our last issue. TIPPERARY.— A Memorial The people of Toomevara have subscribed £114 for a memorial to Father Fogarty, their late pastor. His brother, Rev. M. Fpgarty, I) D Maynooth, has, at Uie request of the committee, selected the design for the monument which is to take the shape of a solid cross carved with interlaced work. WATERFORD.— Death of a Carrick Man The death is reported of one of the oldest and most respected residents of Carrick district, Mr. John Shee, Newtown, father of Mr. J. J. Shee, M.P. for West Waterford, and Mr. N. Sheff; solicitor. He passed away in his 84th year. Mr Shee was for many years a member of the Carrick Board of Guardians, and proved himself a steady Nationalist, especially in the stormy days when the ex-officios held sway. WEXFORD.- Death of the Mayor Alderman John Clancy, of Wexford, died on Saturday, Augiust 29, after an illness of about a fortnight. The de-
ceased was an extensive shipper of cattle to the English markets. In 1902 he was unanimously elected Mayor. His year of office was marked by such excellent government of municipal affairs that on its conclusion he was called upon to continue in office for another year. GENERAL Private Legislation The London correspondent of the Dublin Daily Expjrefrs says he learns that the government will next session introduce a Bill transferring to Ireland the right to transact its own private legislation. The Late Father O'Growney The remains of the late Father O'Growney arrived in Queenstown from New York about the middle of September, being accompanied across the Atlantic by officials of the Gaelic League of America and other prominent sympathisers of the language movement there. Judge O'Connor Morris Again It is not without regret (says the London Morning PostV) that we draw the attention of our readers to an article published to-day from the pen of Judge William O'Connor Morns on the new Irish Land Act. When a man of his experience declares publicly that a measure passed by a Unionist Ministry is a piece of unjust, immoral, and most pernicious quackery,' when he says it is foul with corruption from top to bottom,' Englishmen may well ask him in astonishment to explain what he means. Practical Work Speaking at the Conference organised by the Anti- Emigration Society in Cork, the Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, who presided, said that there was no use whatever m striving to keep the Irish people at home until they managed to provide remunerative work for them, and to provide also what was only of less importance, that was recreation and amusement to relieve the dulnoss which attended the lives of so many. His Lordship (writes a Dublin correspondent) struck the right note. Here is the Kernel of the whole question. Small home industries started here and there throughout the country would do more to check emigration than the most eloquent orations on economics or the most elaborate compilation of statistics. A few knitting machines in Kerry or Connemara that would give employment to even 100 persons would do something tangible to keep the people at home In this respect too much credit cannot be given to the nuns in many parts of Ireland. They aie giving practical proof of what could be done to stem the tide of emwMion The famous Foxfoid mills managed by the Sisters of Chanty, the «Gort industries managed by the Sisters of Mercy, and many others of a similar kind, lllustiate what I mean. At the Horse Show and at the Irish Industries Show specimens of the work done by these beneficent institutions were exhibited The work done by the Poor Clares of Kenmare St. Louis' Convent, Carrickmacross the Sisters of Charity, Sligo and others won tho admiration of all Much could be done in the same direction if only the Sisters were afforded practical assistance in the noble work The time for talking, as far as the emigration question is concerned, is at an end. Practical work such as is being given by the nuns in many places is what is required.
Students devise business venture to help restore their church.
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Two enterprising Transition Year students from the Christian Brothers’ School in Tramore, Co, Waterford, have found a novel way to help pay for the restoration of their local church.
Daniel Connolly and Dylan Hennessy have started a business making clocks from old slates being removed from the church roof
OCTOBER 11, 1831
Died at his residence in this town, on the 5th inst., Mr. Thomas
Quilter, aged forty years, a native of the County of Kerry,
Ireland. Industry and honesty, kindness and good nature, were
conspicious in his character, during a residence of nearly
thirteen years in Columbia.
List of Passengers on Ship Princeton from Liverpool to New York, 18 July, 1853.
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Johanna Calligan Cork
John Connor Kerry
Mary Dunlevy Kerry
Ellen Grany Kerry
Mary Sullivan Kerry
Julia Tobin Limerick
Mt. Calvary Cemetery Inscriptions, Burlington, Vermont
Name: Catherine Foran
POB: Co. Kerry
DOB/AGE: 1851
DOD: 1930
Spouse of: Patrick Welch
Inscription: Born in Ballyheige, County Kerry, Ireland
Name: Daniel Conner
POB: Co. Kerry
DOB/AGE: 22 Years
DOD: August 1849
Spouse of:
Inscription: Native of Muig-on-Ear, Paris of Knuckle-no-Gasul,
Ireland (Cant [Can't?] find town - Parish is
Probably Knocknagoshel)
Name: Hanora Quirk
POB: Co. Kerry
DOB/AGE: May 1844
DOD: 8-26-1904
Spouse of: James Hinchey
Inscription: Wife of James Hinchey, County Kerry, Ireland
Name: John Sullivan
POB: Co. Kerry
DOB/AGE: 48Yrs 8mos
DOD: 10-19-1869
Spouse of: Ellen Sheehan
Inscription: Native of County Kerry, Ire [Ireland?]
Name: Ellen Sheehan
POB: Co. Kerry
DOB/AGE: 78 Years
DOD: 10-11-1901
Spouse of: John Sullivan
Inscription: Born in Lestroytown, County Kerry, Ireland
Name: James Fitzgerald
POB: Co. Kerry
DOB/AGE: 75 Years
DOD: 10-4-1896
Spouse of: Nancy _______
Inscription: Born in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
Name: Nancy _______ Fitzgerald
POB: ?
DOB/AGE: 76 Years
DOD: 8-2-1907
Spouse of: James Fitzgerald
Inscription: ?
NORRIS: le Norreys (i.e. the northman) is very frequent in Irish records since the thirteenth century. It came into special prominence with the arrival of Sir John Norris, who was responsible for the terrible massacre at Rathlin Island in 1575. He became President of Munster in 1584 and was succeeded by his brother Thomas in 1597. Another brother, Henry (d.1599),
This morning, Timothy M'Carthy, otherwise Souney, was sent off
under an escort of the Royal Cork Volunteers, to be executed
To-morrow at Dunmanway, for attacking the house of John Gilman,
Esq. near that town. Any person now detected in breaking into a
house, can expect no mercy after this example.
The database is available at the following address: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/index-e.html.
Kennelly 1908
Surname:
KENNELLY
Given Name:
B
Age:
15
Sex:
M
Ship:
Tunisian
Year of Arrival:
1908
Departure Port:
Liverpool
Departure Date:
1908-05-28
Arrival Port:
Quebec
Arrival Date:
1908-06-05
Party:
Catholic Emigration Association
Destination:
Ottawa, Ontario
Comments:
Sister St. Vincent de Paul in charge of 46 boys. Many names difficult to read
Source:
Library and Archives Canada
1799
RAN-A-WAY,
On the 25th December inst., without any Cause whatever, HENRY MULHOLLAND, my indented Apprentice to the Blacksmith Business-had on when he absconded, a Blue Jacket, Black Waistcoat, and Corduroy
Smallclothes; is about five Feet seven inches high, well made, dark Complexion, short Hair, and smooth faced. -Any Person harbouring, or employing my said Apprentice, after this Notice, shall be
prosecuted as the Law directs in such Cases. HUGH MOUNTFORD. Belfast, Ann-street, Dec. 31, 1799.
N. B. By said Mulholland's immediate Return, without any more Trouble, to his Employ, he may expect as good Treatment as heretofore.
The Belfast News-Letter, 26 April 1800
Dublin, April 22.
Napper Tandy is to be tried on Monday fe'nnight.
Lloyd's List of the 11th says that the Inflexible, Wassenaar, Stately, and Alkmaar, men of war ; Romulas, Expedition, Pallas, Charon, Hebe, and Vestal frigates, and Serapis storeship, with troops
on board, are bound to Waterford.
In the county of Wicklow near the Glen of Imauel, Captain Dwyer's gang surprised and disarmed some soldiers, sending them not only empty but naked away.
In the county Kildare, a little beyond Ballytore, last Wednesday the Post-boy was stopped and robbed by three men armed with blunderbusses.
Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a Gentleman was robbed on the public road at Baggotrath, close to Dublin, by five armed men.
Lifford Assizes ended on Wednesday last, and proved a maiden one, there not having been a single conviction of any kind for and offence whatever, which proves the happy state of tranquillity and
industry of the county of Donegall. This circumstance intitles [sic] the Judge to a pair of gold fringe gloves from the Sheriff.
Henry Stokes and Patrick Sheehan, found guilty by a General Court Martial at Limerick, of the murder of Messrs. Boland, were on Monday morning last taken form the new Barrack, under an escort of
the Lancashire dragoons, to the hill of Fedamore, where they were hanged, after which their bodies were brought to Limerick and thrown into Croppies'-hole at the new gaol.
Sheehan, on the morning of his execution, informed a gentleman, that if he would give him his oath that his (Sheehan's) life would be saved, he would give the most useful information, not only of
nocturnal rebel-meetings, and of the vast number of arms in their possession, but of their intended robberies and assassination.
Same day Moriarty, for prevarication on the trial of the above convicts, received 100 lashes at the foot of the gallows, in part of his sentence.
Among the spectators who attended at the execution of the murderers at Fedamore, on Monday last, a man of the name of Patrick Haneen was recognized and brought to the county gaol, against whom we
are assured, there is positive proof of his being the first person who set fire to the murdered and much lamented Mr. J. Boland's house at Manister.
Saturday fe'nnight John Brien, lately tried by a Court-Martial for the murder of Nathaniel Brien, was hanged at Clonlawrence, near Beerhaven, county of Cork, pursuant to the sentence of the
Court.
ORANGE.
AT a Meeting of Lodge No. 673, held at Portaferry on Tuesday the 1st April, 1800.
Resolved-That we highly disapprove of the introduction of Political Subjects into Orange Lodges, considering such as foreign to the object of our Institution, as it must finally prove fatal to
the Institution itself.
Resolved-That our thanks be returned to the Grand Lodge, for their well timed instructions upon this subject, which, with any others they may favour us with, we are determined to abide by.
PAT. GALWAY, M.
JOHN ECHLIN, D. M.
EDW. T. SAVAGE, Sec.
[The foregoing advertisement was mislaid, otherwise it would have been inserted sooner.]
Belfast News-Letter, 9 September 1800
Convictions in the City
John Keating for forging bank notes, to be publicly whipped from gate to gate on Saturday next, and to be imprisoned twelve months. Bridget Nowlan, for conspiring with said John Keating and
others to cheat and defraud the bankers of Cork, to be imprisoned 12 months. Cath. Hinchy, for stealing a bundle of cloth, the property of John Reardon, burned in the hand and to be imprisoned
two calendar months. Catherine Ahern, for petty larceny, to be privately whipped in gaol. Mary Murphy, for feloniously stealing a cotton gown and several other articles of wearing apparel, the
property of Mary Roberts, to be transported for seven years. Thomas Crowley, for uttering seditious expressions, fined one mark. Mary Guess, for petty larceny, to be privately whipped in gaol.
Snippet
from Dr Robert Moynihan.
historical truth about Pius' response to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Hence, this brief report to clarify the facts.
The petitioning organization, which does not claim to represent all Holocaust survivors, misrepresents Pius XII's actual record of constant help for the victims of the Third Reich's murderous racial policies.
And this was well known at the time, and not just by Catholics, but by many Jews and their representatives.
On November 29, 1945, a large group of Jewish survivors came to the Vatican, specifically "to thank His Holiness personally for the extraordinary generosity which he had shown them when they were persecuted during the frightful period of Nazi-Fascism."
Pius XII embraced them, saying: "The Holy See, faithful to the eternal principles, never has agreed, not even in the most hazardous moments, with concepts which the history of civilization will range among the most deplorable and ignominious aberrations of human thinking and feeling. Your presence here is meant to be an expression of gratitude from men and women who have experienced that in the exercise of charity, the Catholic Church and her real children know how to rise above the narrow and arbitrary limits drawn by human selfishness and race hatred." (Angelic Shepherd: the Life of Pope Pius XII, by Jan Olav Smit, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950, p. 154)
The claim that Pius XII was "silent" during the Holocaust is contradicted by his own wartime statements, and those who praised them after the war. When he died in 1958, the Jewish community hailed his wartime leadership, above all because he did "speak out."
Golda Meir, then Israel's Foreign Minister, reacted with this tribute: "We share in the grief of humanity at the passing away of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII. In a generation afflicted by wars and discords, he upheld the highest ideals of peace and compassion. When fearful martydom came to our people in the decade of Nazi terror, the voice of the Pope was raised in compassion for the victims."(Reuters, October 10,1958)
In his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus (October, 1939), in his Christmas addresses, in his radio appeals, in his allocution to the College of Cardinals on June 2, 1943, Pius XII condemned race-based murder, and thus came to the clear, public defense of European Jews - a fact recognized at the time, even if it is generally ignored or denied today.
On October 1, 1942, the Times of London editorialized: "A study of the words which Pope Pius XII has addressed since his accession in encyclicals and allocutions to the Catholics of various nations leaves no room for doubt. He condemns the worship of force and its concrete manifestation in the suppression of national liberties and in the persecution of the Jewish race."
Charles Pichon, a leading wartime correspondent, described Pius XII's wartime addresses succinctly: "The pontifical texts condemned most strongly the anti-Semitic persecutions, the oppression of invaded lands, the inhuman conduct of the war, and also the deification of the Race, the State and the Class." (The Vatican and its Role in World Affairs, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950, p. 167)
In reaction to his 1942 Christmas address, the Nazis themselves, furious about Pius XII's public stand, railed: "That this speech is directed exclusively against the New Order in Europe as seen in National Socialism is clear in the Papal statement that mankind owes a debt to ‘all who during the war have lost their Fatherland and who, although personally blameless have, simply on account of their nationality and origin, been killed or reduced to utter destitution.' Here he is virtually accusing the German people of injustice towards the Jews, and makes himself the mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals." (The Vatican in the Age of the Dictators, 1922-1945, by Anthony Rhodes, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, p.273).
Similar examples of Pius's anti-Nazi, pro-Jewish statements are found in the wartime issues of the Palestine Post, the New York Times, the Tablet of London and the Jewish press of various countries.
How is it possible, then, that anyone could say Pius XII was "silent" in the face of Nazi mass murder? There must be a reason - but perhaps the reason is not based on fact and truth. And this could be due to disinformation.
One source of what seems to be slander against Pope Pius is the Soviet propaganda machine which directed some of its efforts against Pius after the Second World War.
The Soviets had good reason to wish to weaken the moral authority of the Popes and of the Church: the Church was opposed to them in Eastern Europe, and elsewhere around the world.
The Communists employed the techniques of "misinformation" and "disinformation" with considerable skill - although in retrospect, the efforts sometimes seem clumsy enough, once the truth is made clear.
In the case of Pope Pius XII, this campaign climaxed in the now-discredited propaganda play, The Deputy, by Rolf Hochhuth (1963), which had a powerful impact on a world trying to understand the horror of Hitler's "Final Solution."
Suddenly, public opinion was mesmermized by Hochhuth's grotesque allegations that Pius was in a sense "Hitler's deputy," despite the actual historical record.
Among the first to refute the allegations against Pius was Robert M. W. Kempner, the Deputy Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg and a Jewish refugee from Hitler's genocide. Having mastered the "relevant archives," he exposed the false allegation that Pius XII was silent, and that he failed to protest Hitler's unspeakable crimes, and that that is how they came to reach the proportions they did: "Both the premise and the conclusion drawn from it are equally untenable. The archives of the Vatican, of the diocesan authorities and of Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry contain a whole series of protests - direct and indirect, diplomatic and public, secret and open." (Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy: Pius XII was Not Silent, by Jeno Levai, London: Sands and Company, p. X).
As for the claim that the Vatican is holding back key documents regarding Pius's actions, thousands of relevant documents have already been made public, and thousands more are being prepared for release. The process is slow because of the number of documents and necessity that each be carefully handled. From 1965-1981, the Holy See published 12 thick volumes of wartime documents (Actes et Documents), four of which deal with the Holy See's humanitarian assistance alone. It's clear that many of Pius's most inveterate critics have never even consulted them, much less fully acknowledged what they contain. Father Robert Graham, one of the 12-volume collection's editors, describes their importance: "They embrace every imaginable form of activity to help stricken mankind without discrimination."
With regard to the Pope's impassioned response to the Holocaust, Graham continued: "It is impossible to portray in a few words the extensive correspondence of the Vatican in reference to the deportation of the European Jews, particularly for the years 1942 to 1944. Nearly every world Jewish rescue organization at work in the field is represented. Appearing in the list of organizations whose appeals to the Holy See were readily acted on are: the World Jewish Congress (both the London and Geneva centers), the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Agudas Israel, the Emergency Committee to save the Jews of Europe, the American Jewish Committee, the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada.
Prominent Jewish leaders in view included Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Jerusalem, and Chief Rabbi Hertz of England." ("The Good Samaritan in World War II," Catholic League Newsletter, May 15, 1989)
As Dimitri Cavalli showed, in his article, "The Good Samaritan: Jewish Praise for Pope Pius XII," originally published in Inside the Vatican (October, 2000), Actes and Documents, as well as the Jewish wartime press, chronicle and record Pius XII's extraordinary efforts on behalf of persecuted Jews, and the Jewish community's extremely high praise of him. (Here is a link to the story: http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/PIUS12GS.HTM).
The War Refugee Board, created by President Roosevelt to aid Europe's persecuted Jews, was keenly aware of the key role the Vatican played. In his final Summary Report (September 15, 1945), Executive Director John H. Pehle wrote: "The Holy See and the Vatican hierarchy throughout Europe were solicited time and again for special assistance both as a channel of communication to the leaders and people of enemy territory, and as a means of rendering direct aid to suffering victims of Hitler. The Catholic clergy saved and protected many thousands and the Vatican rendered invaluable assistance to the Board and to the persecuted in Nazi hands." (Cited in "Relations of Pius XII and the Catholic Community and Jewish Organizations," by Father Robert A. Graham, S.J., in The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust, edited by Ivo Herzer, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1989, p. 232)
Among Pius XII's impressive (but least known) achievements are the establishment of the Pontifical Relief Commission, and the Vatican Information Office. The first distributed massive amounts of food, medicine and clothing to people of all creeds and nationalities, throughout war-torn Europe; the second fielded millions of wartime inquiries, on prisoners of war and other missing or displaced people, helping re-unite countless desperate families. In 2004, the Vatican, adding to the abundance of material in Actes et Documents, released over 1,500 pages of new documentation on this extraordinary agency, showing the depth and breath of Pius XII's creation. Some of Pius XII's interventions for Jews was so great that it actually stirred complaints from others who believed Pius had a "preference" for them ("Pius XII's Aid to Jews was so Great that it Stirred Protests," Zenit News Agency, July 4, 2004; Link: http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/ZP12JWS.HTM.)
In a sense, that was true: those most at risk garnered Pius's most immediate attention, though everyone suffering came under his loving concern.
A prime example of the Pope's concerted efforts on behalf of Jews occurred during the German Occupation of Rome (Sept. 1943-June, 1944), as both Michael Tagliacozzo and Sr. Grazia Loparco have documented. Tagliacozzo, a Roman Jew who was himself a survivor of the Nazi roundup of Rome's Jews in 1943, and the outstanding authority on that event, has testified that Pius XII "was the only one who intervened to impede the deportation of Jews on October 16, 1943, and he did very much to hide and save thousands of us. It was no small matter that he ordered the opening of cloistered convents. Without him, many of our own would not be alive." ("Jewish Historian Praises Pius XII's Wartime Conduct," Zenit News Agency, October 26, 2000; link: http://academics.smcvt.edu/pcouture/jewish_historian_praises_pius_xi.htm).
Sr. Loparco, also a top scholar of the period, adds: "From the documentation and testimonies emerges evidence of the full support and instruction of Pius XII.... Many concrete events, such as the opening of cloistered monasteries and convents, prove the fact that many Jews were lodged because of the direct concern of the Vatican, which also provided food and assistance." ("When Rome's Religious Houses Saved Jews," Zenit News Agency, January 21, 2005; link: http://www.zenit.org/article-12040?l=english).
The Underlying Meaning
Pope Benedict will visit Rome's synagogue to promote Catholic-Jewish understanding.
The half-truths and propaganda concerning Pius XII should not cloud the occasion.
Anyone inclined to confront Benedict with historical myths and inaccuracies would do well to recall the message of gratitude Isaac Herzog, the chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, sent to Pius for his efforts to confront the Nazi terror in 1944: "The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion which form the very foundations of true civilization, are doing for our unfortunate brothers and sisters in this most tragic hour of history, which is living proof of divine providence in this world." (February 28, 1944, Actes et Documents, volume X, pp. 291-292).
In addition, Pius's detractors might want recall what Rome's former chief rabbi, Dr. Elio Toaff, said at the time of Pius XII's death in 1958: "More than any other people, the Italian Jews had experienced the great pity and supreme generosity of the Pontiff during the unhappy years of persecution and terror, when it seemed to them they had no way of escape. His Jewish compatriots will everlastingly remember with gratitude the papal ruling to open the doors of convents and parish houses to them. The Jewish community is in mourning for the death of Pius XII and with sincere sentiments it raises its prayers to the Lord that he may grant his generous and chosen soul every beatitude." (The Tablet of London, October 25, 1958).
Oct 14th 1864 Cork Examiner
MR. ALDERMAN MECHI'S WEIGHT.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,-There can be no doubt about the fattening properties of sugar. It is well known that during the sugar-cane harvest in our West India Colonies everybody, human and
animal, gets rapidly fat, especially the negroes and their children. The same remark applies to the ladies of the harem in Turkey, who are expected-and, in fact, compelled-to eat a great variety
of sweetmeats to produce rotundity. As a juror in the exhibition of 1851, I was much struck with the variety of sugar preparations in the Turkish department, and ascertained the cause. Your
correspondent "F.R.S." is right as to the admixture of starch, but he should remember that we eat potatoes, bread puddings, &c., abounding in starch. There was no mistake about my increase or
decrease of weight. Probably I am what in agriculture we call a "good doer," like many very corpulent friends, who get fat upon a little, while certain very great feeders are as lean as rakes. I
am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. J. MECHI. Tiptree-hall, near Kelvedon, Oct. 11.
My usual weight is 15 stone, to which I mean to try to limit myself.
26 Oct 1864 Cork Examiner
POLICE OFFICE-THIS DAY.
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(Before Messrs. W. LYONS, N. DUNSCOMBE, and J. L. CRONIN, R.M.) A FOREIGN seaman, named Pasquale Tedecicowitzengraff, charged a woman named Honorah M'Carthy with having robbed him of £2 12s. last
night. It appeared that the woman enticed the prosecutor into a house in Furze's- alley, where his money was stolen from him, while he was asleep. Informations were taken against the prisoner,
and a prosecution was directed against the proprietor of the house in which Tedecico-witzengraff was robbed.
27 Oct 1864 Examiner
THE LATE D. MAHONY, ESQ., CAHIRCIVEEN.
------ Died at Cahirciveen, on the 20th instant, after a month's illness, borne with Christian resignation, Daniel Mahony, Esq., aged 42 years. He was an indulgent agent, a kind friend, with an
open hand for the poor, and a generous contributor to every work of utility or charity. Frequently during his illness he caused the holy sacrifice of the mass to be offered in his room, at which
he assisted, and received the body of our Lord with the most edifying devotion. Having received the last rites of the church he departed this life at three o'clock, p.m., on Thursday, surrounded
and sustained by many friends. Of him it may be truly said that he passed through life without making an enemy or losing a friend. While living we loved him, now that he is dead we mourn our
loss, and from our heart, of hearts we pray peace and rest to his soul.
DEATHS. At Cahirciveen, on the 20th instant, after a months' illness, borne with Christian resignation, Daniel Mahony, Esq., aged 42 years, for many years agent to the O'Connell property in that
district.
On the 24th instant, at the house of her brother, 21, Molesworth-street, Dublin, Sarah, relict of the late Samuel Dufour, Esq., aged 78 years.
On the 25th instant, at 25, Westland Row, Dublin, Jane, relict of the late Wm. D. Keightley, Esq.
On the 17th instant, at Killarney, Albert L. Jenner, Esq., aged 56.
Oct. 25, at his residence, 14, St. James's-terrace, Dublin, Hugh O'Brennan Clinch, Esq.
October 23, at Kilglass Glebe, County Roscommon, Henry Crofton Lloyd, fifth son of the Rev. Thomas Lloyd, aged 24 years.
October 23, at Liverpool, John Graves, infant son of Robert Newell, Esq.
October 16, at Dinlingstown, county Kilkenny, Mr. John Dunphy, late of the Irish College, Rome, aged 35 years.
October 24, at Edinburgh, Walter Nugent, Esq., of Chester-street, Belgravia, London, baron of the Austrian Empire, aged 64 years.
28 Oct 1864 Examiner
DEATH OF A POOR SHIRTMAKER.-On Monday afternoon Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middlesex, held an enquiry at the Oporto Stores, Bloomsbury, touching the death of Caroline Smith, who had
resided at No. 9, Crown-street. The deceased obtained a scanty living by making the bodies of shirts, and, though represented as a steady hard-working woman, she was sometimes unable to make a
shirt in the course of a long day's work, the price obtained for each shirt being 4d. Last winter she suffered severely from want of food, and fearing bad times to come she had saved something
out of her poor earnings, and when searched after her death the sum of 1 s. 6d. was found on her person. Mr. Bannister, the surgeon, was called in to see her, and though he lost no time in
obeying the summons she was dead before his arrival. She had suffered, he said, from bed bruises, and death was caused by the cessation of the heart's action, accelerated by want. The bed on
which she had been lying was nothing but a heap of dirty rags. It was proved by her neighbours that the deceased had eaten nothing for three days. All the relief she obtained from the parish was
half a quartern loaf about a week before her death. No medical aid was provided by the parish. A juror remarked that they could not throw blame on any one if the deceased had had proper medical
attention, to which the coroner replied that death was undoubtedly caused in consequence of the want of proper medical attendance. The jury returned a verdict of "Natural death accelerated by
want of proper attendance."
The Boston Pilot gives the following (which is only a partial) list of the Catholic Union Generals, who have served in this war :-Major-Generals-William S. Rosecrans, Quincy A. Gilmore, George S.
Meade, E. O. C. Ord, Philip H. Sheridan, John G. Foster, George Stoneman, James Shields, Daniel E. Sickles, David S. Stanley, John Newton, Alfred Pleasanton, -- Richardson, Joseph B. Carr, and H.
J. Hunt. Brigadier- Generals-Thomas Francis Meagher, Michael Corcoran, Thomas W. Sweeny, Patrick Edward Conner, M. K. Lawler, Thomas Ewing, jun. , Hugh Ewing, Regis de Trobriand, Thomas C. Devin,
Charles P. Stone, J. W. Sherman, and Alfred N. Duffie. Acting-Brigadier- Generals- James E. Mallon, Patrick H. O'Rorke, M. T. Donahue, James A. Mulligan, Florence M. Cornyn, Stephen M'Groarty,
Richard Byrnes, Patrick Helley, and Mathew Murphy.
Oct 4 1864
Examiner
DEATHS. September 1, at the siege of Atlanta, Albert Kennelly, son of Mr. Dominic Kennelly, of New York, formerly of this city.
On the 4th instant, at College road, in this city, Mrs. Eliza Fryer, aged 56 years.
August 31, at Bermuda, of malignant yellow fever, Henry Stewart Lodge, assistant-surgeon 2nd Regiment, son of the late Rev. William Lodge, rector of Killybegs, county Donegal.
July 16, at Sandbridge, Australia, Jane, wife of M. Prendergast, Esq., barrister, and third daughter of the late L. C. Smyth, of Snugborough, county Meath.
The Cork Examiner, 4 October 1864
A WORD OF CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT.
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It having come to my knowledge that there are numerous Agents, Runners, Boarding-house Keepers, who are employed by Speculators in the United States to induce strangers, under the offer of high
wages and other promises to leave Canada, I wish to warn you against listening to the advice of all such persons. They are generally to be met with in places of public resort, and may not
unfrequently be your fellow passengers on steamers and railroad cars. You cannot be too guarded in receiving their advice which they nearly always manage to give unsolicited. Their object is to
deceive and mislead you, in the hope of securing the Bounty Money offered by the American Government for Recruits.
Many Emigrants have suffered from want of caution in this respect. They have probably been induced to accept a friendly invitation to drink, then drugged, and recovering their sense found
themselves enlisted, and at the mercy of unscrupulous men.
You should also bear in mind, that owing to the depreciation of American currency, the United States Paper Dollar, which was formerly worth 4s. sterling, is now reduced to 1s. 8d., or about 2s.
Canada funds ; and that all the necessaries of life are increased from 200 to 300 per cent., while wages have only advanced about 50 per cent.
If you are in any doubt, or want of advice, apply at once to any of the Government Emigration Agents, stationed in the chief cities of the province, viz. :-Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston,
Toronto, and Hamilton, where every protection will be afforded you.
A. C. BUCHANAN, Chief Agent.
Government Emigration Office, Quebec,
30th August, 1864,
---- The following is extracted from a letter sent to Dundee, by an Emigrant who went out from Dundee, in the Bayswater, from Liverpool, January 29th, 1864 :- Rockhampton, Queensland, 5th June,
1864, I believe there never was a ship that left Britain with passengers in which they were so well treated as we were on board the Bayswater, of the "Black Ball" Line, by the Doctor, Captain,
and other officers of the ship ; and, although we had not one of the quickest passages, we had one of the best on record. We had not what you call a gale of wind all the way. I have kept a note
of every day's proceedings since I left, and, in course of time, will send you a full, true, and particular account of the voyage. We weighed anchor on Friday, the 5th February, and cast anchor
in Keppel Bay, on Monday, 23rd May, at 2 p.m., making the passage in 108 days. It was on Thursday, the 26th, before we landed in Rockhampton. The ship can only come to within sixty miles of
Rockhampton. A steamboat brought us the rest of the way, and when we landed at the quay there were six horses and carts waiting on us and our luggage. We were all taken to the depot, and served
out with tea and sugar, bread and beef, and I am still living at the depot, and at the expense of the Queensland Government.
I am going to begin work to-morrow at the joiner trade, with a Highlandman for my master, named M'Gregor, and 12s. a day for eight hours and seven for Saturdays. I have also met in with Mackenzie
from Inverness in business here as a saddler. He has a brother in Inverness a saddler ; and one in Melbourne. Mackenzie has four men working to him. I do not know how many M'Gregor has, but I got
work for other two men that came out with M'Gregor. Shoemakers and tailors will do well here. Tailors 10s. a day with rations, and shoemakers from £3 to £3 15s. a week with their rations.
Labourers from 18s. to £1 5s. a week with rations, and lodgings for himself and wife. Single men, shepherds to go up to the country (say from two to six hundred miles), £40, £45, and £50 a year
with rations. All the young men that came out with me in the steerage, 78 in number, have gone to be shepherds. Most of them know as much about sheep as you do. I was offered £60 with our rations
to go up the country 200 miles and would not take it. The single girls are getting 10s., 12s., and 15s. a week. We are only 12 days landed and the most of us have got work. But you can get a
pamphlet from Mr. George Percival, 23, Bath-street, Liverpool, who is the Queensland Government Agent, which will give you a deal of valuable information about the colony.
When I landed we had between us somewhere about eightpence, so that none of you need be afraid to come. The Government have to pay me about £6 for duties I performed on the voyage out, but as the
ship has to go back to Brisbane with the rest of the passengers, I cannot get my money until then, or until they are landed. If I had been paid I would have sent you the money in this letter ;
and as this is the first mail since I landed, I thought it was well to send you these few lines to let you know of our safe arrival in the meantime.
When we landed the 4lb. loaf was 1s. 6d., it is down to 1s. 2d. since ; tea, 2s. 6d. ; sugar, 5d. to 6d. per lb. ; beef, 2d., 3d., and 4d., per lb. ; mutton, 6d. per lb. ; tobacco, 6s. per lb. ;
whiskey, brandy, rum, and gin, 8s. per bottle. Ale and porter, 2s. 6d. per bottle ; lemonade, 6d. per bottle. Nothing in a public-house under 6d. Half a glass of whiskey, brandy, rum, or gin, 6d.
ANDREW FRAKER.
This morning, Timothy M'Carthy, otherwise Souney, was sent off
under an escort of the Royal Cork Volunteers, to be executed
To-morrow at Dunmanway, for attacking the house of John Gilman,
Esq. near that town. Any person now detected in breaking into a
house, can expect no mercy after this example.
1799
RAN-A-WAY,
On the 25th December inst., without any Cause whatever, HENRY MULHOLLAND, my indented Apprentice to the Blacksmith Business-had on when he absconded, a Blue Jacket, Black Waistcoat, and Corduroy
Smallclothes; is about five Feet seven inches high, well made, dark Complexion, short Hair, and smooth faced. -Any Person harbouring, or employing my said Apprentice, after this Notice, shall be
prosecuted as the Law directs in such Cases. HUGH MOUNTFORD. Belfast, Ann-street, Dec. 31, 1799.
N. B. By said Mulholland's immediate Return, without any more Trouble, to his Employ, he may expect as good Treatment as heretofore.
The Belfast News-Letter, 26 April 1800
Dublin, April 22.
Napper Tandy is to be tried on Monday fe'nnight.
Lloyd's List of the 11th says that the Inflexible, Wassenaar, Stately, and Alkmaar, men of war ; Romulas, Expedition, Pallas, Charon, Hebe, and Vestal frigates, and Serapis storeship, with troops
on board, are bound to Waterford.
In the county of Wicklow near the Glen of Imauel, Captain Dwyer's gang surprised and disarmed some soldiers, sending them not only empty but naked away.
In the county Kildare, a little beyond Ballytore, last Wednesday the Post-boy was stopped and robbed by three men armed with blunderbusses.
Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a Gentleman was robbed on the public road at Baggotrath, close to Dublin, by five armed men.
Lifford Assizes ended on Wednesday last, and proved a maiden one, there not having been a single conviction of any kind for and offence whatever, which proves the happy state of tranquillity and
industry of the county of Donegall. This circumstance intitles [sic] the Judge to a pair of gold fringe gloves from the Sheriff.
Henry Stokes and Patrick Sheehan, found guilty by a General Court Martial at Limerick, of the murder of Messrs. Boland, were on Monday morning last taken form the new Barrack, under an escort of
the Lancashire dragoons, to the hill of Fedamore, where they were hanged, after which their bodies were brought to Limerick and thrown into Croppies'-hole at the new gaol.
Sheehan, on the morning of his execution, informed a gentleman, that if he would give him his oath that his (Sheehan's) life would be saved, he would give the most useful information, not only of
nocturnal rebel-meetings, and of the vast number of arms in their possession, but of their intended robberies and assassination.
Same day Moriarty, for prevarication on the trial of the above convicts, received 100 lashes at the foot of the gallows, in part of his sentence.
Among the spectators who attended at the execution of the murderers at Fedamore, on Monday last, a man of the name of Patrick Haneen was recognized and brought to the county gaol, against whom we
are assured, there is positive proof of his being the first person who set fire to the murdered and much lamented Mr. J. Boland's house at Manister.
Saturday fe'nnight John Brien, lately tried by a Court-Martial for the murder of Nathaniel Brien, was hanged at Clonlawrence, near Beerhaven, county of Cork, pursuant to the sentence of the
Court.
ORANGE.
AT a Meeting of Lodge No. 673, held at Portaferry on Tuesday the 1st April, 1800.
Resolved-That we highly disapprove of the introduction of Political Subjects into Orange Lodges, considering such as foreign to the object of our Institution, as it must finally prove fatal to
the Institution itself.
Resolved-That our thanks be returned to the Grand Lodge, for their well timed instructions upon this subject, which, with any others they may favour us with, we are determined to abide by.
PAT. GALWAY, M.
JOHN ECHLIN, D. M.
EDW. T. SAVAGE, Sec.
[The foregoing advertisement was mislaid, otherwise it would have been inserted sooner.]
Belfast News-Letter, 9 September 1800
Convictions in the City
John Keating for forging bank notes, to be publicly whipped from gate to gate on Saturday next, and to be imprisoned twelve months. Bridget Nowlan, for conspiring with said John Keating and
others to cheat and defraud the bankers of Cork, to be imprisoned 12 months. Cath. Hinchy, for stealing a bundle of cloth, the property of John Reardon, burned in the hand and to be imprisoned
two calendar months. Catherine Ahern, for petty larceny, to be privately whipped in gaol. Mary Murphy, for feloniously stealing a cotton gown and several other articles of wearing apparel, the
property of Mary Roberts, to be transported for seven years. Thomas Crowley, for uttering seditious expressions, fined one mark. Mary Guess, for petty larceny, to be privately whipped in gaol.
Newspaper: TIPPERARY, Compendium of Crime, Nenagh Guardian 1838-1839 Part 1
Copyright 2007, Ireland Genealogy Project Archives, All rights reserved.
Contributed by Mary Heaphy
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From the Nenagh Guardian March 9th 1839.
From a compendium of crime in the County Of Tipperary, as recorded in the
Nenagh Guardian form the first publication on the 21st July 1838 to the
13th.March 1839. Comprising a period of 8 months.
July 21st 1838.
Murder.
John Kennedy, who had been placed as and agent by Denis Canny, Esq, over
some of his property, about three miles from Nenagh, and from a situation a
man named Gleeson had been removed. Kennedy was fired at nearly two years
ago, and shot through the arm, for which offence two sons of Gleeson, were
prosecuted by him at the Assizes in Clonmel, but acquitted in consequence of
the Prosecuter's testimony being shaken by a celebrated cross-examiner on
the Leinster circuit, and ever since he has been obliged to carry fire arms
for protection. He has been repeatedly served with threatening notices, and
on Monday morning last, about 4 O'Clock, these notices were carried into
full force against him. As he was proceeding at that early hour to look
after the cattle under his care, he was pounced upon by a number of men, and
murdered in a savage manner; he was a very muscular man, and the ditch and
grass in the place where he was murdered bore marks of a furious struggle.
At the time he was murdered he was armed with a stick and pistol, but such
was the plan laid for his destruction, that these weapons were of no avail
to him. It was known by his assassins, that he should pass through a narrow
lane or Boreen, and inside the ditches they divided themselves into two
parties, and when the fated man entered this passage, they set upon him,
blockaded him up, and accomplished their deadly purpose, for as he escaped
the pistol on a former occasion , they were determined , as the nature of
his wounds proves, he should no more be a living witness against his
Assailants.
Grevious Assault. July 21st 1838
John Gleeson was waylaidand assaulted by John Ready and others, by beating
him with a stone on the head.
Wm. Fogarty, assaulted by John Guinan, being beaten severely with a stick.
Patrick Maher, assaulted by Thomas Brett, with a stick loaded with iron, in
the town of Nenagh.
William Carroll, assaulted by Thaddeus Kelly, at Ballygany, on his return
home from the market at Nenagh.
Michael fahy, assaulted by Edward Peters, by throwing a stone at him in the
witness box whilst in the Court House in Nenagh, and knocking him down.
A man named Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, grievously assaulted by three men in
the town of Nenagh, because he voted for the Conservative Candidates last
Election.
Calandar at Summer assizes in Clonmel.
Murder 43
Aiding in murder 15
Conspiracy to murder 1
Grevious assault 12
Rape 4
Shooting at persons 3
Perjury 2
Robbery of arms 1
Manslaughter 1
Forged notes 3
Escaping from Gaol 4
Arson 2
Child Stealing 2
Highway Robbery 2
Vagrancy 5
Cow Stealing 5
Burglary 1
Pig Stealing 5
Larceny 2
Total 113
25th.
The house of Jos. Palmer, of Bantiss, near Nenagh, was entered by two men
armed with a case of pistols each, who robbed it of a case of pistols, a
blunderbuss and 20 guineas.
28th
Michael Clancy attacked by a man named Cahill at Powerstown, his skull
fractured.
A noted character, named Maher, was arrested and lodged in Cashel Bridewell,
for the murder of Donnelly, the father of 7 children, when on his return
from Cashel to Clonoulty.
Nenagh Quarter sessions.
Rule of Court.
Transported for 7 years-Edward Peters, and Rosanna Melvin.
Daniel Gibbins, grevious assault-3 months hard labour.
Thomas Gibbins, grevious assault-3 months hard labour.
James and Pat Caplis, grevious assault, 6 months hard labour.
Thady kelly, Do. 9 months.
Thomas Brett, Do. 4 months.
John and Frederick Mossop, forcible possession, fined £1.
Thomas Hennessy, affray, 3 months hard Labour.
Four Talbots and James Gleeson, Do, Fined.
James Quinlan, Larceny, 6 months hard Labour.
John Power, assault. 3 months hard labour.
4 women, larceny, 3 to 9 months.
Daniel and John Ryan, assault 3 months hard labour.
Wm. Ryan, Michael Ryan, and John Leonard, affray, 4 months hard labour.
Patrick Healy and Michael Cahill, assault, 3 months hard labour.
Aug 4th.
The gate-house of Thomas stoney, esq. of Kyle Park, broken into by 6 armed
men, who robbed it of several stands of arms.
A man named Shea waylaid on his return home from the fair of Toomevara, his
skull badly fractured. A man named Maxwell, and three Ryans were arrested
for the assault. Shea died in less than 10 days after. A man named Bourke
was subsequently arrested for the murder.
A man named Martin Kennelly was beaten and greviously injured by four men
named Gorman, Hennessy, Shea and Bourke, who were apprehended.
Four soldiers of the 48th Regiment were robbed of 60 rounds of Ball
Cartridge.
John Hayes and Pat Hayes, severely beaten at Kilmastulla. P. Hayes's skull
was so severely fractured, he is not expected to recover-For refusing to
drink O'Connell's health.
Denis Tracey's cabin, near Borrisoleigh was smashed with stones, and the
doors, windows, and gate smashed to pieces-inmates escaped.
Henry O'Grady was knocked off his horse near Newport, and robbed of his
watch and £18.10.
John Hourigan, of Ballina, arrested as being an accomplice in the murder of
Edward Hogan, in Nenagh.
A tailor named Deer, was struck in the neck and cut under the ear by a
shears by another tailor named Leahy.
A man named Ryan died from a beating he received at the Fair of Templemore.
A woman was found murdered on the road side near Templemore, her head being
dreadfully fractured-Verdict, murder against some person or persons unknown.
James Kelly, apprehended, charged with the murder of Edward Hogan in Nenagh.
April 2010
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(JTA) -- The Oslo Jewish Museum will open an exhibition on the Holocaust in Norway exactly 70 years after hundreds of Norwegian Jews were shipped to Auschwitz.
The museum will open the exhibition on Nov. 26th 2012 at exactly 2:55 p.m., the time of departure 70 years ago of the passenger ship Luna, which carried 552 Jews destined for the extermination camp in Poland. In total, 40 percent of Norwegian Jewry, or 772 people, was deported; only a handful of them survived, according to the museum. The remaining 60 percent fled to neutral Sweden.
The exhibition focuses on the deportation itself, which was conducted by Norwegian police and militia members, according to Mats Tangestuen, the museum’s historian, and includes video interviews with 21 survivors.
A small part of the exhibition examines the life that about 900 Norwegian Jews who lived in exile in Sweden.
Earlier this year. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg formally apologized for his country’s role in the Nazi persecution of Jews.