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Show A latest Iris!) firm 9 Antrim. Married. April 12. at St. Paul's church, Belfast, by the Very Rev. P. Convery, P. P., V. F., Frederick E., second sec-ond son of the late J. E. Delaney, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late P .Maguire. Belfast. April 14. at An- naclone, Banbridge. by the Rev. C. Woods, P. P., assisted by the Rev. Henry Hen-ry Doran, C. C. Husrh Francis Mc-Greavey. Mc-Greavey. Tanvalley, to Teresa McAr-1 die, Ardbrin. Clare. Died. April 22. Martin Murtagh. Commercial hotel. Miltown-Malbay, 35 years of age. Recently, Patrick Mulqueen, Moore street, Kilrush. Michael Lynch has sent in his resignation resig-nation from the Clare county council to the local government board. Mr. Lynch's retirement from the council is much regretted. Deny. Married. April 22, at Creggan Catholic Cath-olic church, by the Rev. Father McEl-downey, McEl-downey, P. P., James, youngest son of Paul Doharty, Camnish, Dungiven, and brother to the Rev. William Doherty, Lierre, Belgium, formerly Ardstraw West, to Rose, eldest daughter of William Wil-liam Brolly, farmer and merchant, Glebe Faughanvale. Dublin. A recent telegram from Rome to the Redemptorist Monastery at Clonard conveyed the very welcome intelligence that Very Rev. Patrick Murray, C. S. S. R., had been elected superior general of the order. Father Murray, who is only in his forty-first year, was until his appointment provincial of Ireland, and his elevation to the most exalted position in the great order to which he belongs has given general satisfaction among the Catholics of this city, by whom he was held in such high esteem and veneration. Father Murray is a Donegal man, and a brilliant son of the historic diocese of Raphoe. After passing pass-ing through the Diocesan seminary he entered Maynooth, but after two or three years there he decided to join the Redemptorist Order. In which he was in due court ordained a priest. Some years of his young sacerdotal areer he spent in missionary work, in which he proved himself a most impressive and eloquent preacher. Galway. Rev. Walter Conway, P. P., Glena-muddj-, has undertaken the project of erecting an industrial hall in that town. Died. April 17, Martin Healy, Cloin- shc'fii, iiged 79 years. Recently, Richard Kelly, Arkskeabeg, aged 65 years. April 18, William Nee, Clif- den. Married. April 19, Aat St. Anne's church. Rohernabreena, with nuptial mass, by the Rev. R, Smyth, C. C, Dolphin's Dol-phin's Barn, cousin of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. R. Quinn, C. C, Bohernabreena, Kevin, eldest son of James Doyle, Co. C, Ballinascorney, Tallaght. to Ellen (Ellie), second daughter of the late Terence Healy, Ballinascorney. Tallaght. County Dublin. Dub-lin. April 29, at St. Mary's Catholic church. Holyhead, by the Rev. Father Corr. O. M. I., Joseph Stevenson, Stew-artstown, Stew-artstown, Tyrone, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Talbot, General Prisons office. Dublin castle. Waterford. The interment took place on April 17, of Sister Clementla Alexis of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Waterford, whose death occurred after a short illness. The deceased, who was a native of France, was aged 4 years, and had spent forty years in the order. An Irish Girl's Home. The sum of $5,400 is made up as follows fol-lows for an Irish Girls' Home in Buenos Bue-nos Ayres, Argentina: A donation of $1,000 made by Joen Moore shortly be fore his death, with the express condition, con-dition, however, that if the property were not legally secured by the Irish community, said amount should be inverted in-verted in the other charitable, work of the association. The late Mrs. Mary Gahan de McKeon also donated for the same purpose the sum of $1,000. which was duly handed to the association by Thomas J. McKcon, son of deceased. The Rev. Edmund Flannery has requested re-quested that the sum of $400, which was due to him by the Fahy monument, be destined to the same object. Irish Brogue Classic English. The peculiarity of the English speech of Irishmen, says a writer in the Inter Ocean, was once the subject of much humorous comment In America and England. It is less so now, at least in America. Now comes Walter Dalton, in the Dublin Leader, calling attention to the fact that this so-called Irish brogue, supposed to be the result of the trippings trip-pings of Celtic tongues over the speech of the Sassenach, is nothing in the world but a survival of the English of the best educated people of the time of Queen Elizabeth, and later, down to about the middle of the eighteenth century. It may be mentioned In passing that Mr. Dalton gives no news to serious historical students of the English language lan-guage and its pronunciation. He has collected, however, a number of interesting inter-esting examples: There is a smile for the Irishman who says that some one is such a "con-trayry "con-trayry fella" that he ousht to be "afeard to be kilt." Yet all these pronunciations pro-nunciations were "good" English to Edmund Spencer, and to Geoffrey Chaucer, for that matter. The person, Irish or other, who says "he grutched me what I axed" may be regarded as illiterate by a modern pedant, but Chaucer said "axed" and Spencer wrote "grutched." If a Tipperary man, as Mr. Dalton says, remarks that he is "agin the peelers" Chaucer would find no fault with "agin," though he would require a translation of "peelers," that being an adaption of the name of an English public official much more recent re-cent than the days when the poet of Patient Grissel held a post in the customs. cus-toms. . The Irishman's "complate" was also Izaak Walton's, to whom and to whose contemporaries his book, "The Complete Com-plete Angler," was certainly "complate." "com-plate." And not only does Cowper by his ryhmes show that he spoke "sea" not as "see," but as "say," but so does Alexander Pope, "the fastidious and finical. |