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Show I He Still Advocates Fighting England. Addressing the multitude at Cork "which had assembled to welcome him, several days ago, O'Donovan Rossa said: ' "I am still a revolutionist, and I believe be-lieve that the only way to free Ireland is with the weapons which Britain uses to subdue her enemies. - "American freedom Tvas not won with experiments full of promises, and ending end-ing in failure, but with guns the only way that the chains which bind us to England can be shot away. "To save Ireland we must organize and we must fight. . The millions of our brothers in America will aid us. The flower of our race is over there, and as loyal as ever to the Green Isle of their birth, or the land where their fathers were born.1 "Tuly the country, is losing its young men. England sees to it that they can-, not find employment .here. 'They are driven by oppression, to seek homeE,1 in other lands. "But they are riot 16ai to Ireland, No! When the proper time comes they will i bo ready, to strike a killing blow at the I tyrannical government that drove them from their belriW'T homes, and - they will come back to. ur'.ve England from these shores forever." I . . , As he concluded there were mighty cheers, and the throng surged about him to shake him by the hand. Rossa will take a leading part In the revival of the Gaelic language, toward which so much is being done both here and in the United StatesThe Leader. Irish Miniature Painters. : Before the National Literary Society of Ireland, in Dublin, recently, W. G. Strickland delivered a lecture on Irish Miniature" Painters; He said that although al-though they could not perhaps say that the Irish miniature painters distinguished dis-tinguished themselves in the same degree de-gree as the engravers, still it was an are followed not only with success here, but in which many Irishmen made a name for themselves in England. He could mention nearly 100 Irish painters who were almost all ignored in books on art. and some, like Sampson Roche and Richard Bull, were described as Englishmen. Miniature painting was said to be a development of the art of the mediaeval mediae-val illumination. .At the end of the reign of George II a revival in the art set in. and from 1760 to 1820 they had a succession of great miniature" artists. After Ote death of Cosway in 1S21 the art declined, and it was finally killed In England, as in Ireland, by the development de-velopment of photography. The only painter belonging to; the eighteenth centurv was Simon Digby, bishop of El-Phln. El-Phln. "He died in 1720. Rupert Barb-ner. Barb-ner. who was born in Dublin, did a portrait por-trait of Swift, said to have belonged to Stella, which is now in the possession of Mr. Swift MacN'eill. -The best of the painters of that period was Gustavus Hamilton. English artists who came over to Dublin were Henry-Spicer and Samuel Collins, and Ireland, in return sent over to England such painters as Nathaniel ilonc and Samuel Coales. Michael Keane. another Dublin artist, did good work in London; William Hinks. a native na-tive of Waterford. was self-taught. At the time of the highest development of the art. Walter and Charles Robinson, Dublin-born men. were the foremost of Irish miniature painters. Portraits of Washington had been painted by Walter Walt-er Robinson and Ramago. Another Irishman! Samoson Roche, claimed ns an Engl'shman. was born in the south of Ireland, and died there at the age of 90. Horace Hone was the son of Nathaniel. After the union his practice fell off. and he went to 'London,- and died there in 1325.. . Another painter of the same talented family was John Carnmilus Hone. John Cullen was the son of a boxkeeper at the Crow street theatre. John Comer-ford Comer-ford of Kilkenny was one of the most original of Irish painters. His portraits por-traits showed splendid modeling and were full of vigor. John Petrie. father of George Petrie. was another prem-inent prem-inent artist of that period, and painted a portrait of Napper Tandy and Curran. Cur-ran. tOher painters, George Place. Joseph Jo-seph Hutchinson. John Keane, Alexander Alexan-der Pope (a Cork man). Michael Hay-den. Hay-den. Adam Eurke. Frederick Burke. WJIlIam Palmer (of Limerick, a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds). George Chln-nery. Chln-nery. Daniel O'Keefe. Kirwari, Samuel Lover, George Chancellor and Frederick Freder-ick Butler (a Linrhick man, who afterwards after-wards became a director of the London National Gallery). New York Freeman's Free-man's Journal. |