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Show I ;! LATEST IRISH NEWS. I j From The Pilot. 'THE CHRISTMAS FLIGHT OF OULD AIGLE MORE. 'AVIsIia, Christmas at Killarney, an' me not there to see The scarlet berries burnin' on the Fhin- in' holly-tree, The mountains risin' grandly old Tore ! atop of all The heather on the hillside, the haw i against the wall! Yea, Christmas, at Killarney, an' the t heart o' me as free As -when I plucked the glist'nin wreaths from off the holly-tree! They've holly on the pa'ementa here, . alike Kiliarney's leaf As a colleen's like a withered hag bad - cess from Time, the thief! , , Tet the has was onct a grirsha, but ' t these branches dull an' gray, "Were never green an', shinin' like the holly far away: Och, the dwarfed ould Jarsey bushes, ye could snip them on yer knees! Ah-h-! to bo in far Killarney with the royal holly-trees! , Bad oes from Time, again say I, that steals our youth away. That puts the money in our fist, but loaves us ould an' gray! That spoils our dream of soin home when all seems eomin' true; Ould -Aig;!e More, sure, who'd ye find of all the friends ye knew? 'TVlth Con an' Luce an' Mary dead, an' Tom an' Pat asthray. ' Strange faces make an ould man sad ;. the blessed Christmas Day! I d like to po, I'd like to go, an' the money's in my purse 1 Eh, the empty homes an teemin' I graves? Could black ould Time I do worse? I k I'd greatly fear to wander back an find 1 " ' a lonely place, I , An' never clasp a kinsman's hand or I ' meet an ould friend's face; ! -I'd dread to miss the bloomin cheeks, J , the curls I used to know, I Or see their ghosts in wrinkled skin an . scanty locks of snow. Bad cess from Time! Sure here's myself my-self would fright a colleen sore A bent ould man the sturdy land that onct was "Aigle" More! "Algle" that used to skim Lough Leane an' climb the Reeks for game; "Dan More can fly," the ould Earl said: "Let 'Aigle' be his name." Oh, the Aigle's Nest, Killarney! an' the isle an' lakes below! An the wran-boys gatherin holly in ':, . the Christmas long ago! Ould Aigle More, ould weary child that's lost your way an slept Till on your slumbers unbeknownst the years an' changes crept O find the way! go find the way, asleep or wide awake, : An' pluck arbutus In the glen, an' holly! . in the brake. Go bac k an" be a lad agin where all yer j , world was true, "Where mountains led to heaven, an j the lakes held heaven's blue! j Here, snow an sleet are colder than the hearts of stranger men. Here, hard frost grips the country till, the April comes again O for holly at Killarney; an' ne'er a bit o' snow, "With the sea-wind blowin blithely till '' . ver cheeks are all aglow; ! Afar "from sallow faces an the clink o' i ! yellow brass . i : O to be at ould Killarney with yer fut ' : upon the grass! I There's Innisfallen in my dreams I wondher will I go? The ould Earl's dead, the young Earl's ould. an' ne'er a lad I'll know. I'm beckoned, by the hills o' youth, that cannot sthray or die, An' Gap. an' Bridge, an' Abbey walls, an' Mary's grave near by! i 'Tis my own, Killarney! where, next 1 year I may be j i To pluck an ould man's Christmas I wreath from off the holly-tree. I Honor Walsh in Donahoe's. t Carlow. , J Mr. John Hammond, M. P. for Coun- 1 tv Carlow, died unexpectedly on Sun- ; day naming, Nov. 17, from heart dis- ' rase. 'The news of his death plunged . the entire county in grief, for deceased, T who was engaged in business, was ; much esteemed by all classes. Cork. An interesting link in the commercial history of Cork is removed by the death j of Mr. John Carmiechael, which has oc- j curred at Weymouth. , Donegal. On Nov. 20, at Stranorlar, by the Rev. P. B. McMullin, Thomas C. O'Gor-m O'Gor-m an. 'Hibernian Bank, Letterkenny, son cf Chamberlayne O'Gorman, Rathgor-man, Rathgor-man, Sandymount, Dublin, was married to Annie Magee, eldest daughter of Gorge Magee, J. P., Ballyhofey. . . 1 Down. I His parishioners and numerous friends heard with much sorrow of the death of Rev. James Crangle, C. C, : Hilltown, which took place Nov. 16 at; the Mater Misericordiae hospital, Dublin, Dub-lin, Father Crangle, who was 34 years ! of age, was born in Killowen. Dublin. An action in which Miss Kathefcine Coghlan, of Kishogue, Clonadalkin, sued ; Mr. Patrick McKenna, of Raheny, for 1) reach of promise of marriage, concluded con-cluded Nov. 21 before Mr. Justice Madden Mad-den and the city common jury. The jury- found for the plaintiff and awarded award-ed her 250 damages. Mr. Patrick Doyle, son of the late Myles Doyle, of Tallaght, and brother of the Rev. Father Fidelis Doyle, of the Passionist Order, died in Dublin on Nov. 14. Sligo. The Venerable Archdeacon Terence O'Rorke, P. P., died at his residence, - Collooney, Nov. 18, aged 88 years. This liews was read with regret, deep and personal, not only in Collooney where he spent his life and for which he did ho much, but also through the whole diocese of Achonry and wherever the archdeacon was known. . Tipperary. Many friends in the United States will be glad to hear that Richard J. Connolly, brother of Father John J. Connolly of Springfield. 111., and son of J. J. Connolly, Rathmore House, Cashel, was installed a solicitor last month, after a very successful course in Dublin. His., earlier studies were made in Mungret, Limerick, where he matriculated: from thence he was Ijound to L. J. Ryan, Esq., . solicitor, I I- Thurles. Tyrone. The. death occurred on Nov. 18 at the Convent of Mercy, Dungannon, of Mother Mary Gabriel Clarke, wJao was f in the twenty-sixth year of her religious relig-ious profession. Bernard Kilkeary, the last Irish survivor sur-vivor of the wreck of the Birkenhead, died suddenly at Dungannon, aged 80. He had been color sergeant of the Second Sec-ond battalion of the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), and had lately received the meritorious service medal. Waterford. Michael Halley. honorable secretary of the Waterford City and District National Na-tional Teachers' association, has obtained ob-tained certificates to teach Irish under the national board program, and also to teach the bi lingual program. Wexford. The death has occurred at Croghan of Mrs. Michael Kavanagh. She figured piominently in the Coolgreaney estate campaign. Tragedies in the Irish Peerage. The suicide of Lord Kilmaine almost irresistibly recalls, to recollection the tragedies with which the annals even in recent times of the Irish peerage abound, says the Dublin Freeman's Journal. Lord Castlereagh, the statesman states-man of the union, committed suicide in 1822, two years after he had succeeded by the death of his father, to the Mar-quisate Mar-quisate of Londonderry, still retaining, as an Irish Marquis, a seat in the House of Commons as member for a British constituency. In 1854 the Marquis Mar-quis of Ormonde was drowned while bathing, in the presence of his son, while in 1S95 the. Marquis of Waterford committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in the library at Cur-raghmore. Cur-raghmore. The deaths of Irish peers by violence are numerous, as in the cases of Lord Kilwarden, killed in the Em-met Em-met Insurrection, and the Earls of Mountmorres; who were murdered. The : fifth Earl k'Drogheda was lost at sea in the passage between England and Ireland in 1758. The seventh Lord Farn-ham Farn-ham perished in 1868 in the terrible collision col-lision of the Irish mail train at Abergele, Aber-gele, between Chester and Holyhead, with a train of trucks laden with casks containing petroleum, which took fire. In 1869 Lord Cloncurry, whose peerage was purchased at the same time as that of Lord Kilmaine, committed suicide in a ift of temporary insanity. The list of tragic deaths of Irish peers could without difficulty be largely extended. J ; The Irish Papal Brigade. "The Irish Brigade" in Italy contributed contrib-uted to the Seven Hills Magazine, published pub-lished by the Oliver Plunket society, of Rome, Italy, by Father Conry, details, the story of the 1,100 Irishmen who, . banded together in 1860, left their native na-tive land to join the Papal army. Al- ' though the writer details the heroic 4 stands and charges of the cosmopoli- tan little army that rallied from France, Austria, America, Belgium, Italy and Ireland to the peninsula, he still devotes nearly all space to prov- ing the Irishmen, "beads in one hand and sword in the other showed themselves on the plains of Italy what their predecessors had been recognized to be on the slopes of France Christian men, "sans peur et sans reproche.' " While they bled in Italy, the English press did not forget them, for, true to the traditions of seven centuries, it left no means untried un-tried to blacken the fame of men who were for the time being unable- to retaliate. re-taliate. "Throughout the war," says the writer, ' "the Irish brigade had been shamefully caluminated by the press of England, especially by the Times. They had been branded as men of whom Ireland should feel ashamed, mercenaries mercena-ries who might well be regarded by the Pope as treacherous friends and timid foes. Their misfortunes gained the widest publicity from this lover of truth; their gallant stands were either suppressed or attributed to others. "Detected sneaks and poltroons;" "base, cowardly hirelings;" "the rabble and offscourings of Ireland" were gentle gen-tle epithets used by that leading factory fac-tory of English tuoght! And at this while the Times seemed unmindful of the fact that English generals have invariably in-variably succumbed to the habit of assigning as-signing to Irish soldiers "of an inferior type" the high honor, though rather doubtful pleasure, of the front rank in battle. . "On the return of Papal soldiers, the Times was taken o task and publicly challenged either to prove or retract its statements. Abundant proof as to their falsehood was forthcoming," but it was found Impossible to get the editor to break 'the cold chain of silence.' si-lence.' He would neither prove nor retract re-tract the malicious libeel of his paper. At length, in 1861, a pamphlet was published pub-lished and extensively circulated, in which the Times' statements were confronted con-fronted by official reports of a contrary nature from the pens of General Mori-ciere Mori-ciere and Fanar on Victor Emmanuel's staff. This ended the matter for the Irishmen: their friends and enemies on the continent had fully vindicated them; only the leading organ of an interested in-terested step-sister haf attacked them and she hung her head in sullen silence." si-lence." The footsteps of the Irish soldiers are followed minutely -over every bat tlefield, and their gallant efforts to shield the Pope-King from his own countrymen and Garibaldi's minions ; are dwelt upon with a pardonable pride. ' ' 1 |