The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-03

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vet an EnelisLmen who lived in ireland for 4
any length OF time without becoming . I
over Of the country and Of it's people. t
Their proverbial love for ireland WAS, In. Y
deed, cast in their face In tue olden tinae.
Az q reproach, it was ssid Of the Epglisl Z
SETTLERS In ireland that they .:became moro
Irish than the Irisb nthemseives." Nor
snch an EDglishman has come amongst 1s, n
great in name, greet ia learning, and also
protesting, as verify believe, truly afove +
for our Irish nation ana ohr Irish people. y
But there is an old proyerb thai sage "that
NO man can tell where the shoe pinches 90 T
we'll as the man that wears ill.,, i would
not pay much attention to AN old bachelors
descriptien Of the joys Of matriuony. N0r
would pay much heed to the description
of tho sorrow OF d man who loses his wife
as described by q man that never had .
/ wife. So in like manner when an English.
man comes to describe The sorrows and
miseries Of Ireland, OF when he comes to |
impute them to other cauass, the least sess
can be said is that no must look upon these
Questions from the outside, whilst man OF
| frish blood, Of Irish oame, Of Irish birth,
such asI am, looks upon them and 10 able
| 10 say, "My forefatheys before me we're
| the sufferers, and myself have bebetd the
remnants Of their sorrow." With the best
intentions possible public lecturer may
sometimes be little mistaken, or he may
be reported badly, or his words may con-
vey q meaning which perhaps they were
not intended 70 convey. read, for in-
stance, this morning, shat this learned and
NO Doubt honorable man spoke OF the
4 Golden Age Of Ireland "a follows: He SAID
q that the Irish were accustomed to look
{ amor, the time that went before the Eegaish
;nyasi6n as the Golden Age Of ireland.
!. Then he is reported to have again said
. Leland vet the two centuries that preceded
q were ages of confusion and bloodshed in
Q Golden age of Ireland is not precisely the
: t;n,e that went before the English invasion.
9 irish history is divided into three great
horizons: LIST. From the day that our fore
" fathers embraced Christianity. PatrIck
: preached the Catholic faithin the fifth cen en-;
i tury. and Ireland embraced it. For ~.
g Years after Patrick's preaching, Irelant
Q, enioyed q reign of peace and Of sanctity
o; witch made her the envy and the admira
10 ton of the world. She was called by tn
s. surrounding and admiring nations 'Ih
y, Island Home of Saints aud or scholars.
ne wisely framed laws governed her Saint
10 hniit her monasteries and her converts
TO stndents in thousands from every CHM
ne came to Ireland to light at her pure blaz
or the lamps of knowledge, of art, and
~ every science. ....,.
That Is the evidence Of history, and \
a. | man can contradict it day. AT the clos
70 of the eighth century the Danes invade
II Ireland; they swept around Der coast
~ thew poured army after army of lnyasiC
an in upon us, and for three hundred lol
20 wears Ireland had to sustain that terri
al Danish war in defence OF her religion, al
ns of her own freedom. She fought, she co
-, ouered; but the tide of invasion arc
nn again and again round the coasts of t
for nation, and it seemed to be an unendin
aal unceasing task. An army was destroy
ow to- day only to yield place to another arm
Nv of invasion to morrow. What was I
~ consequence The peace of Ireland W
of lost; the morality of the people was stis
;n, tered ard destroyed by three hundred yea
III of incessant war; the converts and t
,ha monasteries were destroy ed the church
i - were pillaged and burned. The men u
! ~ invaded Ireland were Pagans, aad tn
~ came to lay the religion OF their Pae
80 Gods upon the souls of the Irish peoI
'0oNt And what wonder, when Ireland ca
e., , forth from that Danish war, after drlv
~ her invaders from her soil, that the Ia
a. y we're all disorganized that society '
. a. shaken to it's basis, and that the PEG
49, | we're Of eatly injured in their morality,
'aSs greatly Influenced by 30 many centuries
~, 49, incessant war! When, therefore, the bis
M Il, rian and the lecturer SPEAKS s OF sne
saJn2 the Golden Age of ireland, let him
O"'U hack to the days before the Danes inva
ireland. No Irishman pretends to
iec PC back upon three hundred years of Da'
Who WaTlat ). anu . .ha &c NJ iron and of hi,
80 TIE confusion that arose in Ireland
ls Of tskFloie. ChnntoTf. o9r nrinces :
~" divided our people scarcely yet breat
aaI after tue terrific struggle OF three hum
n is years.
. the And yet in the brief interval Of
olnr. vears that passed after the expulsion o.
ances Danes aud before tne ,huI Ing u n
4 ostt in a. mad and restored wise aud salu
hive laws t. the e.suatry and to the Chr
nownl We End st. Malachi, one of the grei