The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-06
THE CIVIC CELEBRATIONS.

day night, August z.
THE CIVIC CELEBRATIONS.
DUBLIN, August 5-Night.
The banquet given by the Lord Mayor of
Dublin tonight in honor of the memory of
OConnell was a brilliant affair.
FOUR HUNDRED DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Four hundred persons sat down to table,
including His Eminence Cardinal Cullen,
Archbishop of Dublin; Prince Eduard Rad
twill, Mgr. Nardi, representing His Holiness
the Pope; Sir Charles Gavan Duffy Mr..
Daniel O'Connell, grandson of the Liber-
ator; Bishop Lachat, of Basic; the Earl of
Granard, Most Rev. DR.. MacHale, Arch
bishop of Tuam; the Very Rev. William Pol
lard, of Pennsylvania; Rev. Michael j.
O'Farrell. of ST. Peters church, New York;
Edmund Dease, John George MacCarthy,
Arthur John Moore, Reyes OClery, Myles
William o. Reilly and Patrick James Smyth,
members of Parliament. There were also
present DR.. Luiger of the German Parlia-
ment; Reverends Rimaldi and Vantry, of
Rome; DIR. Book, the Pope's Chamberlain,
and Monsieur Falliette, member of the
Swiss Parliament.
THE PoPE's BLESSING.
A despatch was received from the Pope
giving blessings to all persons assisting ct the
Centenary celebration.
THE PoPE's HEALTH.
The health of the Pope was proposed first
Mgr. Nardi responded on behalf of His
Holiness.
TO THE QUEEN.
The Queens health was proposed next.
The toast was received with loud cheering.
TO THE MEMORY OF o'coNNEI1.
The toast to the memory of O'Connell was
responded to by a grandson of the Liberator
and by His Grace Archbishop MacHale, who
said, England was once under the govern
ment of France, ana yearned for deliverance
from the thraldom. 1t was not strange that
Ireland should now yearn for home govern
ment as did England of old"
THE IRISH HIERARCHY.
His Eminence Cardinal Cullen responded
to the toast to the Irish hierarchy.
SPEECHES IN FRENCH
French speeches were made by the Bishops
of Nantes and Basic.
DAUGhTRR OF ocoNNELL.
During the banquet Mrs. Fitzsimon, eighty
four years of age, the widow of Christopher
Fitzsimon, of Glencullen, and the only living
daughter of the Liberator. appeared in one
of the galleries accompanied by the Lady
Mayoress and her daughter and numerous
party of distinguished ladies.
Her presence was hailed with enthusiastic
cheers.
IMMENSE CROWDS IN DUBLIN.
The influx of people to the city is extraor-
binary Many of them are encamped in tents
in the streets.
THE CENTENARY CONCERTS.
The centenary concerts were given in Ex-
hibition Palace this afternoon and evening,
and were attended by vast numbers of people.
The oratorio of ''Elijah' was given in the
afternoon, and in the evening the following
magnificent ode, by Denis Florence McCarthy,
was recited at the second concert:-
THE o'coNNEIL CENTENARY ODE
l.
Harp OF my native land
That lived anew meath Garoan's master hand;
Harp on whose electric choras,
The minstrel Moores melodlous words,
Each word bird that sings,
Borne as If on Arieps wings,
Touched every tender soul
From listening pole to pole.
Sweet harp awake once more:
What though o ruder hand disturbs thy rest
theme so high
Win its own worth supply
AS finest gold Is ever moulded best:
Or as a cannon on some festive day,
When sea and sky, when winds and waves re.
joice,
Outb0oms with thunderous voice,
Bids echo speak, and all the hills obey
SO let the verse In echong accents ring,
SO proudly stag,
With intermittent wall,
The nations dead but sceptred king,
The glory OF the Gael.
III.
1775.
SIX hundred stormy years had nown
Since Erin fought to nold her own,
TO hold her homes, her affairs free,
Within her wall OF circling sea-
No year OF all those years had fed,
No day had dawned that was not RED
Eoft shed p1 ssssiSlea! hand