Omaha daily bee., 1885-06-09
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
ChaTgtS Promised and Beloved u b.
fOFhC mlOg.
The Castle to Go and . Royal Resi-
dence to be Maint aiued-Re pre-
sentatives of the Old Gel
tic Nobility.


| AN6W YIN 1llhbbs
Ire and is ON the eve of home rule
something ike home rule. The hner
party, through premier, stands at lai
pledged 10 this and, although NO, hin
can be done this sess'en, anu nothin
definite will be proposed, everybody ur
ders ands perfectly we'll that it is c ming
English public opinion Is ready for tn
change. Even il 1t We're not, Mr. Par
neiI's following In the new psrliSmeI
will be large enough to force one Of tn
two parties into his policy. How sweep
Ing the changes will be 1t is too esry t
estimate. But the lord lieut., nancy wi
go, the castle will go, Leland viii b
suoken for by cabinet secretary accep
tsele TO majority of Its representatives
and the local Rates will be fixed by eiecte
boards representing G he taxpayers instea
Of the ,axsater Young Prince Ed war
will, 1t Is said, be sent over to live most o
the ytar In royal residence shorty t,
be fitted up, and this will b.
followed by attempts 10 reconcile the no
billty aud geutry to the new order o
thiugs, aad induce ,hsm to live on theil
estates and help bring Irelaud around Il
| tllt CUuultiOtl VI kuldt
are many optlmists IN the Liberal Part,
who really believe that this can be done
and chat the de ested landlords can al
the last momsIt go back to ireland and,
by gracefully accepting the inevi viiable,
can contest with the national Of the
Irish people the control of the voters
after home rule Is granted. OF course
they are mistaken. The exercise of this
new power may very likely operate after
time to div de the dominant party aud
recsst political lines In lr, land, But for
the first few years at least after home
rule comts Mr.. Parnell and his cose
friends will be absolutely without cha!-
lenge In their control of the country.
Speaking Of tae natural leaders of the
Irish people, it is curious fact that
among Mr.. Psrnell's supporters, in
parliament or out, to-day there Is but a
single representative of the ancient
Celtic nob,lity-the O'aorman Mahon
A noblemsn indeed, he is--near)y 80
years of age, yet tall, ersc., active, hearty
with the nose of cesar and piercing
blue eyes which flash US proudly now as
they did GO years ago, when he second d
Daniel O'Connelps nomination In @ are
put the O'Gorman Is alone. Among
his colleagues, 1t is true, there are
O'Connors, McCarthys, an O'Kelly, and
an O'Brien, but they are all of the
people, with no claim to representative
places in their septs. With this one ex-
caption the old Irish mob fifty is with the
English government-and, too often, for
price.
OF the four great royal families who
ruled, riotsd, and rowed 1t among them
selves when the Norman adventurers
frat set foot ia Ireland representatives,
still remain. The O'Neill, who stands
for the ancis mt Ulster kings, Is really q
fraud, for he is not an O'Neill at all, but
a Chichester, and has assumed the name
because, four generations back, an ances-
trees of his was an O'Neill. But as the
direct line is gone. with all Its Ty, ons,
Dungsnnon, and Raymond titles, tbe
last of which lap,ed thirty years ago,
there is none to dispute with him the
proud THE" He is baron Nord
O'N,ilD, Protestant, and a big goted
tory, Ike most of the Antrim arlatooracy.
The O'Brien Nord Inchiquin) has q
straighter descent from the kings of
Munster, for the name comes directly by
the male line from the old Thomond fam
lily, but he Is scarcely the more an Irish-
man in spirit for 1t. The O'Conncr Don,
the historic and lineal heir of Rory, king
of Connaught, is the poor, spiritless
place hunter, hanging upon the skirts of
the liberal government for privy coun-
cilorsh,p, who was so overwhelmingly
beaten by Thomas Sexton in Sligo while
ago. The fourth of these septs, the
McMurroughs, kings of Lein,ter, have
had an evil name In Ireland
for centuries. 1t was the
petition of Dermot McMur-
rough, unabls to cope single-handed
with Rory O'Connor, which brought the
Norman crew-Strongbow and the rest
fra. to Ireland, and to Irish belief the
curse of that misfortune has rested on
tho family ever since. The McMurrough
of to, day Is without hands or feet. He
was In the last house, believe, where a
servant used to fetch and carry him, as
In the case of Alexander Ii. Stephens
He Ia an able man, but the curae Of the
McMurroughs is on him, as 1t has been
on all the Ksvansghs he other and In
controvefJible name of the sepD from
generation to generation. He also is .
loyalist.
OF the minor, yet famous families,
many have lost their tribal line of chiefs.
The O'Donnell identity Is forgotten In
Spain; Lord Cavan (the O'Reilly) and
Earl Clancarty (the McCarty Mor) are
titles as dead as thcss Of the Pale; the
clau dignitics of the O'Kelleyr, the
O'Rourkes, and many others, ara to be
traced laboriously in France or Austria.
But others remain. The O'Grady Is
now Viscount Guillamore, petty land
lord in Limerick, and, of course,
"a earnest loyalist, since his grandfather,
Standish OGrsdy. was made attorney
general for Ireland, and In 1881 an Irish
peer, for opposing O'Connsll. The
O'Callaghsn is another noblemsn, Wis
count Lismore, whose ancestor WAS his
coronet by voting in the Irish parl'a:
ment for every English measure, and
marrying the daughter of Speaker Pom
sonby, who got the earldom of Bessbor-
ough for his share. The McGilllcuddy
of the Reeks Is a government hanger on.