The Irish standard., 1890-10-04

ayailed. Against its black pile King
Roderick of Connaught, with $4,000
men, laid unsuccessful siege. In 1911
Mcmahon and Magulre. baron of Innis-
Killen, conspired to seize the castle, to
surprise the garrison towns Of the north
and west. and thereby force the KING
to re-establish the Roman Catholic re-
ligion. The attempt failed signallY.
The castle remained untaken, though
the resulting conflict was fierce cne.
and though great uprising Of the Irish
in the provinces left at one time only
Dublin, Drogheda and few OF the sea-
port fortresses in holding for the King.
In 1893 Lord Edward Fitzgerald and
his republican followers laid plans TO
storm the castle. But LORD Edward
died at Newgate, and the keys of the
castle were still III the keeping Of the
English King. Another FitZgerald,
'.Silken Thomas,' took up arms for
national independence in 1873. In 1881
the castles courts were blue with the
best blood in 1.-The pale" and The
crushed bones OF the great Fitzgeralds
lay beneath its heavy walls. Emmett
and his followers desired to take the
towers upon the hill. But Emmet died
upon the gallows in Thomas street, and
the towers still bore the olors OF a
foreign state. Smith O'Brien, and the
jc 9n,1 in
plotted to take the faithful turrets from
the English Queen. But Smith O'Erien
is dead in q lana sea severed from his
own, and the symbol of St George is
still the great seal of che castle and the
state.
During the reign OF Queen Elizabeth
the castle became for the first time the
home of the vice regent. Since then it's
destinies have been varied. A hundred
or more of viceroys it has known since
the days of John the Second Most of
the great names in English history are
found upon this famous roll call. That
Of KING John, who did not disdain to
rule in person in his Irish territories,
and the boy prince, lord Of Ireland at
13; Thomas, the great Geraldine;
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and the
sGentle Mortlmer:n the Earl Of Kent
and John de Grey, the Earl OF ,hrews-
bury and Richard Plantagenet. Under
Henry the Seventh there reigned in
Ireland the Earl of Pembroke and
Henry, Duke of York. Under Eliza
beth came the Earl of Sussex and Rob
ert, Earl of Essex; the Earl of Straffofd
and Robert, E arl of Leicester. Under
Charles the First, we find there Philip
Sidney and Richard. Earl Tyrconnel;
the Duke Of Devonshire, and in 1855 the
Marquis of Harrington, and John OF
Bedford in 1857. Under the republic"
from the castle, Cromwell repianted the
English primrose on the Irish bog and
beat the swords that were fAshed at
Drogheda into the ploughshares Of
Donegal. HIS son, Henry, ruled in
Dublin after the Protector had returned
to England, and during the reign of
George the Third eighteen viceroys
passed across the page Of Irish history.
Under the last of these the Irish Par
lament dissolved, and Lord Cornwaliis
fer the second time in his career bowed
to an imperious fate. OF the more re-
cent vice regents there are the Duke Of
Marlborough, the strong Earl Spencer,
ander whom the last conspiracy was
formed to take the castle, and under
whom the air of PhGn1x fields was
vibrant with death cry heard around
the world;'' the Earl of Aberdeen, who
entered Dublin Castle UDionist guard
ed by the Queens battalion. and who
left It's portals an uncompromising Ma
tionalist born on the shoulders of the
populace; the Marquis Of Londonderry,
the descendant Of Lord Castlereagh.
through whose unholy agency the union
was established, and who sold his coun-
trymen for the marquisate his grandson
SO adorns Lord Londonderry, who has
a pretty wife and far prettier rent roll,
who had great and fearless power be-
hind the throne of Mr.. Balfour, and a
rather stiff and startling estimate of
his own prowess In what he calls a
firm rule in Ireland and now-Earl
Z3tland It is now. an English gentle
man Of the old world school, of the old
world polish and the new-World
thought, leaning to the side of his ira
ditions, as most of the descendants of a
''hundred earls" are found to do, con
sistent as an earl can be.-Boston Tran
script.
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asked the shop keeper, gleefully rub
bing his hands. after she had selected a
quantity Of goods. ''Can not do some
thing else for you2''
Yes. she said. "You can charge
these
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ing so hard and learn how to dance.
Hill--W hat brings you to that deter
mination?