The Irish standard., 1893-09-02
IN AND AROUND THE CITY.
/ Home From Ireland.

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II Home From Ireland.
Father Henry McGelrick, younger
brother in the priesthood Of Bishop Nc
Go]rick. of Duluth, returned home last
week after three months visit in Ire
land. He was in delicate health when
he left here last May and bis native air
benefited him very much. He remained
with his sister in Borrisokane, county
Tipperary, nice town near the border
of Tough Derg, an expansion of the
Shannon, and spent his time q1iAtly in
visiting "the loved spots that his infancy
knew He went up to Dublin and
spent week there seeing the city from
the top of the tramcars. During his
stay he visited the library Of Trinity
College where he examined many rare
and curious volume of forgotten lore.
Among them was the "Holie Bibel," a
quaint edition published in the days Of
Henry VIII of infamous memory, with
an ornamental illustration representing
that royal monster distributing the So
cred word to his unhappy subjects.
Father McGolrick made pilgrimage to
Parnell's grave in Glasnevin cemetery
and found it covered with wreaths and
bouquets bearing notices, one of which
was "Our Murdered Chief" He also
visited the tomb of O'Connell near by
and placed his hand on the coffin that
contains bis embalmed remains The
cemetery is kept in excellent condition
and is one of the finest in the world.
After returning to Tipperary, Father
McGolrick undertook the feat of climb
ing to the top of the Devils Bit, from
which beautiful panorama opens UP to
view. The stately Shannon can be seen
for miles as it glides along toward the
ocean. Towns in the adjacent counties
sprang up to his gaze as if by magic and
finer scenery he never saw before. The
mountain is called the Devils Bit from
legend about the arch-enemy of man
kind who was travelling in the neighbor-
hood in the days of st. Patrick. The
devil was not successful in his mission
among the Tipperary peasantry and
growing angry he bit large slice out OF
the mountain and was carrying it away,
when st. Patrick met him and COM
manded him to drop it. With fear and
trembling the devil obeyed the saint and
the stone he dropped is now known as
the Rock of Cashel. Father Henry found
everything in the old country in better
condition than he expected. He went
about among the farmers and laborers
and found them we'll housed, we'll clad
and we'll fed. There is no evidence of
that poverty in Ireland of which he had
heard so much. Many of the farmers
have bought their land from the land
lords, and the latter have been glad to
get out on satisfactory terms. The
farmers daughters have now their
pianos like their sisters in the cities and
live in comfortable, happy homes. The
laborers have good. cottages and are paid
sixty cents day aud their dinners in
agricultural work. The people are not
emigrating in such large numbers as for
merly, because they expect soon to have
Home Rule. Father McGolrick stayed
at the Rob Roy hotel IN Queenstown and
was treated most Hospitality by the pro-
prietor when he learned that he was a
brother of the Bishop of Duluth. He
said mass in Queenstown on Sunday
morning before be boarded the's Etruria"
and on the following Sunday morning
he celebrated mass in New York. He
brought back with him a lot of s uven-
IRIS and large number of Irish publlca-
lions.