The Irish standard., 1894-01-06
He MEN OF CORK.
Glorious Galaxy Of Cultured Cork
onians Who Have Shed Lustre
on Their Native Land.
THE ATHENS OF IRELAND.

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The City on the Lee Has Been Par
ticularly Prolific in Patriotism
and Literature.
The following interesting article on
Cork men recently appeared from the
! pom Of Thos. 81. Ronayne in the New
York Sunday News:
Two years ago writer in well-known
Eng ish magazine pointed out by shiree
the distribution OF ability in England.
Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge OF Massachu-
aR3ts, in imitation thereof, eseayed 10
show by States the distribution Of ability
~ this country, in which, with the par
donable pride Of loving son, he awarded
the palm to the old Bay State. have
no desire to institute any comparisons
between Irish counties, as 1 recognize
that each one Of the thirty-two has given
birth to mon and women who have shed
lustre on their common country.
], My sole purpose is to show to those
who may be interested in the matter that
the natives of Cork must possess some
qualifications other than stated in the
article referred to when they produce so
many men and women of distinction. As
this is written almost wholly from mem-
ory the catalogue must necessarily be
incomplete.
In church annals we have an embar-
Tassment of riches, but the selection Of a
lew will suffice. .Primus inter pares
comes DR.. John England, the great
bishop Of Charleston, theologiaD, orator,
missionary, writer and man of affairs who
combined in himself all the good quail
titles Of Bishop Carroll and Archbishop
Hughes. Then there is DR.. Connolly,
Bishop OF Halifax, who was to Canada
whist Bishop England was to the South,
and whose death was regarded, not alone
ais q loss to the Church, but to the entire
Canadian people. ~,
Next comes DR.. Quinlan, Bishop Of
Mobile, who, while even young man,
held front rank among the bishops Of the
Church in America. DR.. Croke, Arch
bishop OF Cashel, is unexcelled in the
Irish hierarchy and would bring great
ness of character and intellect to any
walk of life. DIR. William Oonnor Ma
gee, Bishop Of Peterborough, Eng, is re-
garded. not alone as the ablest pulpit
orator Of his own, the Episcopal church,
but of any other denomination IN Eng
land. Monsignor Kirby, of Rome, has
been for years one of the first figures in
ecclesiastical education in the Eternal
City.
Two other distinguished churchmen
who had birth in neighboripg counties,
had been so long identified with the
county that they were regarded as ito
the manor born DR.. George Berkeley,
the philosophical Bishop OF Cloyne, and
B Father Mathew, the Apostle of Temper
ance.
In the domain OF law that great orator,
patriot and wit, John Philpot Curran,
represented borough Of his native
county, Cork, in the Irish parliament.
q Thomas Adds Emmett, who was not
inaptly called "the father of the New
York BAR was born in MINISTERS capital
] and compensated for his asylum in this
free land by bringing to American juris.
prudence profound legal mind, grace.
full pen and an eloquent tongue,
55s 5s Chief Justice Lochrane, of Georgia,
who was not alone . great judge but an
orator and wit, was native Of Cork, as
was Judge Willes, Of England; Chief
Baron Pigot, Of the IRISH Court of Com
mon Pleas; Chief Justice Madden, Of
Victoria, and it may be added that the
young lawyer who so recently distin.
guiahed himself by his extraordinary
versatility in the Buchanan case, William
j. O'Sulliyan, is native of the Irish
Athens
. In the military field, Gen. John Sulli-
van, q Revolutionary hero, was the son
sof . Cork man and Gen. Moylan, s'the
sdragoon ot the Revolution was born in
the city on The Lee, Of which. his brother
was bishop. /. n. I. s.ss..s
lon. rthur @ aConnor and Gen w.
Corbett, both of whom won distinction il
the armissof France, were political exiles
from that county. .$
~ l7en Thomas NV. Sweeney, 9 hereof
three wars, who died recently among us'
il ii sslpiip pinl times of peace; Gen. Thomas
. Bmy yth, who command Delaware
and Pennsyl lvania troop during the Rebel.
lion, andSwho died all too soon for his
mil military reputation;; len, .. =. Burke,
sthe latta oommaDdlsr of this Irish Brigade,
(jol. iiian one the ablestEE
|oons sqtzng eualiine in ths, mn; Col.
jolss & Brigade