The Irish standard., 1894-01-06

OF the Confederacy, were all natlves O
Cork.
It may not be inappropriate to ado
that the. first fight on the seas for Amer
ican Independence was that at Machia
Me-. when Maurice O'Brien, native o1
Cork, with his six sons, captured the
English vessel Marietta, renamed hel
Liberty, and in that name gained more
conquests.
| In the realms of science, Robert Doyle,
the great chemist; DR.. Quain, whose work
on anatomy is still standard textbook
in medical schools; Professor William
K. Sullivan, president of Queens College,
Cork, whose death only prevented him
from soon being in the same scientific
class as Tyndall and huxley; Doctors
O'Connorand Henry McNaughton Jones,
who at the same time and within few
years were president and ce-president
respectively of the British Medical Asso-
citation, and Jerome J. Collins, so we'll
known in New York, who discovered the
cause and systematized the laws of
storms which contributed so largely to
the safety, profit and comfort of human
ity, were all natives of Cork.
In engineering some Of the great
railroads of the South and West and
many extensive public works were con-
structed under Joseph P. Ronayne as
chief engineer. Capt. O'Sullivan, of the
British Navy, made the great survey of
the Northern Atlantic, on which the
fishery question was settled, and Flem-
ing made the survey for England of the
great province of Manitoba. They were
Cork men.
In the drama, the county gave us
James Sheridan Knowles whose plays
of "William Tell," "The Hunchback," !"
'The Chase" .'The Wife," still hold the
boards; Roger Boyle, vino wrote the
tragedies of '"'Mustapha" and "Black
Prince Barry Sullivan, the great de-
lineator of Shakesperian chara cter; and
in 'sye olden dayes" Macklin. of whom it
was said in his character of Shylock,
zgrbis is the Jew that Shakespeare
drew"
In music and the lyric drama Paul
McSweeny composed the opera of
s.Amergen" and other works which we're
pronounced classical. Alexander D.
Roche wrote several sweet songs, among
which was that favorite of Sims Reeves,
II Watch for Thee in Starless Night" ;"
John Fleming, who wrote many tender
love sorgs, including "They Say That
Other Eyes are Bright" Thomas Haynes
Bayley, whose songs "were the rage"
among the English-speaking people of q
past generation; Signor Foil, properly
Foley, and Edward O'Mahony, the two
great bassos;: Signor Ricci, really Gr1ffo,
of Mspleson's Company; James d. Fitz-
gerald, the favorite baritone, for many
years with the Carl Rosa Opera Com
pany, and now leading church soloist
and concert singer in New York; Miss
O'Shea, or "Helen D. Alton" who until
her death, few years ago, was con.
sidered the best contralto in oratorio in
Europe, and Miss Belle Mccarthy, gold
medalist of the Royal Academy of Music,
England, are, or were, all Corkonians.
James Barry and Daniel =. Maclise,
the two great painters, to whose works
it is unnecessary to refer; John Hogan,
whose sculptural work, "The Drunken
Faun," Thornwalden said was ft for an
Athenian studio; Albert Hartland, prom
inent in England as d water-color artist,
and Henry Jones, "Thaddeus,'' the lead
ing portrait painter in England, we're
born in the County Of Cork.
Cork has been particularly prolific in
literature. In what may be termed the
old school, were such men, as John
Boyle Of .Pliny's Letters" and "Life Of
Swift" DR., Maginn, whose literary and
linguistic talents SO astonished his con-
freres of Blackwood's and Frazier's
Magazines; James Delacour, whose
poem, "Abelard to Elosia," is said to
equal Pope's "Elosia to Abelard," Crof-
ton Croker, the Hans Anderson of Ire
land; Rev. Arthur O 'Leary; wit, eesayist
and orator; Rev. F. S. Mahony, or Father
Prout, who is best remembered by his
poorest product, The Bells of Shandon;;"
DIR. John Anster, whose translation of
"Faust' is said to be the best into the
English language; D. Q. Madden, the
political biographer, who left us The
Chiefs Of Parties, .sG Grattan, " 1Curran," "
sIreland and It's Rulers and other
books; Richard A.. Milllken, poet and
novelist, John W. Crawford, who wrote
the plays, '(14itanelia, " g Tome, I Lost
and Found, = and John Windele, the
antiquarian and historian.
Among the younger school of Cork
men of letters are Justin McC Carthy, the
most delectable Of conte1np 1nporaneons|
noyelists, and whose fIliistory vof Our
Own Times IS q model Tor ffuture his
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