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THE NJ EN- OF CORK,
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poet ana essaylst; .Dennle dOiland, WAoeo
literary talents were devoted to charm
ing stories Of Irish life; James Rederick
O'Flanagan, whose "Lives of the Irish
Lord Chancellors" is MASTERPIECES OF
biographical writing; John. Francis
Mcguire, who will not be forgotten by
his people as long as his Irish in Amer
lea" and "Rome and It's Rulers" are in
print: B. Simmons, whose ode on
Napoleon" excelled Byron's aud is
said to be the best in the English Ian
guage on that theme; Francis Davis 1.-THE
Belfast many who was the Burns OF Ire
land; r Shelton Mckenzie, essayist and
journalist; Edw. Dowden, who devoted
himself to the study of mental science,
became president of it's society in Epg-
land, and whose criticisms of Shakes
peare, from the point of mental SCENT
list, are unrivalled; and Edward Walsh,
whose songs endeared him to the Irish
peasantry.
The American tourist, as he sails into
Queenstown harbor, can. almost look on
| the grave of Rev. Charles Wolfe, whose
| Burial of Sir John Moore" is familiar
to every English-speaking school boy.
Deprived of her Parliament FOR almost
century, the possibility of the produc-
ton and development of statesnaanlike
Grattan, Flood, Swift, Lucas, Molly
nesux, etc, of the ante Union days, was
of course precluded in Ireland. Since
1901 the Irish people have been com
PEELED to play the game OF politics for
the obtainment of rights they have been
unable to obtain by force. tits not sur
prisipg, therefore, and, in fact, it is the
only natural outcome when politics is
ths2gsme, that people have to be led
by competent leader. The two great
Irish leaders Of the century were O'Con-
nell AID Parnell, and both represented
Cork. In wider sphere. and one whore
an opportunity for the display of state
craft presented itself, the great Edm und
Burke did not cast any discredit on the
county in which his parents we're born.
In the various political agitations in
Ireland for. the past century Corkmen
have been untiring politicians. From
1850 to 1870 such men as John Francis
Mcguire, MCCARTHY Downing and Alex
ander M. Sullivan, of Cork, were leaders
In the nome Rule movement, started in
1873, William Shaw, whom Parnell sue
ceeded, and Joseph p. Roneyne were
leaders, and Parnell frequently asserted
| that the latter was the real originator Of
the policy of Parliamentary obstruction.
In the heyday of the Land Laague and
National League, of the 103 Irish Parlia-
meptary representatives ope.third of
them were Cork men, and, as stated,
Parnell represented Cork, while Justin
MoC arthy is at present the leader Of the
majority of the Irish parliamentarians
The taste for political activity went
with the Cork man, no matter where he
moved. Corbett's lieutenant in his pro-
paganda in England was Richard Ro-
nayne,, Radical Dick" and his fellow
townsman, Feargus O'Oonnor, was the
leader of the Chartist movement in Eng
land. Sir John Pope Hennessy, owing
to his talents and activity in England,
became one of Englands colonial gov
errors. Sir Ambrose Shea, Governors of
the Bahamas, who is now visiting this
country; T. w. Anglin, VINO was minister
in the Canadian Parliament; p. a. COL:
Inns of Boston, Consul General at Lon
don; Thomas II. Carter, chairman Of. the
Republican National Committee: Rich
ard Croker, under whose leadership
Tammany has reached the zenith of it's
power as an organization; Maurice J.
Power, leader OF the County Democracy,
who has remained faithful to the name
and memory of the organization he led.
and VIM. r. Grace are further illustra-
tions of the penchant of the Corkonian
for political strife. =.
In the school Of the revolutionary pat
riot the sons Of "Rebel Cork" have. as
serted themselves. OF the three found
ers of the United Irishmen, Wolfe Tone,
Thomas Russell and Thomas Adds EN-
met, the last two were Cork men, as
were Arthur O'Connor and Corbett, be-
fore referred to as French generals, and
the patriot brothers John and Henry
Sheares, who were chieftians OF 49,. !.
Though generally supposed to have
been born in Dublin, it appears from
more accurate reading that the ideal
patriot, Robert Emmett, like his broth
ers, Temple and Thomas, were born in
Cork City. before the family moved to
the Irish capital. Duffy, Dillon. and
Davis founded the Young Ireland party
of '48. The latter, who was Cork man,
was styled young Ireland'ss Apostle,
Prophet and Guide OF the two found
ers OF the Fenian Brotherhood, Stephens
and O'Mahoney, the latter was of the
same county, and ouriously enough, the