Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-01-21

tersburg to Vienna. Who is a privy
councillor to the Emperor of Austria and
most eminent among Austro-Hungarian
statesmen None other than the elev.
enth Viscount Taafe and Ballymote ol
Sligo, Edward Francis Joseph, Chamber
lain to his Imperial Majesty, Knight Of
the Golden Fleece, Knight of Malta
Knight of St. John, Grand Cross of the
Order of SIS. Maurice and Lazarus Of
Italy. The "Peerage of Ireland" regu.
larly enrolls the Taafes, family so well
bestowed on the could sod' that plain
John Taafe, of Swarmore Castle, Ardee,
in the County of Louth, has 5,147 acres
of his own. Baron Hoenning C'Carroll
is today Secretary of the Austrian Lega-
ton in Sofia. The Flight of the Wild
Geese" spread Catholic Irishmen all ovei
Europe after the defeat of King James
But in Spain and Austria they have es-
pecially thrived.
There is wealth of suggestion in the
line Of the Austrian army register al
luding to the prominence of Baron 10
ham O'Brien "for the affair of the Black
Lake, May 49," Victor Organ is an Of
ficer of the 4Sth; Hayes O'Connell, of the
59th, and Johann O'Fanagan, of the S2d
infantry. Baron Thomas Brady is an
Austrian Major-general; Freiherr Nc.
Nevin O'Kelly is a captain of militia
Graf O'Kelly Won Gallagher was Ma
jor-general, and Baron John Macguire
won honors hundred years ago.
The Celt.Iberians, as the earliest OF
the present race in the peninsula are
called, were undoubtedly akin to the
-Hibernians. For centuries there
were cordial relations between Spain and
Ireland, both Catholic countries to the
core. The Spaniards settled the coast OF
Galway, where the colleens are to this
day endowed with eyes and tresses
Andalusian in their jetty beauty; and
when a cry of distress went out from
beleaguered Kinsale toward the close OF
the seventeenth century Spanish feet
came promptly to the rescue. The de-
feat of the allies on that occasion drove
Red Hugh O'Donnell among others to
emigrate, and the names of O'Donnell
and O'Day became famous in the mill
tary annals of the peninsula. Marshal
Leopold O'Donnell helped expel Joseph
Bonaparte. Gen. O'Donnell led against
the revolt of '4S, and afterward became
Queen Isabella's Prime Minister and
favorite in unofficial relations. The Leo
pold O'Donnell, who subdued the Riffs
in 1901, was made Duke of Tetuan; and
the Duke of Tetuan who, as Prime Min
lister received our own Mister Woodward
at San Sebastian, is his son.
The O'Sullivans and O'Driscolls ano
Hugh O'Neills, who went to Valladolid
and Lisbon soon after the arrival of tn,
O'Donnells in Spain, are still in evidences
among the most faithful devotees o
those cities. The O'Reilly, for whom
OReilly street in Havana was named
and the O'Higginses and Lynches TO
whom Chill named warships, came t
America by way of Spain. And, speak
ing of distant quarters of the globe, Their
is Sir Robert Hart, an Irishman, at thu
head of the Imperial custom service il
China. ----
Perhaps the most really powerful
Irishman, if we consider him as con
trolling the destines of millions of hu
man beings, is Sir Robert Hart, o
Pekin. Sir Robert, by his exceptions
ability and justly nodded mind, has TO
more than a quarter of century haC
the absolute confidence of the Chimes
Government. So far as any man might
he has wisely guided its policy, and ha
done much to inculcate the highes
standard of morality in governmental
affairs.
In Rome there have been for age
Irish "Princes of the Church." Ferdi
nand Count O'Gorman, Knight of tn
Order of Christ and Commander of tn
Order of Gregory the Great, has beef
since 1878 Private Chamberlain to Pop
Leo XIII. He had fulfilled the same re
lation to Pope Plus TX, and he is no
only Roman Count, but also Guardian
of the Tombs of the Imperial House o
Austria in the Ducal Chapel in Nancy,
as we'll as Guardian of the Chateaux o
Pixerecourt, Choloy and Longuyon il
Lorraine.
Count Russell, of Rome, is Henry Pat
rick Marie Russell, male heir to the Rus
sells. Barons of Killough, in the Count,
Down. Edmund James de Poher de i
Poer, of Gurteen lie Poer, in the Count,
Waterford, was formerly Private Cham
berlain to the Pope, and is now Coun
of the Papal States and Knight of ST
John of Jerusalem. Another Count o
the Holy Roman Empire is Count Arthu
John Moore, of Mooresport, in tn
County of Tipperary, and yet another
Count Cecil-Kearney, of Ballinvilla
County Mayo.
The above brief sketch can do littl
more than give an idea of the positioI
Irishmen hold at the very helm of man
ships of state. And, truly, no one ca
deny that such list is remai kable. Their