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

born in Sea6eld house, Killowen, No
vember 10, 1882.
The chairman of the Midland and
Great Western railways, Sir Ralph
Smith Cusack, is "Clerk of the Crown
and Hanaper" in Ireland.
In Canada, where four-ffths of the
population may be deemed Celts, there
have been such eminent Irishmen as
Blake, now in Parliament at Westminster,
Costigan and Thomas Darcy MCGEE.
No man better than Blake can call the
bead-roll of Canadian Celts. None more
than he would delight to recall that If
Hume and Carlyle were Scotch Celts,
that other famous historian, Macaulay,
sprang from the Magawleys, family of
great antiquity in Ireland, and descended
from no less parsonage than the mys-
terious "Niell of the Nine Hostages"
The growth Of the Irish Celt side by
side with the French Celt in Canada is
only to be expected from the history of
the two countries which for centuries
fraterrized with sword and scapular.
The achievements of the Irish in France
and under the heur-de-lis wherever
French troops set foot, are as old as
Froissart, and are famous alike in history
and in romance. A solitary example
may suffice in the Macmahons, who lived
with distinction many centuries in Ire
land, and, having "risked all for the last
of the Stuart kings" transferred their
allegiance to the lilies of France, and
became Generals, Msrshals and Presi-
dents in that copgenial soil. Nor is any
lover of roses, in any cline, likely to
forget that other gallant Franco-Irish
name of Mel, French of the French
since, after the treaty of Limerick in
1891, $4,000 Irish soldiers, with drums
beating and colors flying, chose to serve
a Catholic rather than Protestant King.
All fighting Frenchmen know OF the
laurels won under the banner of France
by the McDonaldsJ O'Tooles, William
sons, Careys and Dilons.
Now, when the tide of immigration to
North America is already ebbing, the
undeveloped republics far to the south
of us are attracting some of Erin's most
stalwart sons. This ebb of the tide was,
in the nature of things, bound to come.
The official statistics of the Treasury De-
partment show that 1875, 1884 Irish peo-
pie arrived in United States ports be-
tween October l, 1920, and June 30, 1894.
Whereas there were 1858 arrivals from
Ireland in the year 1888; the correspond
ing number in 1894 was only 33,904.
These immigrants and their sons be-
gan 50 speedily to take possession Of
the minor political, especially the mu'
nicipal, Offices of their new homes
they settled mainly in the towns-that
an accurate resume made within five
years past showed them then to be in
control of the municipal machinery o.
the cities of New York, Boston, Brook
Ign, Jersey City, Hoboken, Chicago, Buff
falo, Troy, Albany, Pittsburg, St. Paul
St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, New Or
leans and San Francisco. The history o.
the Irish in the United States is indeed
an important volume in the general his
tory of the Celt abroad.
Gen. Patrick A.. Collins, himself al
Observation-Disclosures, thus enumerated
those American-Irish whose names mos
readily recur to the student of American
history:
Mckinley, the President, and Bryan
his competitor; John c. Calhoun; Jame'
Buchanan and Chester A. Arthur, thu
ancestors of all six belonging in th'
same county in Ireland. In the army
and navy the roll includes Montgomery
Wayne, Stark, Knox, Lewis, Conway
Sullivan, Meade, Sheridan, Kearney
Shields Barry, 'the father of the Amer
lean navy; McDonough and Mahan
Other great names are: Patrick Henry
the immortal champion Of revolution il
Virginia; Ulysses S. Grant, General ant
President; the fighting McCooks, Nc
Clellands, Netherlands, McDonough'
and McDowells, in the Union army, anC
Stonewall Jackson in the Confederate
ranks; John Barry, the first ranking OF
ficer in the navy, and Capt. John d
O'Brien.
Under adverse circumstances in mos
cases, they have indeed become leaders o
men, and preserved strong persona
LOYALTY to the traditions of "the oulC
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