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

stations would send thrill of JOY
through the bones of the Irish kings.
There was, indeed, an "army' ready to
hand, for at the time the statement was
made the chiefs of police and large
share of the force in most of the princi
pal American cities were Irish-born or
of Irish descent.
Should such a rebellion as we are sup
posing spread through the British army,
what of the navy. What name rises
first to every tongue when the Union
Jack is unfurled, even to the minds eyer
Whose indeed but that of Rear Admiral
Lord Charles Beresford? And the Beres-
fords, too, are Irish. From the same
County of Waterford. which gave Rob-
erts to the army, "the fighting Beresford"
came to the navy. Lord William Leslie
de la Poer Beresford, " c., proudly en-
rolled as the son of Rev. John, fourth
marquis of Waterford, is an even more
familiar name to the eyes of Americans,
for he married, in 1895, Lily Warren,
daughter of Commodore Cicero Price, of
the United States navy, land widow of
George Charles. eighth duke of Marl-
borough" From Admiral Beresford' s
familiar and commanding name, the list
of naval heroes may be scanned with re-
suits entirely germane to the PROPOSE
ton.
The army and navy once infected with
the spirit of revolt, once proclaiming
another holy war of the green banner,
what would become of the British col
onies. In the colony of Victoria the in
fiuence of the late prime minister, Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy, is yet paramount.
In America he is best known as the au-
thor of young Ireland" and the orig
inator of the Nation" Sir Cornelius
Alfred Moloney, after years of valued
service on the Gold Coast, is governor
and commander-in-chiefo of British Hon.
duras. Lieut.. Col. Sir John Terence
Nicholas O'Brien was rewarded for bril-
liant actions in the Munity and the
Oudh campaigns in India by being made
governor of Newfoundland (lS95.) Sir
Dennis Fitzpatrick, son of Thomas Fitz-
patrick, Esq, of Dublin, is lieutenant
governor of the Punjaub. Lieut.. Gen.
Sir Thomas Lionel Gallwey, governor
and commander-in-chief of Bermuda
(1Ss2-S), was the son of Major John
Gallwey, of the royal Irish constabulary.
The Right Hon. William G. f. Macart-
ney, NJ. P, who has recently been in
specting the Bermuda and Canadian ma
val establishments, is parliamentary
and financial secretary of the British
admiralty. Sir Jacob Dirk Barry, of that
well-known Irish family, is judge presi-
dent of the Court of Eastern districts
and member of the Court of Appeals Of
the Cape of Good Hope. Sir George
Maurice O'Rorke, a son of Rev. John
O'Rorke, of the County Galway, has been
eminent in New Zealand since 1854, and
was a member of the ministry in 1872.
He would have great influence in Maori
land. The Earl of Belmore, who has
been Governor and commandments
of New South Wales, is Baron Belmore,
OF Castle Coole, in the County of Fer
managh.
of course, instant recourse would in
such an extraordinary event be had to
diplomacy. Sir Nicholas Roderick
O'Connor, K. c. B., who is son oil
Patrick O'Connor, Of Dundermott, Ros-
common, would be asked to make proper
representation to the Court of St. Pet.
ersburg, where he is accredited ambas-
sador from Great Britain. Sir Nicholas
was once minister to China, and was not
so many years ago Secretary of Legation
at Washington (lss5-7), but he would
find some powerful pro-Irish influences
at work in the winter palace itself.
Irishmen holding Office in Russia? Be-
yond doubt. Mother Church, whose in
fuence has induced so many of them to
flee from the ould dart since Cromwell's
persecution began in 1929, made the
Greek Catholic establishment in Russia
seem preferable to the Reformation at
home The O'Bryans in St. Petersburg
became the Obrutscheffs; the O'Donnells,
the Odontcheffs, and the Scallens, the
Skalons. There is no more distinguished
soldier in Russia today than Obrutcheff,
general of infantry, aide-de-camp, gen.
eral, member of the military household
of the Gar and of the council of the
empire. 1t is true he has become a
Russian of the Russians, and has mar
ried a beautiful French-woman, with
whom it is his delight to pay yearly Wis
its to Paris. But there he finds many Of
his former countrymen to congratulate
him on having become noted authority
on military statistics, savant as we'll
Nor is there anywhere in the world ar
Irish soldier who is not proud of OBJ
rutscheff's triumph over the Turks al
Aladja and Kars, after their defeat o.
the Russians at Irvine. Go and vindi
cate the army" said the Gar, aud OBJ
rutscheff went.
Gen. Skalon is maitre de la cour al
Petersburg, with the rank of privy coun
cilor. The gallant Odontcheff is of this
same O'Donnells whose names are par
and parcel of the history of Spain fol
200 years.
Nor need this curious Russianizing O.