The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-05-03
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
Very Rev. DR.. Garrigan, Bishop
Elect of Sioux City.

Elect of Sioux City.
On Monday, April 2l, Very Rev. DR.
Garrigan. vice rector of the university
was handed personally by his emf
nence Cardinal Martinelh. the pro-
apostolic delegate. the papal briefs
creating the new diocese of Sioux City
Ia. and appointing him its first bishop
The new bishop-elect will be conse-
Grated by Cardinal Martinelh in st
Mary's cathedral at Springfield, Mass.
the former diocese of the new bishop
on Sunday, May %. Right Rev. Thomas
j. Conaty, d. D., rector of the univeT-
sity, VIII be the assistant consecrators.
Most Rev. John ]. Keane, D. D.. arch
bishop Of Dubuque, the metropolitan
" the Sioux City diocese, Will preach
Che sermon: and Rev. William j. ker-
by, Phi. D. associate professor of soci-
ology at the university, will be the
notary apostolic for the occasion and
viii read the papal brief of appoint
ment. It is expected that Bishop Gar
rigan will be installed in his new see
about the middle of June.
The diocese over which Bishop Gar
rigan will preside is composed of twen-
ty-four counties in the northwestern
section of Iowa. the territory being
taken from the present archdiocese of
Dubuque, which included up to the
present time the northern half Of the
state of Iowa.
Bishop Garrigan, it is said, intends
to make st. Mary's church, Sioux City,
his cathedral. and its present pastoral
residence the bishops house, in order
TO more closely identify himself with
the religious life and growth of the
city, and especially of the cathedral
parish.
DR. f. n. Robinson, assistant profess
sor of Gaelic at Harvard university,
who has been conducting a course of
instruction at the Catholic university
for the benefit of the students in the
Gaelic department, delivered a public
lecture on EARLY Irish Lyric Poetry"
Invitations had been extended to those
interested in Gaelic literature and poet
", and one of the largest audiences
seen at the university for long time
gathered in Mcmahon hall on Monday
evening. April q, to hear the lecture.
The rector, Right Rev. Bishop Conaty,
presided, and, in introducing DR.. Rob-
inson he referred to the Gaelic litera-
ture movement and acknowledged with
gratitude the Indebtedness of the uni
versity and of all lovers of Gaelic to
the Ancient Order of Hibernians for
its princely gift, by which the chair of
Gaelic had been established at the uni
versity. I'd DIR, Robinson the thanks of
the university We're due for his great
kindness In helping the work of the
Gaelic endowment at our institution.
The lecturer dealt mainly with lyric
poetry of the earliest period in Irish
literature He spoke first of the few
poems that are found in the manu-
scripts of the old Irish period strictly
speaking, that is in the manuscripts
scattered over the continent of Europe, |
which contain Irish glosseries. and !
which were written from the seventh |
to the end of the tenth century. There /
is very little verse indeed; but such as 1
there is has pecuriar interest and 4
charm. He gave translations of sew |
eraI- fragments that have been discov- |
cred in several corners of these old |
manuscripts. The greater number of |
the poems read are preserved in later |
manuscripts-in manuscripts of the |
middle Irish period-but their language |
shows them to have been composed, |
without doubt, many centuries earlier. |
They have come down to us usually as /
part of the national hero Sagas of the /
Irish.
In closing DR.. Robinson called atten-
published by Professor Kuno Meyer,
and by him entitled THE King and the
Hermit DR.. Meyer discovered this
poem in a sixteenth century magazine,
but has given reasons for believing
that it was written as early as the
tenth century.