Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-20
Dublin needs that sort of an institution
more than churches"
Knights of st. Patrick.

Knights OF st. Patrick.
St. Patricks Cathedral Is the official
seat Of the knights of st. Patrick, and
their banners. helmets and swords hang
over the choir stalls, while in one Of the
chapels are an ancient table and a set OF
ancient chairs which they formerly used
at their gatherings. The verger told us,
however, that since 1863 they have met at
the castle.
Many tattered and bullet-riddled battle
flags carried by historic Irish regiments
hang in other parts of the cathedral, and
if they could tell their story of the many
brave 1rishmen who have fought and per-
ished under their silken folds it would be
more thrilling than fiction. Ireland .has
furnished the best fighting men for Eng
land since the invasion of the Normans.
1t is claimed that the kings bodyguard
Of Highlanders is now almost exclusively
composed of Irish lads.
In one of the north transepts is flag
carried by an Irish regiment at the sklr-
mish at Lexington. at the beginning Of
our revolution. and at the attack on
Bunker Hill. They brought it away with
trophies of Irish valor for a thousand
years.
ST. Patrick's is the Westminster Abbey
of Ireland. and many of her most famous
men are either buried within it's walls or
have tablets erected to their memory.
John Philpott Curran. the great advocate
and orator, and Samuel Lover, the song
writer and novelist, whose Handy Andy"
and Widow Machree," perhaps the best
examples of Irish humor in literature, are
both honored with tablets, and Carolan.
the last of the bards for which Ireland
was once SO celebrated. He died in 1888.
M. v. Balfe, author of that pretty little
opera. The Bohemian Girl" and many
beautiful ballads, including Il Dreamt
Dwell in Marble Halls" has q tablet In
Scribed with these words:
1.-THE most celebrated, genial and be-
loved of Irish musicians; commentators
of Carlos III of Spain; chevalier of the
Legion of Honor. Born in Dublin 18th
of May. 1908; died. Goth of October. 1870"
Balfe was born in a small house on Pitt
street. Dublin, which bears a tablet an
nouncing the fact.
The man who wrote that stirring poem.
THE Burial of Sir John Moore" which
begins
Not a drum heard,
Nor funeral note,
AS his corse on the ramparts they buried
lies in st. Patrick's. His name was Rev.
Charles Wolfe, and he was once the dean
Of this cathedral.
In the right-hand corner of the right
transept is a monument to the memory
of certain dame named Mrs st. Leger
Of the time of Elizabeth. She was thirty
seven years old at the time of her death.
her epitaph tells us. as "a strange. event
full history" and had four husbands and
eight children, all of whom she made
comfortable and happy.
On the other side is a tablet to COM
memorate the fact that Sir Edward Filter.
who died in 1919, was married at the age
OF twelve years and became the father OF
fifteen children, nine sons and six daugh-
ters
The famous Archbishop Whateley. the
gentleman who wrote the rhetoric we
studied IN college, and who once presided
over this diocese, is buried in a stately
tomb. and his effigy. beautifully carved
in marble, lies upon it,