The Irish standard., 1908-05-23
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Antrim,

Ceanntair of the Gaelic League. Mr.
James Gallen presiding, the following
resolutions, bearing on the proposed
University of Belfast, were passed:
(1) THAT we. the Belfast Coisde
Ceanntair of the Gaelic League, desire
. to express our disappointment at the
sectional character of the Senate
named for the proposed University OF
Belfast, and feel that the Irish Ian
guage and native culture generally
must suffer at the hands of such a
body. That as about half of the popu
lation of Ulster favor Irish Ireland
ideas, we think fair proportion OF
I senators representing such views
should be appointed"
(2) THAT the educational import.
ance of the study of the Irish lam
guage, Irish history, and Irish litera-
ture demand that in the proposed Uni
versity of Belfast provision be made
/; for the establishment of Chair of Old
and Middle Irish and Chair of Mod
ern Irish, Irish Literature and Irish
History, and we consider, therefore,
that the Irish Ireland standpoint as
regards education should not be ig-
nored on the appointment of the COM
, mission"
A Sim Fein meeting was held re-
cantly in Ra1faSt The frlowino prace.
full and humorous comment, by Sim
Feiner in THE Peasant" on an Incl
dent which occurred at the meeting,
shows that the art Of the retort cour-
teous is not yet dead in politics:
There were several eggs thrown at
Cor toO the speaker, and it appears
they were not of the brand known as
election eggs" since one of the oc-
cupants Of the brake, who was for
tunate enough to catch one, assures
US it was in good order, and he never
: enjoyed any egg so much in the eat
ing.
Now 1t would seem to us that our
misguided friends could make better
use of their money than to purchase
eggs to throw at Sim Feners. There
are in Belfast at present several thou
sand people to whom an egg or it's
price would be very welcome, and not
a stones throw Cor should we say
an "egg's throw?') from the very
place of meeting.
But. perhaps. after all we are mis-
taken. 1t may be that our friends
wished to make us a present of the
eggs. We have. if the latter is so, no
wish to quarrel with them on this
point, but would respectfully suggest
that their mode of presentation might
b sbe-well. little less forcible.
X P. T. MacGinley delivered a lecture
on behalf of the Piper's Band, in
Craobh Ruadh. The title of the lecture
was THE Piper in Irish History Sc
ginning with the Battle of Moytura
ss;he lecturer gave very clear concep-
tion of the position the pipes occupied
IN history, and stated that whether the
music was funeral caoine or a SOUL
stirring battlecharge the piper was
the musician employed. He gave us
a minute account Of the means en-
ployed by the English enemy to extir-
pate the pipers, and a long list of par
dons granted to pipers during the
reisns of many English sovereigns.
Cork.
Sir John Chute Neligan, K. c.. who
mas resigned the position of recorder
Of Cork. has had a career on the
County Court Bench of two and forty
years and 81 few days. having been ap-
pointed on March 31st. 1866. He was
not, however. the doyen of the Irish
County Court Judiciary, that honor
appertains to Sir Francis Brady. Bart,
x. c.. the County Court Judge of Ty-
rome, who was appointed on December
2Sth, 1861. and has accordingly en-
tered on the forty-eighth year Of his
judicial career. Nor does Sir Fran
els Brady break the record of the Rt.
Hon. Sir Frederick Shaw, Bart. who
was recorder for fifty years, of which
orty-eight. from 1928 till his death
IN 1876, were passed as recorder of
Z the city OF Dublin. The two longest
\ judicial careers in the High Court in
ireland since the Union are those of
Mr.. Baron Pennefather. who was a
Baron Of the Exchequer from 1921 till
1853, and the Right Hon Hedges Eyre
Ehatterton. who was the first and last
Vice Chancellor of Ireland, from 1867
till his resignation in 1904 Mr.. Thom-
s@as LEROY. who retired from the Chief
: Justiceship of Ireland in 1866. in his
ninety-frst year, had comparatively
7 snort career on the Bench, to which he
q was appointed late in life in 1s41.
Derry.