The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-04-03
Dublin.

Ihe Order of Carmelites in ireland
mas just suffered a great loss in thc
death of one of its most DISTINGUISHED
members Very Rev. Joseph Plus Cow
ley, eX-assistant general The late ia
ther Cowley was in his 51st year. a ma
tive of Castletown CWestmeath). He
was ordained in 1888, and was appoint
ed professor in Carmelite college, Ter
enure, where he taught for some years
as also IN the Carmelite seminary, Low
er Dominick street, Dublin.
Inc death is mourned of Chevalier
Sheeran, knight of the Golden Spur and
chevalier of the Order of St. Sylvester
dlsnities conferred on him by his boli-
ness, Pope Leo XIII i'm recognition of
/ his services to religion.
The death, in his 9th wear. of Ache
son Henderson, X. c., the father of the
IRISH bar, to which he was called so far
back as 1887, will direct attention to
the TACT that two other gentlemen. who
IN recent years have been fothers of the
Irish bar-Robert Holmes and Mr. de
MoleynS, q. C.-Were monogenarians
Robert Holmes, who died in 1889
was born in 1865. He was a brother-in
law of Robert Emmett, was imprisoned
as suspect during the Emmett insur-
recuon, of which he knew nothing and
on his release went to his home to find
that his wife and child had died during
his imprisonment. He was pre-eminent
as a lawyer and an advocate. The hor
rorS of his own experience of a lust and
oenehcent government were burnt into
ms heart till the last day of his life. He
refused repeatedly silk gown, rejected
with scorn the offer of the solicitor
Seneralship, and led from the Outer
bar, at which he amassed a fortune If
100000. He used often to saw. NV
stuff gown will be my shroud." Stories
OF his witticisms are still told at the
irish bar, and pamphlet published bv
MIN when far advanced in the eighties
entitled after Molyneux's celebrated
treatlse, The Case of Ireland Stated
is mastery exposition of the Irish
cause and the justice of the Irish de-
mand
Thomas de Moleyns. the other nom
ogenarian father of the Irish bar was
born in 1907. and died in 1900. He was
Tor many years county court Judge of
Kilkenny, and was the author of a val
liable treatise on the law of Landlord
ana Tenant He was a man of striking
presence and handsome features. and
very brilliant in conversation. When a
boy he had been a midshipman lin the
navy, and was serving on the Bellero-
phon when Napoleon came on board |
that vessel as a prisoner of war.
Very Rev John Maxwell, formerly
pastor of Dunlavin, County Wicklow
died on Feb IS. having been priest |
for over fifty years. A native of mn
lin, where his people were enga ged in |
business, he received his early educa-
ton in private academy in Sandy.
mount He studied at Maynooth. and
! 1terWard IN Rome. where he was or
iained in 1858. He joined the Order of
charity and worked in London for
some years with the celebrated Father
1ockhart He also mfnistered as a
member of the Augustinian Order. but
MS health failing, he was compelled TO
elinquish missionary life and return m
ms native city. After solemn requiem
NICE and high mass in the pro-catbe-
raj Marlborough street. the funeral
ook place to Glasnevin. where his re-
MAINS were inferred in the family
urial place.