The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-16
3NEWS FROM IRELANDX
Antrim.

5uVA with tnc boAIaSC OaeNC college,
was held in Ann Craobh Ruabh, Bank
street, Belfast. There was large
attendance of members. In the alb
sence of Right Rev. DR.. Tohill. Bishop
sSof Down and Connor, Rev. J. K
o'Neill, p. P, presided. The report
of the president showed that the COL
lege during the past year was very
Il successful. The number of students
lin attendance was ESQ, and of these
s95 per cent. were teachers. Addresses
were made by Senior VIM Bulfin, r.
~. Bigger, M. r. l. A.; Rev. G. Nolan,
b A., and SeaShan O'Ceathain, presi-
dent Of the college
Armagh.
Mr.. Dolan Hughes, j. p, presiding,
John Fullerton was charged with in
rictinE grievous bodily harm on Pat
rick Grinley by striking him on the
] ear with 4 reapins hook. Grimley de-
posed that while walking along the
road Fullerton jumped out of the
hedge brandishing a reaping hook,
and Tit him on the ear with it. Ac-
eused was returned for trial to next
Armagh quarter sessions.
Cork.
On Sept. 16 the youngest son of the
Hen. Alexis Roche, while out shoot
Ing at Rosnalee, where he had been
on visit for some time past with
his aunt, Mrs Leader, while proceed
ing through the thick brushwood with
which the plantations abound, acct
dentally tripaed and fell, discharging
one barrel Of this gun, and the charge
lodged in the lower part of one OF
his legs. 1t was found necessary to
amputate the leg from below the knee
Carlow.
The Right Rev. DR.. Foley. Bishop
Of Kildare and Leishlin, OH Sept. 10,
in the Cathedral, conferred sub dea
constip on the following students OF
st. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College.
Rev. d. ]. Considine, Rockford, Chi
eago, U. s. A.: Rev. John Kehoe, B. A.,
sydney. Australia; Rev. NJ. Gavin.
Los Angeles, California, U 8. A. The
Bishop was assisted ut the solemn
function by the Rev Laurence Bro
ply, s. T. L., vice president, Carlow
college.
On Sept. 20, the Right Rev. DR..
O'Dea, Bishop of Galway, made his
hrst official visit to .Lisdoonvarna.
since his accession to the See of Gal
way. Several addresses were pre-
scented. to which the Bishop replied
in eloquent terms, and in the course
of his remarks referred to the posi-
ton of University college, Galway.
Dublin.
81 A party, numbering 100, representa-
tive of many well-known oitisens o:
Dublin and other towns, left the North
the leadership of Mr. Hewett of How-
cts Tourist and Shipping Offices, 2
D'Oiler street and Eden quay. IN
cluded in the party will be some Irish
priests. Owing to the success which
marked last years trip, and the pop
ularity of the present one, it is pro-
posed to organize similar tour next
year.
On September 20 the one hundredth
anniversary Of the first O'Carolan
commemoration took place. The COM
meinoration which was intended by
John Bernard Trolter to be an annual
affair, was held in 1903, but none
other took place until this year.
Among the artistes who took part in
this Irish festival of a century ago
were Sir John Stevenson, Tom Cooke.
DIR. Spray, Mr.. Logger, Mr.. and Mrs.
whitman, Mrs. Cooke and Patrick
Quin, harper.
Galway.
Recent deaths in the county have
been those of Mrs. Richard O'Hallo-
ran, Sea road. Galway City, at the
age of "a; Thomas Meagher, a resi-
dent of Ballinasloe, for nearly a quar-
ter Of a century; Mrs. j. Naushton.
of Glengolan, and Martin Halloran, Of
4 Ouxhterard.
The following Redemptionist stu
dents were ordained to the priesthood
sin the Pro- Cathedral, Galway, on Sept.
10: Rev. Father Walsh, Rev. Father
Tracy, Rev. Father Kelly and Rev.
Father Byrne.
Kilkenny.
s At a meeting of the Kilkenny Corp
seration, held Sept. II, Alderman NJ
fCarthy presiding, Councillor Magennls
proposed that the Freedom of thu.
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