The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06
AMERICANS MAY
INVADE IRELAND
To Help Build Industries I'm
der Home Rule
DEATH OF MIKE NOLAN
All Ireland as Well as England Feel
His Loss Keenly-Delighted
Thousands with His
Singing
DEATH OF MIKE NOLAN
BY THOMAS EMMETT

Dublin, February -(SpeciaL)-That
American invasion of ireland will follow
the establishment of an Irish parliament
In Dublin is confidently expected. 1t
will be an invasion % American capital
for the purpose of developing Irish in
dustries and of stalwart Irish-Americans
who, with the era of prosperity which 1t
is believed certain will follow home rule
will be able to come home and help In
the work of regenerating the land
Now that it is certain the nationalists
will hold the balance of power In the
new parliament it is difficult to see how
the passage of home rule bill satisfac-
tory to Ireland can be put aside.
In speaking of the effect home rule
would have on ireland, Mr.. Dennis Hor-
gan a well-known Irsh-Amerlcan who
has been in this country for several
weeks said to me, ut means that Ire
land from one of the poorest countries in
the world will become one of the richest.
Why not? We have here the climate,
the soil and the people, or we would
have had the people had it not been for
the unjust laws which have sent mil
lions of Irishmen to the four corners of
the earth. Under proper laws, revived
and built up, opportunities will be offered
not only to the people in Ireland but
to expatriated Irishmen from all over
the world
you will see within a very few years
happy, contented prosperous people and
wi &c cta Do no
instead of decreasing.
There are many rich Irishnsen in
America, men like John D. Crinimins,
Thomas F. Ryan and Thomas T. Walsh
and scores of others, who though
now thorough going Americans have
the Irishmans love for the old coun-
try. l happen to know that many of
these men Will be ready to back up with
cash legitimate Irish enterprises, which
will promote the welfare of the country,
as soon as an Irish parliament Is estab-
lished to make Irish laws for Ireland"
All Ireland, and England as well, suf-
fered loss in the death of Mike Nolan,
who had delighted thousands with his
singing of Annie Rooney and other Irish
songs.
Mike Nolan, as he was Familiarity
called was one of the breeziest of
class that is becoming almost as rare as
the "nigger' minstrel. He had fund
of dry humor and an excellent voice, and
the two combined made it real pleasure
to listen to his songs.
Music hall visitors will readily re-
member the great success of Annie
Rooney a simple enough ditty, but one
with an earhaunting waltz refrain which
made 1t popular on three continents.
Then there was THE Brick Came Down."
a song cast in truly Hibernian mould. 1t
related how many difficult questions were
decided by the simple process of throwing
a brick in the air. If it stayed up 1t
was yes" If it came down it was, mo"
One of his latest and greatest sue
cesses was THE Singer Was Irish,' in
which the delight of an exile from the
Green Isle at hearing Come Back to
Erin" sung in a foreign land was pa
thetically described.
The dead singer was always ready to do
a kind action. One bitter winters day,
when the snow was a foot deep, he was
discovered" by a friend as he was TAX
ing bottle of wine and some other deli
cacies to a poor sick professional.
To inquire into the causes of decline
in the flax-growng industry in Ireland
a committee has been appointed by Mr..
T. w. Russell, vice president of the
Irish department of agriculture and tech
meal instruction.
Lord Aberdeen's period of office will be
remembered in ireland for the great
progress that has been made in fighting
consumption. Much of the success In
this direction is due to Lady Aberdeen
who in 1907 inaugurated a Womans Ma
tional Health association for Ireland and
to show the people how they could best
deal wi \ the white plague. This ex-
hibition was so successful that another
was instituted on similar lines to visit
towns in the north of Ireland. They did
great.