The Irish standard., 1910-05-28
FALLEN In THE FIGHT.
b. WIiIiam Rsdmons, n. p.

pride of the British Parliament, which
he turned upside down in order to
bring home to the world the wants
and grievances of Ireland. 1 think
Parnel never really got over Biggar's
death.
and see who else has gone from the
old Party to the valley of the shadow
of death.
Edmund Leamy. Aye!-poor Ned
has gone too! The brigtest and most
genial of men, with tongue of silver
and heart of gold. He gave his life
up to Ireland if ever man did. Gifted
with the rarest eloquence and the
keenest intellect, he gave all his eff
forts for the old land and the old
cause. His wife and children are now
in America, and | suppose in the gen.
name of Leamy in the great new land,
and all the while poor Ned of the
CHEEKY smile and the open heart will
sleep his last long sleep in Waterford,
the place SO proud to claim him as
son.
And look at another face in the
picture. Dear Dick Power! another
man from Waterford. He was for long
our Chief Whip. Dick Power! The
very mention of his name brings to
the minds of all who knew him
happy sensation like the breath of a
young spring day! Within ten days Of
his marriage he lay dead in the Grand
Hotel in London. Stricken down in
the very zenith of his joy and life by
swift and deadly illness! The ways
Of God are truly and indeed mysteri-
Gus, and it took even the men of
strong faith some time to become rec
onciled to poor Dicks death. A man
so kind, so loved, and so happy in life,
and to die so swiftly, so sadly! To
this very day dear Dick Power is loved
by those who knew him. AS l look at
his kindly face in this picture before
me, l seem to feel the misery of the
whole tragedy again.
Edmund Dryer Gray, another face
in the picture that is covered by the
grave At poor Harrington's funeral
| saw the last resting place of Gray.
A great power he was in Irish public
life, and his death was deeply felt for
many a long day. Another old. and
we'll remembered face in the picture is
that of w. j. Corbet. He also sleeps
at Glasnevin. For twenty years he
faithfully represented the County
Wicklow, and he was Parnelps close
personal friend. Many day on the
Wicklow mountains 1 spent gun in
hand with poor old William Corbet.
stood beside his deathbed, and short
~ before he died he said to me: Lit
tie we thought as we tramped the
hills it would come to this!" He was
writer Of great power, and a poet
Of no mean order, and he was, above
all, an Irishman to his finger tips, and
was as true as steel to the old cause.
Another old veteran whose face 1
see in the picture who has gone to
the other world is The O'Gorman
Mahon. He was in truth, in very
truth, veteran, for he stood beside
O'Connell in the famous Clare eman-
cipation was being fought and won.
The young fellows Of the Irish Party
were ever delighted with the brave old
O'Gorman Mahon, for his stories in
the smoking room of O'Connell and the
days of Repeal and Emancipation
were always worth hearing, and it
was something to hear words from the
lips Of man who fought and worked
with Daniel O'Connell in the brave
days Of old.
Who are the other old comrades in
the picture of the Party of 1880 who
have passed away? Amongst others
l may name John Deasy, James Leahy,
Nicholas Lynch, Sir Joseph McKenna,
Mulhallen Marum, Carrot Byrne, Ed.
McMahon, William Meagher Edward
Synan, and Philip Callan, though the
latter broke away from the Party be-
fore his death.
There are other faces of the old
Party in my picture which are. hap
PLY, with us still. though not in pub
lie life any more. There is dear old
Justin Mccarthy. Long may he con-
tinue to live, and whilst he lives we
love him for his good heart, and ad-
mire him for his great talents and
his devotion to his country.
Then there Is still Of the old Party
left, am glad to say, Thomas Sexton,
one Of the most brilliant of the young
men whom Parnell was fortunate
enough to gather around him. There
are Charles Dawson, Arthur O'Con-
ner, T. D. Sullivan and some others