The Irish standard., 1912-02-17
wv Byrne and Bernard McAvoy in


city superintendent of schools, DR..
William H. Maxwell. furnishes fit
ting elimination of the record. while
among the Associate superintendent
are Thomas S. O'Brien and John H.
Walsh, and OF the District Superin-
tcndcnts, William ]. OShea and Jo-
seph H. Wade.
Edmund B. O'Callaghan was the his
torian of the city and colony of New
York, and rendered invaluable service
in preserving records which without
his care and erudition would have been
lost to posterity. John Culinary Shea
was the historian of the Catholic
Church in the United States, and the
first American to realize the historic
value of the "Jesuit Relations
In 1910 Thomas O'Conor Gather Of
Charles O'Conor) founded the Sham
rock and Hibernian Chronicle. and
this was followed in 1925 by the Irish
man, edited by John Macdermid Moore.
Since that time there has been no Pc
riod when the Irishman has not been
active in journalism.
Among them may be named Michael
Walsh, editor of the Knickerbocker in
1853, afterward member of Congress;
John O'Mahoney. editor of the Irish
People, and Colonel of the Ninety
ninth New York in the Civil War; Fitz
James O'Brien, brilliant author, who
died of wound received in the war;
John Mitchell, patriot. leader Of the
young Ireland" movement, author and
founder of the Citizen; Hugh Has
tings Of the Commercial Advertiser,
Horace Greedy of the Tribune. James
Gordon Bennett and Thomas b. Con-
merry of the Herald, z. L. Godkin Of
the Evening Post, w. M. Laffan of the
Sun, James A. McMaster and Maurice
Francis Egan of the Freeman's Jour-
nal, Patrick Ford of the Irish World,
John w. Dewey of the Gaelic Amer
lean, Thomas c. Quinn of the Ledger,
DR.. James w. O'Brien of the Sunday
Union, Thomas +. Meehan and Thorn
as F. Woodlock. P. F.. Collier was
equally successful as publisher, pro-
prietor Of a weekly paper and business
man.
The first Irish publisher in New
York, after Hugh Gaine, was Bernard
Dornin, in 1907, followed by Joha Doyle
In 1923 and by James Ryan in 1880.
Then followed Denis and james Sad
Tier. Robert Coddington, owen Phelan,
Patrick Kavanagh, p. O'Shea, r. M.
Haverty, P. v. Hickey and Lawrence
Kehoe.
Among authors may be named Mrs.
James Sadlier, her daughter, Anna,
and niece, Agnes, who for many years
were most popular writer's; DR. John
A. Mooney. Thomas Darcy MCGEE and
John Savage.
At present DR.. James J. Walsh &C.
cupies a high place in letters because
of his valuable and numerous contrib
utions to history and science. while
Finley Peter Dunno, under the genial
guise of "Mr. Dooley," dispenses a
sound philosophy of life and an amaz-
ingly keen view of current events. Jo-
seph !. c. Clark writes poetry in which
the glories of the race are happily
remembered.
To fittingly represent the traditional
Irish love of music, we instance Pat
rick Sarsfield Gilmore, the most popu-
lar Of band conductors; Victor Her.
bert, the composer of many success
full comic operas. and of the first Am
erican Grand Opera, and Edwin Nc
Dowell, Augustus st. Gaudens, Will
liam Randolph O'Donovan, John j,
Boyle and ]. z. Kelly, have earned en-
during fame in sculpture, as Edward
Gay and Miss Rosina Emmett have
done in painting.
In the dramatic pofession the rioneer
1rishman was Thomas Apthorpe Coop
err, manager of the Park Theater in
1906. James Henry Hackett, father
of Recorder Hackett, was manager Of
the Aston Place opera house at the
time of the Macready riot. Barney
Williams (Flaherty) managed Wal
lacks theater in 1s6S-1S70, and was a
popular comedian.
Austin DAILY raised the productions
at his house (Daly's theater) to plane
never before attained ard from which
many believe a decided descent has
since been made
Edward Harrigan and Anthony Hart
produced realistic portrayals of old
conditions in New York, which were
then beginning to disappear. and
amused the whole country for gen.
GRAFTON by clean, il boisterous fun.