Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-21
ENTERTAINED WITH
 TALK ON IRELAND
Rev. c. c. Pollock Spoke Before the
 Broadway Mems Club.

Broadway Mems Club.
 Talk on Ireland and It's People by Rev. George C. Pollock was the feature of the regular monthly meeting of the Mems club of the Broadway Congrega- tlonal church, held in the church par lora Tuesday evening There was a snort business session, at which Pres ldent James Grierson presided. l. C. smith spoke briefly on the lack of re- ligious literature for the Syrians in this country, and A. A. Browning gave a short report for the parish work committee. President Grierson ap- pointed l. c. Smith M w AlIing and II. B. Cary nominating committee to report at the next meeting, which will be held in the fall. President Grierson presented Rev. Mir. Pollock who held the close attention of his audience for an hour, punctUating his address with humorous stories which never failed to bring 6 laugh
 This isle of the ocean, he said though small in size and obscure in location and deemed by the ancients the last point of creation, has never theless attracted poets, historians nov elists and artists, and is the only place on the whole earth today where it Is possible for an Irishman to be born. Ireland is not manufacturing nation yet it manufactures nations.
 
 thriVes and if it were not for the lib eral emigration laws of America Ire land would long ago have been choked by oVer-production. There are four and one-half million pople on that lit tie isle, no part of which is more than 64 miles from the sea. It is the rich est country in the world, for it's cap- ital is always Dublin.
 In Ireland it rains three -fOurts of the time, and the other fourth is in- terspersed with showers and rainy days. There no man, woman or child ever goes out without an umbrella and to the continuous rain the island owes its verdure and the inhabitants their flordd complexion. What is more ap- propriate at the wake, when all the friends gather to drink to the future -pgd ueql 'p9lIBd9p 9Ql 10 ss9U!ddBq dy's old umbrella, hanging on the wall, green with age, it's ribs showing showing through, the friend which has served him through many long years!
 No country is more grossly misrep resented nor more generally misunder stood than Ireland. so that most peo pie feel that the Irishman is to be tolerated as long as he amuses. Ev- cry tourist who visits he country lands at Cork, sees the Killarney lakes visits Dublin, and on his return writes book on Paddy and His Pig,
 
 chronic ills. The greater number of tourists are provided with more mon ey than brains, and conceive of the idiosyncrasy of the individual Irish man as the characteristic of the peo- pie, and I want to say now that half the lies that are told about Ireland are not true It is difficult for anyone to quickly acquire a knowledge of the inhabitants of the isie for in no spot so limited in aera. is there such a, com pleX population. The structure of the Irish nation is built up from many foundations and the only reason for calling all the inhabitants by the same name is the fact that they live on the same island.
 With all that is misunderstood of the Trishman, America owes it to her self, to place him in the right light. for an American can not speak lightly of Ireland without forgetting the rock from which this nation was raised. An important strain of this nation rises from the Puritans, but it is only tiny stream compared to the vast torrent with it's source in the fireeD fields of Erin, which has poured into this coun- try. At one time tho Irish outnumber~ ed all other immigrants ten to one, and as every Irishman had from ten to 8 dozen children, there is today 3 vast amount of Irish blood in the nation We cannot be ashamed that this blood is in our veins. for in all the suTeringS and achievements Of these United States, who can point out victory or a defeat in which Erin's sons did not sing or suffer.
 Rev. Mir. pollock colesd by mention ing some of the individual lrishmen who have achieved fame in the coun- try's history, and was loudly applaud ed at the end.
 Refreshments were served by the committee and social hour was passed by the large number present