The Irish standard., 1914-04-18
PEACE WILL lie IN
THE COMMON WORK
Parliament on College Green Will
Settle Differences of the
Opposing Forces
Members of Both Get on Well To-
9ether at Present on Commis-
sions, Says O'Connor

Expects to See Unions and Likens
Movement for Irish Liberty to
That of 18th Century
was brought into close contact
with some of the realities Of Ulster
life, a few years ago when I was on
a motor trip in that portion Of the
world with my friend. Joe Devlin.
says T. p. O'Connor, M. p. in his
London cable letter to the Chicago
Tribune of April ~.
First, should give as my strong
est impression that the Ulster prov
ince Is one Of the most beautiful in
ireland. We motored along the sea-
coast. What a coast it is! Lecky,
the historian. once said to man
who was contemplating tour in Ire
land that he would find an ugly pic
ture in a beautiful frame.
should qualify the statement a
little, because there are some inland
spots in Ireland that are exceedingly
beautiful. the Lakes of Killarney, for
example. So also there are wonder
full spots in County Wicklow.
However, from Athlone to Galway
is almost an uninterrupted bog,
dreary, melancholy, depressing and
ugly, though perhaps the day will
come when this immense material
for fuel may be utilized.
Entire Coast Beautiful.
The frame uf the picture is certain
ly lovely. I don't know any spot on
the coast Of Ireland that is not in
toxicatingly beautiful.
There are on the coast Of Glare
splendid lofty, even gigantic cliffs.
against which the waves Of the
stormy Atlantic beat through all
ages, where the sea rarely If ever
seems at rest, and where the impress
sion is always somber, inspiring. awe
some.
Along the coast of Wicklow as you
enter into Kingston harbor on your
way from England, you see a sea-
coast of a different but equally beau
tiful kind, with town after town
nesting to the shore, and in the dis
tance the lofty mountains of Wick
low.
It was the same thing in Ulster.
the same impression of an island
guarded and washed by the waves
with soft beauty spots, succeeded
here and there by the sterner beauty
of rocky crag.
In short, felt that Ireland was,
after all, a country we'll worthy OF
the love of it's people, we'll worth
fighting for. we'll worth dying for.
Village of Cusehndal.
In time we came to little seaside
village, called Cusehndal. It is a
lovely spot, much favored by the
men and women on vacation who de-
sire to have baths in the sea.
It has a delightful parish priest in
Father McCartan, simple, sweet
and direct soul, who holds to his
opinion with "soft inflexib ility," to
use Carlisle's beautiful phrase with
regard to his wife, and who has won
the love of Protestant as we'll as
Catholic.
This village is almost entirely Ro.
man Catholic. It is only one of many
Roman Catholic communities that
are scattered through the. glens OF
Antrim.
It is part of the anomalies of vi.
ster that you find these different
communities of Protestant and Cath.
olic within a few miles of one an.
other. They are almost as unexpect.
ed and as different as that strange
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different races and creeds in the
Balkans.
This is one Of the many diff1cultie.
in trying to settle the Ulster prob
lem. The orangemen at this mo.
ment are complaining of Herbert H
Asquith's concessions on this ground
among others. that the plebiscite BY
the county. as the area. is unfair t.
Protestants in some Of the Ulster
counties.
From their point Of view there I.
something to be said for this conten
tion. It so happens that in some ol
the counties, where the Protestant
are numerically weakest. they are IL
spirit most bitter.
Take Donegal. for instance. Therl
II almost % great . predonderanc,