Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-02-28
IRELAND.
Record Of the Most Important Of
the Recent Events Culied
From Exchanges.

p. Garry, of Salamanca, has been
sworn in at Kildysart Petty Sessions
as a Magistrate for County Cork.
An old and esteemed Kilkenny
person of w. Tails. who carried on
an extensive drapery business.
The death is announced Of William
human, of Ballyclough, County Lin.
erick Deceased was a prominent
figure in politics for a quarter of a
century.
! Rev. Father Prendergast pre-
sided at a meeting at Cong at which
a branch of the Gaelic League and a
pledge-bound Irish Speakers Society
we're established.
Over 1000 men we're enrolled as
= members of the Irish National Vol
unteers after a public meeting at
Dungloe, West Donegal. at which j
e. Boyle presided.
] The death in the prime of life OF
the Rev. Denis Brosnan, President
of st. Brendan's Seminary, Killarney,
has caused deep regret throughout
the Kerry diocese.
/ A meeting of the Provisional Com
mittee of the Irish National Volun-
teers was held recently in St
Macarten's Hall, Monaghan. Over
600 men enrolled.
The Mayor of Sligo presided at q
public meeting in the Town Hail.
when a corps of the Irish National
Volunteers was formed, over 450
members being enrolled.
After rather heated discussion
the Westport Board of Guardians
elected DR.. J. J. Hughes, of Lahar.
dane, medical officer of the Louis
burgh dispensary district.
The Drogheda Board of Guardians
has passed a resolution of sympathy
with the widow and relatives of the
late Patrick Collier. of the Dales, one
of the boards Oldest members.
Michael Murray was found dead
In a field near Clones as a result OF
exposure. He lost his way return
ing home through the fields and lay
by a fence for twenty-four hours.
G.. Leonard was elected Clerk OF
Petty Sessions for the Ballycastle
district by three votes to two for
NJ O'Boyle. Sergeant Bourke, R
I. c., was the only other candidate
The Most Rev. DIR. Sheehan and
Alex. Nelson have been reelected
Chairman and Vice Chairman re-
spectively of the Committee of Man.
agement of Waterford technical
schools.
Peter Lenaghan, an extensive far
mer of the Curries, near Carrick-on-
Shannon, was found unconscious and
in a dying condition in a field at
, Drumlin. He died while being taken
in a cart to his home.
A meeting of farmers held at
Lisnaskea passed a resolution in
favor of the lowering of the level OF
Lower Lough Erne by two feet, in
order to save lands along the Lough
shores from damage by flooding.
The death of Mrs. Edward
O'Reilly, of Belturbet, is much re-
GREETED. She was a member of an
old and influential Cavan family.
The funeral to Staghall cemetery
was one of the largest seen in the
district for many years.
Messrs. l.. Ward and P. Dunno
have been disqualified as members
of the Dunshaughlin Rural District
Council owing to non-attendance for
six months, both having been i'll,
but the council decided not to co-opt
successors in view of the near APP
proach of the elections.
The death has taken place at the
Alteration Convent, Wexford, of Sis
ter Mary st. John the Evangelist
She was a sister of the Very Rev
Canon Doyle, of Ferns, and Edmund
Doyle, of County Wexford, and was
for over forty-one years a member
of the Alteration community.