Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21

are acknowledged mn .r,s,rr>, =
be masters By corre-
spondence and by the publication of pamph-
lets and books these men exchange their ideas,
sometimes in Latin sometimes In Spanish,
or French, or German. or English, and Doc
tor O'Maley--he is doctor of philosophy and
doctor of laws as we'll as doctor of medicine
meets them all on their own ground, with
their own weapons, in their own tongue.
It's a remarkable family, too zone of Doc
tor OMalleys brothers is Frank Ward
O'Malley, whom a good judge of newspaper
men has called "the best reporter in Amer
ica' another is Captain William Ambrose
O'NIalley. on the retired list of the United
States Navy. The third member of the fra
ternal quartet died not long ago: he was DR..
Joseph OMalley of st. Agnes Hospital, a
famous diagnostician. The O'Maleys of old
followed the sea. So did Captain William,
but the wanderlust of Doctor Austin has
manifested itself principally in foreign trav-
els in search of information on divers sub
jects. The O'Malleys of old, moreover, were
the chieftain family of the clan, none of
your immigrants who came from other parts
of Ireland. settled on the clan lands and re-
ceived the name of the clan. And that is
why the doctor on South Broad street is
called 1.-THE O'Mailey."
Victory Over the NOrmans
The genealogy of Doctor O'Malley is the
history of the clan and goes back to "Circa
l9O-Crimthann Cuilbuide, King of Aicill and
Umhall-Conn of the Hundred Battles Liv-
ing-The Fir Craibe in Umhall" Thus the
record saith In ancient times the chieftain
family and it's clan held three baronies and
a group of islands in the west OF ireland.
and the chiefs were ex-officio admirals of
the King of Connaught. Along in s12 the
Normans made their first descent upon the
coasts of Ireland and who but the great
Irish sea fighters of that time and place. the
O'Malleys, drove them offl The news was
spread all over northern Europe, and ship
was inserted in the O'Malley coat-of-arms
in token of the victory In the days of Queen
Bess a famous sea-raider of the clan was
Grainne Uaile, a woman who lived aboard
ship for forty years, and in 1891, in the
brief language of the annals, "ehased some
Scots TO the Hebrdes and chastised them"
If only there were sufficient space an inter-
esting story might be told about Irish gene
alogies. how and why they have been kept
carefully from time otherwise imme-
mortal.
Doctor o'Malley, understand, is an "abo-
riginal Irishman." by which is meant, pre-
sumably. that his ancestors came from the
Mediterranean Basin. He could enlighten
me on this point, well on any point
relating to Irish history for this subject is
one of his hobbies Learned institutions, in
cluding the College of Heralds, at Dublin,
are all the time consulting him on such mat
ters. The Irish Irish, II l may risk the ex-
preston, are to be found today in the great
est racial purity, not in Ireland. but in south
eastern Spain and the Sabine hills. Maurice
Hewlett has lately identified the Homeric
Greeks as Celtic. but Doctor O'Malley an
ticipated him by many years. AS the doctor
has told me, Greek civilization was Celtic
like the civilization of muck Of Europe in
later times An accomplished student OF
comparative literature. Doctor OMalley can
prove TO you, by many facts and quotations,
cited offhand that the Homerlc sagas and
ths Irish sagas are Of Identical origin. He