The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-27
h MAR TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MARCH n, 1881
Tim Healy, Former
Governor General
OF Ireland, Is Dead
fContinued from mage one)

VI lrelanQ, is DeaO
Continued from page one)
Viceregal Lodge as governor genera
of a Free State at the age Of q.
Healy was born in Bantry in 1855
His father occupied the post Of clerk
to the local Poon Law Union, anc
could tell his children Of the horrors
of the great famine of 1847. At Is
LEIealy started the task of earning his
Town living. He went to Newcastle on
Tyne where he obtained a post as
clerk in a railway office-thc origin
OF. the taunt in later years of his live
~ enemies that he began life as q
ticket-nipper. Healy was not long In
identifying himself with the Irish po-
litical. movement there. In 1878, he
got to London.
Became Correspondent
The Nation. owned by r. D Sulli-
van. the poet of the Parnell move
ment. then was the most important
of the Irish political weekl.es and
Healy became its London correspond
ent. He attracted the notice Of Par
nell whose secretary he became. He
was obviously good Parliamentary ma
terial and entered Parliament in 1880
as member for the Borough Of Wex-
ford.
When Gladstone introduced his
epoch : making Irish Land Bill, the
first serious attempt at turning Irish
peasants from serfs into freemen, ii
was said that there were only three
men in the House of Commons who
understood all its complicated pro-
visions, and Healy. then 26, was one
Of them.
Healy proposed a famous clause
providing that tenants should not be
rented on their own improvements
and 1t was calculated that it would
save the Irish tenants millions. II
its purpose had been carried out ii
might have spared the country all the
incidents of subsequent land wars
but the Irish judges nullified its ef-
feet.
Then came the Phoenix Park muir
ders and the reign of coercion under
"Buckshot Forster" which followed
Eealy had his part in the fight, and
| in the course of it went TO Jail
where, as he used to tell, he learned
to read the Bible. the only book al
lowed to prisoners.
The incidents Of the campaign, and
the steadiness of the Irish voters in
sustaining their Parliamentary rep.
resentativeS led to the conversion Of
Gladstone to Home Rule, and the
Home Rule Bill of 1886 in which Hea-
ly had his share. It's defeat started
the fight anew and Healy who had
been called to the bar in 1884. was a
prominent figure defending prisoners
before the Coercion Courts Of Arthur
Balfour.
Learn ParnelPs Secret
Two years later, an event which
was to turn the whole course of Irish
politics for a generation. cast It's
shadow. Captain O'Shea, who had
been a go-between in negotiations OF
Gladstone with the Irish, was
chosen by Mr.. Parnell to contest the
city of Galway. Healy, and his friend
Joseph Biggar. went down to Galway
to oppose O'Shea and though Healy
vas careful not to reveal the basis Of
Parnell's interest in the candidate
Biggar was less reticent and the
voters learned of the secret Of Par
nells life which was later to cause
his ruin. Parnell came down hjmsel'
to support O'Shea, backed by most o.
the members of his party, and te
avoid a split Healy retired from hi.
opposition and O'Shea was returned
In 1890 Captain O'Shea brought 8
suit for divorce against Parncil. This
was the beginning of the emo of the
Parliamentary Home Rule movement
Gladstone would no longer work
with Parnell.
In the belief that ParneE woule
see the necessity for a temporary re-
tirement Healy addressed u great
meeting in Dublin eulogizing his serv-
ices to Ireland, declaring that par
nell was more an institution than a
man." But Mr.. Parnell had nc
thought of bowling to the storm, and
to save the Home Rule movement
Healy sided against him. Nine tenths
OF the fight in which Parnell was de-
feated was Healy's.
Parnell died, but he left behind him
a small party to sustain his tro dition
and for 10 years Irish politics re-
solved into a struggle. between the
Paruellites, half q score In number
under the leadership Of John Red
mond. and the ti-Parnellites under
Justin MacCarthy and John Dillon
His colleagues found Healy an en-
barrassment. They elbowed him out
Union Is Effected
The universal sympathy in ireland
Of all parties with the struggle Of the
Beers led to a reapproachment be-
tween Parnellites and anti Parnell-
ties and union was effected under the
leadership OF John Redmond. But
1t was soon seen that peace was not
to be- made with Healy, and ireland
had new. parties Of Healyites, sup
ported by Cardinal Logue and many
influential churchmen. Healy was
for a time driven out Of Parliament
for Louth, but he got back for a seat
in Cork.
The Asquith government introduced
the long delayed Irish Home Rue Bill
which It, eventually passed. Hut the
European war suspended It's opera
ton.
Healy, a lonely figure now, support
ed Redmond's attitude on the war.
His own son served as q despatch
rider In France.
Then came the rebellion Of 1916,
the executions, and campaign Of re.
preston. eliminating Under Y.lovd