... letter, which one of the speakers construed es a blessing, as is the way usually when the Bishop writes in glorification of the United Irish League. This letter derives its chief importance from the strange poeition occupied by the writer Dr. O'Donnell is a ...

... great office in the minds of • li right•thinking Irishmen. And this brought them to the great Act, the greatest Act ever conferred upon their countrymen—he referred to the Local Gore rnment Act. By that Irishmen were empowered to ix •ntrol their own affairs; ...

... two hostile camps—the Croninites. whose official designation was the United Brotherhood. oe U.B , and the Anti-Croninites, whose organisation was called the United Irishmen, or T.H. (which in the Fenian cipher, formed by moving each letter one place ...

... will tell you of the true composition of this over-estimated fighting force. There are not a dozen of what you 000ld call Irishmen. They are mostly foreigners, Irish Americans, Germans, Hollanders. &s., heeded by an American named Colonel Blake. Of course ...

... A somewhat comical feature of the situation is furnished by those inimitable statesmen the Irish Nationalists. once more a united party, dwelling in one fold if not altogether decided in their minds about who is to be their shepherd. It seems that they ...

... revolvers which the command. tog officers imported, and whioh were ordered from a private firm. IRISHMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA. Mr. DILLON asked how many Irishmen were enrolled in South Africa. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN replied that he thought he could answer the question ...

... they vote for an amenimentewhich declared that the war ought to have been avoided ? (Cheers.) • (policy of that kind might unite the party, but it served in the face of Europe to throw dust upon the sully of the kingdom. (Cheers) Let the Government bear ...

... us. Irishmen were more capable than Englishmen of judging impartially of the merits of this dispute because they were not influenced by the passions of Imperial greed, pride, and arrogance for the horrors of this war were brought home to Irishmen because ...

... electing a successor to the Right Be,. Dr. Day, who, owing to physical infirmity, in Osileder last retigned the Bishopric of the United Dimon of Cashel and Emly and Waterford and Linnoes. The members of the Dioeosin Synods having failed to send up any names ...

... comrades. Mr. WYNDHAM—The Medical Aot of 1938 pro- hibits the appointment as army surgeon of a practitioner not registered in the United Kingdom, but it does not prevent a non-registered surgeon from rendering assistance under orders of the medical staff. The ...

... 20,000, the total of yeomanry to I would be the care of the Government to guard as telegraphic address for each battalion or unit of our forces in South Africa, and, if so, whether the 8.000, and the grand total of fortme of all kinds to ' far as possible ...

... and revile the Government, and if they encourage or condone the action of agitators who seek to prevent the enlistment of Irishmen in the army, they can hardly expect to be honoured with the usual marks of her Majesty's confidence. To allow such men to ...