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...immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...
Boston vs. Harvard: "Nearly every member of the recently-organized Boston Rugby Club's XV has had rugby experience in Scotland, Ireland, England, South Africa, or Canada. Messrs. H. Fisher and R. W. Adams of M. I. T. organized the team only a few weeks ago, however, and most of them are therefore short of practice. Ormsby last season was one of the New York Rugby Club's star players. Pearson has played for Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, and MacLagan for the well-known London Scottish Club in England...
...question has already been faced and solved in another part of the British Isles. In 1868 Gladstone carried his famous resolutions which disestablished and disendowed the Episcopal Church in Ireland, on the ground that the large Catholic population and the Dissenters so far outnumbered the Episcopalians that the situation was anomalous. Accordingly the Irish Bishops lost their seats in the House of Lords and the Church of Ireland was thrown upon its own resources, greatly to the advantage of that institution, as its members subsequently admitted. The question has been raised as to what would happen to Westminster Abbey...
GEORGE RUSSELL (A.E.), is one of Ireland's contemporary poets who, with W. B. Yeats, most nearly approaches greatness in his work, as far as we of the present day can estimate that quality. His most recent volume shows more clearly than ever the maturity of his verse, which is at times mystical, always quiet, never exuberant...
Married. Delia Mackin, Baltimore graduate nurse, niece of Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore; and Michael J. Robinson, of Manhattan, onetime officer in the Irish Free State army; in Baltimore. The Archbishop, who, like the bride, was born in extreme poverty on Golden Island, Athlone. Ireland, officiated at the high nuptial mass in Baltimore Cathedral...