2019 February 6 Knockanure
KNOCKANURE
RAMBLING House on the 7th February in Knockanure Community Centre. Everyone is welcome. Please come along and enjoy a great night of music, song and dance. Admission free. Refreshment will be served. Contact Ann Flavin at 086-3090948.
ACTIVE Retirement Day at Knockanure Community Centre, takes place on Monday 11th February. Music by Stevie Donegan, All Welcome. If attending it is important to please ring office on 068/49799. New members especially welcome.
SCOIL CHORP CHRÍOST, 2019: If you wish to enrol your child in Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure please call to the school office between 9.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. any day to collect your form. 068-49130. You are welcome to visit the school with your child any day after 2 p.m. All welcome.
CONGRATULATIONS to Ms Elvina McDermott N.T. of Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure on her engagement to Edward Flynn.
BEST Wishes to Kathy Brosnan of Moyvane who married Gavin Lenihan at St. Craebhnait’s Church, Annakisha, Mallow on 5th January 2019, the reception was held at Ballyseedy Castle.
STACK FAMILY FUND; If you would like to help with a donation we would be very grateful. You can contact any of the committee: Fr. Kevin McNamara, Eddie Bowler, Pat Fitzgerald, James Kennelly, Teddy Keane or Anna Maria Kennelly.
CHIROPODIST: In the Marian Hall Friday 8th February at 10am. To book contact Noreen O’Connell 49238.
GAA Knockanure Lotto results; There was no winner of the €2900 jackpot on Friday 1st February. Numbers drawn were 6, 16, 20, and 30. Lucky dip winners of €25 were; 1. John Looney, Knockanure; 2. Kay Heffernan, c/o Pat Kennelly; 3. Mike & Bridget, c/o Kevin’s; 4. Timmy Leahy, Tralee, and 5. Pat Collins, Church Road, Abbeyfeale. Next draw on Friday 8th February with jackpot up to €3000.
MOYVANE LADIES FOOTBALL: Registration for all age groups (U8s-U18s) will take place on Sunday 3rd February from 12:00-12:30 in the Marian Hall.
SYMPATHY: At a recent Board of Management at Scoil Chorp Chríost Knockanure the following votes of sympathy was passed – To Goulding & Flavin Family Knockanure, on the death of Jamie McCoy Abbeyfeale; To Stack Family Keylod Moyvane on the death of David Stack ; To John Barry Knockanure on the death of Anne Stack Listowel, and To Clancy Family Knockanure on the death of Mrs Catherine Scannell Bunghara Listowel.
DEATH has taken place of James Harnett, Magheramore, Wicklow, and formerly of Kilmorna, Kerry, on 25th January 2019. Grandfather of the late Ameera and brother of the late Breda (Grummell) and Oliver. Survived by his wife Trish, sons Stephen and Bobby, daughter Orla, son-in-law Tommy, grandchildren J.J., Niall, Zoe, Vikki, Freddie and Arthur, brothers Maurice, Pat and Joe, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, and nephews. Removal on Sunday 27th January to Star of the Sea Church, Brittas Bay. Funeral Mass on Monday, followed by burial in Three Mile Water Cemetery.
DEATH has occurred of Maud Enright (née Brennan) of Dirha East, Listowel, And late of Guhard, Lisselton. Died on 26/01/2019, Predeceased by her husband Thomas and son John. Survived by her sons Jim, Eugene, Tom, Joe, Jer, Liam and Kevin, daughters Betty, Theresa, Marie and Fiona, brother Martin, sisters Mary, Chrissie and Bridie, her 27 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, son-in-law, daughters-in-law, nephews, nieces, cousins, relatives and many friends.
Requiem Mass on 29th January at St. Mary’s Church, Listowel. Burial afterwards in St. John Paul II Cemetery, Ballybunion Road, Listowel.
DEATH has occurred of Kay Harnett (née McElligott) of 18 Church Street, Listowel, and formerly of Lenamore, Ballylongford, Suddenly on the 24th January 2019, survived by her husband Mike, father Maurice, sister Marie, mother-in-law Anne, brothers-in-law Jim and Tim, sister-in-law Oonagh, nephew Cathal, nieces Aisling and Ava, aunts Peg, Sr. Winnie Harnett and Peggy.
Requiem Mass on Monday at St. Mary’s Church, Listowel. Burial afterwards in Kilshenane Cemetery
DEATH took place on the 23rd January 2019 of Thérèse (Terry) Byrne (née O’Connor), Mayfield Grove, Athlone, and formerly of Hill Knockanure. Predeceased by her husband Mick and daughter Noëlle. Survived by sons Conor and Daragh and daughter Doreen (Holloway), brother Tom, sons-in-law Adrian and Paul, daughters-in-law Loretta and Nuala, grandchildren, nephews, and nieces,
Requiem Mass on Saturday for Terry Byrne was celebrated at Our Lady’s Queen of Peace Church, Coosan, followed by burial afterwards in Coosan Cemetery.
ANNIVERSARIES: Sr. Thomas O’Connor, Bridget Leonard, John Dore, Joan Philips, Sr. Irene Stack, Nora Walsh, Ned O’Keeffe, Michael Daly, Mikey Joe Walsh, Maurice Enright, Kieran O’Sullivan, Celia Mahony, Eileen O’Connor, Nellie Hannon, Padraic Liston, Marina Lynch, Noreen Mullane, Michael Scanlon, Con Hanrahan, Neily McCarthy, Margaret O’Brien, Bridie MacNeil, Joanie McKenna, Vera McDermott, Cecelia Doyle, Johnny Enright. Mass Moyvane; Thurs 7th at 7.30pm for Fr. Michael Hanrahan, Kilbaha; Fri 8th at 7.30pm for Mikey Joe Walsh, Leitrim Hill; Sat 9th at 7.30pm for Helen O’Connor, Tarmons and Sun 10th at 11.00am for Donal Cunningham, Kilbaha, his sister Breda & Andy Thomas. Mass Knockanure on Sun 10th at 10.00am for Vivienne Rogan, Caherdavin, (mother of Andrew Rogan)
ADORATION: KNOCKANURE: Tuesday 10am – 5pm; MOYVANE: Wednesday 10am – 7pm.
LOURDES HELPERS COLLECTION: At all Masses on 9th/10th February.
DRAMA: Athea Drama Group’s 2019 production of ‘The Lonesome West’, book by calling/texting 087 2743189 stating your name, no. of tickets required and the date you wish to attend. The play will be staged at Con Colbert Hall, Athea on Feb 7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 16th & 17th at 8pm with doors open from 7pm.
ARD CHÚRAM DAY CARE CENTRE: Listowel is operating a Post Stroke Day Service with Physio and Nursing supports on Monday’s. This is an 8 to 12 week course which includes physiotherapy, nursing support, physical and mental stimulation programme. Morning tea and mid-day meal provided. Cost €10.00. For further information please contact Louise Harnett (Nurse Co-Ordinator) on 068/22986.
ASDEE ACTIVE RETIRED: fundraising tea dance in aid of the Bothar Project will take place on Sunday February 10th in Asdee Community Centre from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. Refreshments and raffle on the day. Come along and support this very worthy cause.
LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE: For February courses contact the centre on 068/23584.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR THE CHASTITUTE: Enjoy a 4 course dinner at Leen’s Hotel followed by a rip roaring performance of John B Keane"s The Chastitute at Glórach for just €30. This special offer is available on Thursday February 7. To book for both – call the Glórach line 087 1383940. Abbeyside Players with John B. Keane’s The Chastitute are on stage on Thursday, February 7, Friday, February 8, Saturday, February 9, Sunday, February 10. It continues its run in Rockchapel on Saturday, February 16 and finishes up in Tournafulla on February 23.
MARRIAGE OF CONNIVANCE: As soon as The Abbeyside Players finish their run the Abbeyfeale Drama Group take the stage with ‘Marriage of Connivance’ from February 12.
NANO NAGEL SCHOOL 13TH ANNUAL SOCIAL Friday 15th February at 7.30pm. in the Listowel Arms Hotel. Music by Heart & Soul.
ST BRIGID’S CROSSES for sale in the Parish Office, Listowel. All proceeds will go to Listowel Hospice.
SET DANCING WEEKEND: West Limerick Set Dancing Ceili; Friday February 8 at Devon Inn with music by Taylors Cross 9 till late. Saturday, February 9 ceili at 9pm with The Striolan Ceili Band. Sunday, February 10 Afternoon Ceili with Johnny Reidy from 2- 5pm. Workshop on Saturday from 10.30 – 12.30pm and 2 – 4.30pm.
SAFETALK offers participants an opportunity to learn four basic steps to recognise persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them with suicide helping resources. Safetalk is a 1 day suicide alertness programme that prepares participants to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. This training is suitable for everyone who wants to help prevent suicide and is prepared to become a suicide alert helper. 21st Feb. 10am – 1.30pm. Listowel Family Resource Centre Please Toni on 068 23584.
TALK at Rose Hotel Tralee on Feb. 6th, Stephen James Smith will give talk on Poetry and New Media, more from 068 21074.
ARDFERT: Ardfert – Fr Louis Hughes – Be still and know, Be Still and Know: Fr. Louis Hughes O.P. Saturday 9th February, 2019 – 10.00am – 4.00pm. Other Ardfert Events: Life in the Spirit: Moss & Janice Carrig – Tuesdays – starts Feb. 19th – 7.30pm to 9.00pm. Self Care Day: Betty Garnett I.A.C.P, Practical skills to promote self-care and wellbeing. Sat. 16th Feb. 9.45am-4.00pm. Contact: Betty 0872498061. Gathering of Diocesan Parish Readers & Eucharistic Ministers: Bishop (Emeritus) Bill Murphy – Feb 21st., 2019 – 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Ardfert Retreat Centre Christian Spiritual Development Course-The Beatitudes: Fr. Sean Sheehy, Wednesdays 7-8.30pm.
CONRADH NA GAEILGE FESTIVAL: Tionól (Irish language and Music w/e) Chontae Luimnigh present the first, hopefully of many gatherings of Folklore, Music, Poetry and History of Abbeyfeale through the Irish Language in Fr. Casey’s Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9 with daily admission just €5 per day. The official opening takes place on Friday from 7pm followed by a lecture from Séamus Ó Coileáin from Athea and ending with a traditional music concert with the Murphy family, Riona Ní Churtáin, Denis Curtin and the Flannery Sisters. Saturday’s programme includes lectures, a bilingual walking tour of Abbeyfeale and a traditional music session. All are welcome.
ABBEYFEALE HARRIERS ANNUAL HUNTING FESTIVAL: Sunday, February 10 – Shanahan’s Bar, Strand, Co. Limerick. Joint Meet; Ballybrown Harriers & South Tipperary Foot Harriers. Monday, February 11- Fleming’s Bar, Scartaglin, Co. Kerry. Joint Meet; Rockfield Harriers & Rooves Bridge Harriers. Memorial Meet for John O’Connor & Anthony Cronin. Tuesday, February 12 – Naughtons’ Bar Mountcollins, Co. Limerick Brosna Foxhounds. Wednesday, February 13 – The Goalpost Bar, Tournafulla, Co. Limerick. Carraigshane Harriers. Thursday, February 14 – Walsh’s Bar, Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry. Joint Meet; Lismore Harriers & South Tipperary Harriers. Friday, February 15 – DP Lyons Bar, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick. Joint Meet; Bridgetown Harriers & Minerock Harriers. Memorial Meet for Jackie O’Grady. All meets at 11am. Food kindly sponsored by publicans. Hunting is on foot and the quarry is fox – Cap €10 per meet. Please show respect to landowners and their property at all times. Enquiries: Doug McGuinness (Hon. Sec. Abbeyfeale Harriers) 087 6829044 or Paddy O’Grady 087 6258933.Supported Charity – The Irish Cancer Society.
RUN: The annual Milford Hospice 10kmrun/walk at UL on Sunday February 3 commencing at 11am outside the main library. Contact the fundraising department at 061-485859 or 061-485860 for all the details.
WORLD DAY OF THE SICK AND THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES: Mass, with Anointing
of the Sick and a Blessing for their carers will be celebrated in St. John’s Church, Tralee on Monday
February 11th at 3.00pm.
CONRADH NA GAEILGE/GAELIC LEAGUE; a branch has been re-established in Abbeyfeale. Members welcome. Further information Éamonn 086 3903244.
C.E. Scheme Vacancies. There are some vacancies for workers on the Athea/Carrigkerry/Old Mill C. E. Scheme. There are two vacancies in Athea for the Community Hall and one for the Church. If anyone thinks they are eligible please call 068-42301.
DAYS OF RECOLLECTION: Saturday 23rd February in St. Benedict’s Priory, The Mount, Cobh. Day begins with Mass at 9am followed by adoration. First talk 11am. Day concludes at 3.30pm. Lunch provided. Donations are welcome to cover the costs. To book a place or to arrange a stay in the Retreat House contact Mother Prioress at 021/4811354.
PILGRIMAGE to Medjugorje from July 25th, details from 069 60375.
SUPPORT: Anam Cara Kerry the organisation that supports bereaved parents, is holding a Bereavement Information Evening on Tues 12th Feb at 7:20pm in the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, Co. Kerry. This is a free event and open to all bereaved parents. As Anam Cara will need to confirm numbers for teas, coffees, etc, please RSVP to info before Mon 11th Feb or call the Information Line on 085 2888 888.
CHIROPODIST – Michelle Conway will be in Tarbert Community Centre on Mon. 4th Feb. from 9am to 1pm. If you would like an appointment please call 083 – 4074256.
DIABETES: Living with type 2 Diabetes? Let us help. Book a place on our FREE HSE Diabetes course (running once a week for 6 weeks for 2 ½ hours each week). The course is run by HSE Community Dietitians. Visit www.hse.ie/xpert or call 087 673 4035 to book a place on an upcoming course in Listowel. Courses also run in Tralee.
PADRE PIO DEVOTIONS Lixnaw prayer meeting will take place on the 19th at 7.30pm (3rd Tuesday). The witness will be given by Rachel O’Brien from Tiershannahan Ballyheigue.
ST ITA’S FAITH CAMP, This year our camp takes place in St Mary’s Boys school ABBEYFEALE from Monday 29th July -Thursday 1st august 2019, we will need volunteers -adults 18yrs +and also youths aged 14 –17 yrs. Info: -087-2788834
St. John’s Theatre. FEBRUARY PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2019
1st- 28th, MAPPING KERRY, An exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Gosia Shaikh-Horajska based on the work of surveyors, including Frederick James Foot in the 1850s.
Tue 5th, C’EST LA VIE – Film Club, The latest film from directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano is a manic French comedy set in a 17thcentury chateau where wedding disaster after disaster unfolds. In association with Access Cinema.
Wed 6th, THE ESKIES- From Dublin, this five-piece group perform folk songs, gypsy jazz and sea shanties in a swaggering stage spectacle. Regulars at Glastonbury and Cambridge festivals.
Thu 7th & Fri 8th -SÍVE- The John B. Keane classic play on young love and arranged matches is presented by Abha Bhán Players, Glin/Ballyhahill. More from 068 22566.
SAINT FRANCIS: “Being a peacemaker,” Friar Murray Bodo says, “can be a thankless task.” But the role of the peacemaker is essential, something Saint Francis of Assisi surely understood. He embraced those who were categorized as “the enemy” and offered himself as a living bridge of peace.
ST BRIDGET this 10th century poem which is attributed to her, adapted by Brendan Kennelly and excerpted below:
I’d like to give a lake of beer to God.
I’d love the heavenly
Host to be tippling there
For all eternity.
I’d love the men of Heaven to live with me,
To dance and sing.
If they wanted, I’d put at their disposal
Vats of suffering……….
I’d sit with the men, the women and God
There by the lake of beer.
We’d be drinking good health forever
And every drop would be a prayer.
WEDNESDAY PRAYER: Gather in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Abbeyfeale on Wednesday afternoon at 3p.m to recite the Divine Mercy Chaplet for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. This prayer meeting will take place every Wednesday.
Kerryman 1904-current, Saturday, December 12, 1942; Page: 2
LATE FATHER ML. O’FLANAGAN
" Sceilg’s" Reply to Brian O’Higgins.
To the Editor. A Chara,
I should have left entirely to the judgment of your readers the letter you have just published from Brian O hUiginn only that my oration at the graveside of Fr. Michael O’Flanagan four months ago is made the basis of strangely belated strictures on the memory of the patriot to whom Cathal Brugha referred from the chair at the Inauguration of Dail Eireann as the most loyal and the most earnest priest that ever lived in Ireland,—the suspended priest, he might have added as was indeed implied, who won the General Election of 1918 and so made possible the constitutional ratification of the Proclamation of Easter Week. My graveside oration, delivered at twenty-four hours’ notice, was in your office next morning, published by you that week, and reprinted by you without alteration except the admitted addition of a necessary footnote, Brian thinks it appropriate to refer to It as "the pamphlet on the late Fr. O’Flanagan written by my friend Sceilg, and reviewed in your issue of November 28"—although the review, if such there were, has escaped my notice. Were Sceilg to write a "pamphlet" on Fr. O’Flanagan it would be a pamphlet showing at some thing like his full stature the gifted priest to whom the Pope presented a special gold medal in recognition of his brilliant Lenten and Advent sermons in Rome in 1912 and 1914; to Whom, while he and I were England’s prisoners in Melbourne, the venerable Archbishop there sent vestments and a chalice to enable him to say Mass even in his captivity; to whose death-bedside the Papal Nuncio and other dignitaries of the Church paid daily visits, at whose obsequies we had such striking evidence of the place he had won in the people’s hearts. In seeking out the passage which Jed Brian O hUiginn to state that I said "objections to Fr. O’Flanagan’s anti-papal outbursts were made only by the ‘envious’ or by persons of ‘defective understanding,’ " I find I said, not that he indulged In anti-papal outbursts, which I neither believe nor admit, but that his eloquence on his second visit to the United States a whole generation ago aroused envy in high places, which I personally knew to be true. Later, the envy manifested itself nearer home, and was aggravated by the malice of a whispering gallery, as I and hundreds of others knew also to be only too true. Of course, it never entered my mind that Brian O hUiginn could regard the cap as fitting himself. How could I or anybody else even dream that Brian na Banban envied Fr. Michael O’Flanagan, I happened to have been a patient at St. Ann’s Hydro, Blarney, when Brian O hUiginn and Fr. O’Flanagan came into conflict at the Sinn Fein Ard-Fheis a decade ago, and have no wish to contest Brian’s claim to the distinction of being "the first to challenge openly in a Republican assembly Fr. O’Flanagan’s harmful attacks": he is assured of the entire credit for his simultaneous protection of the Papacy and the Public Mind. That, I think, was about the time of Father O’Flanagan’s first occupancy of the Presidency of Sinn Fein, of which he had been responsible and efficient Vice-President for many years. And he was re-elected twelve months later in spite of certain elements of opposition on the veiled plea that he had taken an official appointment. Subsequently, he and I were invited to participate in a Radio production of the inauguration of Dail Eireann. He Consented, and rendered himself liable to expulsion from the organisation, somewhat as has happened to notable personalities in kindred bodies. I declined. Had I agreed, and been expelled in consequence, I should not regard myself as the less a Republican on that account. Neither did Fr. O’Flanagan. He and I, although no longer active in Sinn Fein, attended important conferences of that body a short time before his death, and everyone knows how active and welcome he was some time previously on Dublin platforms demanding the release of Republican prisoners then fasting to the point of death. I must say it seems to me utterly unworthy of Brian O hUiginn to refer to the departed patriot as the "poor priest estranged for years from his priestly duties, wandering to and fro between Ireland and the United States like a lost soul, and attacking most wantonly on American platforms such faithful colleagues as Mary McSwiney and Austin Stack." As Austin and I returned from New York in 1922, Austin told me that Fr. O’Flanagan and he had a pretty sharp clash there while I was away to the Coast. Subsequently Miss McSwiney told me that she and Fr. O’Flanagan disagreed In New York also. I was publicly and politically associated with him for a full quarter of a century,—more intimately during our world tour—and I never once found occasion to clash with him: on the contrary, I always found him conciliatory and tractable, earnest withal, simple and Joyous almost as a happy child. After the launching of Fianna Fail when rumours were rife that some of our people commendably exerted themselves to minimise the effect of the split thus created, it was said he did refer in America to Miss Mc-Swiney as fairy godmother of the new departure, and I know she indignantly resented the suggestion. I do not believe that the wanton attacks from American platforms to which Brian O h-Uiginn refers ever went beyond that, and my sources of information there have at no time been negligible, while I am, I hope, As solicitous as anybody else for the good name of our departed comrades. Such rumours are invariably magnified in the carrying; and I know well how hostile propaganda represented Father O’Flanagan and myself as pro-Communist in Australia, even at home. What actual proof has Brian O hUiginn that Fr. O’Flanagan wantonly attacked his colleagues when he was in America as Sinn Fein envoy after the launching of Fianna Fall? for that was the only occasion on which it could have happened. Fr. O’Flanagan spent two subsequent holidays in the United States while "estranged from his priestly duties," as has been said, but not in the character of "a lost soul." Meanwhile he had celebrated Requiem Mass at his father’s obsequies in his native parish. Reaching San Francisco on the eve of a Church festival, he was asked by his host. Mgr. Rogers, who fully knew his position in Ireland, to celebrate High Mass in his pariah. Mgr. Rogers accompanied him back to Ireland; and as I happened to be amongst the first to meet them on their reaching Dublin, the distinguished Monsignor, Whose unfailing practice was ‘to get all requisites for his Church and hospitable presbytery from Ireland, told me with joy how delighted he and his flock were to have Fr. O’Flanagan as celebrant of that High Mass. I need not labour that aspect of the matter. He soon spent a second, and last, holiday in the United States mainly, I think, in connection with the deepsea goggles he had invented and a device to mitigate sea-sickness in which also he was long interested. With him on the second holiday was a Basque priest who previously had endeared himself to numbers of people here on the occasion of the Eucharistic Congress, and was, in fact, specially entertained at Sinn Fein headquarters. Before setting out on their voyage, Fr. O’Flanagan, I think, took him to Maynooth. The visitor still shared the Basque eagerness to shake off the Spanish yoke, as we have been eager to regard England’s difficulty as Ireland’s opportunity. On account of the Communist complexion of the new Republican Government in Spain —though its inauguration was loudly welcomed by leaders of the Free State Government here—the whispering gallery In America branded the two visiting priests as Communists, whereas the real Communists were fighting or intriguing against General Franco. Fr. O’Flanagan had the courage to spend a further holiday in Spain—probably on the invitation of the Basque priest-—to see things there with his own eyes. How anxious he was to study the Catholic position there, on account of what we were told by priests no well-informed as Dr Peter Magennis and Fr. John Condon, I know personally since our own casual visit there twenty years ago. I must not let myself be tempted into a discussion of the political relations between the Papacy and Ireland. From the lapse into heresy of Henry VIII until the practical usurpation of the English throne by King William—practically a period of a century and a half—successive Popes exhorted and armed-Ireland to wage war for the Faith against England. Outside of that, the Papal policy has another aspect: from the exploitation of the Bull of Pope Adrian IV down to the Papal attitude towards the Plan of Campaign in the days of Archbishop Croke and Archbishop Walsh and the well-known fate of Mgr. Persico. From my knowledge of Papal history, I am only too conscious that it is not a subject for newspaper controversy by the uninformed or the half-Informed, and from my long intimacy with Father O’Flanagan, I feel fully satisfied —regardless of prejudiced statements to the contrary—that, on the whole, he endeavoured when dealing with the subject to handle it with becoming restraint, although his feelings cannot have been sweetened by the treatment of Dr. Michael O’Hickey whom he met a good deal in Rome, or the reported attitude of Dr. Cattaneo, Papal Representative, towards our mission in Australia.
As my estimate of the lovable priest whom it is such a lasting happiness to have had as friend remains Unaltered, may I repeat,—for the information of those who may not have the opportunity to read the oration here under discussion—the passage enshrining the ties which will keep his memory among my mind’s choicest treasures:
I have shared his cabin in the great oceans of the world, and shared his ward and served his Mass in Britain’s dungeons at Botany Bay and Melbourne. No one living has heard him speak so often in the great cities of America and Australia and elsewhere; and I can solemnly say here at his open grave that I never heard one word fall from his lips that was not worthy of an Irish patriot priest.
Brian O hUiginn I feel sure will be among the first to realise that it is due to the memory of him whose lips are sealed forever to state
1. Why he was first censured instead of being upheld as the young priests of Limerick were?
2. Why he was first suspended, and why the suspension was removed?
3. Why he was again suspended; and when, why, and by whom the suspension was removed? Candid answers to these questions will remove whatever prejudice may yet remain against the outstanding priest who, with good warrant, held his head high while he freely gave his all for Mother Ireland and human liberty. Whether answered or not. I believe his constancy will bear fruit, and that it will be long again before an Irish priest, young or old, is so inconsiderately treated.
J. J. O’KELLY.
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