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FAMOUS NAMES 
 
 -IN 
 
 IRISH HISTORY! 
 
 BY THE REV. 
 
 FATHER BURKE. 
 
 LECTURE DELIVERED IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. 
 
 (From the Western Watchman.) 
 
 The following eloquent Lecture was Jelevered by the Rev. Father 
 Burke, in Weisiger Hall, LouisvUle, Kentucky, previous to his departure 
 
 for Europe : — 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen,— The su1)jec6 on which I propose to address 
 you this evening is the Famous Names in Ireland's History. But first of 
 all let me remind you that next to their Religion the Irish are a people 
 who are supposed to love their history. A history is the recall of a nation's 
 life, and it is in their history that we find all the elements that form the 
 national character. It is in the history that the blessings and future des- 
 tinies of nations are found, and next to the grace of belonging to tlie true 
 religion of Christ, CDmes the glory and pride which must fill the heart of 
 every true man when he goes back and turns over the annals of his country's 
 history, and finds those pages unstained and unspotted by treachery, trea- 
 son or crime. (Applause.) 
 
 The history which he sees may be a recall of national misfortune, but 
 yet free from the taint of national dishonor France to-day is unfortunate, 
 but what man on the face of the earth will have the haidihood to say that 
 France is dishonered, and in the recall of the recent gigantic struggles. 
 in ycur own country, are not friend and foe unanimous in declaring that 
 
FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISH HISTORY. 
 
 the brave of the South, although they were obliged to yield, yielded with- 
 out dishonor? (Applause.) 
 
 My friends, though it is the history of the land from which I come, its 
 pages are written in the tears, and blood and suftering, and also the honoi 
 of a heroic people. (Applause.) 
 
 The man and child of Erin may weep over the recall of its national 
 history. Yes, he may weep, but while bitter tears may fall from his eyes, 
 no blush can come to his face, for there is no taint to his honor there. 
 
 Now, my friends, before I bring fwth the subject of my lecture to 
 your notice, I wish to say one word which will, perhaps, surj^rise some of 
 you; and yet you will admire its truth after a moments reflection. 
 Nothing is more common than for men in our day to imagine that there 
 is some necessary antipathy between the English and the Irish. They say, 
 for instance, put an Englishman and an Irishman into a room and they 
 will fight. (Laughter.) In New York, when Froude came, my friends 
 came to me and said: "Did you see that an Englishman has come over?" 
 evidently expecting that I would immediately respond, "Where is he 'till 
 I fight him." (Laughter.) 
 
 NO HATRED BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. 
 
 Now, my friends, that is fallacious. It is not true. 'TTiere is no 
 inherent antagonism between Englishmen and Irishmen. Generally 
 speaking, intercourse between them makes them good fi-iends. I have 
 known it by experience; I have known it in a thousand cases. Tlie fact 
 and truth of it is, that it is not antipathy of race that causes this separa- 
 tion between the English people and the Irish people, bui it is a well 
 remembered series of the most atrocious injuries inflicted u[K)n the Insh 
 people on the one hand, and a ten'ible reparation of religious ojjinions 
 which exists oil the other. It is a remakable fact in our history, my 
 friends, that we never gained one gi-eat decided victory over the English 
 until they changed their faith and ceased to be Catholic. I don't want to 
 narrow any national question down to a mere i-eligious foundation, but we 
 have before ua the historic fact, that until tvvo liundred years ago, when 
 England became Protestant, while Ireland remained Catholic, the Irish 
 nation had not gained a single decisive victory over the English people 
 while from that time we have to recall the most signal victories gained by 
 Ireland. (Applause.) 
 
FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISH HISTORY. 
 
 I remember speaking to a beggar man in Oalway on this subject — the 
 fellow had not a six-pence worth of clothes on him, yet he was a man well 
 up in the history of Ireland. Says he : •* As long as they had the sign of 
 the cross on them we didn't know how to strike them properly. 
 (Applause). My friends, you have all read and studied the history of 
 Ireland, and it is a history that comes very near home to many among 
 you. 
 
 INVASION OF THE NORMANS. 
 
 The Nonnans invaded Ireland at the close of the twelfth century. 
 They found Ireland broken up and divided after the death of the 
 heroic Conn. O'Brien, but not broken in courage. Notwithstanding this, 
 they were unable to take possession of Ireland. These divisions among 
 themselves continued during the reign of the Plantagen'^t Kings — dui-ing 
 the reign of the Edwards down to the time of Henry VII., more than 
 four hundred years. The battle was fought on every field in Ireland, but 
 the ancient courage of the race remained, and though divided, the grand 
 soul of the cau.se was holy enough and the love of the people was strong 
 enough to make every Irishman come forth and strike a blow and bleed 
 and die for his native land. (Applause.) 
 
 But it was only in the sixteenth century — three hundred years ago 
 — that the contest between the two nations assumed the great proportions 
 of a national war. Henry VIII. called upon Ireland, not only to resign 
 the idea that she was a nation, but he called upon her to abjure her 
 allegiance to the religion which she had received from St. Patrick. The 
 sword which had never been sheathed for three hundred years was once 
 more raised, and the nation swoi-e that two things should never perish, 
 viz. : that they were a nation and a Catholic people. (Applause.) 
 
 Then the clans that were so separated again united. Nay, more, 
 foremost in tlie national contest appeared a people who never l)efore had 
 fought for Ireland's gloiy, namely, the ancient Normans who came ovei' 
 with Strongbow. 
 
 I wish to speak kindly of the Eitzgeralds, because, as Mr. Froude 
 reminds me, I have a drop of their blood in my veins. Their brothers in 
 England had become Protestants, but they had stayed in Ireland and 
 mixed themselves up with the Irish peo|:le, and then, like men they 
 threw their sword into the cause of Ireland because the cause of Ireland 
 

 
 FAMOUS XAMliS IX I JUS II HISTORY. 
 
 Vm'c:uiio th(! canst! of tin; (!iitlinlic (Iliiirch. TIioikmj »iinon«' tlie iiiuncs illiiH- 
 trioiis ill li-isli liistory of nica ulio stooil fortiuiont in tlm ranks of tlie 
 nutioii, and lioldiii^' tin,' vciy iii-st pluoi! was <T(!ni]il Fitz^'ciaKl, who, 
 thon;^'Ii Jiot an Irishman l>y fhiscent, was an Jrisluniui by l)irtli, and 
 foii<^ht jtv'ainst Hnnry VIJT. in tlic cause of Irc^hmd's fr<!eiloui and Ireland's 
 faith. No.jrly tht; whole of LHinsti.T was %va-;tud with fin; and sword, tlie 
 clans w(MN! put down, and th'Mi tho groat treaty of j)eacp! held on until fo\ir 
 years later wiion another man came to the front -»^a name niton which 1 
 love to rest— a man who has l)e(;n aUused and calumniated by Eni^lish 
 wi'iters — even l)y tin; latest of those writers — a man who came over hei-o 
 to try to persuade the American i).^ople that the Irish were tlie most God 
 abandoned {)eo[)le \\]w\\ the face of the earth. (Ap})lause.) I hope that 
 the next niissit^n he nn<lntak(!s will be a greater success than his present 
 mission was to America. (A])plaiiac.) 
 
 THE SECiJND FAMOUS NAME. 
 
 The man of whom I speak was th(j cM'Jebratod >Shaun O'Neill. He 
 was called Shaim the Proud. 
 
 Now, my friends, I need not rojuind you that among the descendants 
 of ancient Milesias, the lii'st of our bravest and best was the House of 
 O'Neill of Alston. In iri.")l (Jonn O'Neill went to Eiigland and was 
 ereat(Ml Earl of Tyrone by Henry VIII. Ood bless tho mark. When 
 he came home to Ireland after haviu;.; paid homage to the Jilriglish 
 monarch, th(! very tirst question askeil by his people wus : 
 
 " Who gave you leave to do that ! You are an Irish King. Yon 
 are equal to any English monarch. You are of a far moi-e noble and 
 ancient family, who have never disgraced their name. What on earth 
 brought you to resign your sovereignty, and bai-ter away the honor and 
 freedom of the Irish people 1" He w'as not able to give a satisfactory 
 answer. His son stepped out from the i-;inks and drew his ancient 
 sword in the name of Ireland, and in the name of the Catholic religion ; 
 and the very first ot the great heroes that stand forth conspicuously in 
 tlin history of Ireland's struggle with the treacherous and tjnrannica) 
 King, is the name of Shaun O'Neill. (A})plause.) 
 
 They tried to purchase him, but they found Phigland had not gold 
 enough to corrupt that true-hearted man, and for fifteen years he fought 
 the whole army of England and asserted his sovereignty for ten years 
 
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FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISII tllSTOIlY. 
 
 a^Miiist Queen Eliziilx'th. I gi-ant you tliut lie was no saint. I have no 
 Hympathy witli the inuu'H personal character at all. He wa.s one of the 
 mo.st atrociouH dianictcrs for inunoraiity that Irish liistory furnishes, hnt 
 Ntill English writers confes.s it of him that whenever the Catholic religion 
 or the name of Ireland wius insulted, he drew his sword like aniuii. How 
 did he die 1 ft is the history of the greater ])ai't of Ireland's h<no(!s. 
 There was an English gentleinan sent over hy yueen Elizabeth, named 
 (Japtain Pierce, and ho drew the brave Irishman in among a nuuil)er of 
 his men. Tliey were afraid of liini. They gathered around him and said 
 some ins\dting things of Ireland and Ireland's faith. The old man drew 
 his sword on the spot, and fell pierced hy a thousand wounds to plead tho 
 justice of his cause before the tribunal of God. 
 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
 While Shaun O'Neill was thus combatting for Ireland thc;re was a 
 little b(jy being reared in the Court of Queen Elizabeth, a ne])hcw of Shaun's, 
 called Hiigh O'Neill, a mild and inoffensive youth, apparently not pos- 
 Bes:nng much genius. lie conformed to England's institutions in e.very- 
 thing while in England excejjt pretending to be a Protestant — that ho 
 never would do. In Queen Elizabeth's presence he made the sign of the 
 cross as broad as his shouIdei"s would liear him. He used to give the old 
 Queen " fits," as you say in this country. (Laughter.) Queen Eliziiln^th 
 was no lover of the cross ; she never liked to shg it, and I don'*; think she 
 will ever be very much troubled by the signs of it again. (Apjjlauae and 
 laughter.) The young man was destined as a tool when he came over to 
 Ireland. He was intended to be used as a kind of instrument toward the 
 suppression of the mighty clan of O'Neill. How little they knew. Tlie 
 young man had formed the dete rmination to strike the blow every day of 
 his life for the land of his fathers. He landed in Leinster, and the 
 English Ambassridor ■?¥ rio accompanied him saluted him as Earl of Tyrone. 
 He reached the place where the ancient family of O'Neill were accustomed 
 to be crowned. While all hearts around him were indignant to think 
 that the last son of their royal house should be brought in by the sokUers 
 of England, as he stood on that spot he drew his sword, and turning to 
 those who had accompanied him said, " Now salute me." Tliey gave their 
 "All hail, Earl of Tyrone," Suddenly the face which had heretofore l)eeii 
 so gentle lighted up, and, raising his arm, he turned to the astonished 
 Englishman and cried, " I stand upon my native eaitb, and icy only title 
 is that of O'Neill." (Applause.) 
 
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 FROM THAT DAV, 
 
 for twolvo lon^ yoims tho hravo IrLsliiuaii stood when) liis uncle was 
 ftcoustoin(Ml to stiind — ri^'ht in tho midst of tho buttle with tho IIhjl; of 
 In^laiid and of the erosH floatiiifj; over his liead, a true man and a true 
 Catholic. For twidvn years he braved the whole power of Kugland and 
 0(;cu|)i(!d Ulster, a king against all the troops Queen Elizabeth could send 
 against him. How did he die I The same old story. When he was a 
 broken hearted old man they got up a sham consj)iracy against him, and 
 he was obliged to lly from Ireland — fly from tho land for which he had 
 fought and bled the best years of his life. But the tradition died not with 
 Hugh O'Neill. It lived as it lives to-day. Hugh O'Neill died in Rouk- a 
 penitent man. Queen Elizabeth died at Hamilton Court an impenitent 
 woman. She longed to see Hugh O'Neill, but she dieil without having 
 Been him, and I verily believe she never wiU see him. (Laughter.) 
 
 CHARLES I. CAME TO THE THRONE, 
 
 and the next great name in Irish history came fourth, shining like a star 
 illuminated in gold upon an ancient choii"-book — the name of another 
 C)'Neill — Owen O'Neill. In the year IG42, when Charhis was in the midst 
 of his troubles with lii.s Parliament, the Catholics of Ireland ro.se. They 
 had been opjo'cssed for more than a century, but tliey had no great hatred 
 of the English as a people. Tliey had been punisheil with the most dread- 
 ful i)enalties for the faithful adherence to the religion of their fathers, but 
 they still remained true. At that time Owen O'Neill was at the liead of 
 the greatest army in tho world— the Spanish Infantry — and he was 
 acknowledged to be the tirst General of his time. When he found that 
 liis brothers had risen, he flew to the aid of Ireland. He arrived iu 
 Ireland in 1643 or 1044, rallied the clan of O'Neill, of Alston, and when 
 the English army appeared before him his force footed up to twenty 
 thousand niv^n. The two armies met upon the Blackwater one bright 
 summer's morning, and wlien the evening came not a single flag of the 
 English array was left upon the field, nor a single soldier left to uphold it. 
 (Applause.) How did he die. The old story, 
 
 In 1649 a scourge of God canie to IreUnd in the shape of Oliver 
 Cromwell. At the head of the English army Cromwell was afraid of the 
 Irish genei'al. Advancing upon his march to the town of Londonderry, 
 from there he sent a message to the camp of O'Neill and poisoned him. 
 
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 FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISH HISTORY. 
 
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 OLIVER CROMWELL FOLLOWED QUEEN ELIZABETH, 
 
 and whore sho is, iii all probability, he Ih keeping hor company. Don't be 
 ambitious, my friends, of going where they are. I believe that any man , 
 who wished to sup with them this evening should provide himself with a 
 very long spoon. (Laughter and applause.) ' 
 
 James the II was a Catholic, but no sooner was he made King than 
 the English people began to rebel against him for being a Catholic. I 
 regret religious animosity as much as any man. I don't believe that I 
 have any of it myself, but cei-tain it is that in that day the English people 
 were bitterly opposed to having any one govern them and be their King 
 who was a Catholic. James came to Ireland, and, though the Irish people 
 were unwilling to light for him aa an English King, they were willing to 
 fight for any man who was persecuted for his religion, and they rose in 
 defence of their monarch. — And here comes the next great name upon the 
 record of Irish history — the name of the illustrious and immortal Sarsficld 
 the bravest man of his time — the bravest officer in that age of brave men. 
 He fought through all the campaigns in Ireland until at length, iu 1G92 
 he, with a handful of about twenty thousand men — which was but a 
 handful considering the army against, for William of Orange at the battle 
 of the Boyne had eighty thousand men on the field — was obliged to 
 surrender, and the terms of the Treaty of Limerick were signed. 
 
 BY THAT TREATY THE CATHOLICS 
 
 of Ireland were guaranteed a certain amount of religious liberty. They 
 were guaranteed full commercial liberty. They were guaranteed their 
 rights as citizens ! Sarsfield was present at the signing, but no sooner had 
 he left the country than all the provisions of that solemn Treaty were 
 violated by the victors. The Catholics were more oppressed and the 
 commercial interests of Ireland — the woollen and linen trade — were 
 destroyed. 
 
 In the meantime Sarsfield had betaken himself to the fields of France, 
 and there upon the field of honor, danger and glory, he and his Irishmen 
 still maintained Ii'eland's ancient fame for undaunted courage and 
 grandeur in the field. He had his revenge a few years later fighting in 
 the armies of France. He met in the field W illiam of Orange, King of 
 England, and right glad was the Irish General to meet him. They fought 
 until at length the army of the English King was routed and sent 
 flying ovor the field, and the brave Irish General had the opportunity of 
 
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 FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISH IJ I STORY. 
 
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 eeoing before him, in full flight, the broad back of his English foe ; but as 
 he was about to close with his flying enemy, a stray shot pierced his heart 
 and he fell covered with glory. As he fell, he raised his hands, all bloody 
 from the wounds which he had received, to heaven, and cried, " Ah, God ! 
 If this blood had only been shed for Ireland," and expired. Sarsfield 
 died, but the thirty thousand brave Irishmen in the service of France 
 were constantly kept recruited, forming 
 
 THE FAMOUS IRISH BRIGADE, '' 
 
 which; far away from their native land, was animated by the love of their 
 religion and the land that bore them. The charge of the Irish Brigade at 
 at Fonteroy and their destruction has been immortalized by the Stirling 
 verse of Ireland's poet, and will never be forgotten. • m: , 
 
 This brave brigade passed away, but the spirii. tJiat animated it lived 
 on. It was revived in the brave and gallant Gratton, but ha went down, 
 broken-hearted to his grave over the detestable action of the British Gov- 
 ernment. But the spirit still lived on, and lived in the illustrious Irish 
 hero, Daniel O'Connell. 
 
 But alas! it seemed to be the portion of every great Irishman to die 
 a broken-hearted man, and it may be said that they failed ; but the great 
 principle by which they were animated, and which led them on to deeds of 
 valor and glory, did not fail and it never will fail. That spirit has acheived 
 the greatest triumph of the nineteenth century, not in war, but in one of 
 the greatest peaceful and moral victories — the disestablishment of that 
 stain on Ireland, the Protestant Establishment. The spirit of faith that 
 animated these noble heroes, whose names have been mentioned, still lives 
 on and must ever live on, and that spirit is the principle of Ireland's 
 Catholicity and a national patriot love of the land. An Engliali gentle- 
 man in New York the other day acknowledged tliat Ireland was the only 
 nation where faith and nationality go together, inseparably together, and 
 and tliat whei-ever the national standard is uplifted, there, side by side 
 with it, is to be seen the cross of Christ. Men may die, but this principle 
 
 never dies. . , , , 
 
 IRELAND'S PRESENT WANT. ' '"' ' ' ' ' 
 
 But it may be asked, what are the Irish people complaining of now? 
 Catholics are emancipated. They were grumbling about the Protestant 
 church, but that establishment has ceased to oppress. It is asked what 
 right the people of Ireland have to complain now ? There are many things 
 
FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISH HISTORY 
 
 11 
 
 iicl. 
 
 of which they have to complain. The people have grounds of complaint to 
 make of a serious nature of England. They are of a more substantial 
 character than those qf the old woman who was always complaining aa 
 the story goes. When an Irish Priest went to her she said she didn't have 
 any turf to keep her fire. He sent her some turf, but she still grumbled 
 and said she wanted planks. He gave her planks, but still she grumbled 
 and said she would like to have a little bacon. He sent her the bacon 
 but still sho grumbled. The Priest told her to think how good God had 
 been to her to furnish her all these things. 
 
 She said, "O yes, God has been gobd to me, but you know it has all 
 been taken away by the Corn Law." (Laughter and applause.) But 
 teland has some real cause for complaint. The speaker said he was an 
 Irishman, and all belonging to him had been Irish for seven hundred years 
 — since the Normans came — biit that he was in America now and was 
 residing here. If he should go home to his native land, the first man he 
 met could inform the authorities of his arrival, and he could be transported 
 for being a Friar. There the law stands in black and white. Is that 
 nothing to complain of ? 
 
 A wealthy man of Cork, by his last will, left three or four hundred 
 pounds to the Dominican Friars, but the authorities came in and said they 
 should not have it. But if one of these Friars commit a crime they 
 recognize his existence at once. The English Govei-nment founded 
 four Queen's Colleges in Catholic Ireland. In all of these Colleges the 
 name of God was not to be mentioned ; and yet Catholics are expected to 
 send their children to those schools. The Catholics established a 
 University there, and secured the first professors of Europe, but the 
 English Government will not so much as recognize its existence. They 
 will have their national schools there, but they will not allow a word o 
 Irish xo ^o spoken in those. 
 
 It is not to be denied that the ^National Schools have been a great 
 blessing to Ireland, because education is a great blessing to any country. 
 The future of Ireland and the future of every nation depends mainly upon 
 education. ( A pplause. ) 
 
 But where are the laws governing Ireland made t Are they made in 
 Dublin? No, they are made in London, and what do the people of Lon- 
 don know about the wants of Ireland? If a bill were brought into Parlia- 
 ment for the improvement of Galway Bay what would be said of it? It 
 
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 FAMOUS NAMES IN IRISH HISTORY. 
 
 would be spurned as one of those Irish questions, one of those things 
 which ai-e always coming up, and would receive no consideration. These 
 things will continue, and Ireland has the right to complain, and will never 
 be satisfied, until England acknowledges her as a nation — until she has 
 independence, and will consent to be united with England as one nation 
 consents to unite with another. A province of England she has never 
 been and is not to-day and will never be. (Applause.) 
 
 But the realization of this glorious dream of independence and the 
 right of Ireland to make her own laws and legislate for herself, depends 
 upon Irishmen at home and abroad. Let no Irishman be ashamed of his 
 name, his religion or his country. (Applause). Irish names are amongst 
 the most high-sounding in the history of the world. 
 
 In France, and Spain and Austria, and in all the European nations 
 names of Irishmen are graven in letters of gold. Don't be ashamed of 
 your name or religion. Your religion is the one unifying, ennobling and 
 sanctifying principle that brought you into this foreign land. Let no 
 man be ashamed of the land that gave them birth, and let not his children 
 be ashamed. There is no nation in the world to-day that has a nobler 
 record of heroism, honor, truth and fidelity to God and humanity than our 
 native land, Ireland. (Applause.) 
 
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