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t Parsrcx FIELD, N. Y.-Field is an English name;but. if We

 

-. mistake not, it does not belong to you by any right of English

_ in Westcarbery. County Cork, and also in West Barriroe, in the ‘

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descent. The O’Fihellies, an ancient clan in the west of the
county of Cork, are in the habit of usurping it in sP°akl“$ °1'
writing English. The territory of O’Fihelly (in Irish, 0’Fzqba’.
ollal was in Corca Luighe. We find them seated near Baltimore,

same county.

They are of the Ithian race. of the same stock as
the 0’D1-lscolls, 0

Learies, 0’Cowghigs, &c., who are desig-

. noted Ithians, Lugadians and Brigantes, or “Clanna Breog-

. O’Flhelly,

hain.” Two of this race were distinguished writers—Donal
born at Cork, in the 15th century, and mentioned by
Ware, as having studied at Oxford, and as having written the
‘annals of Ireland in his native language. Maurice O-’Fihelly,

styled Mauritius de Portu, a native of Baltimore, the ancient

._ seat of his family. He became a Franciscan Friar, and was for a
-. long time lecturer in the University Padua. He was celebrated

as one of the most learned men or the 15th and 16th centuries,
and, for his great endowments, was styled Flor Mandi, or the

. “ Flower of the World.” Being greatly esteemed by Pope Julius
. II., he was made Archbishop of Tuam in 1506. He attended the
' Council of Latern in 1515, and died on his return to Ireland in
. 1516. He was buried in the Franciscan monastery in Galway.
_ By assuming the ‘name of “Field” the O’Fihellies confound

themselves with an English family, some of whom obtained set-

- tlementsin Cork at a recent period.

I. MCBRIDE, Albany.—Ma.cBride in Irish 0Maoil~Brig1rde,

' more closely angelicized, “O’Mulbride,” was the name of a sept

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whose possessions lay east of the river Suck, in the baron of
Athlone and county of Roscommon. Their territory was ca led
Magh Finn, or the “Fair Plain,” and Bredach. O’Dugan thus

V notices their chieftain:

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“Lord of the goodly Magh Finn
To which Brighid has left her blessing-—
Alwa s free are the warlike bands
Of 0 ulbride, _the ever brave.
Good he confers upon all men,
This noble chief of Bredach.”

Hues 0’FALLON.-—The original territory of the O‘Fallons lay
in the county of West-meath. and near Athlone. It was called
Crioch na g-Cedach, from Olild Cedach, son of Cathaeir Mor.
Theywere afterwards driven across the Shannon, and settled in
the barony of Athlone, county of Roscommon. They there
gave chiefs to Clann Uadach, a district comprising the present

- pprishes of Cam and Dysart. They had a castle at Miltown.

.) O’Dugau, Chief historian to the

here" they are placed by Seaghan 0’Dubhvgain, or “John
’Kellies, Princes of Ui Mani,
who died in 1372. 0’Fallamharin, now " O’Fallon,” is noticed

- Iguhlm in his pietrical topography in lines that may be rendered
- — s: ‘

 Cleenish, in the baronyeof Clanawle
- which district they I

“The O'Fallons march with every hosting,

Chiefs of Clann Uadach of Wine banquets,

Men who allow no met to gnaw

The lances of their clansmen free.”
Pun. Coiroonm.--The O’Corcorans were anciently chiefs of
and county of Fermanagh,
Id conjoint y with the O’Keenans as
feudatories of the Maguires, Princes Fermanagh, of whose they
apparently formed a sept. Maccorcoran, or O’Corcoran, was
also the name of another clan apparently of a different stock,
being descended from Kian, son of Olild Olum, which was
seated in the barony of Lower Ormond, in North Tipperary.
O h-Uidhriu mentions them thus: '

“Clann Ruaine, offlowery lanes,

A pleasing district of narrow streams,

The po ulous country of MacCorcoran,

Of the and where fair-haired warriors dwell.”

Another O’Corcoran is named as one <1 the chiefs of the Mus-
craid, he descended from Carbri Musg.

WM. H. SHF.PBlRD.—-HIS friends will learn with pleasure that
this worthy Irishman, with his family, has arrived in safety in
Thidlas, California. His late comrades of the Fenian Bro-
therhood in Cincinnati will hear it with especial satisfaction.

No'rIol.—We would feel obliged to any of our subscribers if

would return to this omce copies of No. 11, second volume
of the B-E(ENlX.’| Q ~

Brennan LI:.urr.—Your letter was received too late for pub-

. lation this week. It shall appear in our next issue.

Ms. J. Coon, P. M., Chicago, Ill., notifies us that the Pnasmx,
addressed Mr. Reily, care of R. M. Burke, is not called for.

. Will Mr. Burke advise us how to address the paper in future?

write it aseven years’ famine.

. army

TIMOTHY DINAN. North West corner of 24th and Locust
streets, Philadelphia, Penn., does not call at the Post Oiiice for
his paper.

The Ceunaught Pair,-‘at, which is the organ of the Archbishop
of Turn, and edited by Martin ‘A. O’Brennan, has the following
spicy pitch in to John Reynolds: “The Tipperary Advocate, ever
true tonational principles— deals out a. very just and seasonable
rebuke to Mr. John Reynolds for his cant ond lip-loyalty at the
Great Dublin Meeting. We are proud of the Advocate. Reynolds
said unless ‘loyalty to the Saxon was exhibited at the meeting
he would not be found in it.’ What a loss that would be! His
presence (I) will save his Holiness. What John Reynolds of
1860 said, was acted by his ancestor ‘Jack Reynolds,’ in the
days of Queen Bess—of whom, because of his great figure, he
was a great favorite. Away with such follows in these days.
Our meetings should not be disgraced by the presence of parties
who are fawning sycophants; they stand in the way of Ireland’s
redemption. Who talks of loyalty in the way he did, has, it is
to be feared, no loyalty for creed and country.”

PAPLL DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRELAND.- John Mitchell Writes
thus to the Irish News. in reference to those demonstrations:

The meetin in Ireland, to sympathize with the Pope, con-
tinue, and the act important one was in Dublin. But our coun-

men in America will surely disrelish the new feature which
characterizes these meetings—a demonstrative loyalty towards

' the Queen of England. Indeed, Archbishop Cullen declares

that although intimations of a desire to see a French army
landed on Irish shores, may have been now and then given by
“waggish youths,” to humbug the English as it were, yet that

‘_ the body of the people is loyal; and, moreover, he protests that
‘ rather than see a “foreign army” on Irish ground, he, Arch-

bishop Cullen, for his part, would prefer—I am ashamed to
Well, this is indeed the other

alternative. Either British dominion in Ireland will be struck

" I down by French force, or the Bishop will see (what he prefers)

another famine; and if he lives long, a succession of other fam-
ines. Just so long as Ireland shall be ruled by the British Em-
pire, her population when it grows too large for the interests of
the “Empire” will be thinned oil’ by famine. So long as Ireland
does-not belong to herself, the hunger shall waste her, and the

I pestilence shall wear and wither her; and the Bishop shall have

is heart’s desire.

But it is singular that Dr. Cullen, while he feels such a horror
of a foreign army in Ireland, has no objection at all to a foreign
being poured into the Romagna to compel the people of
that country, with bayonets at their throats, to submit to a

overnment they have thrown off. I should nc te a certain
fiiconsisteney in this, if it were a layman who had spoken; but
as it is an Archbishop, I hold my peace. J. M.

A Crrxzcx or run Umrsn Srarns LN PENAL Snnvrruns.—A

‘ citizen of the United States who paid a visit to Ireland was ar-
’ rested in Mullin ar by the police spies of England and tried at
' the Assizes of t at townin the year 1859, on a. trumped up
' charge of being a member of an illegal secret society. The

only shadowof evidence adduced on the trial was a document
found on his person, or in his trunk, which a hired informer of

A the British government swore to be the pass words of a secret

society called Ribbonmen. On this questionable and ineliicient
evidence a jury, packed by the government, found him guilty
ind he was accordin ly sentenced to seven years penal servi-

' tnde, and is now int e hands of the British Philistines. Should

these lines meet the eye of any friend or acquaintance of Mr.
Fallon, we request that they will communicate to this Oiiice
any particulars connected with him, how long he resided in this
country, &c._ The American government is bound to msist upon
a thorough sifting of this outrageous case,1n order that the lib-
ex-ty of’ an American citizen may not be thus filched from him

.TI,—IE'-PIICENII-Ii.

py Rho perjured emissaries and mercenary “detectives” of Eng-
an .

Parnrcx McKs:owN, Covington,
answered next week.

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comrades. Mr. 0’Mahony will address you in our next number.

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NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF THE PHGNIX BRIGADE.

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the State, are hereby required to makeweekly returns to the
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A FEW WORDS OF 0'0~UNSEL.
“The patient dint and powder shock
Will blast an empire, like a. rock.”—DAvIs.

Bnornnss l The year 1860 is advancing apace,
you may, perhaps, feel ohagrined, that the develops‘
ment of your cherished hopes, seems not advancing in
the same ratio. , You may be disappointed too, that
the startling incidents, following so close on one
another in Europe, do not disclose a state of facts
more favorable to your purposes. Be prudent ; be
steady ; be fearless. Your means are in your own
hands, your true resource is in your own hearts. Be
not, in the least, swayed, by any combinations
among the “powers” of Europe. They did not in-
spire our hope, they did not create our obligations,
they are not the source of our undertaking, or our
pledge of fidelity to one another. Our resources are,
trust in one another, in justice, and in God. If ever
we lose sight of the palpable truth, that the contest
we have embraced, is to be waged by us alone, and
with our single strength; we become the fools of
chance, incapable of appreciating, much less win-
ning, or guarding liberty.‘

But in saying this we do not by any means, desire
that chances should not be narrowly watched and
taken advantage of, if sufliciently favorable.

We must Watch events ; but only to master
them, and not to be guided by them. Whenever we
can strike a. home blow at the arch enemy of man-
kind, we create everywhere agencies and instru-
ments subordinate to our ends. At present we own
nothing among men, but pity. When we act, that
pity will become active sympathy, when we succeed,
enthusiasm. Let us but stand stoutly up to our busi-

ness, and the chivalry of the world will become, as

it were incarnate, of our hopes. One successful

effort gives us allies in every nation in the world; it _

begins a new history for us; it imparts vitality even
to the dead blank of the past
But, brothers I until we do act, the assurances of

the encouragement, sympathy and support of our

fellow-men, are to us as a sealed fountain from
which we may never, never expect to drink.—-
Not alone is it for us to begin; but it is for our-
selves alone to determine the time. We must either
make (iur opportunity, or be prepared to avail our-
selves of any that presents itself; measure
our. destined task, allot its parts, harmonise
its agencies. All this requires patience, thought
and toil. It requires for each man even thought and
time and toil. _Be patient then ; be zealous; be
hopeful; depend upon yourselves and yourselves
alone. ‘

Be indifferent even to the uprising of other people
_xcept you watch them to imitate their courage.

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Brothers, we are alone in the world. No other
nation of men is in the same position as we are.
Austrian Italy and Hungary, and Poland, have a
common interest, and have been subjected to a com-
mon doom. We havc been enthralled; but not con-
quered. Our subjection is neither the result of con.
quest, nor treaty, nor agreement of any kind, express
or implied. Our rights, our liberties, and our pro-
perties have been filchecl from us, and those, who
have juggled them away, stand to us in the relation

‘of thimble riggors, outtalking their victims before

the crowd. _
We are alone in the world in many other respects.

We base our rights on no combinations, no theories,
no adjustments or reforms, no change or modification,
either of religion or politics. We invoke no foreign
enthusiasm, pray in aid no novelty-—1ook only to
two things—the justice of our cause and the ade-
quacy of our strength-—-the first undoubted, the last
possible; but possible only to patience, perseve-
rance and unwavering resolution. This patience,
perseverance and resolution we shall look for, in our
brothers: we implore them, we enjoin them. They
are the holiest duties of the hour. Practice them,
enforce them; strain your heart to their require-
ments; such training will nerve it fordanger, test
it for trial, and temper it for SUCCESS-

It is not at all necessary that you should be in-
different to the triumph of a good cause wherever
courage and integrity assert it. To feel sympathy
with such a cause, belongs to the first and noblest
instincts of our nature. In vain would policy or
interest, or even necessity, -preach them down.
They will assert their own controlling pre-eminence
in face of all obstacles. But it is not against such
sympathy we warn you; and we sincerely hope
the day is not far distant, when the emancipated
nations will proclaim, as the first great law, the
brotherhood of the people. We only desire that
you should avoid all complications, should form
none, should rely on none. Your cause is totally
different from the Italian’s, the Hungaria.n’s, and the
Pole’s. A

Work, oh brothers! work for yOurselves——work
incessantly, patiently, and silently. Take no heed
of clamor, cease to trouble yourselves about “public
opinion”—-you know what it has done for you and
your own is formed. Abate not'one jot of your
resolution, whether the French army is en route for
Vienna or bivouacing in Regent’s Park. It is all
the same to you

“Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not,

Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?”
Nay, others’ success would be but a mockery of
your impotence and slavery, unless you be ade-
quately prepared, to act for yourselves. 4

Strive on then! You need more combination
among yourselves, a. closer union, stronger trust,
extension, unity of direction, and, with and among
yourselves, words of confidence, encouragement and
cheer. There is not one of you who cannot do
more than he has yet done. He can bring into the
combination one other brother, or help one, already
in. He can speak to all words of cheer, concilia-
tion, and encouragement, claim no selfish position,
purify himself for the last great sacrifice, by erasing
from his heart every sordid thought. Every step
in this direction is a. great advantage gained. One
thousand men of this stamp, disciplined as we have
suggested, bound together by such ties, inspired
by duty, vengeance and hope, wou1d- (other things
being equal,) be an ovcrmatch for tenthousand;
and Ireland, that scorn of the nations, could with
freedom, self-government, and a. little time, send
into the field not a thousand, but a. hundred thou-
sand such. To fit her to accomplish this, to hold up
to her the example, and in doing so, to strike the
first fetter from her limbs,Ais the task to which we

and you have devoted ourselves, the vow which no
chance or change, or circumstance of good or ill,
can prevent us, if we be men, from fulfilling.

TO THE SMALL TENANT FARMERS AND THE
BIG TENANT FARMERS, THE TRADESME-N,
MECHANICS AND LABORERS OF IRELAND-—
THE REAL OWNERS OF THE IRISH SOIL.

FIFTH AVENUE Hornn,
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 1860.

BELOVED FELLOW COUNTRYMENI-——Pel'mli3 me to
state, by way of reply to those vile English jour-
nals who charge me with seditious and treasonable
practices, that I am loyal to the queen—'rHn QUEEN
or WEAPONS, the fine old Irish pike, around which
our ancestors bravely rallied in times of great pub-
lic peril. To her I have always rendered a willing
allegiance, because her Majesty, when properly ap-
pealed to by her devoted subjects, was ever eager
to redress their grievances and confound their
enemies—-long may she reign. That queen is the
only monarch that I know who has any claim upon
the gratitude oriattachment of the Irish people. She of
Hanover, who is subjected to such frequent eulogium
for all those domestic virtues which Windsor Castle
and Buckingham Palace must certainly have a. mo-

W . — r

nopoly of, has no claim to your fealty or mine. She‘
is not the Sovereign of Ireland. "She may be Queen-
of England and Scotland and Wales, since they have
acknowledged her sovereignty and atorned to the-
sway of British monarchs; but neither she nor any
of her ancestors, from whom she inherits her royal’
title, ever derived their authority from the Irish.
people, or were ever acknowledged by them as the
de jure rulers of Ireland. That she is the ole facto-
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, appoints all the high functionaries and ad-
ministrators of the law, keeps a foreign army of
Occupation in the country, levies enormous taxes,
maintains a monstrous alien church esta.b‘lishment,.
supports and protects a vile aristocracy who plun-
der and exterminate the people, and has sworn that
the religion of two-thirds the Irish people is damna-
ble and idolatrous, cannot be well denied. However,
there is no rightful queen or king reigning over Ireland‘
at present. . The throne has been vacant for nearly‘
seven centuries, and the royal sceptre has, therefore,.
long since passed to the people, who have not yet sur-
rendered it to any foreign usurper. When you hear

the-health of “Our Army and Navy” toasted at pub?

lic banquets, bear in mind that you have neither
army nor ‘navy; that the business of the foreign
garrison now quartered in your country, is to over-
awe a. timid population, and do duty upon eviction.
days; that the pirate squadrons which anchor in
your harbors are kept there for the purpose of bom

barding your towns, and landing sailors and ma-
rines to ravish and lay waste your coast. It is‘
all right for the Saxon to drink that toast, but no-
true Irishman can be guilty of such disgrace with-
out his cheeks tingling and his flesh creeping; and.
then when you hear some uniformed noodle hemming:
and hawing about the “valor of our troops in Ind2'a,’,,

think of the brutal murders in Oude from the can-- ,

non’s mouth, and shudder; when they prate of Bri-
tish. prowess in the Crimea, remember the Redan,
and smile; of Waterloo, strike your breasts——meo
culpa; but at any rate, whenever you hear of “our
army and navy,” remember Limerick, remember
Drogheda, Wexford, Mu1laghma.st—think of ’98, of
Tone, Emmett, Fitzgerald, and all the martyred brave-
who died for you and for Ireland, and steel your
hearts for vengeance. Should any one propose the‘-
health of the Fenians of old, toast it with nine-
times nine, or of the Brigade who swept the enemy’
at Fontenoy, at Landon and Cremona, at Black»
water and Benburb, Clontitret, and Armagh, drink
it with flashing eyes and flowing bumpers. The
army of England is not your army, nor the British-
Queen the Queen of Ireland. To no monarch in the
world do you owe allegiance today. Your fealty
belongs to Ireland alone, and you are bound by the-
strongest ties of interest and the most sacred obli-
gations to drive forth the flock of vultures that have
been long tearing at herlhcart. To you has been hand-
ed down the struggle made deathless and holy by the
blood of your brave ancestors. Your colors never»
yet have been struck on a fair battle-field. From-
generation unto generation has that greenflag bean,
handed over, unstained by cowardice or treachery...
The brave men of /98 placed it in your keeping,
Look that ye guard it well I

The famine slain are-still unavenged ; their bloody-
yet cries to heaven against the crown and govern-..
ment of England, that presided Over the slaughter
of two millions of our kindred, with as little com-
punction as a British soldier would blow a. fettered».
Sepoy from the muzzle of a cannon. Are you anx-
ious for another famine——a seven years’ famine\_
with a dash of fever, and cholera superadded, that-'
you may have one more opportunity of proving:-
your loyalty to the foreign Queen, who hates andl.
despises everything Irish—of your attachment to 3*.
government who contemptuously repudiatcs every
profession of Irish allegiance, and scornfully holds:.
up to the gaze of mankind each pit-iablc exhibition,
of Irish subserviency? Are you still willing to re.--
main obnoxious to the charge of being

“ A servile race, in folly nurs’t,
Who truckle most, when {rented Wors’t !”

I, for one, don’t believe so. I would as soon i5l]I‘l?;T.
Séxon, Or take the oath of allegiance, or chorus in.
with God save the Queen, or listen to a rigma..
role on “Our Army and Navy,” or believe in theex-

istence of a British Constitution, as imagine, for ea.

moment, that the enduring and unconquered Irish;
Celt had so far forfeited the sympathy of mankind,
and the guardianship of Providence. J

‘You may have seen thatI gave apressing invi/can
tion to the small landlords, embarressed gentry, ands
reduced nobility of Ireland to remove to this coun--
try, Should ‘they not hearken to the advice of am.
old friend, but stubbornly refuse to have their’
condition improved, by emigration, I must appeal?
to our sovereign lady the Queen, and in that event,
I confidently rely upon the active co—operation of’
all her Majesty’s loyal subjects.

3 Your friend in danger,
CAPTAIN ROCK,