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GREAT MUSTER OF PRIESTS.
Nearly 200 priests walked in the procession, including: - Rev. J. Hoey, P.P., Lusk; Rev. M. Toher, C.C., do.; Rev. F. Farrington, Aughrim St.; Rev. T. Tuomey, Clondalkin; Rev. T. Fahey, Maynooth; Rev. M. J. Ryan, Thurles; Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer, do.; Rev. J. Roughan, C.M., Phibsboro'; Rev. J. Cussen, do.; Rev. C. O'Connell, do.; Rev. P. O'Gorman, do.; Rev. F. O'Regan, do.; Rev. M. Gallagher, do.; Rev. M. M'Garry, do.; Fr. Augustine, O.S.F.C.; Fr. Albert, Fr. Stanislaus, Fr. Aloysius, Fr. Sylvester, Fr. Alphonsus, Fr. Mathew, O.S.F.C., Cork; Fr. Dowling, O.P. (Prov.); Fr. Headley, O.P.; Fr. O'Neill, O.P.; Fr. Masterson, O.P.; Fr. Crofts, O.P., Drogheda; Fr. Lynch O.F.M.; Rev. T. Harris, Killarney; Rev. J. Breen, Millstreet; Rev. M. Scanlan, P.P., Spa, Tralee; Rev. T. Lyne, Tralee; Rev. J. Kelly, C.M., Cork; Rev. T. Corcoran, S.J.; Rev. P. Connolly, S.J.; Rev. P. Gannon, S.J.; Rev. M. M'Crave, S.J.; Rev J. J. Hannan, S.J.; Rev. E. Meehan, C.M., Pres., Castleknock Coll.; Rev. F. Carroll, C.M., Drumcondra; Rev. Dr. Coffey, Maynooth College; Rev. P. Connolly, do.; Rev. Dr. Pierse, do.; Rev. Dr. Cleary, do.; Rev. Dr. Kinnane, do.; Rev. T. Fahy, do.; Rev. Dr. D'Alton, do.; Rev. E. O'Kissane, do.; Rev. Dr. Browne, do.; Rev. M. M'Sweeney, do.; Rev. F. O'Nowlan, Rev. T. J. Murray, Chaplain Mater, Hospital; Rev. T. MacGrath, Lakelands; Rev. Dr. Maguire, All Hallows; Rev. J. M. Costelloe, SS. Michael and John's, Dublin; Rev. P. Flanagan, C.C., Ringsend; Rev. H. Thornton, Henrietta St.; Rev. P. Gavin, Roebuck; Rev. P. O'Byrne, St. Michael's, Rev. E.
O'Mahony, Blackrock; Rev. T. Manning, Rev. J. Kelly, Rathfarnham; Rev. A. Farrell, Donnybrook; Rev. J. O'Toole, do.; Rev. P. M'Auliffe; Ranelagh; Rev. M. V Ronan, Pro-Cathedral; Rev. M. Curran, Archhishop's House; Rev. L. M. Gerhard, O.C.C.; Rev. J. M. Rabbitte, O.C.C.; Rev. D. B. Devin, O.C.C.; Rev. M. Hickey, National University; Fr. O'Kane, Belfast; Rev. T. Burke, Galway; Rev. R. O'Rahilly (representing the Gaelic League of New York); Rev. J. O'Brien, Cork; Rev. F. O'Brien, O.D.C.; Rev. P. Deenihan, Kerry; Rev. T. Connor, do.; Rev. J. P. Kelly, Kilkelly; Rev. J. Russell, Rev. J. Devine, Achonry; Rev. P. O'Reilly, New York; Rev. J. O'Shea, Aglish; Rev. M. Eitzgerald, Ardfert; Rev. T. Keappock, Westmeath; Rev. F. Casey, do.; Rev. F. Rody, Strokestown; Rev. T. Conners, Sacramento; Rev. F. Hayes, Newcastlewest; Rev. M. A. O'Shea, do.; Rev. M. J. Devine, Rev E. Morrissey, Kilbride; Rev. M. Traynor, Clondalkin; Rev. F. Keane, Sierra Leone; Rev. F. Millet, Rev. T. M'Grath, Clifton; Rev. F. Sweetman, O.S.B., Gorey; Rev. M. Kielty, D.D., P.P., Ballygar; Rev. C. F. O'Hea, O.S.A.; Rev. L. M. Hughes, O.S.A.; Rev. E. Flynn, Ratnath; Rev. O. Kehoe, Camolin; Rev. R. Gaul, Ferus; Rev. M. O'Flanagan, Crossna; Rev. M. Kivlehan, Oldtown; Rev. J. Rea, Limerick; Rev. W. P. Keane, C.S.Sp.; Rev. D. O'Brien, C.S.Sp., Trinidad; Rev. J. Smith, C.P., Mount Argus; Rev. J. O'Boyle, do.; Rev. D. Kane, do.; Rev. K. Farrelly, do.; Rev. H. Wills, do.; Rev. B. Koegan, C.P., Sandymount; Rev. M. Blake, Glasnevin; Rev. J. Casey, Longford; Rev. M. O'Brien, Kill; Rev. J. James, Ballyna; Rev. M. O'Shea, Stillorgan; Rev. J. Donnelly, P.P., Ardglass; Rev. M. Fahy, Gort; Rev. W. MacDonald, Dublin; Rev. F. Stafford, C.S.Sp.; Rev. P. A. Doyle, O.S.A.; Rev. J. Manning, Rev. P. Walsh, Kilcloon; Rev. J. L. Lynch, O.F.M.; Rev. M. O'Rourke, St. Agatha's Dublin; Rev. J. M. Neary, do.; Rev. M. J. Ryan, Vice-Pres. Thurles College; Rev. J. W. Gerrard, Capetown; Christian Brothers, Dublin; Carmelite Brothers, Clondalkin; Rev. Bro. Gabriel, O.P.

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THE READER.
THE NEW YOUNG IRELANDERS.
By A. MACDONELL.
ONE may write, I hope, of the new literary movement in Ireland without exactly defining its limits, or enumerating all its purposes; or too nicely assigning a place, inside or out, to every talented writer in Ireland to-day. The final reason for writing of it at all is that it is a living thing; and where there is life there is constant shifting of attitudes and ambitions; there are constant accessions and secessions. It is assertive and combative; it attracts and repels, drawing the whole of this man's force, hurling that other into enmity, whom yet it may conquer to-morrow, capturing the heart of one here, who yet speaks an alien tongue, compelling some other to echo its speech, though no song of its kind was ever born in his heart. There are minor movements inside it. There are others touching it only at points. I do not know them all. They form and re-form as I write. I can only speak of the general promise and achievement, as these are understood by a Scottish Gael, one enough akin for sympathy, I would fain hope.
So far as the movement is actively propagandist—but no further—a date may be assigned to its beginning.
The break up of the Nationalist party and the death of Parnell let loose forces which had hitherto been absorbed by politics. Likewise they left a hungry gap in the popular heart that had to be filled. Now came the chance of those who long had thought that the cry of "Ireland a Nation" had been too narrowly interpreted. Nationality, they said, is not merely a political fact, but a question of the heart and the soul. A Parliament on College Green will be a mockery, if we still look to England for our ideals, our songs, our books, and all that keeps the spirit alive. The people are hungry for their own food, and we have within our borders wherewith to feed them. And thence arose Irish Literary Societies,
Photo Elliott & Fry.
and Gaelic Leagues, and Irish Literary Theatres. The best means of deanglicisation was felt to be the revival of the Irish language where it was dead or dying, and the feeding of the popular imagination with the tales of the proud old days when Cuchulain ruled, and Finn led his mighty men to victory, and Oisin sang; or of that holy time when the nations looked to a little isle in the West for the guidance of the spirit, and Ireland was not the "distreshful country" she has called herself of late. The people have responded to an appeal made in their own speech and out of their own past as they had never done before to an alien culture. But the principal writers, those who represent the movement to the world, were writing before then, and their ideals were already fixed. England had recognised them kindly, as a curious isolated fact. She has not yet quite grasped their ultimate aim, being slower to recognise the significance of spiritual than of political propaganda.Since then the schoolmaster—a genial one—has been abroad in the land, and has found a rich store from which to draw his lessons. The great folk-lorists, like Dr. Hyde and the late Mr. Larminie, the interpreters of Irish texts, like Dr. Whitley Stokes, the historians of the heroic periods, like Mr. Standish O'Grady, were there already. They have increased in numbers and in enthusiasm, and every day they seek a wider audience than the learned. "Literature," Mr. Yeats has observed, "dwindles to a mere chronicle of circumstance, or passionless phantasies, and passionless meditations, unless it is constantly flooded with the passions and beliefs of ancient times." And to name the recent Irish writers whose verse has been at least partially inspired by these heroic tales or folk legends, is to name nearly every writer of substantial merit
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