Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet.
- Thomas Addis Emmet
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![ever written to influence public opinion on the Irish question. Among a number of communications I received in relation to it I present the following, the writers of which I know sufficiently well to feel assured they had no desire to flatter, should they have erred in judgment. I believe I possess in old age as little self-conceit as the weakness of human nature will admit, and I print these letters as an individual feature, as part of my history and with no other feeling than one of gratification in having accomplished something, as I hope, for the benefit of a cause which has been identified to such a degree with my life’s work. St. Colman College, Fermoy [Ireland], nth July, 1908. Dear Dr. Emmet: I thank you most cordially for the newspaper cutting of your printed letter to the Irish World. It is one of the most thoughtful and admirable letters, or rather reviews of the whole Irish agitation, I have ever read. It is an independent, unprejudiced, scholarly, and statesmanlike appreciation of the Irish question through its various phases. It can not but do much good to the National Irish cause. The Irish Party have not been able to accom- plish up to the present everything we have a right to get, but it has accom- plished very much, and would have done more, if we were free from faction [generally influenced by personal or miserable sectional feeling]. We are, as a people, improving in our sense of the all importance and necessity of National Union. The latest achievement of Parliamentary action is the University Bill, from which much good is expected, if it passes into a law as now approved in Committee. I have brought home with me a great admiration of all I saw in New York and Boston, and I shall never forget the kindly and generous hospi- tality extended to us. Believe me yours most faithfully and thankfully, •i* Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne. The following is from an old friend: “Irish World,” New York, June 24, 1908. My dear Doctor Emmet: I want to congratulate you very heartily on your admirable letter which you kindly furnished me for publication in this week’s Irish World. In all honesty I venture to say that it is the ablest and the most practical utterance on the Irish question that I have read in any book or heard from any mouth on either side of the Atlantic. I have had a high appreciation of your ability, for long years back; but your great letter, of this week, raises you, in my judg- ment, above all the able men on either side of the Atlantic who are devoting their services to the upbuilding of Ireland. In saying this, I would not de- tract an iota from John Redmond or John Dillon, or any of the noble hearts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034776_0535.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
