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PERTH, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1934
Vol. LX.
THE FIRST WEDDING IN WANNER00 CHURCH
The first welding .to be celebrated in St. Anthony's Church. Wann eroo, was performed by Rev. Father Cunningham, on Saturday, May 25th. The contracting parties were Mr. Clarence Darch and Miss Isobel Howell. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. Edward Howell, and was attended by the Misses Cecilia Howell and Edna Darch as bridesmaids, Mr. George Darch acting as best man. Miss Sylvia Darch nre iried at the organ, and a large circle of relatives and friends of the young couple were present. There is now a thriving congregation ,of Italian and Jugo-Slav Catholics in Wanneroo. Special celebrations in honour of St. Anthony are being held there this a fternoon, which His Grace the Archbishop will attend, and at which he will preach the occasional sermon
May Shed Light on the History of Ireland
W idespread interest has been arous.1 by the '7y at the announcement of the disco\-farm house of James in, at Staple Silvermines, County Tipperary, a manuscript link with one of providing a possible the rarest Irish books e xistence, Is known to only one copy of which be in Ireland. Dated v"Intnes, 1645 and comprising, in two vtlltini, insome 400 pages, said to be ot wation, an excellent state of preset-ealth the manuscript contains a of :aid, may detailed history, ies long herev which' it is ld olutionise historical theorto be beyond all doubt. ThA„e , , e °r ding to a_ Dr. Martin Callanan, the , well-know } n antiquarian i1°I.fustorian, who, Devane, together with the fnr' tr in great St. Patrick's, Thur. measure responsible d Im iscovery, the find is of trernenR portance. J. Best, DLitt., !Cational Lily -....Apo.
Ancient Book Discovered in Tipperary rarian, and Professor Eoin MacNeill, chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, have expressed tke opinion that the matter was of extreme interest.
the Fianna and of the Red Branch, poems by Eoch 0 Dala and Seamus Gall Dubh (which, spelt as one word, was the ordinary Irish form of the surname, Stapleton), Donough mot, ,0 Dala, who was Abbot of Boyle, dying The book, which is written partly in in 1244, and a highly interesting table Irish and partly in English, treats of for ascertaining the dates for Ecclesiall parts of the country, and Dr. Cal- astical Festivals. There is also a Genelanan is of the opinion, shared by Dr. alogical table of the Stapleton Clan. Best and Professor MacNeill, that it should be carefully safeguarded in the Dr. Best said it was curious to have interests of Gaelic and historical scholfound a book written on vellum at arship. such a late date, as, properly speaking, Following minute examination, it vellum was not widely used for writwas established that the transcription ing after the 16th. century. If there was done by John, son of Pierce Stap- was any question of selling the work, leton. It is dated August, 1645. he said, he would be very glad to see it. Tn addition to the purely historical Probably it would be of more value data, the hook also contains tales of historically than for the poems and 141.
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other matter it contained, much work by the same authors having already come to light. Dr. Best was struck by the name Stapleton. He seemed to see a possible connection between the authorship of this manuscript and the fam. ous Catechism .published in Irish and Latin by Theobald Stapleton at Brussels in 1639. This is one of the rarest Irish books in existence, one copy of which is preserved in the Royal Irish Academy. There is a tradition in the family of the present owner which connects the manuscript with a Doctor Stapleton, who was rector of Louvain University about that time. It has been handed down from father to son in the family for centuries, each succeeding owner promising his father, as did the present James Stapleton. ' that he would guard the manuscript jealously. 411 , -.0111M111.-4NP-
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