The Passionists and the Policemen - 1893-1993

--- Page 1 --- the Policeman in Ireland . The Passionists --- Page 2 --- in Ireland . the Policeman The Passionists and the 1893-1993 By Gregory Allen . --- Page 3 --- St. Paul's retreat , mount Argus . Dublin 6w . Eugene McCarthy CP , Rector Obsequies Association has always been a Passionist . delighted that Gregory Allen has agreed to tell it . Foreword . The link forged by the Annual Mission for Police at Mount Argus was the funeral of Fr. Charles Houben C.P. , now Blessed Charles of Mount marshal them and thus preserve dignity and order at the funeral . for and supported the Obsequies Association . The Association has served At this time of Jubilee when we celebrate one hundred years of wonderful Passionists and Police have been linked together in Dublin since Like the relationship , the Obsequies Association has stood the test of time and its work is well known and much appreciated within An Garda familiar with the relationship - very few may know the story . I am the first recorded mention of police at Mount Argus . The occasion was Passionist Congregation and the Police in Dublin . Many people are living and dead who have served as chaplains or officers of the Obsequies December 1893 , the year of the first Mission for the members of the members of the police force who down through the years have worked the members well and continues to do so to this very day . Association . More particularly I would like to thank the very many his subject thoroughly . It is the story of the relationship between the Dublin Metropolitan Police . In January of that same year we read of thened by the foundation in 1897 of the Obsequies Association . Siochana to this present day . Since its foundation the Chaplain to the ip I take the opportunity to thank my fellow Passionists both This book is first and foremost a labour of love by a man who knows This book is first and foremost a Labour of love by a man who knows ' Still foremost a Labour of Love by a Italian will know Siochana to this present day . Since its foundation --- Page 4 --- Lugener WE boatty AP . Eugene McCarthy C.P. ractor . William C. Cloney --- Page 5 --- Church of St. Paul of the Cross and the monastery , Mount Argus . --- Page 6 --- St. Paul of the Cross . Franciscans , Rome . the Conventual portrait in the Church of The Passionists and 1893-1993 ected . ' according to a magistrate in County Cork , from " feelings of the Policeman in Ireland : The Irish barony constables of the same period were Gregory Allen . s , hanging on to their jobs for the sake of E20 a year . They unctioned miserably among friends and relatives in their part-time policemen , who wore no uniform . The poor their local connections and by a dread of becoming obnoxious y , " came from the most miserable classes ... . despised by 1st historian Fabiano Giorgini records that policemen in 18th In this respect , they were not unlike their counterparts by on to their jobs for the sake of E20 a year . They 5 . --- Page 7 --- directed him to write down the Rule for his community . theologian , the Capuchin Father Columbia , in Genoa . prisoners and prison guards . he sought the advice of Bishop Arborio di Gattinara of Alessandria , who told and retold down the years among policemen in Dublin . in the black habit of his vision , barefoot and thumb with the cold , Paul the Passionist , Father John Baptist De Rossi the welfare of policemen , To build up self-respect , and to strengthen their faith , Pope Benedict XIV In the winter of 1721 , he retired to a hermitage at Castellazzo . find a welcome for the outcasts in any church in Rome he entrusted to and was covered with snow when the police patrol found him . If he had ambition to found a religious community . Encouraged by his professor , not been rescued , he must surely have died from exposure , and the Rule The dramatic story of the rescue of St. Paul of the Cross by a patrol of the caught in a blizzard . Weakened by the rigours of his retreat , he collapsed to present the fruits of his retreat to Bishop Gattinara , who sent him to a despised police , on a journey in the mountains of northern Italy has been for the Congregation of the Passion have been lost with him . Early in January , carrying no provisions , he took to the mountain track 58 ) proposed catchism classes for policemen . When he failed to quickly as if someone were dictating to me . " He then hurried al experience when Paul was twenty-six fired him with the ry , carrying no provisions , he took to the mountain track Early in January , carrying no provisions , he took to the mountain track s a road . At the Bocchetta Pass in the Ligurian Alps he was high served as a road . At the Bocchetta Pass in the Liguria mystical experience when Paul was twenty-six fired " Gentle and affable , always well-mannered " him away . dominant influence in Paul's formative years . fidelity to prayer that characterised her own heroic life . She was the affable , always well-mannered . But he was inclined to anger and Capuchin theologian . But still Bishop Gattinara hesitated , reluctant He returned from Genoa in 1721 with a favourable report from the Pope Innocent XIII ( 1721-24 ) had recently taken up residence . He got no His father Luke Danzo was a tobacco merchant and for a time Paul further than the gate . The guards on duty took him for a beggar , and sent man decided to intercede directly with the pope . Arriving in Rome in The historian Giorgini found clues in Paul's letters : he was gentle and the second of fifteen children and the eldest of six who survived infancy . nurtured in the Danzo home qualities of courage and compassion , and September , he hurried to the Quirinal Palace where the newly-elected ncis Danzo , was born at Ovada , Liguria , on 3 January 1694 loyed in the family business . His mother , Anna Marie Massari dominant influence in Paul's formative years . nt : his enthusiastic spirit often sapped by personal fear . thories Paul to gather companions . The determined you --- Page 8 --- Our Lady of the Snows , Basilica of St. Mary Kneeling before the attributed to St. Luke . famous icon in the Major , Rome , St. Paul of the Cross resolved to preach the Passion . ordained , " he wrote to a friend . Our Lord . knew the hardships I am suffering particularly in having my subjects not present his priests for ordination on his own authority . " If you only He had suffered all his life from spiritual desolation . Interpreting the Major . kneeling before the famous icon of Our Lady of the Snows attributed to St Luke , he was inspired to make the row at the heart of reluctance of the Holy See as implying " a want of stability in a life of John Baptist to the priesthood . Another sixteen wears were to mass before formal approval was given by Pope Benedict XIV , in 1741 . But a longer road lay ahead . Without the approval of solemn vows Paul could Returning to Rome in 1725 , he met Pope Benedict XIII ( 1724-30 ) who his blessing ; two years later he ordained Paul and his brother His self-confidence shaken , he found his way to the basilica of St Mary the Passionist charism , to promote devotion to the Cross and Passion of we him his blessing ; two years later he ordained Paul a --- Page 9 --- Colosseum . And there he died , on 18 October 1775 . this makes me impatient in my old age . ' where the rule and constitutions are quoted from the bull . ' sincere practice of all virtues and the faithful observance of the Rule . " when the Franciscan Pope Clement XIV ( 769-74 ) granted Paul the full canonical approval he had so long desired for his Congregation . " With martyr-brothers SS John and Paul , and the adjoining monastery , the channels of the blessed ( Roman Curia ) which are not very speedy , and description , possession of the basilica dedicated to the 4th century To provide the Passionists with a house of their own in Rome , Clement gave these " bumpkins from the country , in Paul's own humorous standing in the imperial gardens of ancient Rome overlooking the used the support of friendly bishops to avoid " going throw in old man , worn out from long years of labour and anxiety s own hands he showed me the bull , rich in privileges , he showed me the bull , rich in privileges , and the brief is own hands he showed me the bull , rich in privileges , and the brief --- Page 10 --- blessed . Dominic Barberi . had not yet discerned a clear signpost for Rome . the English Channel to the land of Paul's vision . as you know . Ireland is a Catholic Country " by the fame of the great English churchman as almost to obscure the Newman into the Church : an historic encounter so much overshadowed of England . ' His lifelong prayer for the return of Mary's Dowry to the Church was woven into the Passionist charism to flower in the witness of Blessed Dominic Barberi ( 1792-1849 ) a pioneer of the Catholic revival foundation early in the century of the first Retreat outside Italy , at an English translation in 1831 was read by John Henry Newman who in the 19th century . His monograph The Lament of England published in of 1721 the young Paul Danzo was inspired to pray for the re-conversion The odyssey of the Irish Passionists may quickly be traced to the was searching in Catholic life for a sign of the spirituality which he felt In the solitude of the bare unfurnished room in Castellazzo in the winter Chateau D'Ere , in Belgium . From Belgium , it was a short step across of the bare unfinished room in Castellazzo in the winter m of the Passionist missionary . When a hesitant Newma 9 --- Page 11 --- the Italian peasant priest . " When his of England , Father Ignatius initiated an had been eroded in the Anglican tradi- changed the lives of Newman and his rather , I should say , by means of it - for companions , he resigned his living in apostorship of prayer , as Newman re- cations , slights , insults , disappointment's tion , he was inspired by the witness of spite of this immense discouragement or er (1799-1864 ) . The Honourable George John Lewis More-O'Ferrail , was gently the Established Church , and gave his Spencer , and Lavinia Bingham , daughter enced the same crisis of conscience that form came into sight , I was moved to Spencer was the youngest of eight chil- In his burning desire for the reconversion of the first Earl of Lucas . Lord Spencer's dren born to George John , the second Earl he underwent . . We know too how , in did a great work - great in its success . called in 1880 . " It was a fresh start on trial is the great law of Providence - he allegiance to the See of Peter . contemporary , Father Ignatius Spenc- pushed into long-overdue retirement . and we know what hardships , mortifi- by the Oxford Movement ; having experi- Ordained to the priesthood in the Church sioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police , the depths in the strangest way . The so many of his generation , was influenced nephew , John Poyntz , was Viceroy in gaiety and affability of his manner in the Ireland in 1871 when the first Commis- of England in 1824 George Spencer , like ously promoted by Dominic's aristocratic of the Passionists , himself a convert ... . midst of all his sanctity was in itself a holy sermon . ' The ancient prayer for reunion was vigor- the part of a holy man , Father Spencer before he died in 1864 . photographed in Dublin . Father Ignatius Spencer , 10 --- Page 12 --- were made with the Irish people . of England that the first contacts when they were slowly recovering was unable to find a buyer , but a Passionists to Ireland " must have meant much for the people at a time of the refugees , Dominic Barberi , recalled that the coming of the centenary in 1956 , Cardinal D'Alton Rector of Aston Hall in Staffordshire , were crowding the industrial towns Moved with compassion at the plight relief of distress in Ireland . He generous subscription was sent from offered to sell his chalice for the Aston Hall for the diocese of Kerry , one of the worst affected areas . from the disastrous effects of the " The poor Irish On the occasion of the Mount Argus famine . It was among the famine victims who encouraged if not have inspired the move to Ireland . value of the chalice . ' St. Audeon's , in High Street . The Englishman , whose high-pitched remained loyal to the Catholic faith in spite of everything . Ireland is a Catholic country , " he wrote to a relative in Holland . " For more in the Dublin Liberties , and the Italians , struggling to master a strange Father Vincent Grotti , he was in Dublin to preach a Mission in Ignatius Spencer , who directed a retreat for the students of St. Patrick's Argus in the summer of 1857 , he immediately felt at home . " As you know language , were mobbed in the streets by enthusiastic crowds , hungry for than three hundred years the Irish have been cruelly persecuted but have Irish " , as he called the ragged multitude . When he arrived at Mount Houben ( 1821-1893 ) . The young Dutch priest befriended the " poor have obtained the sum of four pounds which is , I have been told , the full The arrival of the Passionists in Ireland was foreshadowed by Father the consultations of religion ; a demonstration of affection that must be The community at Aston Hall was joined in 1852 by Blessed Charles The community at Aston Hall was joined in 1852 by Blessed Charles ollege , Carlow in 1848 . The following year , with Father Dominic and ic tones must have been something of a handicap in a pulpit iseives some things which our rule allows them , and so y at Aston Hall was joined in 1852 by Blessed Charlie --- Page 13 --- watercolour ( anon . ) Father Paul Mary Pakenham , from a Passionists was very great indeed . coincided with the years , 1854-58 , of Newman's visits to Dublin in his role as Rector of the new Catholic University ; and his affection for the not unexpectedly , that morning . Father Paul Mary Pakenham charity sermon on behalf of the Sisters of St. Clare , neighbours ther Ignatius on 1 March 1857 preached in Gardiner Street rassionist community in Harold's Cross ; taking the place of ul Mary Pakenham ( 1821-1857 ) , Rector of Mount Argus who of the first recorded Retreat given by the Jesuits for the Dublin --- Page 14 --- eyes to the peacock's tail . May Processing for the citizens of Dublin . arrived in Dublin from Rome in August , 1856 . unfurling banners in honour of Our Lady of Holy Hope , inaugurated the and cheered the Liberator on the road to Emancipation the Penal Laws gave vigorous new life to the Church . The Passionists The removal of the last of the social and political disabilities imposed by a house with out-offices and a garden . With poetic inspiration , he called his people . They had subscribed their pennies to the Catholic Association . the house Argus , after the figure in Greek mythology who lost a hundred imagery , that his every word told with thrilling effect , notwithstanding - at Genoa on his way to Rome . His memory was still green in the hearts of strations of any kind were unknown , the followers of St. Paul of the Cross , In 1781 , a parcel of land known as Rathlands , near the village of Harold's business in Camden Street . On his new property , Mr. Cuppaidge built unpretending . " The man chosen to lead the Passionists into Ireland Cross , was bought by Thomas Cuppaidge , who had an engineering ing the apparent subjugation of his voice . His very peculiar style seemed to achieve ... a fusion of the ornate and picturesome with the ited in the revival movement . In a city where religious demon- arrived in Dublin from Rome in August , 1856 . The Liberator , Daniel O'Connell --- Page 15 --- Vincent found a " solitude so desirable to the Institute . foundation in Ireland . He met by chance one of the Rathmines curates , Father Matthew Collier , who directed him to Mount Argus , where Father widow Eliza Byrne , a relative of Paul Cardinal Cullen , had the property Passionist Provincial , was in Dublin looking for a suitable house for a on the market in 1855 when Father Vincent Grotti , representing the se and adjoining land were bought by Joseph Byrne , whose new chapel designed by the Dublin architect James Joseph McCarthy was vas unable to accommodate the people who flocked to Mount Argus . A Mission in 1849 : old friends spread the news and soon the drawingroom very hastily run up : on 18 December 1856 the temporary chapel was up their abode is a large , square , solid looking , brick-fronted mansion . ... reared up that magnificent specimen of Greek architecture , the Church Luigi ) Pesci : Mrs Eliza Byrne , who was giving up her home of close on William Meagher , Parish Priest of Rathmines , " who in so short a period new home for the first time , Father Paul Mary celebrated Mass in the streets of Dublin through which in past ages it ran bubbling and he drawingroom , served by his Italian secretary , Brother Seraphim of Our Lady of Refuge : " and also from Rathmines , the good friend of the ledicated by the Carmelite Bishop of Bombay , Dr. Whelan . A description as those which now border it in the neighbourhood of Kimmage . Passionists , Matthew Collier , " the ever devoted servant of the Blessed gurgling , adorned perchance with as green margins and gay hedge-rows The house in which the disciples of Blessed Paul of the Cross have taken han he should , as well he might after his years of toil in building up The avenue leading from the road to the house is short : but before the Poddle , a streamlet that in its transit thence to the Liffey slides ike a hidden sorrow , pent in darkness and gloom , beneath some of of the bells of Dublin . " rural enough in appearance to be fancied fifty the latter can be reached , a small bridge must be crossed , which spans of the ceremony reads like a summary of the post-Emancipation history forty years , and who was accompanied by an unnamed friend ; and the ringed by well grown trees , whose foliage forms a pleasing accessory to A visitor in 1856 was captivated by the setting , " though within sound Rathmines curate , Father Matthew Collier . The arrival of the Passionists stirred memories of the great High Street he glorious Cathedral in Marlborough Street . And there , fresh from of Dublin . Archdeacon John Hamilton . St. Michan's . Anne Street . " looking older Virgin . The elite of the Priesthood of Dublin and its vicinity " included Monsienor miles off ... . the landscape in Spring and Summer . In the feast of the Assumption , 15 August 1856 , setting foot in his " Within sound of the bells of Dublin " fringed by well grown trees , whose foliage forms a pleasing accessory to --- Page 16 --- Austin White , who preached the sermon . spirit about the doors of the Sacristy . ' The first Passionist superior in Ireland , died early on Sunday , 1 March Quay , " the uncompromising denounced of Ribbon conspiracies . probable that we should not have ventured , at least at this time , as absent upon this day of jubilee . . But , glimpses of the stately form the Sick and Indigent Roornkeepers Society ; the Dominican , Dr. Robert The young Rector of the house was , on account of his failing health , voice , always in demand ... . Monsignor William Yore , St Paul's , Arran Carmelite , John Francis Spratt , " Apostle of Temperance , " secretary of " The next heir to the French peerage . " the Hon.and Rev. J. French poor , like the rest of us ; and poor he died ... . Had it not been that we an Order , into Ireland . It might seem as if Providence had called him possessed a subject fitted for the undertaking as he was , it is very well-beloved Provincial of the Jesuit Order in Ireland : " the notable country . " zealous Convert ... could occasionally be seen hovering like a ministering vas Canon Jonathan Laphen , St Catherine's , Heath Street , with his fine the labour of the grand Gothic Church he has upraised in ' the Liberty ' amongst us on purpose to be the leader of our first colony in this ther Ignatius Spencer wrote his obituary . " He came to Ireland 857 . Father Ignatius Spencer wrote his obituary . " He ca The functional chapel was ' very hastily run up ' towards the end of Brother John Francis O'Connor CP. the year . A pen-and-ink drawing ( 1924 ) reconstructed by was occupied as a Passionist Retreat by Father Paul Mary Pakenha The red-brick farmhouse Argus near Harold's Cross in August 1856 when 0 0 --- Page 17 --- Argus on 9 July 1857 . at the age of 36 , shortly Blessed Charles Houben , after he arrived at Mount and the state of his adopted country . here in the Lord's vineyard . " these countries since the Reformation . ' " Discouraged , overworked men " built the Constabulary Depot in Phoenix Park in 1839 . Father Charles Houben lately of St. Anne's Retreat , Sutton , near London , kept busy preaching and hearing confessions . Much good can be done night nearly every day . If we had twelve priests here , they would all be two masses every Sunday . We have to hear confessions from morning to Brother John Walsh collaborating as Clerks of Work . Completed in 1863 , Mary , the community of " discouraged , overworked men suffering from number of Catholics in Ireland , there are few priests and I have to say speak English . Our Congregation has only one house in Ireland ; here we he courageously decided to build a new monastery . His architect J. J. Mount Argus throughout the world . On the feast of Our Lady of Holy Hope , when the builder mysteriously repudiated the contract . In a remarkable tions in the overcrowded farmhouse were tampering their mission , and There is an old Irish saying that when God closes one door . he opens His letter home is interesting for its glimpse of conditions at Mount Argus contract was awarded to a prominent Dublin builder named Meade who the new monastery was hailed as " the nobles religious house erected in by the community , with a Dutchman , Brother Alphonsus Zeegers , and have five Passionist priests and five lay-brothers . In spite of the large malnutrition " was joined by one who was destined to spread the fame of McCarthy designed a great house in the Italian Romanesque style . The chapter in the history of the Irish Passionists , the monastery was built another ; and so it was that in the year of the death of Father Paul risked at Kingstown harbour , and made his way to Mount Argus . oceeded rapidly to the laying of the foundation stone in 18.5 e work proceeded rapidly to the laying of the foundation st ublin , the capital of Ireland , on 9 July 1857 . The people he v Rector . Father Osmund Maguire , saw that the cramped condi- came to Dublin , the capital of Ireland , on 9 July 1857 . The ; lisembarked at Kingstown harbour , and made his way to 16 . --- Page 18 --- held in the Rotunda in what was then Sackville Street . Dr. Joseph Burke , and many other notable citizens . winner rejoicing in the name of Mr. Straightpath . shone out so bravely on the opening day . ' charitable public . ' Navarro headed an executive committee of a hundred prominent citizens On the crowded platform with Father Dominic O'Neill were the of Ovada , after the birthplace of St Paul of the Cross , the bazaar that As President , the Shakespearean actress Madame Mary Anderson Da " A Grand Bazaar The last day . Saturday , May 20th , was marked by " a generous extrava- Dublin again rallied to raise funds for Mount Argus . Under the banner " All day long the spacious Round Room was filled with fashionable silk merchant , Joseph Dollard , the printer , Henry Donnelly , architect , dressed ladies and gentlemen who had met to help forward by personal exertion and by liberal outlay the objects of the charity ... for the good and looked to such an extent that but a skeleton was left of the finery that Glasnevin Asylum , demonstrating that the proceedings were above and completing the new church of the Passionist Fathers , which was fathers who so need and so merit the assistance and support of the board . The " First and Great Prize . ' , a Pair of Ponies and Handsome In the summer of 1876 , the band of the Dublin Metropolitan Police played at " A Grand Bazaar and Distribution of Prizes to raise funds for roofing Phaeton , or E100 " , crossed the Irish Sea , to Whitedale , Han. year was organised on a scale hardly ever before seen in the city . Peter Paul McSwinev. Knight of St. Gregory ; Frederick Sims , the part of the visitors until at night the stalls had been rifled immer of 1913 , leaders of the social and professional life of The last day . Saturday , May 20th , was marked by a generous The winning raffle tickets were drawn by " two blind boys from the months later , Father Charles rejoined the community . Water blessed by the saintly priest . as the first Irish Cardinal in the history of the Church . the activities of beggars who were found selling to simple people Holy happy crowds dispersed , a cloud descended on Mount Argus . Within days , Father Charles was sent back to England , the innocent victim of taken to halt work on the new church . The foundations barely begun splendid modern church was blessed by Monsignor Meagher . acting for sus followed by his brother Father Dominic , to replace the inadequate temporary chapel . In the summer of 1866 , the foundation stone for the Paul Cullen who was in Rome to receive from Pope Pius IX the Red Hat rounds were thronged for the great occasion ; but even as the as the first Irish Cardinal in the history of the Church . A decision , dictated by prudence and financial constraints , was then of Osmund's successors , the two O'Neills , Father Alphor --- Page 19 --- Overwhelmed by friends . Hugh Tarpey , represented the civic life of Dublin . force , the Garda Siochana . their friends . The church could not accommodate the vast congregation . In the Dublin , assisted by Archbishop McGettigan of Armagh . The Lord Mayor , the sanctuary was extended in 1938 , a chapel dedicated to St. Patrick in Another sixty years were to pass before the church was completed . When Metropolitan Police , now amalgamated as a division of the national police of over a decade since the foundation stone was laid with much clergy , and seven mitered bishops including Archbishop McCabe of achievement in having overcome the difficulties and disappointments At the dedication of their new church on the feastday of St Paul of the ceremony and then abandoned , the Passionists were overwhelmed by al procession were close on a hundred secular and regular 28 April 1878 , as if in acknowledgement of their magnificent latory behind the high altar was presented by the old Dublin . ulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police . nd was occupied on alternate days by the ba --- Page 20 --- despotic regulations by the most lic houses which may be considered those outrages the system had been not subjected to proper control . and allowed to grow up and spread it- obedience to their capricious and sanguinary means ; and from want merchantile interest of the city . Pub- gardens of Dublin Castle for inspection by the Lord Lieutenant and over a considerable portion of their fellow citizens , and had enforced self so as to seriously injure the the hotbeds of crime and vice were the laws and municipal regulations . sibility of a police force of sorts , about 850 untrained constables and Dublin Castle administration . He made police reform his first priority , watchmen under local magistrates who had a vague police supervisory of a sufficient force to suppress quainly dressed in uniform top hats and frock coats , paraded in the congested city of less than 250,000 people who lived where they worked , Criminals " had usurped a control which were instituted to maintain and the following year parliament at Westminster passed an " Act for The protection of the lives and property of the citizens was the resnon- and Father John Baptist Byrne , was described by The Freeman's Journal presented , as reported in the Dublin Evening Post " altogether ... a very The Retreat for the DMP in 1893 by the Passionists . Father Andrew Ivory the recently appointed Commissioners of the DMP reported in 1838 . In 1835 . Thomas Drummond was appointed Under-Secretary in the The Irish capital in the early years of the nineteenth century was a decency , order and cleanliness had become a dead letter . " political partisans . ' On the first day of January 1838 the first 800 members of the DMP carriers providing the only means of public transport . A lawless city , as whom Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons castigated as " violent Dublin for over thirty years . " as " remarkably the first given specially for the Metropolitan Force in uniform as well as a very efficient appearance . ' " Constables hurrying to Gardiner Street " Garda Museum , Timothy O'Neill , from artefacts in the improving the police in the District of Dublin Metropolis " . " A Lawless City " Metropolitan Police , 19th century , in every street and back alley ; the hackney carmen and sedan chair appeared on duty for the first time . Later in the week the new police , Helmet plate of the Dublin The administration of justice was in the hands of these magistrate's 0 19 . --- Page 21 --- Street interfere in matters where they ought not . O'Ferrall , a Catholic , and his Protestant colleague , Lieutenant-Colonel George Browne . of faith , even for the exciting times in post-Emancipation Dublin . had been sent to different stations for assistance . " men thinking ( he reported ) there was a fire or riot , and that messages Gardiner Street , to the astonishment of the public . I stopped some of the already strained relations between the Commissioner John Lewis More- charitable work for the socially depressed policemen brought to a head In a predominantly Catholic force , Protestants represented one-seventh Browne complained to his superiors in Dublin Castle . " The great evil in mission , every Catholic member of the DMP not on duty must have our Force is the thorough conviction of our Protestants that they have not fair play . I am very certain that the Roman Catholic clergy at Gardiner Colonel Browne encountered " several hundred constables hurrying to generation later . In the vicinity of St. Francis Xavier's Church , an alert led into St Francis Xavier's that week ; a remarkable demonstration On the commissioner's own estimate of the numbers who attended the Catholics in the DMP was in the care of a Jesuit . Father John Dwyer . His In 1856 when the Passionists arrived in Ireland the spiritual welfare of had been sent to different stations for assistance . In 1857 Father Dwyer preached the mission for policemen recalled a of the total membership . As a class they were reluctant " to join a service 20 . John Lewis . 1836-1883 . Commissioner DMP , More-0'Ferrall , --- Page 22 --- in the leadership of the DMP ; he was Pakenham . During that Sunday , March He had recently suffered a humiliating with the visiting preacher , Father in which the duties were arduous and heat of battle from the first appearance of the DMP on duty , and now at sixty- among the Jesuits of the Gardiner seven was still battling on at his post . Ignatius , on the very great loss to 1st , in all likelihood , John Dwyer was work among the humble constables . not sought after by Roman Catholics . unremitting , the discipline severe , and their first Rector . Father Paul Marv the Passionists , who were not yet six defeat at the head of his men in a Street community who sympathised storm quietly continued his apostolic ground , the old soldier had borne the stemmed from divided responsibility the Passionists mourned the death of serious riot involving Trinity students now big enough to express regret that As the effective commander on the with friends in good circumstances . ' months in their farmhouse Retreat at As the Jesuit priest at the centre of the in College Green . His difficulties with More-O'Ferrall he had " not of late been so cordial with O'Ferrall . ' Mount Argus . constable DMP , 1838-circa 1870 . moral rectitude . Ideal policemen . Browne single-mindedly needed out standards of diligence , department and policeman , More-O'Ferrall and Colonel all those who fell short of their exacting In their unremitting search for the ideal --- Page 23 --- and now live in Kilmacham jail He loved his country well Charles Stewart Parnell . " Hofel ( Illustrated London News ) . Land League riot in Dublin following the arrest of Parnell , 1881 --- Page 24 --- Gaol , 1881 . on duty at unstable , DMP. Kilmainham total of 5,706 men . exhausted and bewildered force . two decades recruited and either tempered as men of steel , or purged , a duty every second month ; with one free day a month , and ten days annual erupted in Dublin in 1880 . In two years of demonstrations , 500 policemen following day . By the early afternoon , the entire force had disappeared were injured . Their morale broken , they emerged from the conflict an living in barracks no better than " the tenements of the wretched poor . ' Hall in Bolton Street . The men who attended the meeting were sacked the police forces , the DMP was unprepared when the Land League agitation The constables worked up to nine hours , seven days in the week , night Crippled by a regime of penal discipline that was unknown in other Green were contained by soldiers of the West Kent Regiment . A force with an established strength of under 1,200 all ranks , in its first " regime of penal discipline that was unknown in other Disorderly crowds roaming Sackville Street and Colleg --- Page 25 --- A good Catholic and Irish nationalists recognised . described him as a good Catholic and Irish nationalists . was settled when he was hand-picked for a vacancy in the Detective The new commander was born at Flurrybridge , Co. Armagh , in 1838 . not right , don't do them ; and if you leave the service , leave the knowledge Division where his natural flair for painstaking investigation was soon you have gained , meanwhile , behind you . " His biographer , F.M. Bussy Murphy , of Meigh . " I don't think the duties of policemen are congenial in 1858 . Having worked as a clerk in the Commissioner's office , his future The young draper's assistant presented himself at the Kevin Street Depot In his choice of career , he was well advised by his parish priest . Canon to your nature . However ... if you are called upon to do things that are --- Page 26 --- Police tug of War , Dublin v. Glasgow , pulled at Glasgow , 1893 . The victorious Dublin team included first , third from right ) Association and its second secretary . Constable Thomas McBennett , a founder member of the DMP Catholic Obsequies for the Retreat . their great victory put new heart into the DMP . be admitted to the Dublin Castle Establishment . success was based on his own high evaluation of the police vocation . that Father John Baptist Byrne and Father Andrew Ivory began their Thomas McBennett , William Ashe , Andrew Heffernan , Daniel Mahony , James Carroll , George Thackaberry , James Hourihan , William Bannon , Towards the end of the year , they returned as World Champions from The appointment of a new Chief Commissioner , John Jones , was announced in January , 1893 ; on the same day , Chief-Superintendent policeman ; and having a very fair education , combined with a great love the Police Tournaments in Glasgow . Acclaimed by the citizens of Dublin , appostolate in 1893 . The two Passionists found doors wide open for them John Mallon was appointed Assistant Commissioner , the first ranker to He came to his new job as team manager of the Tug-of-War stalwarts : " He did not look like a policeman , being undrilled : he did not walk like a It was just as such a moment of justifiable pride and hope in the future Inspector Denton Booth , captain ; Edward Timlin , Maurice Woulfe ig , he was able to converse upon almost any subject . Mallon's as they made their mould-breaking round of the stations in preparation --- Page 27 --- Bergen op Zoom , Netherland . Blessed Charles Houben in his mature years , portrait ( Pieter Geraedts ) Mariakapel , some of his men to guard the body . ' policemen . " You Will be The Patron of Policemen " last breath , Father Salvation Nardocci was wasting for six o'clock mass . He the Passionist church of individual policemen residing in the locality . had just died . " I told a Police Man who was hearing Mass in the Church On the morning of Thursday , 5 January 1893 as Father Charles drew his at the Bocchetta Pass in 1721 was never forgotten by Paul Danen . His me to send a note to his officer in case of the crowds , which he expected lifelong solicitude for policemen and their families prompted a friend to when the deceased would be brought into the Church , and he would send Police were slow in the making . For close on forty years , there appear to have been no contacts with the force apart from the rare recitals by the police band at the Mount Argus bazaars , and the attendance at Mass is ( he comes to hear the 6.30 Mass almost every morning ) and he advised The charity of the humble constables who appeared out of the snowstorm remark : " Father Paul , when you get to heaven you will be the patron of The bonds of friendship between Passionists and the Dublin Metropolitan heard the community bell tolling , and after mass learned that Charles itude for policemen and their families prompted a friend to --- Page 28 --- It is certain that down the early decades individual policemen were consulted . ' In preparation for the Retreat , Father Andrew Ivory and familiar visitors at Mount Argus . But significantly , the entry in Father the body with rosary beads , medals and other relics . The following day , deep . " The body was guarded by relays of priests and students ; it was became so dark that we were obliged to light all the gases . . At 4 p.m Friday , " from morning to late in the evening there was a continual as " the most humble man I ever knew . He seemed to have no opinion of " The Metropolitan Police have fallen into such good hands " all the Confraternities of the City came to sing the Solemn Office of the probably the first time the Dublin police attended on duty at St Paul's a line of special tramcars at Harold's Cross Park to facilitate the men community chronicals . " Their officers , non-Catholic as well as the ( 12 o'clock ) the whole Church was crammed . Besides constant rain , it himself , free from all ostentation . He certainly did not seem to be in any Father John Baptist Byrne made their visits to the city stations . " having The Freeman's Journal was glad " that the Metropolitan Police have fallen The attendance of those for whom the Retreat was specially intend - Terence . A native of Borris , Co. Carlow , he joined the DMP in ascertained that the authorities were greatly in favour of the idea " . recorded encounter with a member of the DMP in the vicinity of the The presence of the DMP in force at the observies of Father Charles , attending the Retreat , " especially those who have duty at 8 o'clock " . every morning , may have been Constable Owen McDonald , stationed at was carried into the crowded church the people pressed forward to touch ed was very edifying . " Father Norbert McGettigan recorded in the Catholic layman who was close to Father Charles , he observed the saint procession of ... " thousands of people . " Saturday was a very cold day , Charles died , at the turn of an historic year for the force , was the first December , 1893 ; Assistant Commissioner Mallon having first been thousands were outside , although fast raining and the mud half foot The policemen who came to Mount Argus to hear mass at half-six almost Salvian's diary of an almost casual conversation on the morning Father most successful missionaries . " The Dublin Tramway Company provided way puffed-up by the fact that so many people came to see him . " The anonymous policemen gave timely advice to Father Salvian to Argus . nine o'clock before " the multitude began to diminish . ' On Sunday " it was raining very fast and extremely cold ... at the last Mass Retreat . with rain and snow ; and still the crowds made the pilgrimage to Mount and was still a young man in January . 1893 : he retired in 1926 . As a treat , almost certainly inspired the invitation to Mount Argus in into such good hands as the Passionist Fathers who are so well kn tad ... . The singing was splendid . The spacious Church crammed ... . anonymous policemen gave timely advice to Father Salvian to Dead ... . The singing was splendid . The spacious Church cramme contacts' reminiscent # # with rain and snow ; and still the crowds made the pilgrimage to Mount contact Superintendent Peter Hughes at Donnvbrook . As the man riffin --- Page 29 --- 28 . --- Page 30 --- who gave the Baptist Byrne , establish the John Mellon in 1893 , and in first Retreat for 1897 collaborated with Assistant- Commissioner . obsequies . the DMP in father John . association . recorded . 1894 Retreat , the church was " crowded to suffocation , Father Norbert demeanor in Church . ' in such numbers ... , nothing could be finer and more becoming than their Englishman , Father Michael Watts-Russell whose father was closely policemen occupied the nave and both from their numbers and striking of their reception into the Church in 1845 , the distinguished converts the body , which they know must result in both a greater attention to duty and in the improvement of moral conduct . " A newspaperman week , the attendance was " much greater , and for the closing of the confided their intentions to their friend , soon to be received into the who were rostered for duty immediately afterwards . The attendance Sunday evening , December 3rd , probably only the men in uniform following year , such was the fame of the Passionist preachers , " 250 iastically reported " the presence of these singularly powerful men increased as favourable reports travelled from station to station . The expressed themselves well pleased with the notice taken of The Rector of Mount Argus elected in the summer of 1893 was an rance the sight was by no means a common one : " in the second orbert counted ninety policemen among the congregation on d with Newman and Frederick William Faber . On the eve 29 . Mount Argus elected in the summer of 1893 was a --- Page 31 --- the first Retreat for the DMP in December , 1893 . The handbill distributed by Father John Baptist Byrne and ndrew Ivory visiting the city police stations to promo Particular Judgment-Intemperance-Blessed Sacrament - Salvation- 1940summemann services will commence every evening at 7.30 . immediately after last Mass . General Judgment-Mass-Scandal-Passion of Our Lord-Blessed Virgin Value of the Soul-The blight of Life - The Priest in the Confessional-Death Download as PDFPrintable version confessions will be heard every day . It will be solemnly opened on December 3rd , at 7.30 . 1957-0008000 This fortnight's retreat will be conducted by will be given in the above church , REV. FR. ANDREW AND REV. FR. J. Baptist . 0500000000000000000000 Heaven . Metropolitan . for the police , LAST MASS at 10 o'clock . Instructions will be given 1940southern List of subjects . immencing 3rd December , and ending 17th December . St. Paul's Church . 1907 1910 1907 1910 LAST MASS at 10 o'clock . subjects . Commencing . --- Page 32 --- church . step to be taken ? May God smoothe all for you . ' the Catholic Church ... . time before been himself raised to the priesthood . Returning to Dublin Young Watts-Russell , in his nineteenth year , entered the Congregation my own step which , by God's great mercy , I now enjoy ... When is your God and man , and the clearness of light about scruples , doctrines , and to Mount Argus at the start of a unique relationship in the history of the he was assisted at his first mass by his own father , who had a short of the Passion at Broadway , Worcestershire , and commenced his 8th : ' I shall have been received before this goes to you . Tonight Father ecclesiastical studies at Mount Argus . Ordained at Maynooth in 1871 , Church himself ; Newman writing hurriedly from Littlemore on October cannot describe to you . my dear friend , the joy and peace , the love to Dominic , the Passionist , comes here , and I shall ask admission of him into Faber a few weeks later wrote affectionately to Watts-Russell : " ... I in 1893 , Father Michael welcomed the constables of the DMP Father Michael Watts-Russell , CP 1893 . Rector , Mount Argus , 31 . --- Page 33 --- ( Sculptors , Fitzpatrick & Sons , Glasnevin ) . by the Obsequies Association in collaboration with the B and Fund committee . memorial cross , DMP plot , Glasnevin Cemetery , erected 19 a b c d e f g hm.000000000000000000000000000000 1961-000600060008000800080008000000000000000 three issues from every years . dissippi former American business database . tuttingments from the first description . In addition the # CUTTON WINNUS CUTERE FRANCER 1961-00080008000 manual statements .000 German American businessman , the issues - American military advisers . vteU.S.S.DICTOR C.000500000000000000000 feattermann # H000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 32 . --- Page 34 --- in addition to Constable Dempsey and Constable McManus , Fred Gee and John Mellon's circular letter launching the Dublin Metropolitan Police were buried in the Harold's Cross cemetery . The headstone also shows buried in Glasnevin . In 1910 , the Obsequies Association collaborating beries and wholly surrounded with lofty trees of venerable growth , giving Burials were financed from the sale of drink in the Depot Canteen ; Catholic Obsequies Association , some deceased impecunious members The cemetery in Harold's Cross was then " a beautifully picturesque John Holeman , both of Kevin Street , and John Quinn , College Division , Constable Thomas Dempsey , Donnybrook Division . The following year , not always available to " an impoverished family . On the evidence in demense ... . gently elevated ground embellished with lawns and shrub- Their names were not inscribed on the headstone , as Inspector Denton The burial ground across the fields from the future Passionist Retreat , Constable James McManus , Kevin Street , was buried in Mount Jerome . with the Band Fund commissioned the splendid Celtic Cross which marks the names of John Wynne , Robert Henry Turner , John Jennings . Thomas Street , who died in 1911 . to bring home the body of a relative who had died in ' Dublin was Thomas Drummond , died in 1842 , he was buried in Mount Jerome . and railings , in Mount Jerome , and in the older cemetery at Glasnevin recommended to the Commissioner , Sir David Harrell , that the care of The Royal Irish Constabulary maintained its own plot in Glasnevin . the graves should be a charge on the Band Fund . it an air of exclusion and a solemnity of aspect peculiarly appropriate . ' Between 1884 and 1897 , when the Ohsequies Association was formed , the graves . The plot in Mount Jerome was opened in 1884 to receive the remains of respective congregations . " on the northern outskirts of the city . By the turn of the century , 21 deceased members of the force had been matter was taken up immediately by Chief-Superintendent Mallon who the lonely funerals . of persons of all religious denominations by recognised Ministers of their Canteen Fund financed the purchase of burial plots , with headstones Booth of the Mounted Troop discovered towards the end of 1886 . The In the social conditions in rural Ireland in the 19th century , the means When the father of the Dublin Metropolitan Police , Under-Secretary was bought by the Dublin Cemetery Company in 1836 " for the internent the Passionists , next door to Mount Jerome , had not become aware of Gilmore : all four of the College Division ; and finally , Thomas Cross , Key of the DMP were buried in a pauper's grave . It would be surprising if In 1881 , on the initiative of Inspector Edward Entwissle , the DMP The DMP Catholic Obsequies Association --- Page 35 --- ( 1898 ) Obsequies Association . the victorious 1893 Tug of War team , founder member and secondary Constable Thomas McBennett , hero of " With pain and sorrow . ' Mallon pointedly recalled past neglect " with pain and sorrow " . McBennett ( 9261 ) . Barnaby Lanktree ( 7855 ) , John Jackson ( 73.0 ) , and James 1908 , and was buried in the community cemetery at Ardoyne . The death Bernard Kneafsey ( 9167 ) ; and the Tug-of-War hero Sands' (9679 ) ; Sergeants Owen Dockery ( 8576 ) , Robert the DMP was mourned by the Association at the AGM that year . On where he was born in 1855 . He died in Belfast on the first day of January , Christian burial for all deceased members of the force . In a circular letter , now a firm friend of the Dublin policemen . The constables of the DMP In 1897 , the fifth year of the Mount Argus DMP Retreat John Mallon Mount Argus on January 12th : Mellon , who took the chair ; Inspectors the second day of the inaugural meeting , Mallon having withdrawn , A group of kindred spirits assembled for the inaugural meeting at vere familiar figures during his boyhood years in Blackrock , Co. Dublin , roposed the formation of an Obsequies Association to ensure dignified -Sergeants John Carroll ( 8098 ) , Michael Davis ( 8642 ) , and The meeting was also attended by Father John Baptist Byrne , who was sionist priest who had contributed so much to the welfare of established the Garda Benevolent Society . O'Duffy came up against the same problem in the Civic Guard , he ruled out Canteen funds and voluntary subscriptions as objectionable , and he depending on the profits a grant of E4 was made on the death of a constable who had no one to bury him . When Commissioner Eoin 34 --- Page 36 --- when Trustees were first elected . in office as secretary . bent William Cloney , elected in 1970 , has served for a record 23 years Father John was elected Chairman , with Father Mark Gavin as spiritual as Inspector Neil McFeeley ( 1900-1917 ) , Constable Timothy Fitzgerald Moran (1948-1962 ) , Inspector Thomas Ryan ( 1968-1970 ) . The director . necessary steps in consonance with the wishes of the deceased's relatives of its history , the Association was well served by such prominent men the burgeoning friendship between policemen and Passionist , and gave At their meeting on 11 March 1899 , a decision was taken that would have gladdened the heart of their patron St Paul of the Cross . On the proposal lasting strength to the young Association . Down the years , incalcuable was directed , on the death of a member of the Association " to take the keeping the accounts was merged in the secretary's office in 1902 , of Station-Sergeant Davis , seconded by Sergeant Dockery , the secretary Station-Sergeant Carroll served as treasurer until responsibility for he was replaced in 1898 by Constable McBennett . In the hundred years In the key post of secretary , Sergeant Kneafsey was the first office holder ; iritual benefits accrued to policemen and their families . -1933 ) , Station-Sergeant John Gillick ( 1933-1946 ) , Gard he remains removed to Mount Argus . The decision cemented of secretary , Sergeant Kneafsey was the first office holder ne key post of secretary , Sergeant Kneafsey was the first c died saving life constable in the Hawkins Street tragedy . 45B , DMP who Patrick Sheahan , 1905 . 35 . 35 . --- Page 37 --- being removed from Mount Argus . 0 0 URNEY STATE-constable Sheahan's remains The remains being placed in the Hearse 0 0 sir . " A gallant Irishman " Patrick Sheahan 45B were brought to Mount Argus . when brought to the surface . away , and that Ireland's glory has faded ... . Constable Sheahan was not immediately missed ; he was already dead had been overcome by the sewer gas . The workmen were removed to who left a widow and nine children . In the excitement of the rescue , # Our Divine Lord , tells us that greater love than this no man remains of the victim in the Hawkins Street tragedy in 1905 . Constable # In that he lays down his life for a friend ... . People are inclined Stanislaus Curran , with the entire community in the choir . The homily Mercer's Hospital , where the second victim died : foreman John Fleming , The church was packed for the funeral mass , celebrated by Father a main sewer to go to the aid of Dublin Corporation workmen who On May 6th Sheahan , 29 and unmarried , descended by a manhole into livered by Father Columban Tyne : " The author and source of In one of the most remarkable funerals in the history of the city . The 36 . --- Page 38 --- Passionist Fathers , past and present " . the signal services rendered to the Police Force by the The original gates at Mount Argus , erected in 1909 by 37 . MP Catholic Obsequies Association " in deep appreciation of divisional clerks at the pay table . Collecting a penny a week the DMP Mounted Troop had difficulty in clearing the way . the Funds . " From 1916 , on the initiative of secretary/treasurer Inspector thanked " for the highly satisfactory manner in which they performed the 1897 . At the AGM in 1902 , divisional and barracks collectors were policeman's funeral to Kingsbridge railway station on the first leg of the the collections they upheld the good work of the Association and fortified crucified instituted , I feel I am justified in saying that few index could compare with Patrick Sheahan . ' . Today I cannot refrain from of a gallant Irishman who has done a deed which rivals the achievements found expression in the Sheahan monument that stands on Burgh Quay . a glorious type of manhood in their midst . " Dense crowds followed the we regard him from the standpoint of physical prowess devotion to run ' ongradulating the Metropolitan Police force in Dublin in having such Sir Walter Edgeworth Johnstone , the subscriptions were collected by one penny a week , and the first collection was taken up on 21 January " Thanks be to God , we have lying before the altar here today the remains task entrusted to them , as by their energy and perseverance in making The accident evoked an unprecedented outpouring of public dismay that sacred cause of duty , or the faithful practice of religion which Christ The membership subscription was fixed initially at one shilling a year , or journey for burial in his native Glin , Co. Limerick . At the railway station the heroes of ancient and modern history - one who , whether rely , and with the consent of the Commissioner . Lieut-Colonel --- Page 39 --- 0 0 --- Page 40 --- In 1903 , with an annual income of E30 , the funeral grant was E5 . At Ross , a Catholic and a prominent member of St. Joseph's Young Priests Fathers , past and present " , proposed the erection of wrought iron gates altar canopy , in 1928 ; and Mass vestments . The grounds , and the streets announced that the Association was now firmly established , with a week to yield an annual income of E55,000 ; the funeral grant is now acknowledged its debt ; the gift of a Montrance , also in 1909 ; a marble E151.3s.6d in the bank . From such small beginnings , with prudent non-subscribing members . The Rector , Father Sebastian Slean , would presented a problem for the Chief Commissioner . Lieut - Colonel Sir John Eucharistic Congress in 1932 . The chapel dedicated to St. Patrick in the Metropolitan Area including Garda Headquarters subscribe forty peace the AGM that year Inspector McFeely with undoubtedly satisfaction Inspector Daniel Barrett , seconded by Station-Sergeant Patrick Barker . especially of inform members of the Community ; and the Association also legend , " Erected by the Dublin Metropolitan Police 1909 , would have entrance , " inscribed in English and Irish characters . " The proposed Society , who commanded a force with a large Protestant minority of in the vicinity of Mount Argus were decorated by the Association for the " of Irish manufacture " at the Kimmage Road entrance to Mount Argus . expenses in the cause of Father Charles of Mount Argus , who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Rome on 16 October 1988 . In the Mount Argus Centenary year , 2 540 members in the greater E1,200 , payable for members and their spouses , and the future is secured Responding to some murmurs of disapproval , the committee ballotted the committee . The plaque when it was unveiled carried the inscription by sound investment . more recent years , a lift was installed in the monastery for the benefit of the signal services rendered to the Police Force by the Passionist donated the modern granite baptismal font . The present entrance , incorporating the original gates , was a gift of the in Irish : " Do they Companact . Adhlaicthe Constablaidh Ba The Association was well established with ample funds in 1909 when management the Association was to grow from strength to strength . Inspector Barrett suggested commemorative brass plates at the new Metropolitan Division of the Garda Siochana . in favour of the initiative , 73 against . The Obsequies Association in many other ways over the years has have hesitated to write to the Commissioner for approval , as requested by an Geata so 1909 " . In 1963 , the avenue was widened to cater for modern traffic conditions . The Association was privileged to contribute to the administrative the Association members : of the 590 voting papers returned , 517 were urging the committee to make a substantial gesture " in deep appreciation ambulatory behind the altar was presented by the Garda Siochana . --- Page 41 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rome Pilgrimage 1928 of Cashel mentioned a recent pilgrimage to Rome by the Catholic Guild of the London Metropolitan Police . The prospects for a Garda pilgrimage were discussed by the Jesuits at a meeting of the Confraternity of the eating of the Catholic Truth Society in 1927 , Archbishop Mulhern of the Treaty . Father figures . policemen . Ephraem O'Connell , who was spiritual director from 1910 to 1914 . in need in Father Anthony Doherty , spiritual director 1916-1919. The meetings were also attended by a spiritual director in an expanding from 1897 to 1901 . In later years , the chair was taken by Father Rector . returned to duty in the ruined city , chaling at their meagre pay , the He was succeeded by Father Xavier Beale who cared for the spiritual Independence ; and he was a steadying influence during the upheaval on Ancient Order of Hibernians stepped in to organise their protest . With On the outbreak of rebellion in 1916 , the streets were no place for Passionist priest to take on the burdens of a father-figure among Dublin's employers and Larkin's workmen . It was not an easy time for Father amalgamation of the DMP and the Garda Siochana in 1925 , when then Father Mark Gavin entered the annals of the Association as the first needs of the force during the renewed fighting in Dublin in the War of unarmed , constables , and the force was confined to barracks . As they rumours of another police strike in the air , the constables found a friend 1913 lockout when the DMP was caught in the firing line between the The role of the spiritual director was given a new dimension during the apostolate that included sick calls and visits to policemen's families . had to decide whether to remain in the service , or retire under the terms er John Baptist Byrne was President of the Obsequies Association another police strike in the air , the constables found a friend --- Page 42 --- hoped that the gardai would wear their uniforms . discouraged from travelling at their own expense . duty and of honour . misgivings among civil servants at the proposal to permit so many each of the pilgrims personally , admitting the pilgrimage medal based on Angelo along the Via Della Conciliazione to the Vatican to meet the Pope . The Consistorial Hall rang with their shouts of joy as the Pope welcomed since the introduction of Christianity in Ireland " . The Pope in his turn chaplain , and Father William Gleeson S. J. , marched from Castel Sant' the Tricolour and the Garda ensign : " These are the emblems of work , presented by your distinguished General , that you are the Civic Guards , at the plans for " the first National Pilgrimage of an Irish Police Force expected that 300 members of the force would take part . There were On 18 October 1928 , Commissioner O'Duffy and 250 officers and men , Commissioner was informed that the men would not be officially re Garda badge , pinned to their tunics . With his own hands , he unfolded with banners about , accompanied by Father Austin Tierney , principal we many times read , as again just now in the beautiful address ghted Archbishop Multern conveyed to Pope Pius XI his enthusiasm up with the Department of Justice by Commissioner Eoin O'Duffy , who Dublin Metropolitan Division at Gardiner Street . The matter was taken responsible for the preservation of order , of public peace and security ... . n to be absent " on holidays " in another country , but the pilgrimages to principal in Lourdes , 1930 . Tierney , Father Austin Rome , 1928 , and chaplain , garda . 41 . --- Page 43 --- 42 . --- Page 44 --- weapons of vigilance , diligence and dutiful courage . ' organisation are compiled . multitude at the famous Marian shrine . your faith . ' long journey by boat and train across Europe to join the international His unique contribution to stability in the Force during a critical period the tombs the Irish aristocrats , Father Austin appealed strongly to the social interests of members of the Garda Siuchana for 26 years . beloved country where persecution does not exist , fight always the good the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in 1930 when the response was even " Wild Geese " who fled from persecution at home in the 17th century . At chaplain Father Clarence concelebrated mass with Pope John Paul II . fight against the insidious tendencies of modern life ... to undermine The pilgrims had earlier visited the great Basilica of St. Peter . At San Remember with heartfelt gratitude what you owe to God . Ireland again as principal chaplain Father Austin accompanied the men on the boundless energy Father Clarence Daly served the spiritual and wr " led by Commissioner Patrick McLaughlin , Bishop Brendan Comi- another breath was placed on the tombs of Hugh O'Neill , son of the A new spiritual director was introduced at the 60th AGM of the with no material arms , but you are armed with the far more valuable of its history will not be properly assessed until the annals of the modern representing the Archbishop Dermot Ryan of Dublin . As principal Earl of Tyrone , and Rory O'Donnell , Earl of Tyrconnell , the distinguished The success of the pilgrimage to Rome in 1928 inspired the pilgrimage to Obsequies' Association in 1957 . With extraordinary dedication and and your ancestors . In these more fortunate days in our blessed and patriotic as well as the religious sentiments of the young policemen . Pietro in Montorio on Janiculum Hill , where St. Peter was martyred a disarmed Guard . Disarmed , indeed , in the sense that you are provided greater , over 350 members of the Force in all ranks taking part ; and once ne with the Garda Diamond Jubilee Pilgrimage , 1922 - Foreign service . independence . Superintendent Noel Anderson . included Commissioner Eugene Crowley , and the group leader , " Chief Mass on the eve of the departure of a Garda contingent for duty with in your host country , you will be custodians of a great tradition . You the United Nations in Namibia , South-West Africa . The congregation history the ideals of the Garda Siochana . As Guardians of the Peace challenge , to carry into effect in another country for the first time in Good Samaritan as the Namibian people make the transition to national Headquarters on 22 March 1989 when Father Ralph Egan , celebrated In an historic homily , Father Ralph said : " You are being offered a unique will have an opportunity to put into practice the Gospel message of the " bring the story up to the present day , history was made at Garda --- Page 45 --- the pioneer group in the Namibian desert . The Garda Siochana was revitalised by the experience of foreign service . women who comprised the United Nations Garden group in the desert he turned to God in prayer , and an angel brought food to silence of the desert . When the prophet Elijah long ago faltered on his trek restore his strength , " Father Ralph said , addressing the young men and in the autumn of 1989 , flying out of Ireland on an apostolic mission joined " In the Namibian desert you will be a long way from home , but the great journeys in life are not always measured in distances travelled . You will were # attending but you will discover God in the experience difficulty in attending mass , but you will discover God in the nists became part of the new development when Father Ralph restore his strength , " Father Ralph said , addressing t of the Garda Diamond Jubilee Pilgrimage , 1922-1982 . Father Clarence Daly CP. meeting Pope John Paul II in Rome on the occasion 0 0 44 . --- Page 46 --- refused to arrest the Saviour . of good will . overwhelming impression made upon them and yielded themselves to His that no vulgar person is pious . The very fact that the policemen had an The location of policemen was sacrificed that day when these officers fountains of Benediction was an indication of the powers . He had over men Fulton J. Sheen , Life of Christ Have you , too , let yourselves be deceived ? Why have you not brought him here ? Or of the Pharisees ? The officers answered , And the Pharisees answered , Have any of the rulers come to believe in him yet , A curse is on them . Nobody has ever spoken as this man speaks . culiminate in the Crucifixion . The Pharisees sent police officers to arrest chief priests and Pharisees empty-handed . The officials asked them : In the midst of Our Lord's affirmation that he was the Messiah , there Our Lord ... . The police who were ordered to arrest Him returned to the began some of the judicial and civil measures which were later to As for these common folk who have no knowledge of the law , --- Page 47 --- 0 0 --- Page 48 --- National Archives . Association as essentially a spiritual force ; of Sergeant John Duffy , Garda Museum ; and the late Father Pancras Fanning C.P. , Archivist ; and Mr. Andrew O The author , a former member of the Garda Siochana , acknowledges the assistance of sociation as essentially a spiritual force ; of Sergeant John Duffy , G he late Mr. William ( Bill ) Cloney , who defined the role of Obsequ Mount Argus ; of the late Mr. William ( Bill ) Cloney , who defined the role DMP/Garda Siochana Centenary , 1893-1993 St. Paul's Retreat , Mount Argus appendix . Printed by the Elo Press Ltd. , Dublin 8 Passionist Publications 1993 Media Conversion by Diskon Technical Services Ltd . "