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| ST. JARLATH'S COLLEGE, TUAM, CO. GALWAY. -The above is a view of one of the most celebrated Catholic colleges in Ireland, which was the pride of the great Archbishop McHale and of his able spiritual lieutenant, the Very Rev. Ulick Bourke. Both have passed to their reward, but St. Jarlath's will ever remember them with gratitude and pride. The Archbishop and the learned Doctor were the preservers of the Gaelic tongue in Connaught, and their splendid example had a happy effect on the cause of the Gaelic revival in other parts of Ireland. Archbishop McHale translated Moore's Melodies into Irish, preserving the rhythm, and thus making the songs of the Irish bard familiar by the hearthstones of the Connaught peasantry. He also composed a Catechism in Gaelic, and even made Homerian classics familiar to the people in the same manner. The college is named after St. Jarlath, who founded the diocese at Cluain Fois, near the city, in A. D. 501. The See was made archiepiscopal under the learned and pious Most Rev. Edan O'Hoisin in 1152. Mayo was added to the archdiocese in 1559 and Annaghdownin 1573. The college of St. Jarlath's is not exclusively for ecclesiastical students, but a large proportion of the scholars enter holy orders-generally finishing their course at Maynooth. Both the Catholic and Protestant archbishops have their residences in Tuam. The name, according to the Four Masters, is derived from the Gaelic Tuaim-da-ghualann-the "Tumules of the Two Shoulders," from an ancient burial mound in the district. The new building here shown were erected about 1871. |
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