[To the Editor o . the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a reply to
your correspondents, Canon Thompson and Rev. Mr. Hammond, your readers may care to have the views of two other distinguished Irishmen, one Protestant, the other Catholic, which give the true contemporary use of the word. In the Times, October 29th, 1929, I read :— " Frederick, Lord Cloncurry of Maretimo, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, died on July 18th, aged 82, leaving property. . . . He gives : £1,000 to the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin and the rector of Blackrock and £1,000 to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and the parish priest of Blackrock, the income to be used at Christmas time to relieve the wants of those poor women of 65 years of age who live within the Urban District of Blackrock. . .
The Archbishops and Incumbents are here correctly desig- nated. In one of Finlay Peter Dunn's " Mr. Dooley books " that genial philosopher has the following :—
" ' Are you a Romanist ? " A what ' said Mr. Dooley. ' I mean, are you a Papist " No ! ' said Mr. Dooley. I mean, are you a Roman Catholic ? " No, thank God,' said Mr. Dooley, I am a Chicago Catholic.' " —I am, Sir, &c., B. P. MURPHY.
St. Joseph's, Enfield, Middlesex.
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