Reclaiming Ireland

RECLAIMING IRELAND.

United Effort to Revive Almost Forgotten Industries.

To make Ireland a desirable country to inhabit and thereby not only check the outflow of her people, but also encourage those already abroad to return, is the object of the art industrial settlement opened in Dublin the other day, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The heads of the settlement will be Miss Evelyn Gleeson of the Irish Literary society of London, Miss Lily Yeats and Miss Elizabeth C. Yeats, daughters of the Irish portrait painter, J.B.Yeats. These young women are ardent Irish patriots and personally talented. Miss Gleeson is a powerful writer on pro-lrish themes. Lily Yeats has made a reputation in London as a teacher of art needlework. Elizabeth Yeats is a gifted art critic.

They have taken a large and beautiful house in Dublin and intend to convert it into a center both of propagandist and practical work for the industrial rebuilding of Ireland, particularly as regards art industries. In their scheme for rebuilding Irish industries the Misses Gleeson and Yeats have the hearty sympathy of Irish patriots everywhere. They will add one moro active force to the large number that are now striving to bring Ireland back to the path of national greatness.