George McDermot
George McDermot. was an Irish lawyer, writer and poet, and Catholic priest. He was an investigator and judge under the Arrears Act of 1882.
Biography
George McDermot was born on 20 May 1841 in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Edward McDermot, a merchant and Kate McGreevy. He attended St. Jarlath's Diocesan College, Tuam, Co. Galway and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with the degree of B.A. in 1864. He studied law at the King's Inns Dublin and Middle Temple London. He was a practising barrister-at-law on the Western Circuit for several years and a sometime judge under the Arrears Act of 1882. In the late 1880s he gave up a successful legal career in Ireland and went to New York, where he joined the Paulist Order, taking Holy Orders in 1894. He served in parishes in New York from 1894 to 1910. He retired in 1912 and went to live in San Francisco. He died there on 11 December 1917.
Political views
He was a member of the Irish Nationalist Party, which sought Home Rule for Ireland, and was president of his local branch association in Castlerea. The Nation reported on a speech he delivered in February 1872.
He joined the Irish National League, founded by C.S. Parnell, in 1885.
Published works
As a lawyer, his best-known work was an authoritative book on the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 and related acts including the . This ran to a second edition published in November 1881. He also contributed poems in his youth to The Nation, an Irish weekly newspaper. He published the following scholarly articles contributed to the Catholic World, The North American Review, American Journal of Sociology and The American Catholic Quarterly Review between 1890 and 1910The Official Class in Ireland Home Rule in Ireland Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago A Reply to Mr. Lecky The Irish Tories and Irish Local Government Home Rule and the General Election Home Rule or Egotism Taxation in Ulster under A Home Rule Parliament The Minority in Ulster under Home Rule The Ann Arbor Strike and the Law of Hiring The Gobhan Saer The Dual Ownership of Land in Ireland A Myth The Pullman Strike Commission Centenary of Maynooth College An Introduction to the Study of Society The Church and the New Sociology The Great Assassin and the Christians of Armenia A Note on the Term “Social Evolution” Dwellings of the Poor and Their Morality Public Opinion and Improved Housing Dante's Theory of Papal Politics Edmund Burke, the Friend of Human Liberty “Farthest North” By Dr. Nansen The French Expedition to Ireland in 1798 Ancestor Worship the Origin of Religion Dr. Benson on the Primacy of Jurisdiction Unpublished Letters of Napoleon The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome Socialism, Altruism and the Labor Question “The Diary of Master William Silence” The Huguenots Henryk Sienkiewicz Rationalism and the English Church Gladstone and His Critics Mr. Chamberlain's Foreign Policy and the Dreyfus Case Prince Bismarck The Anglo-American Alliance and the Irish Americans Hamlet's Madness and German Criticism Irish Local Government Act Irish University Education The Papacy in the Nineteenth Century The End of the Century and the Italian Revolution English Administrators and the Ceded Possessions The Press and the Next Conclave Cyrano de Bergerac Markham: A Mischievous Pessimist The Celtic Revival The South African Republic Mr. Mallock on the Church and Science The Church in the Early Years of Henry VIII Chair of Philosophy in Trinity College Washington D.C. Cromwell and Liberty President Eliot's Address at Tremont Temple Lord Russell of Killowen The Irish Policy of Cromwell and the Commonwealth Spencer's Philosophy Descartes and the Philosophy of the French Revolution Land Purchase in Ireland Home Rule and Mr. Chamberlain's Zollverein Irish Catholics, English Dissenters and the Education Act The Situation in Ireland: The Landlords and the Cattle Drivers England and the Sultan Anarchism in India and its Consequences The Suppression of the Templars An Expediency Sir Robert Anderson's “Parnellism and Crime” Senor Ferrer and the Anarchists Again