ODDS AND ENDS The Story of Sarsfield's Daughter: Text Version Aug. 18, 1945 (By "AN MANGAIRE SUGACH") There is one name that will for all time be associated with Limerick. It is that of Patrick Sarsfield, the City's gallant defender. Many people must have called his exploits to mind last month during Limerick's Army Week, when they saw the historic events of 1691, re-enacted in Thomond Park. We were back again in the autumn of that fateful year. English were thundering, and once more the women of Limerick stood on the bullet-swept walls. In the final scene we saw Sarsfield ride out from that beleagured city to sign the famous Treaty, on practically the identical spot where the original Treaty was signed 254 years ago. There is hardly a more popular figure in all Irish history than Patrick Sarsfield. He is the first great Patrick to bear the name of our National Apostle, and well over two hundred years were to elapse before the name was again written large in the annals of our land, when a man called Pearse went out to die in protest for a glorious thing. St. Patrick, Patrick Sarsfield and Padraig Pearse - the story of Ireland would be meaningless without them. Enemies, no less than friends, have paid testimony to the upright character of Sarsfield. 'A brave and skilful leader', 'a gallant soldier', 'an honourable gentleman', 'the beau-ideal of Irish chivalry' – these are but some of the tributes paid to him. But how many of the millions who have heard of the Defender of Limerick know that he had a daughter who became a European Queen?

QUEEN OF CORSICA Her story is bound up with that of Corsica that Mediterranean isle so much in the news from time to time during the war just ended. In this island was born one of the greatest military commanders of all time, the 'little corporal', who was destined to become one day the Emperor Napoleon. For two centuries Corsica was a fief of the Republic of Genoa. Then in 1729 the islanders, believing that they were being called upon to pay unduly high taxes, flocked to the standard of Giacinto Paoli, and revolted. Paoli gave the island a constitution, and prepared to win her freedom from the unwilling Genose. In 1736, a German baron landed on the island with a supply of arms and... His opportune arrival gave ..[..] life to the cause of the island. An assembly of clergy and..[…] proclaimed him King of free and independent Corsica. His name was Theodore von Neuhof, and his wife was the daughter of Patrick Sarsfield. He was styled Theodore (?) King of Corsica, and he instituted an Order of Liberty and distributed titles. For a long while the fight for liberty went on; the Theodore left the island to seek allies. In the meantime French forces came to aid the Genose in crushing the Corsicans. In 1743 the King, having secured the support of some British ships, returned to the island to recover his kingdom, but during his absence the islanders had lost faith in him. This time they rejected him, and he had no choice but to sail away from the land over which he had once reigned as king.