Address by the Vice-President at the opening of the Nineteenth Session

Abstract

That Association has endured for nearly twenty years, continually acquiring strength and influence. It has been a remarkable phenomenon in the social state of Ireland?remarkable, alike, in its action and in Its objects; and I can scarcely better begin to discharge the duty of this evening, than by indicating, as one more free to speak of them, because he has had little participation in them, the character of its services in the past and the claim they give it to confidence in the future.