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The Story Behind An Historic Picture Final find. 2 Lt. x. of Seated (left to right)—Right Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Ballarat; Right Rev. Dr. Cotter, Bishop of Portsmouth; Most Rev. Dr. Harty, Archbishop of Cashel; Most Rev. Dr. Mannix; Right Rev. Dr. McSherry, Bishop of the Cape of Good Hope; Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty, Archbishop-Bishop of Killaloe; Most Rev. Dr. O'Doherty, Bishop of Galway, and then Bishop of Clonfert. Standing (left to right)—Very Rev. H. Brennan, Adm. (Clonfert); Rev. Father Chrysostom Dore, O.F.M.; Very Rev. T. O'Donnell, C.M., President All Hallows College; Very Rev. Dr. Kielty, P.P. (Elphin); Rev. J. Russell, C.C. (then Ballina, Killaloe); Right Rev. Dean Keown, P.P., V.G. (Clogher); Very Rev. Philip O'Doherty, P.P., V.G. (Derry); Very Rev. P. Markey, P.P. (Ardagh), and at back the Chaplain, C.M., to Hammersmith Convent, where Most Rev. Dr. Mannix was staying. SINCE the publication in the "Irish Independent" last week of the historic picture of the Archbishop of Melbourne, Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, and a group of clergy which included the Archbishop-Bishop of Killaloe, Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty, many letters have been received at Independent House identifying individual priests. The picture had been sent to us by Very Rev. M. Canon Hamilton, P.P., Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, and its publication aroused a great deal of interest amongst our readers. A letter which has been received from Rev. J. J. Russell, Kilcommon, Thurles, identifies all those who appear in the picture and adds that Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty and Father Russell are now the only surviving members of the group. Father Russell points out that the photograph was taken on the occasion of a presentation made to Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, in London on May 11, 1921, on behalf of the Hierarchy and the priests and people of Ireland. Father Russell was the honorary secretary of the organising committee. Most Rev. Dr. Mannix had at that time come from Australia intending to visit Ireland, but the British authorities refused to allow him to land in this country. He was taken off the liner Baltic on which he was a passenger, transferred by a launch to a British destroyer and landed at Penzance, near Plymouth. The clergy who appear with Archbishop Mannix in the historic picture were members of the delegation of Irish bishops and priests who went to London to bid His Grace bon voyage on his return journey to Australia. The presentation, which took the form of several addresses, was made the occasion of a private farewell lunch to Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, in the Jermyn Court Hotel, London, at which the Archbishop of Cashel, Most Rev. Dr. Harty, presided IRELAND'S GRATITUDE The addresses, which were afterwards presented at a public function in the hotel, expressed Ireland's gratitude for the Archbishop's fearless and powerful championship of her natural God-given right to be free. Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, in his reply, referred to the ban on his visit to Ireland by the Britis…