COMPENDIUM OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY.

A

COMPENDIUM OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY:

COMPRISING SKETCHES OF

DISTINGUISHED IRISHMEN,

AND OF

EMINENT PERSONS CONNECTED WITH IRELAND BY

OFFICE OR BY THEIR WRITINGS.

ALFRED WEBB.

"And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly and

meanly, it is that which I could attain unto."—II. MAC. XV. 38.

DUBLIN:
M. H. GILL & SON, SACKVILLE-STREET.

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