" “LIVES

AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF IRISH SETTLERS IN NORTH AMERICA ;

OF THE IRISH WRITERS; LIFE OF ART. M'MURROGH ;
“ HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF O'CONNELL AND HIS

FRIENDS,” ETC.; ETC., ETC.

“For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues:

“ And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings, for my sake, for a testi-
mony to them and to the Gentiles." St. MATTHEW : Chap. x. Verses 17, 18.

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