INQUIRY INTO CERTAIN VULGAR OPINIONS CONCERNING THE CATHOLIC INHABITANTS - AND THE ANTIQUITIES OF IRELAND: In a Series of Letters from thence, addressed to a Protestant By the Rev. J. MILNER, D. D. F. S. A. &c. Finibus occiduis describitur optima tellus, In qua Scotorum gentes habitare merentur; St. Donatus, Episc. Fessul. Sæcl. Nono. London: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY KEATING, BROWN, AND CO. SOLD ALSO BY BOOKER, Bond-street; BUDD, Pall-mall; SYMONDS, Pater-noster-row ; SIMPSON, Wolverhampton; WILKS, Birmingham; Messrs. CoYNE and [ Entered at Stationers hall. ] CONTENTS. OCCASION of the writer's tour to Ireland. tholics one of the phænomena of the times. -Dependance of the English Catholics upon them.-Journey through Wales.- Beauty of the river Liffy.-Royal college of Maynooth.-Vindication of the Irish Ca- tholic Clergy.—Their past services to the cause of literature in their own island, and in foreign countries. -Schools and universities founded by them.Their zeal and success in cultivating learning since |