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A Dog's Religion
Grace After Dinner
His Duel With Captain D'esterre
A Certificate Of Marriage
His Birth
A Mistaken Frenchman
Wisdom
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Arthur O'leary
A Martial Judge
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His Birth
Swift At Thomastown
Scene At Killiney
To Quilca
Sow-west And The Wigs
The Dean And Faulkner
Epistolary Bores
Curran As Punch's Man
His Duel With Bully Egan
His Reception At The Rotundo By The Volunteers
Random Irish Humour
A Mistaken Frenchman
To Quilca
A Courtier's Retort
A Certificate Of Marriage
Arthur O'leary
An Insolent Judge
Curran And Lord Erskine
The Upstart
Scene At Killiney
His First Client
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His Interview With Dr Mann
Irish Humour Home
Before he entered into a controversy with Doctor Blair, he deemed it
prudent, owing to the state of sufferance in which Catholic priests then
lived in Ireland, to obtain the sanction of the Protestant bishop of the
diocese. To this end he waited on Doctor Mann at the episcopal palace.
The interview is said to have been humorous in the extreme. O'Leary's
figure, joined to an originality of manner, sterling wit, and an
imagination which gave a color to every object on which it played, made
him a visitor of no common kind; and as the bishop was not cast in the
mould of handsome orthodoxy, the meeting was long remembered by both
parties. After some explanation, Doctor Mann gave his consent to the
undertaking; in consequence of which the public were soon gratified by
the appearance of his letters to Blair, whose discomfiture was so
complete that he never wrote a public letter afterwards.
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