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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
A Courtier's Retort
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
O'leary And The Quakers
Sir R Peel's Opinion Of O'connell
A Batch Of Interesting Anecdotes
His Person And Mode Of Argument
Dr Sacheverell
A Courtier's Retort
Gaining Over A Jury
Swift's Peculiarity Of Humor
Verses Left With A Silver Standish On The Dean's Desk By Dr Delany
The Dean And Faulkner
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Lady Morgan
Irish Humour Home
Lady Morgan, in her Wild Irish Girl, speaking of Father John,
chaplain of the Prince of Coolavin, says:--Father John was modelled on
the character of the Dean of Sligo, Dr. Flynn, one of those learned,
liberal, and accomplished gentlemen of the Irish Catholic hierarchy of
that day, whom foreign travel and education, and consequent intercourse
with European society and opinions, sent back to Ireland for its
advantage and illustration, thus turning the penalties of its shallow
and jealous government into a national benefit. At the head of this
distinguished order stood the illustrious Father O'Leary, the Catholic
Dean Swift of his time, the champion of peace, and the eloquent preacher
of Christian charity. His noble works live to attest his fitness to
counsel his country for her good, while his brilliant wit kept up her
reputation for that splendid gift which penal statutes can neither give
nor take away.
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