Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . going throughthe hideous drudgery of unrecognized toil like this that suchmen show the depths of their self-devotion, the reality and Irelands Constitutional Rattle 057 earnestness of their self-forgetfulness. With the doubtfulexception of Mr. Parnell, Arthur OConnor lias the most thor-oughly and the best House-of-Commons style in the , deliberate, passionless in language, gesture, delivery,he is the very best mode
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . going throughthe hideous drudgery of unrecognized toil like this that suchmen show the depths of their self-devotion, the reality and Irelands Constitutional Rattle 057 earnestness of their self-forgetfulness. With the doubtfulexception of Mr. Parnell, Arthur OConnor lias the most thor-oughly and the best House-of-Commons style in the , deliberate, passionless in language, gesture, delivery,he is the very best model of an official speaker. The narrowlimits within which he confines himself do injustice to hispowers. The only occasion on which he did prominentlyenter into general debate was on the Bradlaugh question, andhis answer to Mr. Bright on that occasion suggested possi-bilities of sober but lofty eloquence. Finally, the sternness of Mr. OConnors faith does notprevent him from being one of the kindliest companions, oneof the most tolerant and even-tempered counsellors; thoughhe has much of the antique Roman, he has much also of thesocial charms of the modern Composed from the Book of Kells. CHAPTER XV. INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF T. D, SULLIVAN, AUTHOR OF IRELANDsNATIONAL ANTHEM, gOD SAVE IRELAND. Timothy Daniel Sullivan was born in 1827. The homeof the Sullivans was thoroughly National, and amid the stir-ring times of 1848 and the hideous disasters of the two pre-ceding years there were all the circumstances to make thenational faith of the family bitter and robust. The fatherwas carried away, like the majority of the earnest and ener-getic Irishmen of that time, by the Gospel which the youngIreland leaders were preaching with such fascination of voiceand pen, became one of the leaders of the local 48 club, and,as a reward, was dismissed from his employment by one ofthe local magistrates. T. D. Sullivan, like the rest of hisbrothers, though brought up in a small and remote to
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