. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. The works ofthe Banim brothers continued the same sad and fascinating story ofthe mere Irish ** which Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan had laidto the hearts of English readers in the late eighteenth and earlynineteenth century days. The Banim family was one of those which belonged to the class of middlemen,** peo-ple so designated in Ireland who wereneither rich nor poor, but in the fortunatemean. The family home was in the his-toric town of Kilkenny, famous alike forits fighting confederation and its fightingcats. Here Michael was b
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. The works ofthe Banim brothers continued the same sad and fascinating story ofthe mere Irish ** which Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan had laidto the hearts of English readers in the late eighteenth and earlynineteenth century days. The Banim family was one of those which belonged to the class of middlemen,** peo-ple so designated in Ireland who wereneither rich nor poor, but in the fortunatemean. The family home was in the his-toric town of Kilkenny, famous alike forits fighting confederation and its fightingcats. Here Michael was born August 5th,1796, and John April 3d, 1798. Michael5^^ JIK4l^te»».^v„.^ lived to a green old age, and survived his younger brother John twenty-eight years,less seventeen days; he died at Booters-town, August 30th, 1874. The first stories of this brotherly col-JoHN Banim laboration in letters appeared-in 1825 with- out mark of authorship, as recitals contributed for instruction andamusement about the hearth-stone of an Irish household, called < The. JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM 14-9 OHara Family. The minor chords of the soft music of the GaelicEnglish as it fell from the tongues of Irish lads and lasses, whetherin note of sorrow or of sport, had already begun to touch with win-some tenderness the stolid Saxon hearts, when that idyl of theircountrys penal days, <The Croppy,* and < Father Connell.* The fact that during the long survival of Michael no more of theBanim stories appeared, is sometimes called in as evidence that thelatter had little to do with the writing of the series. Michael andJohn, it was well known, had worked lovingly together, and
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