[26] Separation of South in 1845.
[27] Centenary year.
[28] He stole, killed, and ate the whole of Apollo's herd, before he was a day old! See Homer's Hymn to Mercury.
[29] A French child's word for hurt.
[30] The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and the Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria. By J. Roderick O'Flanagan, M.R.I.A. Two vols. pp. 555, 621. London: Longmans Green & Co. New York: The Catholic Publication Society.
[31] Com. on the Laws of England, p. 429 et seq.
[32] Between 1172 and 1200, Ireland had no fewer than seventeen chief governors. In the thirteenth century, they numbered forty-six; in the fourteenth, ninety-three; in the fifteenth, eighty-five; in the sixteenth, seventy-six; in the seventeenth, seventy-nine; and in the eighteenth, ninety-four.—O'Flanagan, vol. i. p. 293.
[33] O'Flanagan, vol. i. p. 130.
[34] Life and Death of the Irish Parliament. By the Right Hon. James Whiteside, C.J.
[35] Gilbert's Viceroys of Ireland.