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Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690

Note 204 — Chapter LI · THE PARLIAMENT OF 1689

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Sheridan MS. The character in Macariæ Excidium, p. 83, is much to the same effect; O’Kelly and Sheridan both accusing Tyrconnel of favouring the Anglo-Irish and depressing the native Celts. In his memoir, printed at the end of Avaux’s Negotiations, Hugh Balldearg O’Donnell says Tyrconnel was particularly hostile to the Ulster Irish. Light to the Blind, attributed to a Plunket, always praises him. ‘Infiniment vain et fort rusé,’ says Berwick. ‘Talbot s’était dès long-tems porté pour patron des Irlandais opprimés. Ce zèle pour sa nation était fort louable; mais il n’était pas tout-à-fait désinteressé. De tous ceux que son crédit avait fait rétablir dans une partie de leurs biens il avait écorné quelque petite chose; mais comme chacun y trouvait son compte, personne n’y trouvait à redire,’ Mem. de Grammont, chap. ix. Clarendon’s Life, Cont., pp. 929 sqq. Burnet, i. 176, 227, and the Supplement, 255.

Next Talbot must by his great master stand, Laden with folly, flesh, and ill-got land; He’s of a size indeed to fill a porch, But ne’er can make a pillar of the Church.

Marvell’s Advice to a Painter, p. 67.

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