Editorial note — THE BIRTHPLACE OF SAINT PATRICK. BY J. CASHEL HOEY.

[Footnote 140: M. Piers, in the paper already cited, quotes H. Amédée Thierry as saying; "Les Brittani furent les premiers qui a'y fixèrent; il habitalent une partie de la Morinie; peut-être par un pieux souvenir ont-ils appelé leur nouvelle patrie la Grande Bretagne. Les Atrebates anglais, originaires de Belgium, résidaient à Caleva ou Galena Atrebatum, à 22 milles de Venta Belgarum dans le canton où est aujourd'hui Windsor." H. Piers adds that there is a tradition that a colony of the Morini had given their name to a distant country of islands which they discovered; but that he has found it impossible to discover the name in any ancient atlas. Perhaps the district of Mourne, on the north-east coast of Ireland, is that indicated. The Irish derivation of the name is at all events identical with the French ]