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Memoirs of Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Ll. D.
Memoirs of Edward Vaughan Kenealy Ll D Author:Edward Vaughan Kenealy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: John Long Subjects: Lawyers Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com ... more »where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV Defends Francis Looney -- The Ministry and the Chartists -- William Dowling -- Mrs Mowatt -- Richard Birnie -- Stands unsuccessfully for Cork. The Autobiography once more takes up the thread: -- XLII I left Cork on Wednesday, 3rd June 1846, and arrived in London by a long sea passage on Sunday, the 7th. The voyage was cheerful, and it seemed ominous of good that I was not once (as I generally am) sea-sick. The captain of our ship (the Sirius) got drunk just before we reached the Eddystone Lighthouse, and it was not until an hour after that he found he had been steering to the United States instead of to Merry England. We soon put about, and were again in smooth water. About a year after he lost her, and with her a number of passengers, who paid with their lives for our skipper's love of brandy. I was soon happy in comfortable lodgings, from which I sent missives to my literary friends. I went to pleasant parties, renewed many of my agreeable country excursions, and felt the greatest satisfaction at my emancipation. XLIII On Friday, the first of January 1847, my darling mother died, my name being the last on her lips. This compelled me to go to Cork for a month or six weeks, where I found my father paralysed with grief, and entirely incapable of taking care of himself. I induced him to Stands for Trinity College sell his house, and to join me in London, and I bade a final farewell to the city of my birth. On the first of May 1847 I was called to the English Bar, and three weeks afterwards addressed the constituency of Trinity College...« less