Excerpt from The Portrait of a Pious Bishop: Or, the Life and Death of the Most Reverend Francis Kirwan, Bishop of Killala While the author's great work, Cambron Evcrsus, has been familiar to the student of Irish History, this little volume has remained comparatively unknown. Now and again, a copy has been offered to public com etition in an auction-room; and a notion be form of the value set on it, when that sold amongst the late Bishop Heber's collection brought the large sum of eighteen pounds, ten shillings.

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