CREAN, MICHAEL.—­Like M.G.  Conway, a Clare man, but of the opposite type.  Crean worked in Dublin as a shopman and with Hollywood was one of the two trades-union leaders on the Council of the Confederation, where he opposed Mitchel’s policy.  After the failure of the insurrection he went to the United States.

CROLLY, DR. (1780-1849).—­Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1835 until his death.

DAUNT, W.J.  O’NEILL.—­A Co.  Cork gentleman, one of O’Connell’s first Protestant supporters in the Repeal Movement.  He was elected for Mallow, but unseated.  He ceased to attend Conciliation Hall after the rupture with the Young Irelanders.  Many years later he took a prominent part in the Home Rule movement.

DAVIS, THOMAS (1814-1845).—­The founder and inspiration of the Young Ireland movement.  Son of an English father of Welsh descent and an Irish mother.  From the inception of The Nation newspaper until his death he was the chief writer of that journal.

DILLON, JOHN BLAKE (1816-1866).—­The close personal friend of Thomas Davis and with him one of the founders of the Nation.  On his return from exile he attempted to found an Irish Party in alliance with the British Radicals and sat in the British Parliament for Tipperary.

DOYLE, DANIEL.—­A Limerick solicitor who acted with John O’Donnell and O’Gorman in inciting Limerick county to insurrection in July, 1848.  After the failure he escaped across the water.

DUFFY, CHARLES GAVAN (1816-1903).—­One of the three founders of the Nation and its editor from 1842 to 1854, when he left Ireland for Australia where he became Prime Minister of Victoria.  In 1873 he received a knighthood.

“EVA” (1825-1910).—­Miss Mary Kelly of Galway, afterwards Mrs. Kevin Izod O’Doherty.  One of the chief poets of the Nation.

FERGUSON, SAMUEL (1810-1886).—­A Belfast barrister and, save Edward Walsh, the most Gaelic of Irish poets in the English language.  Ferguson took a leading part in the Protestant Repeal Association in 1848 and afterwards became one of the first of Irish archaeologists.  In 1878 he was knighted.

FITZGERALD, JOHN LOYD.—­Of Newcastle West, Limerick.  A lawyer of high standing.

FITZSIMON, CHRISTOPHER.—­Son-in-law of Daniel O’Connell, elected to the British Parliament for Co.  Dublin.  He deserted Repeal to support the Government and was rewarded with the post of Clerk of the Hanaper.  His desertion caused the representation of the Co.  Dublin to revert to the Unionists for half-a-century.

GRAY, SIR JOHN (1815-1875).—­A medical doctor and owner of the Freeman’s Journal, publicly supporting O’Connell, but personally in sympathy with Young Ireland.  He sat in the British Parliament subsequently for Kilkenny and was an active member of the Dublin Corporation.

GRATTAN, HENRY, JUN.—­Son of the great Grattan and member for Meath, 1831-52.  An honest but weak politician.