LANE, DENNY (1818-95).—­A Cork commercial man who identified himself prominently with the Young Ireland cause in Munster.  Author of “Carrigdhoun” and some other popular ballads.

LAWLESS, HON.  CECIL.—­Son of Lord Cloncurry.  An O’Connellite Repealer and somewhat virulent opponent of the Young Irelanders who nicknamed him “Artful Cecil.”

LEDRU-ROLLIN, ALEXANDRE (1808-74).—­Minister of the Interior in the French Republican Government of 1848.  He was connected with Ireland by marriage and strongly sympathised with its people.

LEFROY, BARON (1776-1869).—­One-time member for Trinity College in the British Parliament.  Subsequent to 1848 promoted Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, and although he became incapable of discharging the office he refused to resign it until he had passed his ninetieth year.

LEYNE, MAURICE RICHARD (1820-1854).—­The only member of the O’Connell family who identified himself with Young Ireland.  He was an occasional contributor to the Nation from 1844 to 1848 and in June of that year, on the eve of the insurrection, formally joined Young Ireland.  On the revival of the Nation in 1849 he joined Duffy in its editorship.

LOUIS NAPOLEON (1808-1873).—­Son of the King of Holland, nephew of the great Napoleon, President of the second Republic and, after the coup d’etat and the plebescite, Emperor of France.  Napoleon while in exile manifested some sympathy with Ireland, and as a member of the French Republic was, like Cavaignac, willing to intervene on this country’s behalf with England if the Young Irelanders had succeeded in winning initial engagements against the British forces in the field.

[Illustration:  Louis Napoleon (1848)]

MACHALE, ARCHBISHOP (1791-1881).—­“John of Tuam”—­the greatest of the Irish prelates of his time.  He was in partial sympathy with the Young Irelanders, but opposed to them on several educational questions.

MACNEVIN, THOMAS (1810-1848).—­A leading Young Irelander and college friend of Davis.  Author, in the Library of Ireland, of “The Confiscation of Ulster” and “The History of the Volunteers.”

MACMANUS, TERENCE BELLEW (1823-60).—­A prosperous Irish merchant in Liverpool who relinquished his prosperity to join in the insurrection.  He escaped from the British penal colonies to the United States and died there in poor circumstances.

MACLISE, DANIEL (1806-1870).—­One of the first painters of his time.  He refused the presidency of the British Royal Academy.

M’CARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE (1817-1882).—­One of the chief poets of the Nation, afterwards Professor of English Literature in the Catholic University.