MELBOURNE, LORD (1779-1848).—­William Lamb, second Viscount, Chief Secretary of Ireland, 1827-8, and Premier of England with brief intervals from 1834 to 1841.

MILEY, JOHN, D.D. (1805-1861).—­Curate at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, and private chaplain to O’Connell.  He was the intermediary in arranging the reunion of the O’Connellites with the Young Irelanders in the stillborn Irish League.  In 1849 he was made Rector of the Irish College at Paris.  On his return to Ireland he was appointed parish priest of Bray.  He was an eloquent preacher, and author of several works on the Papacy.

MITCHEL, JOHN (1818-75).—­A solicitor of Banbridge, and one of the first Irish Protestants of note to join the Repeal Association.  From the death of Davis until the end of 1847 he was the chief writer of the Nation newspaper.  On his escape from the British penal colonies in 1853 he settled in the United States, and took an active part on the Confederate side in the civil war.  He returned to Ireland a few months before his death, and was elected member of the British Parliament for Tipperary, as a demonstration of hostility to British Government in Ireland.

MOORE, JUDGE.—­Richard Moore, called to the Bar in 1807, acted for the defence in the trial of O’Connell and the Traversers, Liberal Attorney-General in 1846 and “almost Lord Chancellor.”  He was raised to the Bench in 1847 and died in 1858.

MONAHAN, JAMES HENRY (1804-78).—­Attorney-General in 1848, Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, 1850.

NAGLE, DR.—­“A Dublin doctor without patients,” who acted as a handyman for John O’Connell.  He was devoid of ability.  Subsequently he received a small Government post.

O’CONNELL, DANIEL (1775-1847).—­Successor to John Keogh in the leadership of the Irish Catholics, and although his actual achievements were not so much greater than those of Keogh and Sweetman, their brilliancy threw the fame of his predecessors into the shade, where it still rests.

O’CONNELL, MAURICE (1802-53).—­Eldest son of Daniel O’Connell, and a member of the British Parliament.  He was the cleverest and most national of O’Connell’s children.

O’CONNELL, MORGAN JOHN (1804-85).—­Second son to Daniel O’Connell.  He served under General Devereux in South America, entered the British Parliament as a Repealer, deserted Repeal, and was appointed Assistant-Registrar of Deeds.

O’CONNELL, JOHN (1810-1858).—­The chief political assistant of his father, Daniel O’Connell.  After the collapse of the Repeal Association he received a place from the British Government.

O’CONNELL, DANIEL, JUN. (1815-1897).—­The youngest of O’Connell’s sons.  He sat in the British Parliament until 1863, when he was appointed to a Government post.

O’CONOR DON, THE (1794-1847).—­Repeal M.P. for Roscommon.  He deserted to the Liberals, and was made a Lord of the Treasury.

O’DEA, PATRICK.—­The Young Ireland leader in Rathkeale, Co.  Limerick.