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Identifier: irelandinlondon00fahy (find matches)
Title: Ireland in London
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Fahy, Francis A. (Francis Arthur), 1854-1935 O'Donoghue, D. J. (David James), 1866-1917
Subjects: Irish
Publisher: Dublin : Evening Telegraph
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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THE GUILDHALL. frequently involved in quarrels. His encounterwith Bowen was owing to slight causes, andas he was furiously attacked by the latterwith a sword, Quin was compelled to draw, andbeing an expert swordsman, gave Bowen amortal wound. It was also in Cornhill. in 1798,that William Putman MCabe, the famous UnitedIrishman, was attacked by the police, but, aftera brief struggle, baffled them with his usual luckand daring, and escaped arrest. It was probablyhis reckless boldness and determination to rulfilhis mission which led him so often to London atthe risk of death, and may have helped him even-tually to escape the many perils by which he wassurrounded.Leadenhall-street is a continuation of Corn- UVAl
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4§\ Wo citv 0^*GATC TO Bisvvopso m&) Ireland in London. 23 hill. On the left is the Church of St. KatherineCree, of which the most prominent rector hasbeen the Dr. Nicholas Brady above referred to. Threadneedle-street runs from the Bank of Eng-land to Bishopsgate-street. In the Hall of theMerchant Taylors, which is in the former 6treet,may be seen Wilkies splendid portrait of Well-ington, aud among the magnificent collection ofplate here are some very curious and valuableold Irish silver tankards of 1683. Off Bishops-gate-stbeet is Gresham College (Basinghall-6Tbeet), where the Royal Society was startedin 1663. Its first President, Sir WilliamBrouncker, an Irishman, and others of his coun-trymen who afterwards became Presidents, suchas Robert Boyle, Hans Sloane, and Lord Carbery,were frequent visitors here. In completing our survey of the City, we haveonly to add that not a few of its most successfulbusiness men have been Irish. As a mere list ofnames would be of little use or in

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