“ On the night of September 14, 1865, the police made a raid on the offices in Parliament-street—under the very shadow of Dublin Castle—destroyed the matter that was in type, seized the books and documents, and before morning all the leading members of the staff, literary and commercial, were in custody. ”

“ Tipperary—one of the few endowed grammar schools in Ireland—and when 20 years of age he entered the Queen's College, Galway, with the intention of becoming a doctor, but never completed the course, and after spending three years at college began an aimless wandering existence on the Continent and in America. ”

“ O'Leary, having been enlisted in its ranks, returned to Dublin in 1860 to assist in spreading the movement in Ireland. In appointing Mr. O'Leary to the editorship of the Irish People, Stephens undoubtedly selected the one man in the movement with journalistic ability; but though in time it attracted able writers to its columns, the only contributor who made any impression on the hearts of his countrymen, and whose name will live long in Irish literary history, is Charles J. Kickham, the novelist, whose principal works, "Knocknagon" and "Sally Kavanagh," hold high places in Irish fiction. ”