"I confess, that the history of religion in Ireland has always had peculiar charms for me; and although I have ever felt the deepest interest in the gallant, but gradually less and less successful, struggles for independence of my own race, I have dwelt with still deeper interest on the religious history of the same race, a history of progress and development alike in prosperity and in adversity, a history which links the past with the present and the future — a past to which we can revert with well-grounded pride, a present in which we recognize with gratitude the fruit of the struggles and sufferings of our forefathers, whose example we are called on to imitate, a future to which we may look for ward with humble but well-grounded hope."
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Memorials of Those Who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland (1868)
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Myles William Patrick O'Reilly
Myles William Patrick O'Reilly (13 March 1825 – February 1880) was an Irish author.
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