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Show Irish Historians. Rev. John Colgan was a Franciscan friar in the Irish convent at Louvain and was "born 'in the County Donegal, ! says The Irish Vv'orld. He was a laborious, la-borious, and voluminous writer on the ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland, his best known works being "Acta Sanc-torani Sanc-torani IIlbernittt',.Lquvain, 1G43, and "Triadis . .Thaumaturgae," Louvain, 1 1047. John Lanigan, D. D., author of the "Ecclesiastical History of Ireland," Ire-land," w-as lorn at Cashel, County Tipperary. Tip-perary. in 17oS.. Sir James Ware, an eminent Irish antiquary, was born In Dublin in 1C94. : 'Martin Ilaverty's "History of Irelahd" first appeared about 40 years, ago. . Roderic O'Flaher-ty, O'Flaher-ty, historian and antiquary, was born at Moycullen castle, Coutity Galway, in IG-O. ifis great w:ork is the "Ogy gia," a history. of. ancient Ireland. |