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of the Scots. He was a man well versed in the knowledge of the Scriptures, of great accomplishments in human learn- ing, and had an excellent taste both for prose and verse. For the love of learning he left Scotia (Ireland), travelled into France, and from thence into Italy and Asia ; at length, departing from the bor- ders of Achaia, he came to be in high esteem in the city of Rome, on account of his wonderful learning. He writ many works both in prose and verse." An edi- tion of his writings was published in Edinburgh in 1701. ^39

Senan, Saint, was born about 488, in Corcavaskin, in Thomond. Disgusted with the wars and outrages going on round him, he placed himself under the abbot Cassidan, took the monastic habit, and about 534 founded the religious estab- lishment of Inishscattery, on the Shan- non, and afterwards several of the cells and oratories on the remote islands off Clare and Kerry. Dr. Lanigan relates how a lady of Bantry, afterwards canon- ized as St. Cannera, sought permission to receive the viaticum, and to be buried in Inishscattery. At first the Saint positively refused ; but at length, understanding she was near her death, permitted her to spend the last few days of her life on the island, and there gave her body a resting place. Senan himself died about 544. Lanigan says : " The reputation of St. Senan has not been confined to Ireland, and his acts have been published amongst those of the saints of Brittany, on the supposition, whether well founded or not, that he was the same as St. Sane, one of the chief patrons of the diocese of St. Pol de Leon. Yet, notwithstanding the great fame of this saint, and in spite of the many monuments still recording his name and transactions in the island of Inishscat- tery, a pseudo-antiquary of our days has had the impudence to write that he was no other than the river Shannon personi- fied." Hisfestivalis the 1st of March. "'

Senchan Torpeist, was a distin- guished bard. Chief Poet of Ireland, who flourished about the year 600. He was a native of Connaught, and was a pupil of Dalian Forgaill, whom he succeeded. O'Curry tells how he called a meeting of the bards of Ireland to ascertain whether any of them remembered the whole of the celebrated tale of the Tain Bo Chuailgne (Cattle Spoil of Cuailgne). All said that they remembered only fragments, where- upon Murgen, Senchan'a only son, and his friend Emine went in search of it. Resting by the grave of the renowned chief, Fergus MacRoigh, on the banks of

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Lough Ein, in Roscommon, it is fabled to have been revealed to them by the shade of that chief. The story is beautifully told in Ferguson's " Tain Quest," one of the Lays of the Western Gaill. "° ^

Sharman-Crawford, William, an Irish politician, was born 3rd September 1780, at Moira Castle, in the County of Down. He was the eldest son of Colonel William Sharman, for many years mem- ber for Lisbiirn in the Irish Parliament, who died in 1803, leaving him large estates. In 1805 he married a wealthy heiress, Mabel Crawford, whose surname and arms he added to his own. He repre- sented Dundalk in Parliament, from 1834 to 1837, was subsequently returned for Rochdale without cost to himself ; and sat many years for that borough. He greatly increased the prosperity of the tenants on his large estates by extending and confirming the Ulster custom of tenant- right ; and the main object for which he strove during a long parliamentary career was to give legal effect to this right, and to extend it to other parts of Ireland. The tenant farmers justly regarded him as their champion. He brought before Parliament several Bills for the settle- ment of the tenant-right question. Though none of them passed, his untiring efforts, both in and out of the House, did much to direct public attention to the subject, and to lay the foundations for future ameliorative legislation. He supported O'Connell in his efforts for Catholic Eman- cipation, but could not join him in the Repeal movement, rather advocating a federal connexion between Great Britain and Ireland. After the tenant-right agita- tion subsided, he took no part in public affairs, devoting himself to the manage- ment of his estates, and to his duties as a Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Down, where he was greatly venerated by the people. He died at his residence, Craw- fordsburn, near Bangor, County of Down, i6th October 1861, aged 81, and was suc- ceeded in his estates by his eldest son. Considering the important place William Sharman-Crawford occupied in Irish poli- tics for many years, there appear to be singularly few particulars attainable re- garding his career, ss 233

Shaw, Sir Frederick, Bart., Recorder of Dublin, was born in Merrion-square, Dublin, 1 1 th December 1 799. He was son of Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., once member of Parliament for Bannow. He entered Trinity College in 18 14; but took his de- grees at Oxford. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1822, for one year represented the City of Dublin in Parliament, and in 469