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 454 O“DONEL. family being lost by successive forfeitures to the crown in the two last centuries, in consequence of what was then called rebellion, but which, in the present age, would be ‘deemed by all—resistance to oppression. He was a man fully meriting the epithet “Worthy;” and Dr. Campbell styles him “the fond advocate for the Pagan antiquities of Ireland.” He died July 1, 1791, at his seat in the county of Roscommon, in his eighty-second year. DANIEL O'DALY, A learned Dominican, was born in the county of Kerry, in 1595. He was primarily educated in a convent of his order, at Tralee, but studied principally in Flanders. The fame which he had acquired for learning and piety, pro cured him an invitation to Lisbon to assist in founding a convent for the Irish Dominicans, which had been projected by Philip IV. then master of Portugal. This being accomplished, he was elected the first superior. He also assisted at the foundation of a second for the natives of Ireland; and, in 1655, was sent ambassador to France. He died at Lisbon, on June 30, 1662, and was interred in the chapel of his convent. He was at the time of his decease, bishop elect of Coimbra, censor of the Inquisi tion, and visitor-general and vicar-general of the kingdom. JAMES O'DONEL. This worthy prelate was born at Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary, and at the early age of eighteen, quitted his native country in order to profess a religious life in the Franciscan convent of St. Isidore at Rome. After a long absence he returned home, and was stationed in the city of Waterford, where his piety, zeal, and learn ing, soon procured his advancement to the head order. He was distinguished also as a popular and pathetic preacher. In 1784, at the solicitation of many of the principal merchants of Newfoundland, and of their correspondents