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 456 O'HALLORAN. dered as an employment worthy of the greatest scholars. In 1506, after he had taken his degree of D.D. at Padua, Pope Julius II. made him Archbishop of Tuam. He died at Galway, May 25, 1513, and was buried there. He was at the time of his decease not quite fifty years of age. A list of his works is to be found in Ware. RODERIC OFLAHERTY, A very learned Irish historian and antiquarian, was born in 1630, at Moycullin, in Galway, the ancient estate of his family, which became forfeited by the rebellion in 1641, when he was only eleven years old. He published at London in 1685, his book, entitled, “Ogygia,” and promised a second part, which never appeared. This work is now uncommonly scarce, and is praised highly by Dr. Dudley, Loftus, Belling, and Stillingfleet; but Sir Richard Cox speaks slightingly of i t. The time o f O‘Flaherty's decease i s unknown. NEIL O‘GLACAN, A physician o f great eminence i n h i s day, was born i n the county o f Donegal. He was both physician and privy counsellor t o the King o f France, and professor o f physic i n the universities o f Thoulouse and Bologna. He obtained great fame i n France and Italy, and practised a t Thoulouse when the plague raged there, where h e wrote, and pub lished his “Tractatus d e Peste,” i n 1629. The French physicians praised the author highly for his learning and experience; and Peter Adrian Van Broecke, pro fessor o f eloquence a t Lucca, published a long poetical encomium o n him, which may b e found i n Ware. SYLVESTER O'HALLORAN, An Irish historian o f great celebrity, was born i n the city o f Limerick, December 31, 1728. He studied physic and surgery i n Paris and London, and must have made a rapid