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May, 1903. to London by a bodyguard of his gallow-glasses, and created a great sensation among the Cockneys of the period. The grand mistake of Shane's life was his attack on the Cineal Connaill; it was it that ruined him: and it was the same international quarreling that ruined the political past of his country.

It is very curious that the O'Neills of all the Irish claims, should be the only ones that seem to have adopted the English Christian name, John; for Seaghan or Seann, as it is spelled by "The Four Masters." is generally and apparently rightly, allowed to be an Irish form of John. A Seann O'Neill is mentioned by "The Four Masters" as early as the year 1339. The following is the Irish text and translation of Shane's letter to the Deputy: