1894).--Third Earl. Colonial Secretary in the British
Liberal Government, 1846 to 1852.

HALPIN, THOMAS M.--Secretary of the Confederation, and a Dublin
working-man. According to Meagher he failed to transmit instructions to
the Dublin Confederate Clubs to rise in insurrection in the streets of
the capital when the fight opened in Tipperary. Halpin denied
emphatically having received such orders. After the insurrection he made
his way to the United States.

HEYTESBURY, LORD (1779-1860).--William A'Court, British Envoy in Spain
and Naples, and Ambassador in Portugal and Russia. Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, 1844-6.

HOGAN, JOHN (1800-1858).--One of the greatest of modern sculptors. With
MacManus and other artists he presented O'Connell with the "Repeal
Cap," modelled on the Irish Crown.

HOLLYWOOD, EDWARD.--A silk-weaver and, with Michael Crean, an artisan
leader. He acted as treasurer of the Davis Confederate Club. Arrested in
Wicklow with D'Arcy M'Gee for sedition, but the prosecution was
abandoned. After the insurrection he escaped to France, and some years
later returned to Dublin.

HOLMES, ROBERT (1765-1859).--Brother-in-law of Thomas Addis and Robert
Emmet, and a vehement opponent of the Union in 1799-1800. He declined to
accept promotion at the Bar while the Union endured.

HUDSON, WILLIAM ELIOT (1797-1853).--Described by Thomas Davis as the
best man and the best Irishman he ever knew. A man of fortune and
culture who devoted his leisure and his wealth to helping every movement
for the betterment of Ireland.

HUME, JOSEPH (1777-1855).--An English politician who sat in the British
Parliament for English, Irish, and Scotch constituencies as Tory and
later as Radical. Chief author of the Radical shibboleth, "Peace,
Retrenchment and Reform."

IRELAND, RICHARD.--A barrister, one of the founders of the Protestant
Repeal Association in 1848. He emigrated to Australia afterwards and
became Attorney-General of Victoria.

KENYON, FATHER (18-- -1869).--Curate and afterwards Parish Priest of
Templederry in Tipperary. A strong opponent of the "Old Irelanders" and
the close political and personal friend of John Mitchel.

LALOR, JAMES FINTAN (1810-49).--Son of Patrick Lalor, M.P. of Queen's
Co. A vigorous writer whose agrarian doctrine was converted by Henry
George into Land Nationalisation--which it was not. He contributed to
the _Nation_ and the _Felon_, 1847-8, and attempted an insurrectionary
conspiracy, 1849.