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At the height of his activity Denys Scully (1773- 1830) was regarded by several well-placed observers' including informers employed by Dublin Castle, as the real power in the movement for Catholic Emancipation, behind the rising star of Daniel O'Connell. However, being no orator, by nature inclined towards working behind the scenes, best known to the public for a book on the penal laws that was made obsolete by their repeal, his career cut sho...

In the autumn of 1804 after the return of Pitt to power at Westminster, a new Catholic Committee was formed in Dublin to petition for the abolition of the penal laws left unrepealed by the Irish Act of 1793 and in particular the Test Act which still excluded Catholics from sitting in parliament. The following March the committee sent a deputation to London to meet Pitt. A diary kept by Denys Scully a member of the delegation, provides a full a...

bTitle:/b Leigh of Lara': a romance of a Wicklow vale.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books...

A confederation of pastoral people located in Southern Sudan and western Ethiopia, the Nuer warriors were famous for staging cattle raids against larger tribes and successfully resisted European colonization. Brian MacDermot, London stockbroker, entered into Nuer society as a stranger and emerged as Rial Nyang, an adopted member of the tribe. "Cult of the Sacred Spear" recounts this extraordinary emotional journey, regaling the reader with tal...