INQUIRY

INTO

CERTAIN VULGAR OPINIONS

CONCERNING

THE CATHOLIC INHABITANTS

AND

THE ANTIQUITIES OF IRELAND:

In a Series of Letters from thence, addressed to a Protestant
Gentleman in England.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY KEATING, BROWN, AND CO.
No. 38, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square,

SOLD ALSO BY

SYMONDS,

BOOKER, Bond-street; BUDD, Pall-mall;

Pater-noster-row ;

SIMPSON, Wolverhampton; WILKS, Birmingham; Messrs. COYNE and
FITZPATRICK, Dublin; and HALY, Cork.

[Entered at Stationers hall. ]

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OCCASION of the writer's tour to Ireland.

-Political importance of the Irish Ca-

tholics one of the phænomena of the times.

-Dependance of the English Catholics

upon them.-Journey through Wales.-

The Isle of Anglesea.-View of the Bay of

Dublin,

LETTER II.

Beauty of the river Liffy.-Royal college of

Maynooth.-Vindication of the Irish Ca-

tholic Clergy. Their past services to the

cause of literature in their own island,

and in foreign countries. -Schools and

universities founded by them.-Their zeal

and success in cultivating learning since

the Reformation.-Account of some of

their writers,

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