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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 49, 6 April 1894, Page 29

The death is announced of Mr George Robinson, of Skibbereer one of the olJest. magis rates in the Ooanty of Cork, in his eightyfirst year. Mr Robinson was at Oxford College witn Mr Gladstone Cardinal Manning, and Cardinal Newmin. He was a member of the Irish B*r, anl possessed considerable Imded properly in the County of Cork. J Says Grant Allen ii the February Review of Remewt :— John Tyndall was an Irishman. Much of hia history i« explained by that illuminating fact The Celt was etrong in him. People forget too often how much Ireland contributes io tbe general life of our complex nationality . How many Englishmen are aw*re, I wonder that Lord Kelvin (Bir William Thompson), Lord Wolseley. Professor Bryce, Oscar Wilde, Comyns Carr, Harry Furnisc, Lird. Dufferin— to take a few names at random out of many that occur to me— are every one of them Irishmen. You will fiad scores of Irishmen bearing Kngli9h names and b mating an English origin, who are nevertheless as Ocltic a« th« M'Carthy's or the O'Donohues How could it well be otherwise? Mothers count in heredity for j.i>t as much m fathtrs ; and members of English households, which have settled in Irehnd, and intermarried with Irish women, become in a feweenera-tio-p, a< Gerald the Welshman ("whom we absurdly call Giraldas C«mr>renßi*) long ngo remarked, "more Irish than the Irish "— " Ipais Hihernit Hiberniores."