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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 21, 20 September 1895, Page 21

The writer of the biography of Parnell in the "National D,> tionary of Biography ' is Mr Barry O'Brien, barriater-aMaw who enpyed the latima.e fnendNhip and confidence of the gre^'lns? «t tesman, and was mv.ted by him to contest, as his nominee Nor, h k,lk,n-,y agamat the ate Sir J. Pope Hennessy-wh.ch it wiff h« remembered, was the hret eledion af-er " the split "—but "1, ■ r«~ 0 B iPn f,r reasons other than political, declined the invitation Mr Barry O Bru n has not, howev,r, allied h, 8 friendship with ? arn ell to ufluence Ms ertimate of FarneU'a character and c mc S biography has been universally regarded as impartial as Jell accurate Mr Harry O'Brun has m ,d e several important o*l, butuna to Ir.Bb biato.y. H» " F.fty Wars of Concession* to Trel "d " is an able revew of English legislation for Ireland durin* tbe mat half century and quite recently he h.ou^ht oir an ed.tfon 1Q volumes of that v^.y interesting bo,k, •■ The Autobiogranhy of Wo7fe Tone • Mr B.rry O'Brien has been, stnee ,he app^ranoo of °h, Speaker, Sir T. Wemysa tteid's chief aßßla BBlB tant in the editing of that