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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 28, 11 July 1901, Page 20

France, with its MacMahons, O'Neills, O'Connors, and Nugents possesses many Irish names (says the Gentleman' $ Magazine). The Boulanger movement introduced to us Count Dillon in whose gardens the Floquet duel was fought. Most of the Franco-Irish, though 200 years may have passed since their ancestors left our shores, have preserved a great affection for Ireland, and each St. Patrick's Day sees a certain number of them united to celebrate the feast of Ireland's patron saint. I had the pleasure of being: present at one of these 'diners de St. Patrice,' under the Presidency of the Vicomte O'Neill de Tyrone, a charming nobleman, who claims descent from Owen Roe O'Neill. Among Irish names in Franco I may mention Crebillon de Ballyhigue, MacGuckin de Slane, Mahon de Monaghan, O'Quin d'Etcheparc (formerly Mayor of Pau), Harty de Pierrebourg, Harden-Hiokey (who shows his Irish origin by editing the principal comic paper in Paris, the Triboulet). There are a few names with the prefix ' O ' and it is hard to know how they caire by it. There is a Baron O'Tard de la Grange and a Coin tense O'Pole ; and I have also seen in a list of students O'Diette and O'Lanyer. These are to be distinguished, of course, from suoh noins de guerre as O'Monroy, O'Diu, O'Squarr, eto. Your average Frenchman takes the bearer of a name with an 'O ' or ' Mm 'as a noble.