This friar left Ireland when he was a boy of fifteen, and he never saw again his native land; but throughout a long life which he spent roaming about the Continent he preserved a fervid Hibernian patriotism, of which the effects are felt to the present day.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
That splendid Hibernian energy of yours is worthy of a better cause.
"Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School or The Parting of the Ways"
Jessie Graham Flower
Once more then, I bade adieu to Curryglass and its hospitable owner, whose labours for "justice to Ireland" I shall long remember, and depositing myself in the bowels of his majesty's mail, gave way to the full current of my hopes and imaginings, which at last ended in a sound and refreshing sleep, from which I only awoke as we drew up at the door of the Hibernian, in Dawson-street.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)