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Life
1775-1859 [Joseph Monck Mason, LLD]; br. of Henry Joseph Monck Mason; occas. Monck Mason]; issued Water for Exports (Dublin 1796); History of the Antiquities of the Church of St Patrick (1819), being part of a larger projected work; also issued The Catholic Religion of St. Patrick and St. Columbkill (1822); Suggestions Relative to a Survey of Ireland (1825); Reason and Authorities .. respecting the ... the Irish language (1838); A Grammar of the Irish Language (1839), and History of the Origin and Progress of the Irish Society (1846). ODNB
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Bibliographical details
The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin, from its foundation in 1190, to the year 1819: comprising A Topographical Account of the Lands and Parishes Appropriated to the Community of the Cathedral, and its Members; and Biographical Memoirs of its Deans. / collected chiefly, from sources of / original record, / By William Monck Mason, Esq., Dublin: Printed for the Author, by W. Folds, Strand-Street. / 1820. Ded. to His Most Sacred Majesty / King George the Fourth, / This attempt to illustrate the history, antiquities and topography of Ireland is, with his Majesty's gracious permission,/ Humbly dedicated, by His Majesty's / Most Dutiful Subject, / and Faithful Servant, /William Monck Mason. [Available at Google Books - online.]
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References
Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde (1974), contains a note citing Joseph Monck Mason, LLD, History of the Origin and Progress of the Irish Society (2nd ed., Dublin, Godwin, Son & Nethercott, printers, 1846); also Reason and Authorities and facts afforded by the history of the Irish society respecting the duty of employing the Irish language as a more general medium for conveying Scriptural Instruction to the native peasantry of Ireland (4th ed., Godwin &c. 1838) [Daly, p.202n.].
Edward Reilly, 400 Irish Writers, cites Mason - as does T. C. Croker in Historical Songs of Ireland (1841), relative to the first printing of the ballad “Liliburlero” by one Abel Roper, publisher of the Post-boy. (Croker, op. cit., p.5; citing History of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.)
University of Ulster Library (Morris Collection) holds A Grammar of the Irish Language (1839) 63pp.
See library-sale: Catalogue of the literary collections and original compositions of William Monck Mason, Esq. in the departments of Irish history and general philology: comprising, under the former head, besides the principal books on the subject, a large collection of tracts, broadsides and newspapers; maps; Manuscripts, original and transcribed; charters, and other ancient documents, on vellum and on paper; autographs (among which some English and foreign); Manuscripts in the Irish language, on vellum and on paper; engraved copper plates, drawings, seals, celts, &c.: and under the latter, besides a few volumes in the autographs of Charles Vallancey and of John Staples Harriot, a large collection of original observations illustrative of the nature and history of language in general, and of the character and connections of several languages in particular: which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, the 29th of March, 1858, and two following days, at one o’clock precisely. 1858.
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