Life
1691-1762; a member of the Synge ecclesiastical ‘dynasty’; bishop
of Elphin, Co. Roscommon, 1740; lived in Elphin and occupied house in
Kevin St.
Works
Marie-Louise Legg, ed., The Synge Letters: Bishop Edward Synge to his
Daughter Alicia Roscommon to Dublin, 1746-52 (Dublin: Lilliput 1995),
530[800]pp.
Notes
Charles O’Conor: Ward and Ward., eds., Letters of Charles O’Conor (1988), p.72; O’Conor, a neighbour at Belanagare, Co. Roscommon, calls him
‘undoubtedly a man of the first abilities in this nation, though
fatally jealous of the principles of many who injure the public by their
inability to serve it [... &c.]’, presumably meaning Catholics
excluded from office by their religion.
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