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Life
1787-1840; ed. Stonyhurst and TCD; Irish bar, 1814; active in campaign for Catholic Emancipation; Crown Counsel for Munster, 1830; third serjeant, 1834; MP for Cashel, 1835-38; Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1836; Attorney-Gen., 1838; Chief-Baron of the Irish exchequer, 1838; known as first Catholic since the Reformation to hold law offices for the state; his saying ‘To create and to foster public opinion in Ireland - to make it racy of the soil’ serves as epigraph on the title-page of The Spirit
of the Nation (1843). ODNB
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