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"the vocalist chairman brought the discussion to a close, from all parts of a bumper house, by a remarkably noteworthy rendering of the immortal Thomas Osborne Davis' evergreen verses (happily too familiar to need recalling here) A Nation Once Again in the execution of which the veteran patriot champion may be said without fear of contradiction to have fairly excelled himself." ([U12.913])
[*Ed. Portrait from Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland, PW Joyce & AM Sullivan, Murphy & McCarthy Publishers, 1905. page 205]