m'grath

Updated: May 26, 2025

I'll tell M'Grath, the publican at Solong, too: he's a straight man he'll keep his ears open and warn chaps. One of Mrs Baker's sisters is staying with her, and I'll give her a hint so that she can warn off any women that might get hold of a yarn.

Henry Lawson - Joe Wilson and His Mates

Dobson, the superintendant physician of the Hospital-ship at Chatham, was a very worthy and very skilful gentleman. We, Americans, ought never to forget his goodness towards us. Some of us esteem him full as high as Dr. M'Grath, and some more highly. They are both however, worthy men, and deserve well of this country.

Benjamin Waterhouse - A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.: Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was: Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred: And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island,: Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At: Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes: And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political: Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct: Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre: Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.

"The first thing that I did was to send for Father M'Grath, who had been more away from home than usual I presume, not finding things quite so comfortable as they used to be.

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

But then I thought of my mother, and of the cows, and the pig, and the furniture, all gone; and of my brothers and sisters wanting praties, and I made a vow that I'd send every farthing of it to them, after which Father M'Grath would no longer think of not giving me absolution.

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

But this is all nothing, except to prove satisfactorily that I am not worth a skillagalee, and that is the reason which induces me to condescend to serve his Majesty. Father M'Grath, the priest, who lived with my father, taught me the elements, as they call them. I thought I had enough of the elements then, but I've seen a deal more of them since.

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

"'There again you're all in a mistake, Father M'Grath, rejoins she. 'The childer are all his own, and all girls to boot. It appears that it's just as well that you come down, now and then, for information, to our town of Ballycleuch.

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

No one knows that I'm a Catholic except yourself: and at the Admiralty they never asked me to take that oath which I never would have taken, although Father M'Grath says I may take any oath I please with what he calls heretics, and he will grant me absolution. Peter, my dear fellow, say no more about it."

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

"But, O'Brien, I do not fix my faith so implicitly upon Father M'Grath; and I do not much admire many of his directions." "No more do I, Peter, when I think upon them; but how am I to puzzle my head upon these points?

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

Now give the description as well as you can of your uncle's appearance, also of that of his wife, and the number of their family, and their ages. Father M'Grath must have all particulars, and then let him alone for doing what is needful." I complied with O'Brien's directions as well as I could, and he wrote a very long letter to Father M'Grath, which was sent on shore by a careful hand.

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2