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William Maginn , who was the son of a schoolmaster at Cork, took a brilliant degree at Trinity College, Dublin, and for some years followed his father's profession.
He told a friend of ours so in company, and would have palmed himself upon him for a Scotchman, but that his countenance betrayed him." It is amusing to note that Maginn, writing the text to accompany the Maclise portrait of Lamb in Fraser's Magazine in 1835, gravely states that Lamb's name was really Lomb, and that he was of Jewish extraction.
After listening to the horrible jargon for some time, I could easily believe the story which poor William Maginn used to tell with such unction, of the origin of the Welsh language. It was to this effect. When the Tower of Babel was being built, the workmen all spoke one tongue. Just at the very instant when the "confusion" occurred, a mason, trowel in hand, called for a brick.
Pott, the redoubtable editor of the Eatanswill Gazette. I am inclined to believe that the notorious and brilliant Dr. Maginn was intended. He and Pott were both distinguished for their "slogging" or bludgeoning articles, and both were High Tories, or "Blue," as Mr. Pott had it.
Maginn flourished his shillelagh, and belaboured his victim with a brutality that has hardly ever been equalled, even by the pioneer journals of the Wild West. 'This is a goose of a book, he begins, 'or if anybody wishes the idiom changed, the book of a goose.
Maginn on the Emigration Scheme Emigration to be left to itself Statistics of Population The Census of 1841 Deaths from the Famine Deaths amongst Emigrants Deaths amongst those who went to Canada Emigration to the United States Commission to protect Emigrants Revelations Mortality on board Emigrant Ships Plunder of Emigrants Committee of Inquiry Its Report Frauds about Passage Tickets Evidence How did any survive?
Walsh was the predecessor of our present coroner, Mr. Maginn. How Mr. Walsh was elected he informed me in these words: "You know," said Mr. Walsh, "that I didn't want that position. When they talked of nominating me, I told them, says I, 'It's no use; you needn't elect me; I'm not going to serve. D'you s'pose I'm going to give up a respectable business to become a kind of State undertaker?
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