AMES CLARENCE (1803-49).--The first of the poets of the Young
Ireland period. He declined to write for any but the Irish public, and
died in poverty.

MARTIN, JOHN (1812-1875).--A landed proprietor of Co. Down. On his
return from transportation, he re-entered Irish politics; was elected in
1870 to the British Parliament, for Meath, and played a leading part in
founding the Home Rule movement.

"MARY" (1828-69).--With "Eva" and "Speranza" one of the triumvirate of
the women-poets of the _Nation_: Miss Ellen Mary Downing of
Cork--afterwards a nun, Sister Mary Alphonsus.

MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS (1823-67).--Son of the O'Connellite member of
the British Parliament for Waterford. He escaped from the British Penal
colonies to the United States in 1852 and served as Brigadier-General
on the Federal side during the civil war. When Acting-Governor of
Montana he was drowned in the Mississippi.

MEANY, STEPHEN JOSEPH.--A journalist, imprisoned in 1848 under the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. In the United States he became a leader of
one of the wings of the Fenian Brotherhood and, returning to Ireland in
1866, he was arrested on the way in London and sentenced to a term of
penal servitude.

MELBOURNE, LORD (1779-1848).--William Lamb, second Viscount, Chief
Secretary of Ireland, 1827-8, and Premier of England with brief
intervals from 1834 to 1841.

MILEY, JOHN, D.D. (1805-1861).--Curate at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral,
Dublin, and private chaplain to O'Connell. He was the intermediary in
arranging the reunion of the O'Connellites with the Young Irelanders in
the stillborn Irish League. In 1849 he was made Rector of the Irish
College at Paris. On his return to Ireland he was appointed parish
priest of Bray. He was an eloquent preacher, and author of several works
on the Papacy.

MITCHEL, JOHN (1818-75).--A solicitor of Banbridge, and one of the first
Irish Protestants of note to join the Repeal Association. From the death
of Davis until the end of 1847 he was the chief writer of the _Nation_
newspaper. On his escape from the British penal colonies in 1853 he
settled in the United States, and took an active part on the Confederate
side in the civil war. He returned to Ireland a few months before his
death, and was elected member of the British Parliament for Tipperary,
as a demonstration of hostility to British Government in Ireland.

MOORE, JUDGE.--Richard Moore, called to the Bar in 1807, acted for the
defence in the trial