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upon a notice of Father Walter Talbot one of the 

 eight of the house of the Lords Talbot de Malahide 

 who entered the Jesuit Order. This Father Walter 

 Talbot became chaplain to an Irish regiment in the 

 Spanish service, which was sent to the Low 

 Countries, where Albrecht Diirer saw the Irish 

 ' war-men,' and sketched them. The author added 

 that the sketch ' is now in Vienna.' He comments 

 upon the figures, ' fine, powerfully-built, and for- 

 midable-looking fellows, armed with the long sword 

 and gallowglass axe, clad in a mantle of Irish rug, 

 and wearing the Irish glib and moustache, which 

 it was forfeiture to wear at home not forfeiture 

 only of moustache and glib, but- even of the head. 

 Diirer wrote over it : ' Here go the war-men of 

 Ireland ' ; or, rather : ' Also gand dij krigs man in 

 Irlandia hindr engeland.' Dr. Friedrich Lippmann, 

 Director of the Department of Engravings on Copper 

 in the Berlin Museum, says that the inscription is in 

 Diirer's own hand. He calls the drawing (evidently 

 correctly) ' Warriors and Peasants,' describing the 

 warriors as ' wearing the costume of the fighting 

 men of the Middle Ages.' Diirer wrote, too, above 

 the less-imposing figures (the man in the ' Irish 

 rug ' mantle and the two ' gossoons') : ' Also gend 

 dij pawern in Irlandyen.' ' Pawern ' suggests an 

 old-time connexion between poor and ' peasants,' 



