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power over their dead bodies. It stands evident that 

 the O'Moores were a very dearly loved people. Of 

 each O' Moore, the words of the poet may be used : 



" ' O'Moore, untainted by flight or by chains, 

 While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, 

 Shall ever exult, or in death be laid low, 

 With his back to the field, or his feet to the foe.' 



*' They could not bear the whips and scorn of time, 

 the oppressor's wrong, the proud alien's contumely. 

 When they hurled themselves against a remorseless 

 power, they left us a glorious example that, if we 

 follow, they have not lived in vain : 



" ' For lives of great men all remind us 

 We can make our lives sublime. 

 And, departing, leave behind us 

 Footprints on the sands of time.'" 



John Hubert Moore seems to have Inherited a 

 love for wild sports, to keep him out of the way of 

 which his parents consigned him to the care of Dr. 

 Jameson of Carlow while very young. At this excel- 

 lent school, however, he appears to have met with 

 kindred souls in the Alleys of Dublin, in after years 

 masters of the "Wards ;" the Palmers of the Queen's 

 County ; the Droughts, and others, all of whom, in 

 after-life, excelled in field sports. Entered at Trinity 

 College at an early age, we find him holding his own 

 in the " first-flight" with the '* Wards," on a thick bay, 

 Bachelor ; and there are many still spared who re- 

 member the boys of that flight: Mick Yourrell on Dan 

 O'Connell, Captain "Charley" Forrester on Lady 

 Longford, Clarke, Hicks, the Alleys, John Preston of 



