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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
a valuable acquisition to your town of Stonehouse ; a place very 
delightful, and superior to most for the beauty of its prospects, and the 
elegancy of its situation, and, what is still better, for the goodness of 
the air ; as the longevity of the inhabitants sufficiently evinces. 
" I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient 
and obliged humble servant, 
"FRANCIS GEACH." 
SOME POPULAE SONG WRITERS OF IRELAND. 
SYLLABUS OF PAPER BY THE REV. J. ERSKINE RISK, M.A. 
(Read 18th November, 1887.) 
The officer, Wood, and his nom de plume, "Lanner de Waltram 
" The Spalpeen," Milliken, Bennett, and Toleken ; Ned Lysaght ; 
Callanan ; Father Prout ; the Right Hon. Arthur Ogle. Dr. 
MacDonnell and his flight from Limerick. Change in later Irish 
songs, and the cause ; Sir Samuel Ferguson ; Clarence Morgan ; 
Thomas Davis ; Dr. Ingram. Irish new nationality. French 
estimate of Irish Ballads and Poetry. 
