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Augustine Birrell Military Commander

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Jan 19, 1850
  • Died: Nov 20, 1933

Augustine Birrell KC was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, resigning in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.