Book Description

Excerpt from Thom's Irish Who's Who: A Biographical Book of Reference of Prominent Men and Women in Irish Life at Home and Abroad; 1923 This First Edition of Thom's Irish Who's Who contains life sketches of upwards of Irish men and women, at home and overseas, who are conspicuous in the Nation's History, and includes leaders Of thought and action in all fields Of enlightenment and civilization. Neither labour nor expense has been spared in an effort to make the book as authoritative as possible, but no claim is made to completeness. The difficulties that confront the Editor of a volume Of this description are much greater than may appear to a casual observer. In the first place there is always present the desire to avoid invidious selection, and in the second, the danger Of omitting, through oversight, names whose absence might naturally occasion surprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.