Excerpt from Dissertations Chiefly on Irish Church History IN selecting the following papers, our object was to print, in a collected form, chiefly the Essays Dr. Kelly had written on Irish history. Following this rule, the first paper seems out of place, but the reader will find even in it scattered notices of the Irish ecclesiastical establishments in Paris. It reminds him, besides, of the writer's abode in that city, a turn ing point in his life, and deserves insertion also as his first contribution to periodical literature. The essay on the Synod of Cashel, ' now printed for the first time, is merely a rough outline of a longer article on that interesting subject which Dr. Kelly was preparing for Press. For the account of the Irish Bishops during the Reformation, in the last dissertation, the editor is alone responsible. It was not added, we must observe, for lack of matter to complete this or even other volumes which may appear hereafter, for we have not inserted, it will be seen, Dr. Kelly's able contributions to My'e Magazine on the Bollandists, on White, nor seve ral articles in other periodicals, for example, on the Celtic Society, vol. Xxxi, Dub. Rea, on the Study of Eloquence in Theological Seminaries, vol. Xxxix., ibid., etc. 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.