The Absentee
Maria Edgeworth
112 count O''Halloran: the title indicates a foreign adherence, most likely to the Holy Roman Empire. The best-known O''Halloran of the recent past was Dr Sylvester O''Halloran (1728-1807) who had studied in Paris, practised medicine in Limerick, and published several works on Irish history. Edgeworth admitted a debt in relation to several of the characters in this chapter and elsewhere. To Dr Daniel Beaufort she wrote on 29.6.1816: ''in thanks for the kind sympathy for the valuable ...