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François-René de Chateaubriand
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John Philpot Curran

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[1750 - 1817]
an Irish orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge, who held the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland.

A liberal Protestant whose politics were similar to Henry Grattan, he employed all his eloquence to oppose the illiberal policy of the Government, and also the Union with Britain. Curran stood as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilbeggan in 1783.
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A prosecutor, infuriated by Curran's insults, threaten to put him in his pocket. "If you do that," replied Curran, "you will have more law in your pocket than you ever had in your head."

In debate with John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare, Fitzgibbon rebutted one of Curran's arguments by saying "If that be the law, Mr. Curran, I shall burn all my law books." To which he replied "You had better read them first, my lord."

Lord Byron said, after the death of Curran, "I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have seen written",

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"No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation."

  John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), Irish orator and judge
  who worked for Catholic emancipation.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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they debate on every subject, and drink beer and smoke pipes and talk, talk, talk.
Daniel O'Connell and Curran and John Wilkes and many others eminent in debate wuz members of this club.

Marietta Holley. Samantha in Europe
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—Grattan and Flood wrote for this very paper, the editor cried in his face. Irish volunteers. Where are you now? Established 1763. Dr Lucas. Who have you now like John Philpot Curran? Psha!
—Well, J. J. O’Molloy said, Bushe K.C., for example.

James Joyce. Ulysses
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