Excerpt from Report of the O'connell Monument Committee Notwithstanding the foregoing and several other impedi ments, the printing of the Report had been fully completed before the lamented death of the most efficient and able Honorary Secretary, Edmund Dwyer Gray, at the comparatively early age of forty-two years, on Tuesday, March 27th, 1888. Not alone to the Committee, but to his country at large, was this patriotic gentleman an irreparable loss. The sole surviving Honorary Secretary can justly testify to that zeal and earnestness he evinced, worthily to complete the work, originated by his public spirited and distinguished father, Sir John Gray. To him, Ireland has already manifested her sense of gratitude. His son has deserved the universal respect of his countrymen, likewise, and it should be demonstrated in some visible form. Highly esteemed and admired for his integrity and excellence of character and for his splendid abilities; at no distant date, it is to be hoped, that Ireland he loved so well and so faithfully served, shall not be unmindful to commemorate in some public manner the devotion of Edmund Dwyer Gray to her cause, and in some measure commensurate with his signal services. 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.