_Mac Lure_, son of a tailor.
_Macgill_, son of a squire.
_Macbrehane_, son of a judge.
_Mac Tavish_, son of a savage.
_Goff_, or _Gough_, smith.
_Galt_, a Protestant.
_Gillespie_, the bishop's squire.

The whole of the above are literal translations without having recourse to
_fancy_, or _torturing the originals_; thus, _Macnamara_, called in Irish
_Mac Conmara_, from _mac_, a son, _con_, the genitive case of _cu_, a
hound, and _mara_, the genitive case of _muir_, the sea; and so of the
rest. It is proper, however, to observe, that although the name of
_Keating_ sounds exactly in Irish a "_shower of fire_" yet as the Keatings
came at first from England, this cannot be the real origin of that name.
All the rest are literally correct.

H.S.

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ONIONS.


Lord Bacon tells us of a man who fasted five days, without meat, bread, or
drink, by smelling a wisp of herbs, among which were strong _onions_.

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