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Augustine Birrell

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Augustine Birrell , 1850–1933, English essayist and public official. As chief secretary for Ireland (1907–16) his failure to end the plotting that resulted in the Easter Rebellion of 1916 led to his retirement from politics. His works include the pleasant and urbane critical essays Obiter Dicta (3 vol.; 1884, 1887, 1924) and biographies of Charlotte Brontë (1887), William Hazlitt (1902), and Andrew Marvell (1905).

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Birrell, Augustine (1850–1933), chief secretary for Ireland, 1907–16, made his name as an author with a volume of lightweight essays, Obiter Dicta (1884), which he followed with further essays, and works on Hazlitt (1902), Marvell (1905), and others.

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