Identifier: lifeofsirjohntgi00gilb (find matches)
Title: Life of Sir John T. Gilbert, LL.D., F.S.A., Irish historian and archivist, vice-president of the Royal Irish academy, secretary of the Public record office of Ireland
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gilbert, Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland), 1841-1921
Subjects: Gilbert, John Thomas, Sir, 1829-1898 Historians Archivists
Publisher: London, New York, Bombay, Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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(1698), which denied hisright to be reimbursed for his expenditure, is fully stated inthe sixth volume of the Calendar of the Ancient Recordsof Dublin, 1896. In the eighteenth century, when PhilipCostello became owner of No. 23 and other houses in JervisStreet, it was a street of distinction, as the style of someof the older dwellings still attest, though the neighbourhoodis now far gone in decadence; like the adjoining StaffordStreet, where (about the year 1730), in one of the fine oldmansions still standing (number lost), the brilliant English-woman, Mrs. Delany, then Mrs. Pendarves, met Swift andother wits and savants at Dr. Delanys famous Thursdaydinner-parties. Although John Gilbert was an English Protestant, andMarianne Costello an Irish Catholic, yet the marriage was avery happy one, and such a state of things was more remark-able in the earlier part of the nineteenth century than itwould be at the present time. In 1837 Macaulay wrote to his friend, Mrs. Drummond,in Ireland—
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OLD HOUSE IN JERVIS STREET, DUBLIN. DEATH OF FATHER 5 I cannot conceive what has induced you to submit tosuch an exile. The last residence which I would choosewould be a place with all the plagues, and none of theattractions of a capital ; a provincial city on fire withfactions political and religious, peopled by raving Orange-men and raving Repealers, and distracted by a contestbetween Protestantism as fanatical as that of Knox, andCatholicism as fanatical as that of Bonner. Good heart and good sense on both sides saved theGilberts from religious dissension. Five children were bornto them—Henry, Eleanor, Philippa, Mary, and John—andall were baptized and brought up in the Catholic faith. Onthe occasion of the baptism of John, his father desired thatthis child, the youngest, should be a Protestant; but themother held firm. You think, urged the father, that youare providing better things for him in a future existence ;but, believe me, you are doing your son a grievous wrong,where th

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