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PATRICK O BRIEN, THE IBIS11 GIANT. 'SJS
built in the ancient style, with very lofty door-ways and
apartments, it is particularly calculated for the reception
of one who may justly be denominated the greatest
man in the United Kingdom. The house is, at present,
kept by a widow, for whom Mr. O’Brien is said to per-
form all transactions relative to the purchase or dis-
posal of her horses, &c.
O’Brien and Byrne, are names peculiar to gigantic per-
sons of the Irish Nation. In the year 1780, a Mr.
Byrne was to be seen at Charin g-Cross, where he died,
and was buried in St. Martin’s Church yard. He was
within two inches of eight feet at his death; and it was
thought that the continuance of his growth proved fatal
to him, as he had not attained the 20th year of his age
when he died.—The following particulars have recently
been received from Ireland, relative to a man equally
singular with the Great O’Brien, though we are not
inade acquainted with his height. I should rather
imagine that he more resembles Bright, our fat man of
Essex, than his countryman O’Brien, from the circum-
stance of his being suffocated through fat.
“ The remains of the largest person ever known in Ire-
land, at least since the days of Phil Macoul, the famous
Irish Giant, were lately interred in the church-yard of
Roseunallis, in the Qeeen’s County. The coffin, with its
contents, weighed 52 stone, which amounts exactly to six
hundred. It was borne on a very long bier, by thirty
strong men, who were relieved at intervals. The name of
this extraordinary person was Roger Byrne. He lived at
®r near Borros, in Ossory, and is reported to have died
of no other disease but a suffocation, occasioned by an
extremity of fat, that stopped the play of the lungs, and
put a period to his life, in the 54th year of his age. He
was 13 stone heavier than the noted Bright, of Maldon^
whose waistcoat inclosed seven large men. Byrne was a
married
built in the ancient style, with very lofty door-ways and
apartments, it is particularly calculated for the reception
of one who may justly be denominated the greatest
man in the United Kingdom. The house is, at present,
kept by a widow, for whom Mr. O’Brien is said to per-
form all transactions relative to the purchase or dis-
posal of her horses, &c.
O’Brien and Byrne, are names peculiar to gigantic per-
sons of the Irish Nation. In the year 1780, a Mr.
Byrne was to be seen at Charin g-Cross, where he died,
and was buried in St. Martin’s Church yard. He was
within two inches of eight feet at his death; and it was
thought that the continuance of his growth proved fatal
to him, as he had not attained the 20th year of his age
when he died.—The following particulars have recently
been received from Ireland, relative to a man equally
singular with the Great O’Brien, though we are not
inade acquainted with his height. I should rather
imagine that he more resembles Bright, our fat man of
Essex, than his countryman O’Brien, from the circum-
stance of his being suffocated through fat.
“ The remains of the largest person ever known in Ire-
land, at least since the days of Phil Macoul, the famous
Irish Giant, were lately interred in the church-yard of
Roseunallis, in the Qeeen’s County. The coffin, with its
contents, weighed 52 stone, which amounts exactly to six
hundred. It was borne on a very long bier, by thirty
strong men, who were relieved at intervals. The name of
this extraordinary person was Roger Byrne. He lived at
®r near Borros, in Ossory, and is reported to have died
of no other disease but a suffocation, occasioned by an
extremity of fat, that stopped the play of the lungs, and
put a period to his life, in the 54th year of his age. He
was 13 stone heavier than the noted Bright, of Maldon^
whose waistcoat inclosed seven large men. Byrne was a
married