hot enough to punish such miscreants." However, he claimed to admire Daniel O'Connell. While most republicans attempted to work around the hostility of the high clergy of the Roman Church and the fire and brimstone rhetoric of the likes of Moriarty, out of sensitivity to the religious tendencies of the Irish majority, one Fenian by the name of John O'Neill, dared to fire back. O'Neill retorted “It is better to be in hell with Fionn than in heaven with pale and flimsy angels" (referencing the 12th century Acallam na Senórach on Oisín's arguments with St. Patrick). Works His principal works are: "Allocutions to the Clergy" and two volumes of sermons. He died on 1 October 1877. References Sources Ó Broin, Leon, Fenian Fever: An Anglo-American Dilemma, Chatto & Windus, London, 1971, . Steward, Patrick, The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858–1876, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2013, . 1814 births 1877 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth People from County Kerry Roman Catholic Bishops of Ardfert and Agahdoe 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland