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| Title | Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, Volume 2 Issue 22651 of Early American imprints Volume 2 of Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland : and a Biographical Account of Mr. Curran, John Philpot Curran Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the History of Ireland, John Philpot Curran |
| Author | John Philpot Curran |
| Publisher | Print. and pub. by I. Riley, 1811 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2007 |
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