Life
1794-1879; master-printer, b. son of wollen-draper and United Irishman;
apprenticed to Dublin Univ. Press, 1813; sole lessee, 1842; produced seven
vols. of John O’Donovan, ed., Annals of the Four Masters; RIA work
of international standard; bought stocks, etc. of James MacGlashan, 1856;
McGlashan & Gill, later M.H. Gill & Son; then Gill & Macmillan,
1968. DIB DIH
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)