=Ireland= (_S. W. H._), a literary forger. His chief forgery is _Miscellaneous Papers and Instruments, under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, including the tragedy of King Lear, and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original_, folio, £6 4_s._ (1795). His most impudent forgery was the production of a new play, which he tried to palm off as Shakespeare’s. It was called _Vortigern and Rowena_, and was actually represented at Drury Lane Theatre, in 1796. Weeps o’er false Shakesperian lore Which sprang from Maisterre Ireland’s store, Whose impudence deserves the rod For having aped the Muse’s god. _Chalcographomania._ _Ireland_ (_The Fair Maid of_), the ignis fatuus. He had read ... of ... the _ignis fatuus_, ... by some called “Will-with-the-whisp” or “Jack-with-the-lantern,” and likewise ... “The Fair Maid of Ireland.”—R. Johnson, _The Seven Champions of Christendom_, i. 7. (1617). =Ireland’s Three Saints.= The three great saints of Ireland are St. Patrick, St. Columb, and St. Bridget. =Ireland’s Three Tragedies=: (1) _The Death of the Children of Touran_; (2) _The Death of the Children of Lir_; and (3) _The Death of the Children of Usnach_.—O’Flannagan, _Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin_, i. =Irem= (_The Garden of_), mentioned in the _Korân_, lxxxix. It was the most beautiful of all earthly paradises, laid out for Shedad´, king of Ad; but no sooner was it finished than it was struck with the lightning-wand of the death-angel, and was never after visible to the eye of man. The paradise of Irem this ... A garden more surpassing fair Than that before whose gate The lightning of the cherub’s fiery sword Waves wide to bar access. Southey, _Thalaba the Destroyer_, i. 22 (1797). =Ire´na=, Ireland personified. Her inheritance was withheld by Grantorto (_rebellion_), and Sir Artegal was sent by the queen of Faëry-land to succor her. Grantorto being slain Irena was restored, in 1588, to her inheritance.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. (1596). =Ire´ne= (3 _syl._), daughter of Horush Barbarossa, the Greek renegade and corsair-king of Algiers. She was rescued in the siege of Algiers by Selim, son of the Moorish king, who fell in love with her. When she heard of the conspiracy to kill Barbarossa, she warned her father; but it was too late; the insurgents succeeded, Barbarossa was slain by Othman, and Selim married Irenê.—J. Browne, _Barbarossa_ (1742). _Irene_ (3 _syl._), wife of Alexius Comne´nus, emperor of Greece.—Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).