The lustre derived from the renown of these warriors kept up the respectability of the O’s and Macs on the Continent, and induced many of the Irish at home to resume these prefixes, especially the O’. Thus in our own time the name O’Conor Don was assumed by Owen O’Conor, Esq. of Belanagare, whose line was seven generations removed from the last ancestor who had borne the name; and the name of the O’Grady has also been assumed by Mr O’Grady of Kilballyowen, in our own time, though none of his ancestors had borne it since the removal of that family from Tomgraney, in the county of Clare. Myles John O’Reilly, late of the Heath House, Queen’s County, was at one time disposed to style himself the O’Reilly, but I regret to say that his circumstances prevented him. Daniel O’Connell, Esq. of Derrynane Abbey, prefixed the O’ after it had been dropped for several generations; and I have heard it constantly asserted that he has no _title_ to the O’, because his father, who did not know his pedigree, never prefixed it; but such assertions have no weight with us, for we know that O’Connell’s father never mentioned his own name in the original Irish without prefixing O’, because it would be imperfect without it. And whether O’Connell can trace his pedigree with certainty up to Conall, chief of the tribe in the tenth century, we know not, but we know that he ought to be able to do so. In like manner, Morgan William O’Donovan, of Mountpelier, near Cork, has not only re-assumed the O’ which his ancestors had rejected for eight generations, but also has styled himself the O’Donovan, chief of his name, being the next of kin to the last acknowledged head of that family, the late General Richard O’Donovan of Bawnlahan, whose family became extinct in the year 1829. His example has been followed by Timothy O’Donovan, of O’Donovan’s Cove, head of a respectable branch of the family. We like this Irish pride of ancestry, and we hope that it will become general before many years shall have passed.