Augustine Birrell PC, KC (19 January 1850 – 20 November 1933) was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, resigning in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.
Read more about Augustine Birrell: Early Life, Entry Into Politics, Birrell and The Suffragettes, Personal Life, Later Life, Selected Works, Papers, Further Reading
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“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
—Augustine Birrell (1850–1933)