MR. MAC NEILL (Donegal, S.)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Government will take any steps to facilitate the publication of a series of documents, Liber Albus and Liber Niger, & c, illustrative of early Irish history, prepared by Mr. Gilbert, the eminent Irish historian, the publication of which, in the Rolls Series, has been recommended by the late Sir Edward Sullivan, when Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and the present Master of the Rolls?
§ THE SECRETARY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)I understand that the amount provided this year for the publication of historical documents is not more than sufficient to carry on works already undertaken, so that it would be impossible to take up the works referred to in the Question this year. I hope that the whole question of these publications will be considered before the Estimates for 1888–9 are prepared; and, in that case, I have no doubt the claims of the Irish documents referred to would be considered with others.