The Glories of IrelandJoseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox Phoenix, Limited, 1914 - 357 pages |
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... his ritual , missal , and a catechism , and the bishop , with his crozier and bell , went forth to do battle for the Lord . This condition of things was soon ended . In 450 a college was founded at 10 THE GLORIES OF IRELAND.
... his ritual , missal , and a catechism , and the bishop , with his crozier and bell , went forth to do battle for the Lord . This condition of things was soon ended . In 450 a college was founded at 10 THE GLORIES OF IRELAND.
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Joseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox. soon ended . In 450 a college was founded at Armagh , which in a short time grew to be a famous school , and attracted students from afar . Other schools were founded in the fifth century , at Noendrum ...
Joseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox. soon ended . In 450 a college was founded at Armagh , which in a short time grew to be a famous school , and attracted students from afar . Other schools were founded in the fifth century , at Noendrum ...
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... College in New England . He lived in the first half of the eighteenth century , when the whole machinery of government was ruth- lessly used to crush the Catholics . But Berkeley had little sympathy with the penal laws ; he had words of ...
... College in New England . He lived in the first half of the eighteenth century , when the whole machinery of government was ruth- lessly used to crush the Catholics . But Berkeley had little sympathy with the penal laws ; he had words of ...
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... colleges . And in higher education , equally determined efforts were made by the establishment of the Catholic University under Cardinal Newman . But in this field of intellectual effort , in spite of the energy and zeal of the bishops ...
... colleges . And in higher education , equally determined efforts were made by the establishment of the Catholic University under Cardinal Newman . But in this field of intellectual effort , in spite of the energy and zeal of the bishops ...
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... College of Maynooth . In South Africa , the work of preaching and teaching and ruling the church is largely the work of Irish - born men . In the great Republic of the West the three cardinal - archbishops at the head of the Catholic ...
... College of Maynooth . In South Africa , the work of preaching and teaching and ruling the church is largely the work of Irish - born men . In the great Republic of the West the three cardinal - archbishops at the head of the Catholic ...
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Page 318 - And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ; There midnight 's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
Page 285 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Page 69 - ... there is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish ; or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof although it be against themselves; so as they may have the protection and benefit of the law, when upon just cause they do desire it.
Page 328 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 283 - The elf-queen, with hir joly companye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede; This was the olde opinion, as I rede. I speke of manye hundred yeres ago; But now can no man see none elves mo. For now the grete charitee and...
Page 154 - Irish troops to cut the throats of the Americans ; that he called these butchers " armed negotiators," and stood with a metaphor in his mouth, and a bribe in his pocket, a champion against the rights of America, the only hope of Ireland, and the only refuge of the liberties of mankind.
Page 91 - THE pillar towers of Ireland, how wondrously they stand By the lakes and rushing rivers through the valleys of our land ; In mystic file, through the isle, they Lift their heads sublime, These gray old pillar temples, these conquerors of time...
Page 319 - AH, see the fair chivalry come, the companions of Christ! White Horsemen, who ride on white horses, the Knights of God ! They, for their Lord and their Lover who sacrificed All, save the sweetness of treading, where He first trod! These through the darkness of death, the dominion of night, Swept, and they woke in white places at morning tide: They saw with their eyes, and sang for joy of the sight. They saw with their eyes the Eyes of the Crucified. Now, whithersoever He goeth, with...
Page 2 - Irish hope exceeds the dimensions of that power, excels its authority, and renews with each generation the claims of the last. The cause that begets this indomitable persistency, the faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of lost liberty, this surely is the noblest cause men ever strove for, ever lived for, ever died for.
Page 317 - FATHER O'FLYNN. Of priests we can offer a charmin' variety, Far renowned for larnin' and piety; Still, I'd advance ye widout impropriety, Father O'Flynn as the flower of them all.