The Glories of IrelandJoseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox Phoenix, Limited, 1914 - 357 pages |
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... ancient Irish , just as it has been and is the foundation of all later national effort . " If ever the idea of nationality becomes the subject of a thorough and honest study , it will be seen that among all the peoples of antiquity ...
... ancient Irish , just as it has been and is the foundation of all later national effort . " If ever the idea of nationality becomes the subject of a thorough and honest study , it will be seen that among all the peoples of antiquity ...
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... ancient land and assert the cause of a swordless people . Wherever Irishmen have gone , in exile or in fight , they have carried this image of Ireland with them . The cause of Ireland has found a hundred fields of foreign fame , where ...
... ancient land and assert the cause of a swordless people . Wherever Irishmen have gone , in exile or in fight , they have carried this image of Ireland with them . The cause of Ireland has found a hundred fields of foreign fame , where ...
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... ancient see . At Armagh , a cathedral has been built which does honor to Irish architecture , and worthily commemorates the life and labors of St. Patrick , the founder of the primatial see ; at Thurles , a cathedral stands , the chief ...
... ancient see . At Armagh , a cathedral has been built which does honor to Irish architecture , and worthily commemorates the life and labors of St. Patrick , the founder of the primatial see ; at Thurles , a cathedral stands , the chief ...
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... Ancient Ireland ( Dublin , 1903 ) ; Lani- gan : Ecclesiastical History of Ireland ( Dublin , 1822 ) ; Healy : Ire- land's Ancient Schools and Scholars ( Dublin , 1896 ) , Life and Writ- ings of St. Patrick ( Dublin , 1905 ) ; Bury : St ...
... Ancient Ireland ( Dublin , 1903 ) ; Lani- gan : Ecclesiastical History of Ireland ( Dublin , 1822 ) ; Healy : Ire- land's Ancient Schools and Scholars ( Dublin , 1896 ) , Life and Writ- ings of St. Patrick ( Dublin , 1905 ) ; Bury : St ...
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... ancient belief in papal supremacy . SWITZERLAND : Gall , Columbanus's disciple , remained in Switzerland . In a fertile valley , lying between two rivers and surrounded by hills , he laid the beginnings of the great abbey which ...
... ancient belief in papal supremacy . SWITZERLAND : Gall , Columbanus's disciple , remained in Switzerland . In a fertile valley , lying between two rivers and surrounded by hills , he laid the beginnings of the great abbey which ...
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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.