The Glories of IrelandJoseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox Phoenix, Limited, 1914 - 357 pages |
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... educated and ordained priest , and later consecrated bishop ; and then , accompanied by several ecclesiastics , he was sent to Ireland . From Wicklow , where he landed , he proceeded north and endeavored , but in vain , to convert his ...
... educated and ordained priest , and later consecrated bishop ; and then , accompanied by several ecclesiastics , he was sent to Ireland . From Wicklow , where he landed , he proceeded north and endeavored , but in vain , to convert his ...
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... educated in Gaul , at the monasteries of Marmoutier and Lerins ; and , perhaps as a result , the monastic character of the early Irish church was one of its outstanding features ; moreover it was to the prevalence of the monastic spirit ...
... educated in Gaul , at the monasteries of Marmoutier and Lerins ; and , perhaps as a result , the monastic character of the early Irish church was one of its outstanding features ; moreover it was to the prevalence of the monastic spirit ...
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... educated at Clonmacnois , was the master of Alcuin ; that Dicuil the Geographer came from the same school ; that Cummian , Abbot and Bishop of Clonfert , combated the errors about the paschal computation with an extent of learning and a ...
... educated at Clonmacnois , was the master of Alcuin ; that Dicuil the Geographer came from the same school ; that Cummian , Abbot and Bishop of Clonfert , combated the errors about the paschal computation with an extent of learning and a ...
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... educated at Louvain or Salamanca or Seville , and then , perhaps loaded with academic honors , he returned home to face poverty and persecution and even death . The Catholic masses , socially ostracised , degraded , and impoverished ...
... educated at Louvain or Salamanca or Seville , and then , perhaps loaded with academic honors , he returned home to face poverty and persecution and even death . The Catholic masses , socially ostracised , degraded , and impoverished ...
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... educating a native clergy and by the founding of monastic institutions . They were not yet satisfied , so they turned towards other lands to bring to other peoples the glad tidings of salvation . GAUL : In 590 St. Columbanus , a monk of ...
... educating a native clergy and by the founding of monastic institutions . They were not yet satisfied , so they turned towards other lands to bring to other peoples the glad tidings of salvation . GAUL : In 590 St. Columbanus , a monk of ...
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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.