The Glories of IrelandJoseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox Phoenix, Limited, 1914 - 357 pages |
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... century , when , as Thierry , the historian of the Norman Conquest , tells us , it still remained the one " lost cause " of history that refused to admit defeat . " This indom- itable persistency , this faculty of preserving through ...
... century , when , as Thierry , the historian of the Norman Conquest , tells us , it still remained the one " lost cause " of history that refused to admit defeat . " This indom- itable persistency , this faculty of preserving through ...
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... century , to a band of men who sought to achieve by arms the freedom of Ireland . The law of the Fenian of the days ... centuries corporeal existence ; yet noth- ing is surer than that Ireland claims these ancestral embodi- ments of an ...
... century , to a band of men who sought to achieve by arms the freedom of Ireland . The law of the Fenian of the days ... centuries corporeal existence ; yet noth- ing is surer than that Ireland claims these ancestral embodi- ments of an ...
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... century , 3,000 monks followed the rule of St. ' Com- gall at Bangor ; and in the seventh century , St. Carthage made Lismore famous and St. Kevin attracted pious men from afar to his lonely retreat in the picturesque valley of ...
... century , 3,000 monks followed the rule of St. ' Com- gall at Bangor ; and in the seventh century , St. Carthage made Lismore famous and St. Kevin attracted pious men from afar to his lonely retreat in the picturesque valley of ...
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... century ; and that at the close of the eighth century two Irishmen went to the court of Charlemagne and were described by a monk of St. Gall as " men incompar- ably skilled in human learning " . The once pagan Ireland had by that time ...
... century ; and that at the close of the eighth century two Irishmen went to the court of Charlemagne and were described by a monk of St. Gall as " men incompar- ably skilled in human learning " . The once pagan Ireland had by that time ...
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... century of turmoil followed Brian's fall and religion again suffered , nothing was wanted to bring the people back to a sense of their duty but the energy and reforming zeal of St. Malachy . Gerald Barry , the notorious Anglo - Norman ...
... century of turmoil followed Brian's fall and religion again suffered , nothing was wanted to bring the people back to a sense of their duty but the energy and reforming zeal of St. Malachy . Gerald Barry , the notorious Anglo - Norman ...
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Page 320 - 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 330 - 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 287 - 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 285 - 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 prayeres...
Page 319 - Corrymeela, an' the low south wind. D'ye mind me now, the song at night is mortial hard to raise, The girls are heavy goin' here, the boys are ill to plase; When one'st I'm out this workin' hive, 'tis I'll be back again— Ay, Corrymeela, in the same soft rain.
Page 136 - As a soldier, as a commander of troops, as a man capable of doing all that is possible with any number of men, there is no man living greater than Sheridan.
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 321 - 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.