The Glories of IrelandJoseph Dunn, Patrick Joseph Lennox Phoenix, Limited, 1914 - 357 pages |
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... hands an authoritative and unassailable array of facts as telling as any nation in the world can show . Our second motive was that henceforward he who seeks to ignore or belittle the part taken by men and women of Irish birth or blood ...
... hands an authoritative and unassailable array of facts as telling as any nation in the world can show . Our second motive was that henceforward he who seeks to ignore or belittle the part taken by men and women of Irish birth or blood ...
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... hand , so that freedom might be put out of sight ; an eternal resistance , on the other , so that it might be upheld . It was this struggle that Ireland sought to maintain against every form of attack , down through Danish , Norman ...
... hand , so that freedom might be put out of sight ; an eternal resistance , on the other , so that it might be upheld . It was this struggle that Ireland sought to maintain against every form of attack , down through Danish , Norman ...
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... hands of Columcille . In 597 the saint died , but not before he had won a whole kingdom to Christ and covered the land with churches and monasteries . Today his name is held in honor not by Irishmen alone , but by the Catholics and non ...
... hands of Columcille . In 597 the saint died , but not before he had won a whole kingdom to Christ and covered the land with churches and monasteries . Today his name is held in honor not by Irishmen alone , but by the Catholics and non ...
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... hands . Edwith died and Oswald became heir to the throne . A battle was fought . The day before he met the pagan army , between the Tyne and the Solway , Oswald beheld St. Columcille in vision saying to him : " Be strong and of good ...
... hands . Edwith died and Oswald became heir to the throne . A battle was fought . The day before he met the pagan army , between the Tyne and the Solway , Oswald beheld St. Columcille in vision saying to him : " Be strong and of good ...
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... hands , have been scattered throughout the libraries of Europe , and many fragments remain to the present day . The beauty of these manuscripts is praised by all , and the names of the best transcribers often find mention in monas- tic ...
... hands , have been scattered throughout the libraries of Europe , and many fragments remain to the present day . The beauty of these manuscripts is praised by all , and the names of the best transcribers often find mention in monas- tic ...
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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.