The Story of Ireland: A Narrative of Irish History from the Earliest Ages to the Insurrection of 1867, Written for the Youth of IrelandP. J. Kenedy, 1892 - 657 sider |
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... force , but in detachments widely separated ; some at the mouth of the Boyne ; others on the Kerry coast . A short but fiercely con- tested campaign decided the fate of the kingdom . In the first great pitched battle , which was fought ...
... force , but in detachments widely separated ; some at the mouth of the Boyne ; others on the Kerry coast . A short but fiercely con- tested campaign decided the fate of the kingdom . In the first great pitched battle , which was fought ...
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... force , of the scholar over the soldier , was not only recognized but decreed by legislation in Ireland ! We find in the Irish chronicles that in the reign of Eochy the First ( more than a thousand years before Christ ) society was ...
... force , of the scholar over the soldier , was not only recognized but decreed by legislation in Ireland ! We find in the Irish chronicles that in the reign of Eochy the First ( more than a thousand years before Christ ) society was ...
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... force of arms to take Deirdri . After many desperate encounters and adventures , however , any one of which would supply ample materials for a poem - story , the exiled brothers and their re- tainers made good their retreat into a small ...
... force of arms to take Deirdri . After many desperate encounters and adventures , however , any one of which would supply ample materials for a poem - story , the exiled brothers and their re- tainers made good their retreat into a small ...
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... force un- til the English invasion ( a period extending beyond nine hun- dred years ) , and outside the English Pale for many centuries . after ! He assembled the bards and chroniclers at Tara , and directed them to collect the annals ...
... force un- til the English invasion ( a period extending beyond nine hun- dred years ) , and outside the English Pale for many centuries . after ! He assembled the bards and chroniclers at Tara , and directed them to collect the annals ...
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... force of heroes as the Fianna Eirion ; and the feats he attributes to them were of course unparalleled . He would have us believe there were no taller , straighter , stronger , braver , bolder men in all Erinn , than his Fenian comrades ...
... force of heroes as the Fianna Eirion ; and the feats he attributes to them were of course unparalleled . He would have us believe there were no taller , straighter , stronger , braver , bolder men in all Erinn , than his Fenian comrades ...
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A. M. Sullivan amongst ancient Anglo-Irish Anglo-Norman Ard-Ri arms army bards battle blood brave Brehon Laws Brian brother camp castle Catholic cavalry chief chieftain Christian chronicles Church clan Columba command Connacht Conor Danes Danish death Deirdri Desmond Diarmid Dublin Dungannon earl earl of Desmond enemy England English king Erinn event faith Fiachy fight force fought Geraldine glorious hand head heart Henry hills historian Holy honor Hugh Hugh O'Neill hundred Ireland Irish army Irish history Irish nation Irish princes island land Leinster Limerick M'Gee M'Murrogh Malachy marched Milesian military monarch Morrogh Mullaghmast Munster murder Naeisi never night noble Norman O'Donnell o'er O'Neill O'Sullivan Offaly once pagan parliament Patrick patriotism Pope reign Roderick royal ruin saint says sent side soldiers soon sovereign story Strongbow struggle sword Tara thousand throne tion treaty troops Tuatha de Danaans Tyrconnell Ulster valor victory Williamite wounded young
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Side 488 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Side 65 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Side 482 - De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished and dispersed. The bloody Duke of Cumberland beheld with anxious eye, And ordered up his last reserve, his latest chance to try. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how fast his generals ride! And mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds at eventide. Six thousand English veterans...
Side 458 - Far dearer the grave or the prison, Illumed by one patriot name, Than the trophies of all, who have risen On Liberty's ruins to fame.
Side 643 - I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce and I must abide by.
Side 482 - King Louis madly cried: To death they rush, but rude their shock — not unavenged they died. On through the camp the column trod — King Louis turns his rein: "Not yet, my liege...