The Story of Ireland: A Narrative of Irish History from the Earliest Ages to the Insurrection of 1867, Written for the Youth of Ireland |
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... Dublin to take up a posi- tion on the staff of an illustrated paper . During this period hé contributed sometimes to the Nation - the Nation revived by Charles Gavan Duffy after his release from prison . In 1855 the treachery of Keogh ...
... Dublin to take up a posi- tion on the staff of an illustrated paper . During this period hé contributed sometimes to the Nation - the Nation revived by Charles Gavan Duffy after his release from prison . In 1855 the treachery of Keogh ...
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... Dublin , on the 17th of October , 1884. The Irish benchers had , a few years previously , repented of their churlishness and made him a member of the Irish bar . Two of the most eloquent orations heard in the Dublin law - courts since ...
... Dublin , on the 17th of October , 1884. The Irish benchers had , a few years previously , repented of their churlishness and made him a member of the Irish bar . Two of the most eloquent orations heard in the Dublin law - courts since ...
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... Dublin " Irishman , " the New York Irish World , " and John Devoy's " Irish Nation , " the only newspapers to which I had reasonably easy access . I have only one word more to say . I desire to heartily join with Mr. Sullivan in his ...
... Dublin " Irishman , " the New York Irish World , " and John Devoy's " Irish Nation , " the only newspapers to which I had reasonably easy access . I have only one word more to say . I desire to heartily join with Mr. Sullivan in his ...
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... Dublin , whose admirable volume on " The Ancient Irish Church " , as well as the Rev. S. Malone's " Church History of Ireland " , will be found invaluable to students . place called Bray , near Dublin . The hostility of THE STORY OF ...
... Dublin , whose admirable volume on " The Ancient Irish Church " , as well as the Rev. S. Malone's " Church History of Ireland " , will be found invaluable to students . place called Bray , near Dublin . The hostility of THE STORY OF ...
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... Dublin . The hostility of the Lagenian prince and people compelled him to reëmbark . He sailed northwards , touching at Innis - Patrick near Skerries , county Dublin , and eventually landed at Magh Innis , in Strangford Lough . Druidism ...
... Dublin . The hostility of the Lagenian prince and people compelled him to reëmbark . He sailed northwards , touching at Innis - Patrick near Skerries , county Dublin , and eventually landed at Magh Innis , in Strangford Lough . Druidism ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...