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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... Irish politics in such a hopeless condition that Mr. Duffy threw up his post and went to Australia . Two years later his successor , John Cashel Hoey , retired from the paper . It was to such a heritage of despair A. M. Sullivan ...
... Irish politics in such a hopeless condition that Mr. Duffy threw up his post and went to Australia . Two years later his successor , John Cashel Hoey , retired from the paper . It was to such a heritage of despair A. M. Sullivan ...
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... Irish politics , and his great abilities were securing him an increasing practice , when his career was suddenly cut off during a visit to Ireland . He died on Irish soil , in Dublin , on the 17th of October , 1884. The Irish benchers ...
... Irish politics , and his great abilities were securing him an increasing practice , when his career was suddenly cut off during a visit to Ireland . He died on Irish soil , in Dublin , on the 17th of October , 1884. The Irish benchers ...
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... Irish princes , were the daughters respectively of the kings of Scotland , Saxony , and Brittany . They succeeded in escaping into Albion , where the three young princes were born and educated . The successful conspirators raised to the ...
... Irish princes , were the daughters respectively of the kings of Scotland , Saxony , and Brittany . They succeeded in escaping into Albion , where the three young princes were born and educated . The successful conspirators raised to the ...
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... Irish for centuries subsequently attached supernatural powers . It was said that it would tighten around the neck of the judge if he was un- justly judging a cause ! The dawn of Christianity found the Romans masters of nearly the whole ...
... Irish for centuries subsequently attached supernatural powers . It was said that it would tighten around the neck of the judge if he was un- justly judging a cause ! The dawn of Christianity found the Romans masters of nearly the whole ...
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... Irish tongue and told in the fanciful language of poetry , " The story of the children of Usnach " was calculated to win a prominent place amongst the bardic recitals of the pagan Irish . A semi - fan- ciful version of it has been given ...
... Irish tongue and told in the fanciful language of poetry , " The story of the children of Usnach " was calculated to win a prominent place amongst the bardic recitals of the pagan Irish . A semi - fan- ciful version of it has been given ...
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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.
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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...