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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... received by the Pope .... Mac Mahon before the Lords Justices .. Authentic portrait of Owen Roe O'Neill Depositing the captured English Standards in Limerick Cathedral .. Seizing the Irish children for Slave - gangs .. Battle of the ...
... received by the Pope .... Mac Mahon before the Lords Justices .. Authentic portrait of Owen Roe O'Neill Depositing the captured English Standards in Limerick Cathedral .. Seizing the Irish children for Slave - gangs .. Battle of the ...
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... plain , Crying , like hurricane , Uile liú ai ? Broad is his cairn's base-- Nigh the " King's burial place " , Last of the Pagan race , Lieth King Dathi ! VII . HOW IRELAND RECEIVED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH . O 14 THE STORY OF IRELAND .
... plain , Crying , like hurricane , Uile liú ai ? Broad is his cairn's base-- Nigh the " King's burial place " , Last of the Pagan race , Lieth King Dathi ! VII . HOW IRELAND RECEIVED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH . O 14 THE STORY OF IRELAND .
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... RECEIVED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH . O these foreign expeditions Ireland was destined to be indebted for her own conquest by the spirit of Chris- tianity . As I have already mentioned , in one of the military excursions of King Niall the ...
... RECEIVED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH . O these foreign expeditions Ireland was destined to be indebted for her own conquest by the spirit of Chris- tianity . As I have already mentioned , in one of the military excursions of King Niall the ...
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... received himself the fatal blow intended for his master . Another authentic anecdote may be mentioned here . At the baptism of Aengus , King of Mononia or Munster , St. Pat- rick accident illy pierced through the sandal - covered foot ...
... received himself the fatal blow intended for his master . Another authentic anecdote may be mentioned here . At the baptism of Aengus , King of Mononia or Munster , St. Pat- rick accident illy pierced through the sandal - covered foot ...
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... received the first rudiments of education . His guarding angel often appeared to him ; and the child asked if all the angels in Heaven were so young and shining as he . A little later , Columba was invited by the same angel to choose ...
... received the first rudiments of education . His guarding angel often appeared to him ; and the child asked if all the angels in Heaven were so young and shining as he . A little later , Columba was invited by the same angel to choose ...
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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 T. D. Sullivan Tara thousand throne tion treaty troops Tuatha de Danaans Tyrconnell Ulster valor victory Williamite wounded young
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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...