sanctified domestic life. His goodness was the gift of nature; his ethics, the result of intuitive wisdom, and early culture; so that all the excellence which crowds into his career, seems rather the effluence of his spirit, than the consequences of rule and meditation. Whether we contemplate him in his public or in his private life, no prince ever deserved encomium better than his late royal highness. At home, as well as abroad, he was contemplative and industrious. His delight was business: a duty once recognised was sure not to be neglected, or even deferred except to a favourable opportunity. Fatigue imposed rest, but rest insinuated no effeminate ease. In the multitude of his labours, there was one which supplied perpetual relief. It was the education of his children, in which he participated with missionary zeal, and from which he derived ever-varying pleasure. He joined his exertions to those of the preceptors, and, in the tillage of the head and the heart, was the most efficient husbandman among them. The blessed work of sowing the seeds of knowledge and virtue in his young family, was rendered tenfold fruitful of joy, since it could be shared with a loving one who had an equal interest in the harvest. The Consort bequeathed to his offspring a noble legacy, that alone which can be bequeathed in full to each of the heirs. It is the example of his virtues-an inheritance more rich and glorious, than any that could be derived from the fortuity of birth. May it be as great a treasure to them as it will be to history, which will consecrate to him an honourable place, and preserve his name on one of her most useful and pleasing pages. QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION. INTRODUCTION-SECT. I., PAGE 1. 1. What is the most ancient name of Ireland? 2. Name the Carthaginian to whom it was known as the Sacred Isle. 3. How long before Christ was Ireland known as the Sacred Isle ? 4. By what name is Ireland mentioned in the poem on the Argonautic Expedition? 5. To what era is the Milesian invasion assigned? 6. Which were the three sons of Milesius, whose names are associated with Ireland? How are their names associated? 7. How do you distinguish between Greater and Less Scotia? To what period was the name of Greater Scotia retained? 8. Whence is the name Inisfail derived? 9. What is the meaning of Lia-fail? What tradition is connected with it? 10. What opinion has Dr. Petrie given with respect to the Stone of Destiny? 11. Name the five successive colonies which first invaded Ireland. 12. Who are the Fomorians supposed to have been? 13. What tribes are referred to Partholan? and from what country did he come? 14. Who was the founder of the Nemedian race; and how was he related to Partholan? 15. From whom were the Danaans descended? 16. Who dispossessed the Fomorians? 17. By what other name are the Firbolgs known? 18. Which were the Belga Celts or Teutons? 19. What led to the five divisions of Ireland? 20. Who overthrew the Firbolgs? 21. From whence did the Danaans bring the Stone of Destiny 22. Whence proceeded that colonization which gave their earliest inhabitants to Scotland and England? 23. What Irish race descended, according to the Fileas, from Farsa, grandson of Magog? 24. To whom was Niall, the son of Farsa, married? 25. Who conducted the Gadelians back to Scythia ? 26. Who conducted the Gadelians from Scythia to Spain? 27. Who founded the city of Braganza? 28. Who is mentioned as the grandfather of Milesius ? 29. What circumstances led to the discovery of Ireland by Ith son of Milesius? 30. For what purpose, and at what period, was the Milesian invasion planned? 31. Mention any circumstances which cast doubts on the account given of the Milesian invasion. 32. In what century of our era did the Belgæ probably arrive in Ireland? 33. In what century do we find Ireland first mentioned by the name of Scotia? 34. What authority have we for saying that the term Scots did not, even in the fifth century, include all the Irish? 35. Upon what grounds does Dr. Lanigan refer the Scottish invasion to the fifth century of the Christian era? 36. To what origin are the Nemedian fables traced? 37. Who was Cormac M'Cullinan ? 38. What is the testimony of the annalist, Tighernach, with regard to the records of the Scots ? 39. State the opinions of Sir William Betham, and of Moore, respecting the colonization of Ireland. 40. From whence does Moore derive the Irish Celts? He refers to two very distinct origins-mention both. 41. With what well-known races are the Danaans supposed to be identical? 42. Why may the Phoenician and the Spanish colonization be considered the same? 43. Considering the most ancient historical inhabitants of Ireland to have been Celto-Belgic, under whom may we conjecture the Milesian conquest to have taken place? INTRODUCTION-SECT. II., PAGE 7. 44. What connects the idolatry of the ancient Irish with that of the Canaanites? 45. Who established the Cabiric mysteries in Samothrace? 46. By whom are we told that sacrifices were offered to Ceres in an island near Britain? 47. With whose mysteries does Pliny compare those of the Druids? 48. Whence is Druid derived? 49. Under what name was the sun worshiped by the Irish and the Phoenicians? 50. What pagan festival was celebrated on the first of May? 51. On what other day did the ceremony take place? Describe it. 52. When, where, and how was the feast of Samhain celebrated? 53. What is a cromleach? Describe the Hag's Bed. 54. What are cairns and barrows? Mention their several uses. 55. With what are barrows often confounded? 56. Mention some particulars of Uisneach. 57. For what were pillar stones used? 58. What are the opinions of Dr. Petrie as to the uses of the Round Towers? 59. Give a description of the general construction of the Round Towers. QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION. CHAPTER I., PAGE 11. 281 30. What provinces of Ireland fell to Heremon and Heber, respectively? 61. How did йeremon come in for all? Who succeeded him? 62. Who set up the idol Crom-cruach? 63. What regulations prevailed with regard to the colours allowed to be worn in garments? 64. Who appointed the assembly of the three estates on Tara? 65. By what other name was Tara known? 66. Who was the most celebrated of the ancient lawgivers? 67. What officers was every head of a clan obliged to maintain ? 68. Where were the national annals scrutinized? 69. Who succeeded the Druids as examiners of the public records? 70. In what respect did the laws of Fodhla resemble those of the Lacedemonians and Brahmins? 71. How were the heralds, bards, and teachers supported? 72. With whose reign begins the dawn of authentic history? 73. Where was the mansion of the "Knights of the Red Branch"? 74. Who procured the abolition of the pentarchy ? What subdi vision was substituted? and how long did it last? 75. To whose reign, and to what year of our era, is Cuchullin assigned? 76. To what period and events do the poems of Ossian allude? 77. What opinion did Dr. Blair hold of Macpherson's Ossian? 78. How does Dr. Drummond describe Macpherson's rhapsodies? 79. State the remarkable anachronism by which Macpherson's forgery is fully established. 80. With what Roman general was Crimthan contemporary? 81. What people did Crimthan assist against the Romans? 82. What Roman historian mentions Crimthan? 83. Relate the particulars of the Milesian tyranny which caused a civil war, A. D. 82. 84. Whom did the plebeians choose as their leader? 85. Describe the massacre of the nobles. What events followed it? 86. Who were Feredach and Moran? 87. On the revolt of the Attacots, whither did Tuathal, son of Feredach, fly? 88. What led to the restoration of Tuathal? 89. What provisions were made for the becoming support of the royal dignity? 90. Of what crime was Achy guilty? 91. How did Achy escape from the punishment of his misconduct ? 92. What is meant by eric, and by whom was it established? Did such an institution prevail anywhere else? 93. What was the name of Feidlim's celebrated son? and who was his rival? 94. Where was that battle fought, by which Conn was compelled to a division of the kingdom? 95. From whom were the princely families of Munster descended? 96. By what names were the kingdom and people of South Munster known? 97. Describe the kingdom of Thomond. 98. Who were the Dalgais or Dalcassians? 99. How did the Eugenians and Dalcassians arrange with regard to the government of the province? 100. From whom descended the Dalriadic kings? 101. Who was the mother of Carbury Riada, the founder of the Irish settlement in Argyleshire? 102. Who subdued the Picts? What kingdom was the cradle of the Scottish monarchy? 103. What eminent Scottish antiquaries and historians acknowledge that the Scottish monarchy was founded by Irish colonists? 104. What stress does Pinkerton lay upon venerable Bede's testimony? 105. What is the most ancient piece of Dalriadic history? 106. Who was Cormac Ulfida?" and about what time did he flourish? 107. Why was Ulfida obliged to abdicate? 108. Who was Fingal? 109. Who was Oisin? Fighting against whom did his son Oscar fall? 110. Why was Niall of the Nine Hostages so called? When did he ascend the throne? 111. What Roman poet mentions the Irish (or Scottish) invasion of Britain? 112. What led to St. Patrick's coming to Ireland? 113. Where and how did Niall die? 114. How did Niall divide his hereditary possessions? 115. How was Niall's will observed with regard to the succession to the monarchy ? 116. Into how many clans were the successors of Niall divided? 117. Who put an end to the long-established order of succession? 118. Who was the last pagan king? CHAPTER II., PAGE 19. 119. Who was the first Christian prince? 120. In what century does Tertullian say that Christianity was introduced? 121. Who was Palladius? 122. What heresy is said to have been introduced into Ireland before the arrival of Palladius ? 123. Who were the great opponents of Pelagius? 124. What proof can you give that writing was known in Ireland before A. D. 370? 125. In what year was St. Patrick born; and where ? 126. In what public assembly did St. Patrick first preach the gospel? 127. Who succeeded St. Patrick in the see of Armagh? 128. State the particulars connected with the conversion of Logaire. 129. What passage in the "Confessions" of St. Patrick indicates that Christianity had been preached in Ireland before his time? 130. What is the date of St. Patrick's death? |