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... stanza ' which went : My name is Frank Macnamara , A native of Cashell , County Tipperary , Sworn to be a tyrant's ... Stanzas two and three , except for the reference in the latter to transportation , could come from a purely Irish ...
... stanza ' which went : My name is Frank Macnamara , A native of Cashell , County Tipperary , Sworn to be a tyrant's ... Stanzas two and three , except for the reference in the latter to transportation , could come from a purely Irish ...
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... stanza there is a clear recognition of the greater freedom and plenty of life in Australia , greatest of all for bushrangers , who are conceived of as continuing in the new land the old patriotic fight against English tyranny . The same ...
... stanza there is a clear recognition of the greater freedom and plenty of life in Australia , greatest of all for bushrangers , who are conceived of as continuing in the new land the old patriotic fight against English tyranny . The same ...
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... stanza from one of them combines a jibe at the new type of imported policeman with one at the clergy : Lord Fuzzleby's nephew , who went , And spent every summer at Nice , Says , ' now boys , you'd better move on'— In short , he is in ...
... stanza from one of them combines a jibe at the new type of imported policeman with one at the clergy : Lord Fuzzleby's nephew , who went , And spent every summer at Nice , Says , ' now boys , you'd better move on'— In short , he is in ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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