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... entitled The Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland , with some fanciful wood cuts . At once , it sprung into popularity . The two rival Reviews , ( Edinb.rg and Quarterly , ) criticised Obituary . THOMAS CROFTON CROKER ...
... entitled The Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland , with some fanciful wood cuts . At once , it sprung into popularity . The two rival Reviews , ( Edinb.rg and Quarterly , ) criticised Obituary . THOMAS CROFTON CROKER ...
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... entitled " Cork's Good- humoured Faces , " " The Doneraile Litany , " and " The Carrigaline Goalers defeated . " But while I have endeavoured thus to place characteristic samples of Irish song be- fore the English reader , I trust that ...
... entitled " Cork's Good- humoured Faces , " " The Doneraile Litany , " and " The Carrigaline Goalers defeated . " But while I have endeavoured thus to place characteristic samples of Irish song be- fore the English reader , I trust that ...
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... entitled " Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery , by T. W. " The writer and his friend , two cavaliers , visit Coolfin , in the county of Waterford , the seat of Mr. Poer , or Power , the high - sheriff , where their entertain- ment is ...
... entitled " Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery , by T. W. " The writer and his friend , two cavaliers , visit Coolfin , in the county of Waterford , the seat of Mr. Poer , or Power , the high - sheriff , where their entertain- ment is ...
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... way of panegyric can be added to this . " - Views of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland , by John Gamble , Esq . , 1819 . of Buckingham , entitled " The Nettle , an Irish THE GLASS OF WHISKY . 79 The Glass of Whisky.
... way of panegyric can be added to this . " - Views of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland , by John Gamble , Esq . , 1819 . of Buckingham , entitled " The Nettle , an Irish THE GLASS OF WHISKY . 79 The Glass of Whisky.
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Thomas Crofton Croker. of Buckingham , entitled " The Nettle , an Irish Bouquet to tickle the Nose of an English Viceroy . " Carey was the printer and publisher of " The National Evening Star , " a Dublin newspaper , and acquired ...
Thomas Crofton Croker. of Buckingham , entitled " The Nettle , an Irish Bouquet to tickle the Nose of an English Viceroy . " Carey was the printer and publisher of " The National Evening Star , " a Dublin newspaper , and acquired ...
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Page 234 - WITH deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, — With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Page 236 - Of thy belfry, knelling Its bold notes free, Made the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand, on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee. I've heard bells tolling Old Adrian's Mole...
Page 143 - There is a stone there, that whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses to grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber, Or become a member of parliament: A clever spouter he'll sure turn out, or An out-and-outer, "to be let alone," Don't hope to hinder him, or to bewilder him; Sure he's a pilgrim from the Blarney stone!
Page 33 - ... and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast."*** The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits.
Page 220 - In seventeen hundred and forty and four, The fifth of December, I think, 'twas no more, At five in the morning by most of the clocks, We rode from Kilruddery in search of a fox.
Page 133 - Blacke-water, and the Liffar deep, Sad Trowis, that once his people over-ran, Strong Allo tombling from Slewlogher steep, And Mulla mine, whose waves I whilom taught to weep.
Page 225 - And on the broken pavement, here and there, Doth many a stinking sprat and herring lie; A brandy and tobacco shop is near, And hens, and dogs, and hogs, are feeding by : And here a sailor's jacket hangs to dry.
Page 202 - Still, still in those wilds might young liberty rally, And send her strong shout over mountain and valley, The star of the west might yet rise in its glory, And the land that was darkest be brightest in story.
Page 146 - Tis there the lake is, well stored with perches, And comely eels in the verdant mud; Besides the leeches, and groves of beeches, Standing in order for to guard the flood.
Page 271 - The town of Passage Is both large and spacious, And situated Upon the say. 'Tis nate and dacent, And quite adjacent To come from Cork On a summer's day ; There you may slip in To take a dipping, Foment the shipping That at anchor ride ; Or in a wherry Cross o'er the ferry To Carrigaloe, On the other side.