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... hand as far south as the tip of Wexford , framed in a bright sea . To take in the full scope of the Irish story you must climb to some similar height in imagination , some height from which narrow boundaries are released , and the ...
... hand as far south as the tip of Wexford , framed in a bright sea . To take in the full scope of the Irish story you must climb to some similar height in imagination , some height from which narrow boundaries are released , and the ...
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... hand about 1500 B. C. Near - by in royal Meath are the many hillocks which the fear and awe of a later age raised to the Old Men . Under a seventy - foot mound at New Grange , with a circle of stones outside , one may now climb down to ...
... hand about 1500 B. C. Near - by in royal Meath are the many hillocks which the fear and awe of a later age raised to the Old Men . Under a seventy - foot mound at New Grange , with a circle of stones outside , one may now climb down to ...
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... hands of a ruling class . As the " pillow - talk " of king and queen in the epic tale of the Raid of Cooley ( County Louth ) in- forms us , wealth consisted of sheep and herds , of horses and steeds and studs , of droves of swine ...
... hands of a ruling class . As the " pillow - talk " of king and queen in the epic tale of the Raid of Cooley ( County Louth ) in- forms us , wealth consisted of sheep and herds , of horses and steeds and studs , of droves of swine ...
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... hands of Irish poets . Each year , as scholarship im- proves , the magnificent epics of Ireland yield up one clue after another to prehistoric Gaelic civilization , and the age of historical disclosure is not over . It was only in 1868 ...
... hands of Irish poets . Each year , as scholarship im- proves , the magnificent epics of Ireland yield up one clue after another to prehistoric Gaelic civilization , and the age of historical disclosure is not over . It was only in 1868 ...
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... hands , with many rivets of red bronze . And he was himself , besides , sym- metrical and beautiful of form , without blemish or re- proach . " It is not hard to credit the account of a Firbolg revolution when one reads of Cormac's ...
... hands , with many rivets of red bronze . And he was himself , besides , sym- metrical and beautiful of form , without blemish or re- proach . " It is not hard to credit the account of a Firbolg revolution when one reads of Cormac's ...
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