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... hand , toward the end of the fourteenth century , by the Mac Egans , a family of learned professors and teachers . The book , which contains 226 pieces , was copied from various older books , most of them now lost . All , both text and ...
... hand , toward the end of the fourteenth century , by the Mac Egans , a family of learned professors and teachers . The book , which contains 226 pieces , was copied from various older books , most of them now lost . All , both text and ...
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... hands and tilled by the labour of the non - free classes : part they let to tenants . An aire of this class was called a flaith [ flah ] , i.e. a noble , a chief , a prince . A person belonging to the third class of Aire , a non- noble ...
... hands and tilled by the labour of the non - free classes : part they let to tenants . An aire of this class was called a flaith [ flah ] , i.e. a noble , a chief , a prince . A person belonging to the third class of Aire , a non- noble ...
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... abused this regula- tion by what was called Coyne and Livery . A military leader . when he had no money to pay his soldiers , turned them out with arms in their hands among the colonists 22 [ PART I. MANNERS , CUSTOMS , INSTITUTIONS .
... abused this regula- tion by what was called Coyne and Livery . A military leader . when he had no money to pay his soldiers , turned them out with arms in their hands among the colonists 22 [ PART I. MANNERS , CUSTOMS , INSTITUTIONS .
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Patrick Weston Joyce. them out with arms in their hands among the colonists to pay themselves in money and food . This was Coyne and Livery . No distinction was made ; and the soldiers being under no restraint , plundered and oppressed ...
Patrick Weston Joyce. them out with arms in their hands among the colonists to pay themselves in money and food . This was Coyne and Livery . No distinction was made ; and the soldiers being under no restraint , plundered and oppressed ...
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... hand harp to the great bardic instrument six feet high . It was com- monly furnished with thirty strings , but sometimes had many more . The Irish had a small stringed instrument called a timpan , which had only a few strings - from ...
... hand harp to the great bardic instrument six feet high . It was com- monly furnished with thirty strings , but sometimes had many more . The Irish had a small stringed instrument called a timpan , which had only a few strings - from ...
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Page 237 - I will tell you one Thing further; that if Mr. Wood's Project should take, it will ruin even our Beggars: For when I give a Beggar a Half-penny, it will quench his Thirst, or go a good Way to fill his Belly; but the Twelfth Part of a Halfpenny will do him no more Service than if I should give him three Pins out of my Sleeve.
Page 151 - ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time...
Page 257 - That as Men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the Penal Laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 254 - It was in the debates on this question that Hussey Burgh made his reputation as an orator. In one of them he used a sentence that has become famous. Someone had remarked that Ireland was at peace : — " Talk not to me of peace," said he : " Ireland is not at peace ; it is smothered war. England has sown her laws as dragons' teeth: they have sprung up as armed men...
Page 69 - Brodir had been a Christian man and a mass-deacon by consecration, but he had thrown off his faith, and become God's dastard, and now worshipped heathen fiends, and he was of all men most skilled in sorcery. He had that coat of mail on which no steel would bite. He was both tall and strong, and had such long locks that he tucked them under his belt. His hair was black.
Page 183 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 259 - ... his Majesty's courts therein finally, and without appeal from thence, shall be, and it is hereby declared to be established and ascertained for ever, and shall, at no time hereafter, be questioned or questionable.
Page 151 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 28 - Speaking of another Irish book, Mr. Westwood says : — . " I have counted [with a magnifying glass] in a small space scarcely three quarters of an inch in length by less than half an inch in width, in the Book of Armagh, no less than 158 interlacements of a slender ribbon pattern formed of white lines edged with black ones.
Page 151 - The war had made Munster a desert. In the words of the Four Masters : — " The lowing of a cow or the voice of a ploughman could scarcely be heard from Dunqueen in the west of Kerry to Cashel.