 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...in understanding each other, than an Irishman and a Highlander. LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD. LET ERIN remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her; When MAUCIII wore the collar of gold, Which he won from her proud invader ; When her Kings, with standard... | |
 | John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - Ireland - 1844 - 1008 pages
...did not the Attorney-General produce a fac simile of it from the College Museum ? He quoted Moore : " Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her ; When Matachi wore the cottar of gotd, Which he won from her proud invader." It is by such mummery as this... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...Heaven, its sweet bell ring, Call my spirit to the fields above ? LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD. nt to learn. S a note, that Fionnuata, the daughter...of Lir. was, by some supernslural power, transforme eolcl.t Which he won from her proud invader, When her kings, with standard of green unfurled, Led the... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 602 pages
...have guessed, if he himself had not afforded us a clue. Everybody remembers the Irish melody : — ' Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her, When Malachy wore the collar of gold Which he won from the proud invader : — AVhen her Kings, with the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1845 - 602 pages
...have guessed, if he himself had not afforded us a clue. Everybody remembers the Irish melody: — ' Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her, When Malachy wore the collar of gold Which he won from the proud invader: — When her Kings, with the standard... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 900 pages
...of this date is reckoned to have been Maelsechlan Mac Domhnaill, more manageably written Melachlan, or Malachi, whom Brien deposed. Malachi, too, was...Brien the Brave," has also sung,— "Let Erin remember tho days of old, Ere her faithless sons betnty'd her, When Malachi wore the collar of gold Which he... | |
 | Townsend Young - Ireland - 1848 - 206 pages
...genius places him at the head of the national poets of all ages, wrote this touching exhortation: " Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her, When Malachy wore the collar of gold, Which he won from the proud invader." 38 BRIAN DETHRONES MALACHY.... | |
 | Crumpe - 1852 - 988 pages
...the term regal, and perhaps not incorrectly, as it was little dissimilar to that of Erin's monarch in the days of old — " Ere her faithless sons betrayed her, When Malachi wore the collar of gold That he won from the proud invader." The O'Sullivan-Beare maintained a bodyguard of twelve stout followers,... | |
 | Edward Maturin - Ireland - 1852 - 420 pages
...tableau disappeared ; but there were few hearts to which that picture did not recall the lines : " Let Erin remember the days of old Ere her faithless sons betrayed her 1" and still fewer who did not hopefully anticipate the national resurrection painted by the same bard... | |
 | D C. Maccarthy - Great Britain - 1858 - 324 pages
...they quarrelled among themselves for the mastery. 859, Malachy, the monarch, signally defeated them. " Let Erin remember the days of old Ere her faithless sons betrayed her ; When Malachy wore the collar of gold, Which he won from the proud invader." Throughout the following century... | |
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