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... bishop or count . In Ireland alone the Danes found to their cost that the Irish spear was thrust with a steady and firm hand ; and after two hundred years of struggle not only had they not arrived at the survey and division of the soil ...
... bishop or count . In Ireland alone the Danes found to their cost that the Irish spear was thrust with a steady and firm hand ; and after two hundred years of struggle not only had they not arrived at the survey and division of the soil ...
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... people and their instructors the bishops and monks . Let those precious old symbols be called Ogham , or by any other name there must have been something of the kind . If any one insists that such was not the case είν PREFACE .
... people and their instructors the bishops and monks . Let those precious old symbols be called Ogham , or by any other name there must have been something of the kind . If any one insists that such was not the case είν PREFACE .
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... bishops played on the harp in the churches , and it is said that this strange spectacle surprised the first Norman invaders of Ireland . To use the words of Montalembert , so well adapted to our subject : " Irish poetry , which was in ...
... bishops played on the harp in the churches , and it is said that this strange spectacle surprised the first Norman invaders of Ireland . To use the words of Montalembert , so well adapted to our subject : " Irish poetry , which was in ...
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... bishops in the Church . Nevertheless , all Celtic na- tions appear to have attached a great importance to it , and the real misfortunes of Ireland began when contention ran so high for the office that the people were divided in their ...
... bishops in the Church . Nevertheless , all Celtic na- tions appear to have attached a great importance to it , and the real misfortunes of Ireland began when contention ran so high for the office that the people were divided in their ...
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... bishops , set on its feet by Christian em- perors and kings , chiefly by Charlemagne , Alfred , Louis IX . , and Otho . Is there not perfect unity between those great men divided by such intervals of space and time ? Is not their work a ...
... bishops , set on its feet by Christian em- perors and kings , chiefly by Charlemagne , Alfred , Louis IX . , and Otho . Is there not perfect unity between those great men divided by such intervals of space and time ? Is not their work a ...
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Page 202 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long 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...
Page 305 - The Duke of Orleans, Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV...
Page 126 - All Ireland was by Henry II. cantonized among ten of the English nation ; and, though they had not gained possession of one-third of the kingdom, yet in title they were owners and lords of all, so as nothing was left to be granted to the natives.
Page 334 - That the crown of Ireland is an imperial crown inseparably annexed to the crown of Great Britain, on which connection the interests and happiness of both nations essentially depend: but that the kingdom of Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own— the sole legislature thereof.
Page 209 - Pope should order him to return to his diocese, he intended only to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
Page 334 - Majesty that we humbly conceive that in this right the very essence of our liberties exists ; a right which we, on the part of all the people of Ireland, do claim as their birthright, and which we cannot yield but with our lives.
Page 512 - Ast hinc duobus in Sacram (sic insulam Dixere prisci) solibus cursus rati est. Haec inter undas multa cespitem jacet, Eamque late gens Hibernorum colit.
Page 517 - ... see, on the shield of England in her treatment of Ireland. If we be compassionate men, I hope we shall now, once for all, listen to the tale of woe which comes from her, and the reality of which, if not its justice, is testified by the continuous migration of her people; that we shall endeavor to Raze out the written troubles from her brain, Pluck from her memory the rooted sorrow.
Page 287 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 324 - Majesty's happy government will work a greater miracle in this kingdom than ever St. Patrick did ; for St. Patrick did only banish the poisonous worms, but suffered the men full of poison to inhabit the land still ; but his Majesty's blessed genius will banish all those generations of vipers out of it, and make it ere it be long a right fortunate island.