A Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics (Complete) |
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... thatthe victoryof the cross was achieved without a singular combination ofcourage, prudence, and determination—God aiding above all. If the year ofhis captivity was 405 or 406,andthat of his escapeor manumission seven years later ...
... thatthe victoryof the cross was achieved without a singular combination ofcourage, prudence, and determination—God aiding above all. If the year ofhis captivity was 405 or 406,andthat of his escapeor manumission seven years later ...
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... that the monarch, Leary (Laeghaire), was to celebrate hisbirthday with suitablerejoicings at Tara, on a day which happened tofallonthe eveof Easter,he resolved to proceed to Taraon that occasion, and toconfront the Druidsin the midst of ...
... that the monarch, Leary (Laeghaire), was to celebrate hisbirthday with suitablerejoicings at Tara, on a day which happened tofallonthe eveof Easter,he resolved to proceed to Taraon that occasion, and toconfront the Druidsin the midst of ...
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... that the clergy were "exempt" from military service. Soslowand patientis the process by which Christianity infusesitself into the social lifeofa converted people! Thelong reignof FINNACTA, the hospitable, whomay,forhis many other ...
... that the clergy were "exempt" from military service. Soslowand patientis the process by which Christianity infusesitself into the social lifeofa converted people! Thelong reignof FINNACTA, the hospitable, whomay,forhis many other ...
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... that the satirical poets asked what was the use of the island,when oneparty "would not come upon theland, nor the other upon thesea?" However, we needs mustagree with King Donogh,that waris thelast resort, and isonly tobetried when all ...
... that the satirical poets asked what was the use of the island,when oneparty "would not come upon theland, nor the other upon thesea?" However, we needs mustagree with King Donogh,that waris thelast resort, and isonly tobetried when all ...
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... that the IrishSaints exercised theirgreatest power,not only over their own countrymen,but over a considerable part of ... thatthe power she had founded andexercised, was divided amongBritish and continental schools, whichher own alumni ...
... that the IrishSaints exercised theirgreatest power,not only over their own countrymen,but over a considerable part of ... thatthe power she had founded andexercised, was divided amongBritish and continental schools, whichher own alumni ...
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