The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual Words of the World's Best Historians, Biographers and Specialists: a Complete System of History for All Uses, Extending to All Countries and Subjects and Representing the Better and Newer Literature of History, Volume 6C.A. Nichols Publishing Company, 1923 - History |
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Page 4515
... feudalism were lacking to bind the people into a semblance of unity . The early incursions of the Danes seem to have been purely predatory , and even after they began to settle down in their fortified cities , and engage in commerce ...
... feudalism were lacking to bind the people into a semblance of unity . The early incursions of the Danes seem to have been purely predatory , and even after they began to settle down in their fortified cities , and engage in commerce ...
Page 4520
... feudalism was thrown over the whole country , by the assertion of his title as its superior lord , illusory as the pretence was . The magnificence and the power of the great Angevin king seem to have fascinated most of the Irish chiefs ...
... feudalism was thrown over the whole country , by the assertion of his title as its superior lord , illusory as the pretence was . The magnificence and the power of the great Angevin king seem to have fascinated most of the Irish chiefs ...
Page 4521
... feudal system , the system of the lord and the serf , which was the rule throughout almost all the countries of Europe then , was never known in Ireland - at least not until the English , after they had established footing there ...
... feudal system , the system of the lord and the serf , which was the rule throughout almost all the countries of Europe then , was never known in Ireland - at least not until the English , after they had established footing there ...
Page 4522
... Feudal system.- Influence of towns . - Anglo - Normans Celticized . -Gallowglasses . In 1210 John went over to Ireland to seek to make a settlement . " Cathal Crovderg of Connaught and O'Brien of Thomond had tendered him their ...
... Feudal system.- Influence of towns . - Anglo - Normans Celticized . -Gallowglasses . In 1210 John went over to Ireland to seek to make a settlement . " Cathal Crovderg of Connaught and O'Brien of Thomond had tendered him their ...
Page 4523
... feudal law ; the Gaelic chief leads his clan and administers it by Brehon law . BREHON LAWS . ] Each surrounds and is sur- rounded by the other . Each despises the other until experience modifies the views of both . There is no ...
... feudal law ; the Gaelic chief leads his clan and administers it by Brehon law . BREHON LAWS . ] Each surrounds and is sur- rounded by the other . Each despises the other until experience modifies the views of both . There is no ...
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Page 4802 - The High Contracting Parties agree that neither of them will, without consulting the other, enter into separate arrangements with another Power to the prejudice of the interests above described.
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Page 4586 - In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
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Page 4586 - We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
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