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Page 8
... festival , on the march , and even in the field of battle ; to cheer him at evening with songs in praise of his ancestry ; to animate him in the combat by recalling their achievements in his verse ; and to sing the caoine , or death ...
... festival , on the march , and even in the field of battle ; to cheer him at evening with songs in praise of his ancestry ; to animate him in the combat by recalling their achievements in his verse ; and to sing the caoine , or death ...
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... festival , not heeding , or not hearing , an attempt at explanation made by the hasty bridegroom . The unpleasant interrup- tion to the festivities of the evening was soon for- gotten , and the bridal concluded , as it had begun , in ...
... festival , not heeding , or not hearing , an attempt at explanation made by the hasty bridegroom . The unpleasant interrup- tion to the festivities of the evening was soon for- gotten , and the bridal concluded , as it had begun , in ...
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... festival , the cavalcade was encreased to a prodigious extent by the addition of numer- ous groups of the surrounding families on horse- back and on foot . One of those new comers , as the procession reached the entrance of the valley ...
... festival , the cavalcade was encreased to a prodigious extent by the addition of numer- ous groups of the surrounding families on horse- back and on foot . One of those new comers , as the procession reached the entrance of the valley ...
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... festival of Bel , at the famous temple of Uisneach in Meath , accompanied by the queen , and the estates of Tamrach . It was the custom , on the eve of this festival , to extinguish all the fires throughout the kingdom , in order that ...
... festival of Bel , at the famous temple of Uisneach in Meath , accompanied by the queen , and the estates of Tamrach . It was the custom , on the eve of this festival , to extinguish all the fires throughout the kingdom , in order that ...
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... festival of Bel was violated . The monarch gave orders that the transgressor should be brought before him , and his messengers returned , bringing with them Pa- trick , the Apostle of Ireland . The great missionary defended the act of ...
... festival of Bel was violated . The monarch gave orders that the transgressor should be brought before him , and his messengers returned , bringing with them Pa- trick , the Apostle of Ireland . The great missionary defended the act of ...
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Page xiv - Irish readers who may not regret to find embodied, in a work of imagination, a synopsis of the early constitution, and of the moral history of their native land, and who may regard with an interest more permanent, if not more exciting, than that which addresses itself to the passions, an attempt at tracing, to their remotest origin, some of the influences which have concurred in the formation of the national character.