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by P
W Joyce (1827-1914)
1. Dialects of Celtic. There are two main branches
of the Ancient Celtic Language: The Goidelic, or Gaelic, or Irish;
and the British; corresponding with the two main divisions of
the Celtic people of the British Islands. Each of these has branched
into three dialects. Those of Gaelic are:--The Irish proper; the
Gaelic of Scotland, differing only slightly from the Irish; and
the Manx. The dialects of British are: Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
or Armoric. Of the whole six dialects, five are still spoken;
the Cornish became extinct in the last century; and Manx is nearly
extinct. Read more >>>
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by Shan Bullock
(1865-1935
FOR six generations the Andrews family has been prominent in
the life of Comber:
that historic and prospering village, near Strangford
Lough, on the road from Belfast to Downpatrick:
and in almost every generation some one or other of the family
has attained distinction. During the eventful times of 1779-82,
John Andrews raised and commanded a company of Volunteers, in
which his youngest son, James, served as Lieutenant. Later, another
John Andrews was High Sheriff of Down in 1857; and he also it
was who founded the firm John Andrews & Co., which to-day
gives employment to some six hundred of the villagers Read
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by P
W Joyce (1827-1914)
IRELAND, from the sixth to the twelfth century of the Christian
era, presented an interesting spectacle, which, viewed through the
medium of history, may be sketched in broad outline as follows.
In those early times the physical aspect of Ireland was very different
from what it is at present. All over the country there were vast
forests, and great and dangerous marshes, quagmires, and bogs, covered
with reeds, moss, and grass. But though bogs existed from the beginning,
many districts, where we now find them lying broad and deep, were
once forest land: and the bog grew up after the surface had, in
some manner, become denuded of trees. Buried down at a depth of
many feet in some of our present bogs great tree trunks are often
found, the relics of the primeval forest read
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by Henry Jones Ford 1915
In 1609, six years after the accession of James VI. of Scotland
to the throne of England as James I. in its line of kings, a scheme
was matured for planting Ulster with Scotch and English, and the
following year the settlement began. The actual settlers were mostly
Scotch, and the Ulster plantation took the character of a Scotch
occupation of the North of Ireland. In that plantation was formed
the breed known as Scotch-Irish, which was prominent in the struggle
for American independence and which supplied to American population
an ingredient that has deeply affected the development of the nation.
It is the purpose of this work to give an account of this Scotch-Irish
strain in the composition of the American people, tracing its history
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by Mary Lowry (circa 1913)
This book is to tell the simple story of
the places familiar to us all, for even the names of the streets
have a meaning of their own. How many people know why Donegall Pass
has such a curious name? For whom was St. Anne's Church named? It
was not for Queen Anne. There were five Annes and five Arthurs in
the Marquis of Donegall's family and that explains why these names
were so frequently used in Belfast. How many know why there is a
King John's Road in Holywood, and a King William's Road on the Holywood
Hill? Why is there a "Joy" Street in that particularly
joyless neighbourhood, or a Fountain Street where no water is now
seen? read
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The formation of vegetable mould,
through the action of worms,
with observations on their habits
by Charles Darwin.
Nature of the sites inhabited. Can live long under water. Nocturnal.
Wander about at night. Often lie close to the mouths of their
burrows, and are thus destroyed in large numbers by birds. Structure.
Do not possess eyes, but can distinguish between light and darkness.
Retreat rapidly when brightly illuminated, not by a reflex action.
Power of attention. Sensitive to heat and cold. Completely deaf.
Sensitive to vibrations and to touch. Feeble power of smell. Taste.
Mental qualities.
Nature of food. Omnivorous. Digestion. Leaves before being swallowed,
moistened with a fluid of the nature of the pancreatic secretion.
Extra-stomachal digestion. Calciferous glands, structure of. Calcareous
concretions formed in the anterior pair of glands. read more>>>
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A History of Ireland.
By Eleanor
Hull.
WHEN Agricola in the fifth year of his British campaign
(A.D. 82) "manned with troops that part of the British coast
which faces Hibernia, with a forward policy in view," [1]
the fate of Ireland, for good or ill, hung in the balance. Wherever
the Roman arms made themselves felt, wherever by conquest or colonization
Imperial law, religion, ideas, extended themselves, there followed
as an inevitable consequence the profound modification, if not
the extinction, of the native habits of life, and mythology read
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Other works by Eleanor Hull.
The Cuchulain Saga in Irish Literature (1898)
Pagan
Ireland (Dublin, 1904 & 1923)
Early Christian Ireland
A Text Book of Irish Literature (2 volumes) (1906)
The Poem-Book of the Gael (London, 1912)
The Northmen in Britain (New York, 1913)
Folklore of the British Isles (1929)
A History of Ireland and her People (2 volumes) (1926)
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Pagan
Ireland.
By Eleanor
Hull.
THERE is an old tale told in Ireland of & loveablc
anu bright and handsome youth named Donn- Bo, who was the best
singer of " songs of idleness," and the best teller of " King-stories"
in the world.
He could tell a tale of each King who reigned at
Tara from the Tale of the Destruction of Dind Righ, when Cobthach
Coel- breg was killed, down to the Kings who reigned in his own
time.
One night before a battle, the warriors said read
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