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Dissertations Chiefly on Irish Church History
Dissertations Chiefly on Irish Church History Author:Matthew Kelly General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: J. Duffy Subjects: Reformation Ireland Fiction / Classics History / Europe / General History / Europe / Ireland Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Chur... more »ch / History Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: In what does this language differ from the harangues which so often raised the Irish war-cry against England through the moors of Offaly, the wooded glens of Desmond, or the justice-loving mountains of Wicklow and Tyrone ? Strange allies for the Irish Establishment. STATUTE OF KILKENNY. DUBLIN REVIEW, 1844. Tracts Relating to Ireland. Vol. II. " A Statute of the 40th Edw. III., in a Parliament held in Kilkenny, A. d. 1361; now first printed, with a translation and notes by James Hardiman, M. R. I. A." If a nation's knowledge of her own history and resources be as powerful a principle in politics as the knowledge of oneself is in morals, Ireland must soon grow too strong for her enemies. During the past year, she learned more from prose, from verse, from burning tongue, and, better than all, from combined and energetic action, than in an equal time was ever learned by any nation in the world. The Repeal card itself is a comprehensive summary of comparative statistics, exhibiting Ireland in humiliating contrast with other nations of Europe, far inferior to her in all the elements of national wealth and greatness. The truth of this bitter lesson of national misery and degradation is universally felt; and when we reflect that the Repeal card is almost as common as the shamrock, that under the dripping roofs ...« less