The Story of Ireland Author:Standish O'Grady IRELAND: HER STORY. ---o~.--- CHAPTER J. ANCIENT IRELAND. WHEN Julius Cresar and the Romans jnvaded Britain, Ireland was inhabited by a nation whom the Romans called Scoti or Scots. The same nation, too, occupied the western half of Scotland, while the Picts held the remainder of that country. But the people of Ireland did not call themselves Sc... more »ots; they called themselves the G aedil, or thc Gael, because, they said, they were the children of a. very far away and ancient hero named GaedH. The Romans called the island Scotia, and also Hibernia. The people themselves had a great many namcs of their own for the island. They called it I nis na Fidb~ or the Isle of Woods, I nis EIga, the Noble Island, and many other names. They were an ingenious and inventive people, and extremely fond of songs and stories, so that the island was full of bards, who, with their harps, used to travel from one house to another, singjng songs for the people about the island in which
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I "Mia; ANC1E~T IRELAND 1; CHAPTER II; CO~IlNG OF THE MILESIANS 5; CHAPTER 11 I; THE CODS OF THE IRISH II; CHAPTER IV; NATURE MYTHS 16; CHAPTER V; PRIMITIVE KINGS AND HEROES 20; CHAPTER VI; ASCENT OF TARA 28; CHAPTER VI I; FINN AND IllS MEN 32; · VI CONTENTS; CHAPTER Vln; NIAL OF THE NINE HOSTAGES 35; CHAPTER IX; PATRICK, SON OF CALPQRN ?; CHAPTER X; TlI E so LIT AR IES 47; CHAPTER XL; THE OVERTHROW OF TARA 5'; CHAPTER XII; THE COMING Olt' TH~ NORTHMEN 71; CHAPTER XIII; THE NORSEMFN; CHAPTER XIV; CHILlJREN OF HARALD t REDDENERS O}O' SPEARS 80; CHAPTER XV; DRIAN Bonu 86; CHAPTER XVI; THE GERALDIN£S 1 THE GERALDINES ! 93; CHAPTER XVII; Tl-IB NORMANS IN IRELAND 99; -; CONTE~TS Vll; CHAPTER XVIII I'ACE; THE NORMAN-IRISH SETTLEMENT r04; CHAPTER XIX; THE RETURX OF THE TIDE ? 108; CHAPTER XX; IRELAND AND THF MONARCH v JJ6; CH APTER XXI; CROl1WELL IN IRFT4AND I:n; CHAPTER XXII; THE STORMING OF DROGHEDA; CHAPTER XXIII; RIG SHAMUS« less