Foras feasa ar Eirinn ... The history of Ireland, tr. and annotated by J. O'Mahony

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Стр. lii - And by the Irish custom of gavelkind the inferior tenantries were partible amongst all the males of the sept, both bastards and legitimate ; and after partition made, if any one of the sept had died, his portion was not divided among his sons, but the chief of the sept made a new partition of all the lands belonging to that sept, and gave every one his part according to his antiquity.
Стр. 616 - Henry, king of England, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and earl of Anjou, to all his liegemen, English, Norman, Welsh and Scotch, and to all the nations under his dominion, sends greeting.
Стр. lxvii - Manuscripts has, indeed, brought out the singular fact, at a period when the Fine Arts may be said to have been almost extinct in Italy and other parts of the Continent — namely, from the fifth to the end of the eighth century — a style of art had been established...
Стр. 104 - son of Methuselah, son of Enoch, son of Jared, son of Mahalaleel, son of Cainan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam, son of God.
Стр. 652 - Colum. kille, and of all the other saints whose churches had been destroyed by him. He saw, as he thought, Saint Brighitt in the act of killing him.
Стр. 508 - Lochlannaigh was, that great weariness thereof came upon the men of Ireland, and the few of the clergy that survived, had fled for safety to the forests and wildernesses, .where they lived in misery, but passed their time piously and devoutly.
Стр. 478 - This pestilence did no less harm in the island of Ireland. Many of the nobility, and of the lower ranks of the English nation...
Стр. 292 - Evil was the state of Ireland during his reign; fruitless her corn, for there used to be but one grain on the stalk ; fruitless her rivers ; milkless her cattle ; plentiless her fruit, for there used to be but one acorn on the oak.
Стр. 411 - Dubtach, who became his convert on that very day, and devoted thenceforth his poetical talents to religious subjects alone. The monarch himself too, while listening to the words of the apostle, is said to have exclaimed to his surrounding nobles, ' It is better that I should believe than die;' and appalled by the awful denouncements of the preacher, to have at once professed himself Christian.
Стр. 145 - It appears, from a very curious and ancient tract written in the shape of a dialogue between St. Patrick and Caoilti-MacRonain, that there were very many places where the TuathaDe-Dananns were then supposed to live as sprites or fairies, with corporal or material form, but endued with immortality. The inference naturally to be drawn from these stories is, that the...

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