Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
While these manuscripts were in the hands of Messrs. Sealy, Bryer & Walker, Printers, Dublin, the late Irish rising took place. During the fight, between the British military and the Irish Republican forces, a portion of the City of Dublin was destroyed by fire and artillery,...
_Gates of Glory._--These are Gallauns standing at Milltown, Dingle. Probably they were first erected as landmarks. At a later period they served another purpose. Persons amenabl...
6. Part 6Scotland was buried in superstition. Calvin and Luther, both the great heads of the Protestant Reformation, believed in witchcraft, and the King of Scotland, when he ascended th...
3. Part 3_Cromwell._--Oliver Cromwell rebelled against King Charles I, beheaded the latter, and set up a Republic. In 1649, Cromwell landed in Dublin, took Drogheda, and put the priests...
2. Part 2_King James II and the Battle of the Boyne._--The next most important event in Irish history is the Battle of the Boyne--the disgraceful boast of some Englishmen--fought in Irel...
5. Part 5_Tara._--On a hill in the County Meath stood a court called Tara, where the Kings of Ireland were crowned. Daniel O'Connel, the Liberator, held a repeal meeting there which was...
4. Part 4From amongst the local branches of the society in the anthracite coal mines of Northeastern Pennsylvania another notorious secret criminal inner ring of Molly McGuires was forme...
1. Part 1While these manuscripts were in the hands of Messrs. Sealy, Bryer & Walker, Printers, Dublin, the late Irish rising took place. During the fight, between the British military an...
8. Part 8If St. Patrick had nothing to do with the live snakes--and I suppose he had not--there must be something very strange in the air or soil of Ireland. It is more remarkable still...