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afraid ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI appeared asked Sir Gerald audience better Bishop Canon Johnston Celt Chesney Church Clogher House Connaught course crowd dare say Demy 8vo Dennis Browne Dublin England English eyes face Father Fahy feel felt fight fool friends gentleman girl give Godfrey Golden Hero Government hand hear Hester honour hope interest Irish Irish language John O'Neill kind knew Lady Clonfert Lady Geoghegan land landlord leader League listen live looked Lord Clonfert love Ireland matter McNeece mean meeting member of Parliament Michael McCarty mind Nationalist never O'Dwyer O'Hara O'Neill's O'Rourke once Orangeman Parliament party police political poor position possible priests Protestant round seemed Sir Gerald found Sir Gerald Geoghegan smile sorry sort speak speech spoke stood suppose sure talk tell tenants there's thing thought to-day told turned understand Young Ireland
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Page 21 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea: 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Page 186 - The Irish priests have schemed and lied, have blustered and bullied, have levied taxes beyond belief upon the poorest of the poor ; but they have taught the people a religion which penetrates their lives and which, in its essential features, is not far from the Spirit of Christ. Such religion is not to be taught by words. The man who imparts it must first understand it and possess it in his own soul.
Page 31 - Connaught, and the salient note of his impressions is the note which dominates these two books. ' The train crawls more and more slowly through Roscommon and across Mayo. The traveller can study in detail tracts of bog, patched with bright green fields or black ploughed land. Farmhouses have disappeared, and their place is taken by thatched cabins, with lean small cattle and barelegged children round their doors. The stoppages become more frequent. From every station little huddled towns are to be...