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Identifier: irelandscrownoft00ryan Title: Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Ryan, Frank J. comp Holden, P. F., joint comp Subjects: Publisher: [Chicago, M. A. Donohue & co.

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Text Appearing Before Image: as it counted the hours when Parnellas a child watched its slow hands go round and wonderedhow they moved. There in the hall, too, are specimens of ore that he hadfrom the hills near by, the pillar of polished marble from hisown quarries at Arklow. Then there is the bog-oak wheel-barrow, with its silver mountings, and the spade with whichhe turned the first sod of the East Clare Railway; the manycamans the Gaels gave him, the caskets in which lie the parch-ments that made him a freeman of many a city, both hereand across the wide, salt sea. But the man they did honor to forwork done for Ireland is dead, and the dust has gathered onthe caskets. It is unutterably sad looking at all these things.His hands had touched them. The books—his hands hadopened them; they never raised up their voices against himand clamored for his undoing. He, like an Irish king, is sleeping, sleepingIn Irish earth, under the low, green mound, And Erin hath his memory in her keeping;His grave is sacred ground.

Text Appearing After Image: REV. MICHAEL P. OHICKEY, D.D., M. K. I. A.,Professor of Gaelic, Maynooth College. SECTION VII. RE-CREATING A NATION OR, THE WORK OF THE GAELIC LEAGUE BY RIGHT REV. PATRICK ODONNELL, Bishop of Raphoe VERY REV. DR. M. P. OHICKEY, of Maynooth CoUege SIR THOMAS GRATTAN ESMONDE, Bart VERY REV. DR. RICHARD HENEBRY, Ph. D. PROF. KUNO MEYER, Ph. D. THOMAS ONEILL RUSSELL CONTAINING OUR LANGUAGE, OUR NOBLEST INHERITANCE—THE LANGUAGE OF OUR SIRES—THE INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL IN IRELAND—A CRITICAL ESSAY ON IRISH MUSIC—A SURVEY OF CELTIC PHILOLOGY—IRISH MANUSCRIPT LITERATURE 719 RE-CREATING A NATION INTRODUCTORY. BY P. F. HOLDEN, NAT. SEC. GAELIC LEAGUE IN AMERICA. The object of the Gaelic League is the upbuilding of anIrish Ireland. The object of the American branch is to aidthe movement at home morally and financially, and to securefor those of our race now in this country and for their chil-dren, the future citizens of America, an opportunity to learnsomething of the language, literature,

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