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Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
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olg, Tuatha de Danaan, Milesian, Dane,Norman, and Saxon, with several subsidiary strains. TheScotch are in a sense more Irish than the Irish themselves. InGaelic, the language of Ireland and Scotland, the Irish are calledGaels of Erin, and the Scots are called Gaels of Albin. Scotlandwas colonized by Irishmen while the Irish were still predomi-nantly Milesian. Scotland had, however, no attraction to theforeigner. To the Irish Gael even it was a land of exile. TheNorman Fitz is unknown in Scotland. Ninety per cent, of theSaxon names are borne by Gaels. The Scots and the Picts wereboth purely Irish. Irelands fame, however, her beauteous soil,her wealth, her learning, her golden civilization, so old wrotePlutarch the Roman, 44 that that of other nations is new com-pared to it, excited the cupidity of those who watched andbided their time. Ireland, like Greece, Rome and the cultivatedSouth, paid to the invader the price of her wealth and culturein an age when brute force was the only law.
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MR. JOHN MULHERN.A Life Member of the Society and efficient Secretary of California Chapter. AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 375 How do we know of Irelands remote history? In ancientEirinn the commemoration of important events was perpetuatedby crystallizing oral traditions into historical chants or versehistories, easily committed to memory and recited on all publicand festive occasions. When written records became widely usedthe events thus commemorated were set down in the regularchronicles, several of which are still in existence. There werepoet-historians whose sole duty it was to guard the accuracy ofthese communications, none incapable of reciting at least tenthousand lines without error being eligible for office. They hada method of writing too, Ogham, resembling the shorthand usedtoday, the characters being often traced on poets stave orwarriors shield. NEW YORK IRISHMEN IN THE REVOLUTION. Soldiers from New York State in the RevolutionaryWar, culled from certified copy of

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