Life in the Irish Cottage and People of Erin
The piece portrays a typical Irish thatched cottage with peat fire, byres and a turf stack. It highlights a peasant family’s simple diet of potatoes and oatmeal, their crafts weaving and embroidery, and the social life around Sprigging camps and shanachies. It ends with a tale of Ossian and St Patrick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finn Macoul
St. Patrick
Ossian
Finn
Killarney
Niam
Golden Hair
Tir-n-an-og
Erin
Ireland
St Patrick as Editor of Irish Law and Clerical Privilege
The article portrays St Patrick as a great law editor who shaped the Breton code in Ireland to conform with Christian doctrine. It notes he and bishops protected clergy with harsher penalties, forbidding bishops from regaining rank after offense and implying a stricter rule for churchmen than laymen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finn
Hell
Ossian
Ian
Patrick
Ireland
St. Patrick
Gaul
Calpornius
The Poets Of Ireland And The Gaelic Tradition
An overview of Irish poetic history from early Gaelic origins to modern revival efforts. It covers ancient to modern verse forms, key poets, the Ossianic legends, the shift from old banc schools to vowel rhymes, and the influence of the Gaelic revival movements and scholars like Teig Mac Daire, O Higin, O Carrollan, and John Kells Ingram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. N. Lurte
St. Patrick
St. Fiech
Ossian
Arthur
Ireland
Teig Mac ‘Daire
Lughaidh O’clery
Teig Dall O'Higin
Eochaidh O’hussey
Turlough O’carolan
Brian
Mac Giolla Meidhre
John O’neaghtan
Timothy O'Sullivan
Egan O'Rahilly
Gaelic League
Society For Preservation
Ig. O. Nogt
Armagh
Burns
Scott
Tom Moore
Elizabeth
Moore
John Kells Ingram
Mr. Ingram
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Mish
Iish Colter
Preas’ Association
John Howard Payne
Emerald Isle
Colleen
Thomas Moore
Flight
the Poets of
By Patrick Sullivan
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