The Story of the Irish Race. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Story of the Irish Race

Here is the whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present. Learn about Irish history, culture, religion, laws, arts, antiquities, folklore, trade, literature, heroes, and more. Although a work of sound scholarship, it is as easy to read as a superb novel.

This IS an attempt to sketch a rough and ready picture of the more prominent peaks that rise out of I relands past the high spots in the story of our race. The story is developed with the object of interesting and informing the man who can not, or will not, afford the time to read studiously. Yet it is earnestly hoped that it may vhet the appetites of many, and stimulate them to go browsing in broader and richer pastures in anticipation of which there are set down, at ends of chapters or periods, titles of some of the more important books dealing with the subject just treated of. The writer was impelled to the compilation of this story of our race by the woeful lack of knowledge on the subject which he found in the four corners of A merica, among all classes of people, alike the intelligent and the ordinary. With the vast majority of America sintellectual ones he found I relands past as obscure as the past of Borneo. On three occasions he was asked by educated women who were pillars in their Societies, Has I reland got a history? To a large extent the blame for American ignorance of I relands story rests upon the ignorance of our own exiles, and the children of those exiles. Were these possessed of a general knowledge of I relands past, and the proper pride that must come of that knowledge, the good Americans around them would catch information by contagion. The vriter hopes that even this crude compendium may put some of the necessary knowledge and pride in the minds and hearts of his people and also the incentive to seek out and study the history of the country that endowed them with the rare riches, spiritual and mental, that characterises the far-wandered children, and childrens children, of the Gael. Also it is to be hoped that many of the general American public, ever sympathetic toward I reland, may, through the aid of this rough record, graduate from
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