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Page 3 - Social State of the Southern and Eastern Counties of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century : being the Presentments of the Gentlemen, Commonalty, and Citizens of Carlow, Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford, made in the Reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth.
Page 194 - What matter that at different shrines We pray unto one God — What matter that at different times Your fathers won this sod — In fortune and in name we're bound By stronger links than steel ; And neither can be safe nor sound But in the other's weal.
Page 29 - Reputation ever tearing, Ever dearest friendship swearing : Judgment weak, and passion strong, Always various, always wrong ; Provocation never waits, Where he loves, or where he hates ; Talks whate'er comes in his head ; Wishes it were all unsaid.
Page 42 - Members as may subscribe specially for them. GENERAL. 28. These Rules shall not be altered or amended except at an Annual General Meeting of the Society, and after notice given at the previous General Meeting. All By-laws and Regulations dealing with the General Rules formerly made are hereby repealed. . 29. The enactment of any new Rule, or the alteration or repeal of any .existing one, must be in the first instance submitted to the Council ; the proposal to be signed by seven Fellowe or Members,...
Page 385 - For removing bits of flesh, fat, etc., from a "green" skin, and for "breaking the grain" and removing the subcutaneous tissue from a dried skin, the women, who appear to do most if not all of this work, use a tool consisting of a blunt stone blade, mounted in a short, thick haft of wood or ivory, fitting exactly to the inside of the hand and having holes or hollows to receive the tips of the fingers and thumb. The skin is laid upon the thigh and thoroughly scraped with Ml'RDOCH.] SKIN SCRAPERS.
Page 268 - ancient monuments to which this Act applies "), and sect. 1 of the Ancient Monuments Protection (Ireland) Act, 1892, shall have effect as if they were therein re-enacted, with the substitution of "county council" for "Commissioners of Works"; "but this enactment shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the existing provisions of the said sections as respects the Commissioners of Works.
Page 194 - We do not hate, we never cursed, Nor spoke a foeman's word Against a man in Ireland nursed, Howe'er we thought he erred ; So start not, Irish-born man If you're to Ireland true ; We heed not race, nor creed, nor clan, We've hearts and hands for you.
Page 3 - With 209 Illustrations. By Colonel Wood-Martin. (Out of print.) 1890-1.— "Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337-46. with the Middle English Moral Play, The Fride of Life." From the original in the Christ Church Collection in the Public Record Office, Dublin. With fac-simile of the MS. Edited, with Translation, Notes, and Introduction, by James Mills, MRIA Price to Members, 10». 1892. — " Survey of the Antiquarian Remains on the Island of Inismurray.
Page 122 - God, the blessed Virgin Mary, and all saints, and my body to be buried in the cemetry of the church of the Blessed Mary at Godmanchester.
Page 121 - Almighty, and the blessed Virgin Mary, and to all saints, and my body to be buried in the Monastery of Crossraguel, in the blessed Virgin's aisle.