The ancient and modern history of the maritime ports of Ireland1858 |
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acres amount ancient Anglo-Norman Ardee Ballina Bank of Ireland Belfast borough Britain and Coastways British and Coasting building built Carrickfergus Castle Catholic cent Church Clonmel Coasting trade Coleraine collected therein commenced Commissioners Company considerable Cork corporation cost Customs Danes decrease Derry ditto Drogheda Dublin Dundalk Duties collected Earl emigration ending 5th January England English entering inwards erected established exports extensive feet five flax Foreign shipping Foreign trade formed Galway garrison granted harbour houses improvement increase inhabitants inwards and clearing Irish Island James John Kilkenny King land latter Leinster Limerick linen Liverpool Londonderry Lord Lough Lough Neagh Louth manufacture merchant Messrs miles Milesians monarch Munster navigation Newry OUTWARDS parliament population portion possession Protestant quays Railway registered shipping returns revenue river schools Shannon Skibbereen Sligo Society steamers Tnge tonnage tons were Foreign town Tralee Ulster Vess vessels Waterford Wexford William Workhouse
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Page 20 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 41 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Page 44 - For in these the modulation is not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain, to which we are accustomed, but the sounds are rapid and precipitate, yet, at the same time, sweet and pleasing. It is wonderful how, in such precipitate rapidity of the fingers, the musical proportions are observed, and, by their art, faultless throughout.
Page 8 - Far westward lies an isle of ancient fame, By nature blessed, and Scotia is her name, Enrolled in books ; exhaustless is her store Of veiny silver and of golden ore ; Her fruitful soil for ever teems with wealth, With gems her waters, and her air with health ; Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow, Her woolly fleeces vie with virgin snow; Her waving furrows float with bearded corn, And arms and arts her envied sons adorn.
Page 201 - ... costly dress, undertook a journey alone, from one end of the kingdom to the other, with a wand only in her hand, at the top of which was a ring of exceeding great value ; and such an impression had the laws and government of this Monarch made on the minds of all the people, that no attempt was made upon her honour, nor was she robbed of her clothes or jewels.
Page 8 - Her fruitful soil forever teems with wealth, With gems her waters and her air with health. Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow, Her woolly fleeces vie with virgin snow ; Her waving furrows float with bearded corn, And arms and arts her envied sons adorn. No savage bear with lawless fury roves...
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Page 43 - ... in which the original chromatic tones were retained, and the whole formed on the oral improved system. Under these improvements, though the instrument had increased in the number of its strings, it was somewhat reduced in capacity ; for instead of beginning in the lower E in the bass, it commenced in C, a sixth above, and terminated in G hi the octave below ; and, in consequence, became much more melodious, and capable of accompanying the voice.
Page 44 - This eminence of the Irish harpers is not exaggerated, nor is it a compliment paid to the nation, as some have imagined. Cambrensis was one of the most accomplished scholars of his time, and perfectly understood both the theory and practice of music at that period cultivated in...