Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 2Royal Irish Academy, 1893 - Antiquities |
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... shore . We heard but one feeling expressed amongst the cognoscenti , that it was a shame to allow it to leave the country . The whole time occupied on the sale was but five minutes , and in this short space of a few brief seconds ' did ...
... shore . We heard but one feeling expressed amongst the cognoscenti , that it was a shame to allow it to leave the country . The whole time occupied on the sale was but five minutes , and in this short space of a few brief seconds ' did ...
Page 190
... shores of Iona , where he landed , and spent a whole winter instructing Adamnan in the story of his travels . Then he was sent back to France , but how ? He could scarcely have travelled in the curracles which sufficed for the Celtic ...
... shores of Iona , where he landed , and spent a whole winter instructing Adamnan in the story of his travels . Then he was sent back to France , but how ? He could scarcely have travelled in the curracles which sufficed for the Celtic ...
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... shores . The estuarine clays have been described under the names of silt , drift , diluvium , alluvium , alluvion , and blue clay ; the areas which they cover are commonly known as slob - lands , while the clay itself is locally called ...
... shores . The estuarine clays have been described under the names of silt , drift , diluvium , alluvium , alluvion , and blue clay ; the areas which they cover are commonly known as slob - lands , while the clay itself is locally called ...
Page 213
... shores , but at many spots on the coasts of England and Scotland . At Alexandra Dock , Belfast , it was found twenty - seven feet below high - water mark ; near Connswater , and at Tillysburn , Holywood , Ballyholme , Carrick- fergus ...
... shores , but at many spots on the coasts of England and Scotland . At Alexandra Dock , Belfast , it was found twenty - seven feet below high - water mark ; near Connswater , and at Tillysburn , Holywood , Ballyholme , Carrick- fergus ...
Page 214
... shores are in general contemporaneous with these deep - water clays , and frequently , like them , repose on clays of the Scrobicularia zone ; they ( the raised beaches ) do not come within the scope of the present Paper , but it may be ...
... shores are in general contemporaneous with these deep - water clays , and frequently , like them , repose on clays of the Scrobicularia zone ; they ( the raised beaches ) do not come within the scope of the present Paper , but it may be ...
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Page 806 - Hy-Brasail elevated far to the west in their watery horizon. This had been the universal tradition of the ancient Irish, who supposed that a great part of Ireland had been swallowed by the sea, and that the sunken part often rose, and was seen hanging in the horizon ! Such was the popular notion.
Page 762 - ... by night, and with a candle light kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather, people must turn their cattell out of the islands, and the corn failes. They have noe fuell but cow-dung dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent.
Page 147 - Description of the Modifications of certain Organs which seem to be Illustrations of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters in Mammals and Birds.
Page 791 - I do not mean to say that they are rigidly temperate, or that instances of excess, followed by the usual Irish consequences of broken heads, do not occasionally occur ; such could not be expected when their convivial temperament, and dangerous and laborious occupations are remembered. They never swear, and they have a high sense of decency and propriety, honour and justice. In appearance they are healthy, comely, and prepossessing ; in their dress (with few exceptions), clean and comfortable ; in...
Page 195 - ... flowed from them rivers of knowledge to water the hearts of their hearers; and, together with the books of holy writ, they also taught them the arts of ecclesiastical poetry, astronomy, and arithmetic. A testimony of which is, that there are still living at this day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own, in which they were born.
Page 773 - To see the careful way in which the most has been made of every spot available for the growth of produce, might correct the impression so generally entertained and so studiously encouraged, that the native Irish are a thriftless people. Here, where they have been left to themselves, notwithstanding the natural sterility of their islands, they are certainly a very superior population - physically, morally, and even economically - to those of many of the mixed and planted districts.
Page 773 - ... to have had a death from destitution, and never to have sent a pauper to the poorhouse. They are a handsome, courteous, and amiable people. Whatever may be said of the advantages of a mixture of races, I cannot discern anything save what makes in favour of these people of the pure ancient stock, when I compare them with the mixed populations of districts on the mainland. The most refined gentleman might live among them in familiar intercourse and never be offended by a gross or sordid sentiment....
Page 766 - is gotten by subtracting the number of red and fair-haired persons from VOL. xxxiii.— No. 845 that of the dark-haired, together with twice the blackhaired. I double the black, in order to give its proper value to the greater tendency to melanosity shown thereby...
Page 791 - Lying and drinking — the vices which Arthur Young considers as appertaining to the Irish character — form, at least, no part of it in Aran, for happily their common poverty holds out less temptation to the one or opportunity for the other.
Page 762 - is almost paved over with stones, soe as, in some places, nothing is to be seen but large stones with wide openings between them, where cattle break their legs. Scarce any other stones there but limestones, and marble fit for tombstones, chymney mantle trees, and high crosses. Among these stones is very sweet pasture, so that beefe, veal, mutton are better and earlyer in season here...