Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
AMUSING LIBRARY Andrew Farrell Aongus ash trees Banbha bawn Bunclody cakes castle Cathal chapel Cloughbawn Colclough comfortable Conloch County Carlow county Wexford Daniel Jourdan dear dinner door Dublin Duffrey Enniscorthy eyes face Father James Father Murphy feeling fire friends gave geese gentleman give Godmother godmother's hand happy head heard HENDRIK CONSCIENCE hill hope horse hour Irish Jemmy Killiney kitchen lady laid look ma'am master Mick mind Monica monitor morning Mount Leinster mountain Murphy Myles neighbours never night noggin o'clock O'Kavanagh Owen passed poor potatoes prayer Priest pupil Rath Rathnure reader road round shew shout side sitting Slaney soon spelling story Sunday sure teachers thing tion took trees turn walk Werther Wexford White Mountain Whitney Wicklow wish woman wood word yard young
Popular passages
Page 232 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 133 - The loyal townsmen gave their assistance ; We'll die or conquer they all did say : The yeomen cavalry made no resistance, For on the pavement their corpses lay. When Enniscorthy became subject to him, 'Twas then to Wexford we marched our men, And on the Three Rocks...
Page 133 - Gorey we did repair, At Tubberneering we thought no harm, The bloody army was waiting there, The issue of it was a close engagement, While on the soldiers we played warlike pranks ; Thro' sheepwalks, hedgerows and shady thickets, There were mangled bodies and broken ranks, The shuddering cavalry I can't forget them ; We raised the brushes on their helmets straight — They turned about, and they bid for Dublin, As if they ran for a ten/pound plate.