ISBN: 9781153759984

Excerpt: ...hope for Hungary. The speech of the alien is not universal in the one; is gallantly held at bay in the other; is nearly expelled from the third. How unnatural--how corrupting … More...

Excerpt: ...hope for Hungary. The speech of the alien is not universal in the one; is gallantly held at bay in the other; is nearly expelled from the third. How unnatural--how corrupting ''tis for us, three-fourths of whom are of Celtic blood, to speak a medley of Teutonic dialects! If we add the Celtic Scots, who came back here from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and the Celtic Welsh, who colonised many parts of Wexford and other Leinster counties, to the Celts who never left Ireland, probably five-sixths, or more, of us are Celts. What business have we with the Norman-Sassenagh? Nor let any doubt these proportions because of the number of English names in Ireland. With a politic cruelty the English of the Pale passed an Act (3 Edw. IV., c. 3) compelling every Irishman within English jurisdiction to go like to one Englishman in apparel, and shaving off his beard above the mouth, and shall take to him an English sirname of one town, as Sutton, Chester, Trym, Skryne, Corke, Kinsale; or colour, as White, Blacke, Browne; or art or science, as Smith or Carpenter; or office, as Cook, Butler; and that he and his issue shall use this name, under pain of forfeiting his goods yearly. And just as this Parliament before the Reformation, so did another after the Reformation. By the 28th Henry VIII., c. 15, the dress and language of the Irish were insolently described as barbarous by the minions of that ruffian king, and were utterly forbidden and abolished under many penalties and incapacities. These laws are still in force; but whether the Archaeological Society, including Peel and O''Connell, will be prosecuted seems doubtful. There was, also, ''tis to be feared, an adoption of English names, during some periods, from fashion, fear, or meanness. Some of our best Irish names, too, have been so mangled as to require some scholarship to identify them. For these and many more reasons the members of the Celtic race here are immensely... Thomas Osborne Davis, Books, Fiction and Literature, Thomas Davis, Selections From His Prose And Poetry Books>Fiction and Literature The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Ireland - Literary collections; Ireland; Fiction / Literary; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; History / General; History / Europe / Ireland; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9781153759984

Excerpt: ...hope for Hungary. The speech of the alien is not universal in the one; is gallantly held at bay in the other; is nearly expelled from the third. How unnatural--how corrupting … More...

Excerpt: ...hope for Hungary. The speech of the alien is not universal in the one; is gallantly held at bay in the other; is nearly expelled from the third. How unnatural--how corrupting ''tis for us, three-fourths of whom are of Celtic blood, to speak a medley of Teutonic dialects! If we add the Celtic Scots, who came back here from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and the Celtic Welsh, who colonised many parts of Wexford and other Leinster counties, to the Celts who never left Ireland, probably five-sixths, or more, of us are Celts. What business have we with the Norman-Sassenagh? Nor let any doubt these proportions because of the number of English names in Ireland. With a politic cruelty the English of the Pale passed an Act (3 Edw. IV., c. 3) compelling every Irishman within English jurisdiction to go like to one Englishman in apparel, and shaving off his beard above the mouth, and shall take to him an English sirname of one town, as Sutton, Chester, Trym, Skryne, Corke, Kinsale; or colour, as White, Blacke, Browne; or art or science, as Smith or Carpenter; or office, as Cook, Butler; and that he and his issue shall use this name, under pain of forfeiting his goods yearly. And just as this Parliament before the Reformation, so did another after the Reformation. By the 28th Henry VIII., c. 15, the dress and language of the Irish were insolently described as barbarous by the minions of that ruffian king, and were utterly forbidden and abolished under many penalties and incapacities. These laws are still in force; but whether the Archaeological Society, including Peel and O''Connell, will be prosecuted seems doubtful. There was, also, ''tis to be feared, an adoption of English names, during some periods, from fashion, fear, or meanness. Some of our best Irish names, too, have been so mangled as to require some scholarship to identify them. For these and many more reasons the members of the Celtic race here are immensely... Thomas Osborne Davis, Books, Fiction and Literature, Thomas Davis, Selections From His Prose And Poetry Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153759984

Publisher: London: Gresham Pub. Publication date: 1910Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Bo… More...

Publisher: London: Gresham Pub. Publication date: 1910Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. Books Poetry~~European~~English Irish Scottish Welsh Thomas-Davis-Selections-from-His-Prose-and-Poetry~~Thomas-Osborne-Davis General Books LLC The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Ireland - Literary collections; Ireland; Fiction / Literary; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; History / General; History / Europe / Ireland; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9781153759984

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can… More...

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