Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Ireland in olden times was a free and highly civilised country. It had local government and Imperial Government; a judicial system of a very satisfactory nature; educational advantages sufficient to attract princes and scholars from other countries to it as a seat of learning. Enlarging her influence beyond her own island borders, she had sent forth invasions, and had settled colonies in the adjacent island now called Great Britain. She had done greater service to the world by sending forth apostles to Christianise Western Europe, and by stemming the tide of Paganism which swept in with the Danish invasions up till the tenth century. In the twelfth century, weakened by the dissensions which existed between her great Royal houses, the O´Neills and O´Briens, Ireland herself became the prey of the invader. Since that time she has been struggling in the grasp of England - never quieting into perfect submission, never quite breaking free. With the exile and death of Hugh O´Neill and his sons, Ireland´s dream of a native Royal dynasty faded. The coming of Owen Roe and his career of victory revived it; but when women caoined around his corpse in the Lake Castle of Cavan on that sad St. Leonard´s Day they wailed the dirge of the last native chief who might have been King of Ireland. The wars in Ireland after this were on behalf of the Stuarts. For "Righ Shemus," the Catholic King, whose rule would have meant freedom to exercise their faith, Irish blood was freely spilt at Aughrim and the Boyne, before the Walls of Derry and behind those of Limerick; and though he proved all unworthy, Irish fidelity still did homage to him and to his son and grandson in exile, and the bards of the Gael sang sweet songs about the Royal blackbird and the princely lover of Kathleen ny Houlahaun. On Culloden Moor the doom of the House of Stuart was sealed, and the Gaelic bards changed their joyful chants to songs of sorrow. The middle of the eighteenth century was her time of blackest trouble. She had no king, no deliverer to dream of. And yet methinks even in that dark time the children of the Gael never bowed to the conqueror. It was then that there grew in their hearts that wholesome bitter hatred, born of resentment against intolerable injustice and utter scorn of the tyrant. Then, when Ireland was trampled lowest, she rose highest in the sight of God, refusing to sell her birthright. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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