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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt:...Ireland became famous for History. its progress in literature and art, and sent forth many learned men and missionaries from the monasteries which had been established. J For three centuries it was much harassed by " Many years before Christ, a race of men inhabited Ireland, exactly identical with its present population, yet very superior to it in point of material well-being; a people acquainted with the use of the precious metals, with the manufacture of line tissues, fond of music and song, enjoying its literature and books; often disturbed, it is true, by feuds and contentions, but, on the whole, living happily under the patriarchal rule of the clan system."--Thebaud's Irish Races. + "The ancient Hall or Court of Tara, in which, for so many centuries, the Triennial Councils of the nation had been held, saw for the last time (a.d. 554) her kings and nobles assembled within its precincts. Some fugitive criminal, who had fled for sanctuary to the monastery of St. Ruan, having been dragged forcibly from thence 'o Tara, and there put to death, the holy abbot and his monks cried aloud against the sacrilegious violation; and pronounced a curse upon its walls. 'From that day,' says the annalist, no king ever sat again at Tara.' "--Moore's History of Ireland. t "In order to convey to the reader any adequate notion of the apostolical labors of that crowd of learned missionaries whom Ireland sent forth in the course the Northmen or Danes; but in 1014 the latter were utterly defeated in a great battle fought at Clon'tarf, near Dublin. 36. Some years before the death of Becket, Henry obtained permission of the Pope to subdue the island; but it was not until 1169 that an actual invasion was made. One of the five subordinate kings having been...