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Address To Ireland - A Sonnet
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Mother of soldiers! once there was a time When your sons' swords won fame in many a clime; When Europe press'd on France, they fought alone For her, and served her better than their own! Those were the days your exiles made their fame By gallant deeds which put our age to shame-- Those were the days Cremona city, saved, Stood to attest what Irish valor braved! When England's chivalry, sore wounded fled Before the stormy charge O'Brien led-- When travellers saw in Ypres' coir display'd The trophies of your song-renown'd brigade! Mother of soldiers! France was proud to see Your shamrock then twined with the fleur de lis! II Mother of soldiers! in the cause of Spain The Moors in Oran's trench by them were slain; For full an hundred years their fatal steel Has charged beside the lances of Castile. Carb'ry's, Tyrconnell's, Breffny's exiled lords To Spain and glory gave their gallant swords; And Spain, of honor jealous, gave them place Before her native sons in glory's race; Her noblest laurels graced your soldiers' head, Her dearest daughters shared your soldiers' bed; In danger's hour she call'd them to the front, And gave to them the praise who bore the brunt: Mother of soldiers! Spain to-day will be A willing witness for thy sons and thee! III Mother of soldiers! on the Volga's banks Your practised leaders form'd the Russian ranks; And fallen Limerick gave the chiefs to lead The hosts who triumph'd o'er the famous Swede. That time even Austria gave them host on host, The ruling baton, and the perilous post-- Buda, Belgrade, Prague, Deva--every trust That man could earn, and found them bold as just. Velettri, Zorndorff, Dantzic, still can tell How Austria's Irish soldiers fought and fell, And how the ruling skill that led them on To conquer was supplied by your own son! Mother of soldiers! while these trophies last, You're safe against the sland'rers of the past! IV Mother of exiles! from your soil to-day New myriads are destroy'd or swept away; The crowded graveyards grow no longer green, The daily dead have scanty space, I ween; The groaning ships, freighted with want and grief, Entomb in every wave a fugitive; The sword no more an Irish weapon is-- The spirit of the land no longer lives; Mother! 'twas kill'd before the famine came-- The stubble was prepared to meet the flame; All manly souls were from their bodies torn, And what avails it if the bodies burn? Mother of soldiers! may we hope to be Yet fit to strike for vengeance and for thee! -Thomas D'Arcy McGee
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, September 18th, 2005
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Re: Address To Ireland - A Sonnet
Scáthach, I hope that you noticed this part:
Mother of soldiers! in the cause of Spain [...] Her dearest daughters shared your soldiers' bed; Irish men stealing Spanish women!!! Isn't it about time that you and I -like the fine Irish lady that you are, and the fine Spanish gentleman that I am- take our revenge on this affront?  
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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The deal was obvious. Those Irishmen fought and died in Spain's armies. The favours of a lady were small payment for one's life. So unless you are about to sign up for the Irish Defense Forces and head to some battlefront, forget it 
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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