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What holds a people together when their history carries both achievement and loss?
The Glories of Ireland gathers writings on Irish heritage, edited by Joseph Dunn and P. J. Lennox. Its many voices build a proud portrait of a people through language, literature, history, faith and landscape. At its heart lies a simple idea: shared memory helps a nation understand itself and remember where it comes from.
This collection belongs to an early twentieth century tradition of nations telling their own stories. Its essays celebrate learning, art and endurance while remembering hardship and loss. Poetry, song and storytelling carry the spirit of Irish life through these pages. The tone is warm, proud and sometimes idealized: an invitation to encounter heritage through the voices that cherish it.
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- A people's shared memory Explore the idea that remembering the past helps a people remain connected.
- Language and literary life Discover how Irish language, poetry, song and storytelling express a people's character.
- Pride beside sorrow Encounter a view of Irish history that holds achievement and hardship together.
- Many voices, one heritage Move among contributors who bring different parts of Irish cultural life into view.
- A portrait of its time Read its celebrations with an eye for their warmth, pride and sometimes idealized vision.
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Readers of Irish heritage, lovers of history and folklore, and anyone curious about saints, scribes, soldiers, poets and playwrights will find many doors to open here.
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- Ireland's history is one long defence of freedom
- Monastic schools made Ireland a land of scholars
- Irish monks carried faith and books across Europe
- Ancient Irish law favoured payment over punishment
- Irish craftsmen made treasures in metal, ink and stone
- Irish minds shaped science, art and sport
- Sorrow and leadership run through modern Irish history
- The Irish fought and built nations abroad
- Language, poetry and story keep the Irish voice alive
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Le glorie d’Irlanda
by Joseph Dunn (curatore); P. J. Lennox (curatore)
Agricola urges Rome to crush Ireland, and Felim O'Molloy dares a hundred English soldiers with sixty men.
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Did a Roman general really advise crushing Ireland so that freedom would be hidden from view? So begins The Glories of Ireland, a volume of essays edited by Joseph Dunn and P.
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Ireland's history is one long defence of freedom
Roger Casement opens the book with a bold claim. Irish history, he says, is the story of a people resisting invaders. Every Irish war, in his view, was fought against one enemy, and defeat often brought moral gain. He points to the Roman general Agricola, who advised crushing Ireland so that freedom would be hidden from view.
Casement then walks through the centuries. Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell held off Elizabeth's England for nine years with perhaps twenty thousand clansmen. The Earl of Essex admitted that these rebels had better bodies and handled their arms better than his own men. In the 1640s, a captain named Felim O'Molloy even offered to fight with sixty men against a hundred of the English chosen soldiers.
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What is The Glories of Ireland about?
It is a collection of essays by many writers on Irish heritage. Topics include history, saints and scholars, Brehon law, art, music, science, soldiers abroad, language, folklore, theatre and literature, all written to celebrate the Irish people.
Who edited The Glories of Ireland?
Joseph Dunn and P. J. Lennox edited the volume. They gathered chapters from contributors such as Roger Casement, Douglas Hyde, Shane Leslie and Alice Milligan, and Lennox also wrote the final chapter on Irish writers in English.
What is the Book of Kells, as described in this book?
Louis Ely O'Carroll describes it as a copy of the four Gospels, probably from the eighth century, with brilliant colours, portraits of the Evangelists and extremely fine interlaced ornament that needs a magnifying glass to appreciate.
The author
Joseph Dunn
1872–1951 · American scholar and translator
Joseph Dunn (1872–1951) was an American academic and translator who worked on the Irish language. He taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His English translation of The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge was published in 1914.
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