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Title: The cabinet of Irish literature; selections from the works of the chief poet, orators, and prose writers of Ireland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1841-1878 Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848-1929
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Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dwell be imagined from the bishops chapeland its precincts. Around the edifice, andunder the shade of the ancient trees whichthen beautified the burial-ground, a congre-gation of footmen and chairmen assembled.The former wore their laced hats and saidno prayers; and if the latter were seenoccasionally enveloped in wreaths of smoke,there certainly was no sacrificial odour aboutthe incense. Military officers and civic dig-nitaries, the big-wigs of the law and the topmen of other professions, the mirrors offashion of the fair sex, arrived in carriagesand sedans, and took their places in com-fortable capacious pews, wherein little ladieslike Mary Aikenhead could sit secure withouthaving their gay sashes disarranged or theirblue shoes endangered by the pressure of apious crowd. The service was as impressiveas the best exertions of the parson and clerkcould make it; and the sermon, though some-times high in tone, was, on the other hand,so plain in terms that even a child couldunderstand it.
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DOUGLAS HYDH From a Photograph by CHAXCELLOR DOUGLAS HYDE, LLD. 47 DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D. (Dr. Hyde was born near Castlerea. He isthe son of the lector of Frenchpark, countyRoscommon. The Hydes came to Connaughtfrom the soiitli, and are of the family of CastleHyde, in the county Cork. Dr. Hyde had amost distinguished career at Trinity College.He is president of the Gaelic League and ofthe Irish Texts Society, and vice-presidentof the Irish Literary Society. He is a mostbrilliant scholar, and his patience and sym-pathy have gone for much in unlocking thestore of tradition in the peasant mind.Hardly anyone else could have won fromthe silent peasant the treasures that havebeen saved for us by Dr. Hyde in The Love-Songs of Connacht, The Religious Songs of Con-nacht, and the folk-stories of By the Fire.Dr. Hydes Literary History of Ireland is avolume of extraordinary interest and eru-dition. The specimens of his work givenare by kind permission of the author.) TEIG OKANE AND THE CORPSE. There

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