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Alice Stopford Green. Irish Nationality
Irish Nationality
Table of Contents
IN MEMORY. OF. THE IRISH DEAD
IRISH NATIONALITY
CHAPTER I
THE GAELS IN IRELAND
CHAPTER IIToC
IRELAND AND EUROPE. c. 100—c. 600
CHAPTER IIIToC
THE IRISH MISSION. c. 560—c. 1000
CHAPTER IVToC
SCANDINAVIANS IN IRELAND. 800–1014
CHAPTER VToC
THE FIRST IRISH REVIVAL. 1014–1169
CHAPTER VIToC
THE NORMAN INVASION. 1169–1520
CHAPTER VIIToC
THE SECOND IRISH REVIVAL. 1200–1520
CHAPTER VIIIToC
THE TAKING OF THE LAND. 1520–1625
CHAPTER IXToC
THE NATIONAL FAITH OF THE IRISH. c. 1600—c. 1660
CHAPTER XToC
RULE OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. 1640–1750
CHAPTER XIToC
THE RISE OF A NEW IRELAND. 1691–1750
CHAPTER XIIToC
AN IRISH PARLIAMENT. 1750–1800
CHAPTER XIIIToC
IRELAND UNDER THE UNION. 1800–1900
SOME IRISH WRITERS ON IRISH HISTORYToC
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Alice Stopford Green
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Like the learning and the art, the new worship was adapted to tribal custom. Round the little monastic church gathered a group of huts with a common refectory, the whole protected by a great rampart of earth. The plan was familiar to all the Irish; every chief's house had such a fence, and every bardic school had its circle of thatched cells where the scholars spent years in study and meditation. Monastic "families" which branched off from the first house were grouped under the name of the original founder, in free federal union like that of the clans. As no land could be wholly alienated from the tribe, territory given to the monastery was not exempted from the common law; it was ruled by abbots elected, like kings and judges of the tribe, out of the house which under tribal law had the right of succession; and the monks in some cases had to pay the tribal dues for the land and send out fighting men for the hosting.
Never was a church so truly national. The words used by the common people were steeped in its imagery. In their dedications the Irish took no names of foreign saints, but of their own holy men. St. Bridgit became the "Mary of the Gael." There was scarcely a boundary felt between the divine country and the earthly, so entirely was the spiritual life commingled with the national. A legend told that St. Colman one day saw his monks reaping the wheat sorrowfully; it was the day of the celebration of Telltown fair, the yearly assembly of all Ireland before the high-king: he prayed, and angels came to him at once from heaven and performed three races for the toiling monks after the manner of the national feast.
