item: #1 of 10 id: 13157 author: Anonymous title: Is Ulster Right? date: None words: 68359 flesch: 56 summary: It is curious how close a parallel might be drawn between the way in which Norman Ireland was Ersefied and that in which Cromwellian Ireland was Catholicized. It was soon found that the proportion which by the Act of Union Ireland was to contribute to the Imperial Government was too large for the country to bear. keywords: act; bill; case; catholic; century; church; country; course; day; dublin; england; english; fact; force; france; government; history; home; house; independent; ireland; irish; irish league; king; laws; league; lord; movement; nationalists; new; order; parliament; party; people; period; place; power; present; protestant; question; rebellion; roman; rule; state; time; tone; ulster; union; united; united irish; war; years cache: 13157.txt plain text: 13157.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 14326 author: McNeill, Ronald title: Ulster's Stand For Union date: None words: 113245 flesch: 50 summary: On behalf of Ulster Carson gave unhesitating support to the Government. In the mind of the average Ulster Unionist the particular point of contrast between himself and the Nationalist of which he is more forcibly conscious than of any other, and in which all other distinguishing traits are merged, is that he is loyal to the British Crown and the British Flag, whereas the other man is loyal to neither. keywords: act; arms; army; asquith; belfast; bill; bonar; britain; british; carson; chief; churchill; committee; commons; convention; council; country; course; covenant; crawford; dublin; edward; england; english; force; general; george; government; home rule; house; ireland; irish; king; law; leader; letter; liberal; londonderry; long; lord; majority; man; meeting; members; minister; nationalist; opinion; parliament; party; people; policy; power; present; prime; public; question; redmond; rule bill; secretary; sir; speech; support; time; ulster; ulster day; ulster hall; ulster members; ulster movement; ulster unionist; unionist council; unionist party; unionists; united; war; years cache: 14326.txt plain text: 14326.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 14391 author: None title: The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic date: None words: 43089 flesch: 90 summary: 'Cuchulainn Mac Sualtaim, sister's son to Conchobar,' said Cuchulainn; 'and avoid me,' said he. Then they begin to wrestle for a long time, and Mand overthrows Cuchulainn thrice, so that the charioteer urged him. keywords: ailill; arms; ath; battle; boys; camp; chariot; charioteer; combat; conchobar; cuchulainn; day; diad; fergus; ford; gold; hair; hand; head; horses; host; ireland; mac; man; medb; men; night; note; red; round; shield; spear; sword; ulstermen; warrior; white cache: 14391.txt plain text: 14391.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 15277 author: Kettle, Tom title: The Open Secret of Ireland date: None words: 38149 flesch: 67 summary: And in order to get rid of politics in Ireland, you must give Ireland Home Rule. According to precedent, well-established if not wise, no discussion of political Ireland must end without some observations on loyalty. keywords: britain; business; capital; case; country; day; dublin; empire; england; english; fact; freedom; government; history; home; home rule; ireland; irish; law; life; long; lord; man; mind; modern; nation; national; new; order; parliament; past; people; point; policy; politics; present; question; rule; sort; state; things; time; ulster; union; unionism; war; way; world; years cache: 15277.txt plain text: 15277.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 20176 author: Mayne, Rutherford title: The Drone A Play in Three Acts date: None words: 21333 flesch: 99 summary: (_He becomes absorbed in thought, and as he sits ruminating_ MARY _opens the door, carrying a large brown paper parcel, followed by_ DANIEL. (_He goes to the door and opens it and_ MARY _comes in._) keywords: alick; andy; aye; brown; daniel; door; john; kate; like; mackenzie; mary; sarah; uncle cache: 20176.txt plain text: 20176.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 29533 author: Birmingham, George A. title: The Red Hand of Ulster date: None words: 76074 flesch: 84 summary: I gathered from this remark that the audience was to consist mainly of the wives and sisters of McConkey and other men of the same class. He believed that he was rich because he had, more than other men, a love of the excitement which comes with risk. keywords: babberly; belfast; bland; bob; business; cahoon; clithering; conroy; course; crossan; day; dean; end; fact; godfrey; going; good; government; home; kind; lady; lady moyne; left; letter; like; lord; malcolmson; man; marion; matter; mcneice; meeting; men; moyne; night; party; people; power; room; round; rule; saw; street; thing; thought; time; ulster; want; way cache: 29533.txt plain text: 29533.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 31044 author: Mayne, Rutherford title: The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue date: None words: 13820 flesch: 95 summary: _ CHARACTERS: WILLIAM JOHN GRANAHAN, a farmer. WILLIAM JOHN GRANAHAN. keywords: aye; ellen; fiddle; grandfather; james; john graeme; john granahan; man; mrs; robbie john; samuel; samuel james; taylor; william john cache: 31044.txt plain text: 31044.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 37187 author: Andrews, Elizabeth, F.R.A.I. title: Ulster Folklore date: None words: 32907 flesch: 74 summary: We hear of fairy men, fairy women, and fairy children. While, as we have seen, the fairies are endowed with many supernatural qualities, they have much in common with ordinary mortals; there are fairy men, fairy women, and fairy children. keywords: antrim; co.; country; danes; donegal; dwarf; fairies; fairy; feet; finn; fort; giant; great; hamilton; height; house; ireland; irish; island; man; men; night; pechts; people; race; red; small; souterrain; stone; story; time; tradition; ulster; woman; work cache: 37187.txt plain text: 37187.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 42958 author: Gwynn, Stephen Lucius title: Ulster date: None words: 14574 flesch: 64 summary: Their castles remain, and at Green Castle, on Lough Foyle, is the work of greater men, Norman-planned, Richard de Burgo's fortress. The Irish that I heard spoken by old men whom a Feis of the Glens had gathered together in Glen Ariff was few removes in sound and even in idiom from the Highland speech; and all tradition, whether Ossianic, in the stories of Finn and his companions, or that older cycle of the Red Branch, brings the Scotch islands and west coast into full touch with Irish legend. keywords: bay; beauty; castle; coast; country; cuchulain; day; days; derry; donegal; fish; head; hills; ireland; irish; lough; man; north; people; place; river; sea; shore; swilly; town; ulster; water; west cache: 42958.txt plain text: 42958.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 9461 author: Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer) title: The Foolish Lovers date: None words: 128410 flesch: 89 summary: If you can't get your bit of fun with one woman, sure you can get it with another! Willie, in the carriage, would kiss one girl, John knew, and then would turn and kiss the other, just to show there's no ill will. It was an excellent discursus on the drama from the time of the morality plays to the time of the Irish Players, and it included references to Euripides, Ibsen, the Noh plays of Japan, Mr. Bernard Shaw (in a patronising manner), Synge and Mr. Masefield; but John felt, when he had read it, that most of it had been written before its author had seen his play. keywords: ballyards; book; course; day; door; eleanor; eyes; girl; good; hand; head; hinde; home; house; john; left; life; like; london; look; love; macdermott; maggie; man; matthew; mebbe; men; mind; money; morning; mother; mrs; night; paper; people; place; play; queer; read; room; saw; shop; sort; street; tell; theatre; thing; thought; time; uncle; uncle matthew; uncle william; way; william; woman; work; world cache: 9461.txt plain text: 9461.txt