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Proceedings of the third Oireachtas festival held in 1899
An extract (page 9) from the proceedings of the third Oireachtas festival in Dublin in 1899. The Oireachtas was established by the Gaelic League in the Revival period and continues to this day to be a celebration of Irish language, literature, song…
Letter from Archbishop Croke to Michael Cusack on the GAA
This letter, published in The Freeman's Journal on the 24th December 1884 and in The Nation on the 27th December 1884, details Archbishop T.W. Croke's support for the recently established Gaelic Athletics Association. The Archbishop sent the letter…
Gods and Fighting Men
An extract from Lady Augusta Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men, an English translation of select Irish legends. The extract provides a detailed description of the foodstuffs Finn and his band of Fenian warriors discovered at the White Hill in…
Lines 720-731 of "Lestrygonians"
A selection from the "Lestrygonians" episode of Ulysses in which Leopold Bloom contemplates the benefits of vegetarianism and then enters Davy Byrne's pub. The text is from Project Gutenberg and is based on the pre-1923 print editions. But, upon…
Lines 520-550 of "Lestrygonians"
A selection from the "Lestrygonians" episode of Ulysses in which Leopold Bloom encounters two vegetarians. The text is from Project Gutenberg and is based on the pre-1923 print editions. But, upon close inspection, this passage is identical to that…
Davy Byrnes pub
A an old, black and white photograph of the front of Davy Byrnes pub in Dublin, Ireland.
George William Russell ("A.E.")
A picture of Irish poet George William Russell (aka "A.E.")
Letter to the Editor by "F.R.C.S."
A letter to the editor of The Times (London), written by "F.R.C.S.", published on Monday, September 26, 1898. The letter is a response to an earlier letter by "E.B.", which was written in response to the "Vegetarians" editorial published in The Times…
"Vegetarians" Editorial
A newspaper editorial published in The Times (London) on Monday, September 19, 1898. The editorial begins half-way down the lefthand column, after the two horizontal bars, and ends at the two horizontal bars in the righthand column.
County Folk-Lore Vol. VII Title Page
Scanned image of the title page of County Folk-Lore: Examples of Printed Folk-Lore concerning Fife with some notes on Clackmannan and Kinross-shires, Vol VII.