Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language, Page 38, Volume 2Margaret Stokes Printed at the University Press, for the Royal historical and archaeological association of Ireland, 1878 - Art |
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abbey Abbot Adamnan ancient Annals Annals of Inisfallen Annals of Ulster appears Aran Architecture of Ireland Armagh barony bell belonged bishop Blant Book of Armagh Book of Kells Brecan bronze called Cashel Cathach chalice Christian church churchyard Ciaran Clonmacnois Cluain Colgan Columba Cong Cormac crosier cross Cumdach dative dative singular death died Donegal Drawn by Dr Drawn by M. S. Durrow early Eccl ecclesiastical enamels Four Masters Gaul genitive Glendalough Gospels Hy-Many identified inches Iniscealtra inscribed stones inscription island Killeshin King Latin letters Lismore Martyrology Martyrology of Donegal Molaise Monasterboice monastery monuments Mór Munster Museum O'Conor O'Donovan occurs Ogham ornamented OROIT parish Patrick period Petrie pillar-stone PLATE Pray preserved probably recorded Reeves relic reliquary Roman Roscrea Royal Irish Academy saint sculptured seventh century shrine side silver situated slab supra tomb tombstone townland Tuam Turlough twelfth century Ulster
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Page 171 - And when they had sung an hymn they went out into the mount of Olives. And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. But, after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
Page 37 - Series), pp. 40-3. of her, throughout her breadth and generally ; and they ravaged her chieftainries, and her privileged churches, and her sanctuaries, and they rent her shrines and her reliquaries and her books.
Page 156 - They loosed their curse against the king; They cursed him in his flesh and bones; And daily in their mystic ring They turn'd the maledictive stones...
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Page 21 - ... edifices, a knowledge of which must necessarily have been imparted to them by the crowds of foreign ecclesiastics, Egyptian, Roman, Italian, French, British, and Saxon, who flocked to Ireland as a place of refuge in the fifth and sixth centuries ? Of such immigration there cannot possibly exist a doubt ; for, not to speak of the great number of foreigners who were disciples of St. Patrick, and of whom the names are preserved in the most ancient Lives of that saint, nor of the evidences of the...
Page 152 - I trembled when He embraced me, Yet dared I not to bow earthwards — Fall to the bosom of the ground, But I was compelled to stand fast. A cross was I reared, I raised the powerful King, The Lord of the heavens, I dared not fall down, They pierced me with dark nails.
Page 66 - Annals ' as having been connected with Monasterboice— one an abbot, who died in the year 844, and the other in the year 924 — " so that it must be a matter of some uncertainty to which of these the erection of the cross should be ascribed.
Page 127 - ... and not fused into them ; they are rather mosaics than enamels. This variety is essentially Oriental, and appears not to have been at all practised in Gaul, where, undoubtedly, true enamels were made anterior to the Roman domination, and when they were not used apparently in Rome or Greece.
Page 162 - The chalice does not appear to have been so essential a portion of the furniture of the primitive Irish church as the bell, the crosier, and the book, so often enumerated as the gifts or bequests of the founder. One of the few notices we have met with of chalices is that legend in the " Life of St. Patrick " which states that, when Ailill, his servant, required of him sacred vessels for the service of his church, then, " the holy prelate, divinely instructed, pointed out to the presbyter, in a certain...