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I THE GAELS IN IRELAND 7
II IRELAND AND EUROPE 29
V THE FIRST IRISH REVIVAL 77
VI THE NORMAN INVASION 96
X RULE OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT 158
SOME IRISH WRITERS ON IRISH HISTORY 255
IN MEMORY OF THE IRISH DEAD
IRISH NATIONALITY
THE GAELS IN IRELAND
Ireland lies the last outpost of Europe against the vast flood of the Atlantic Ocean; unlike all other islands it is circled round with mountains, whose precipitous cliffs rising sheer above the water stand as bulwarks thrown up against the immeasurable sea.
It is commonly supposed that the fortunes of the island and its civilisation must by nature hang on those of England. Neither history nor geography allows this theory. The life of the two countries was widely separated. Great Britain lay turned to the east; her harbours opened to the sunrising, and her first traffic was across the narrow waters of the Channel and the German Sea. But Ireland had another aspect; her natural harbours swelled with the waves of the Atlantic, her outlook was over the ocean, and long before history begins her sailors braved the perils of the Gaulish sea. The peoples of Britain, Celts and English, came to her from the opposite lowland coasts; the people of Ireland crossed a wider ocean-track, from northern France to the shores of the Bay of Biscay. The two islands had a different history; their trade-routes were not the same; they lived apart, and developed apart their civilisations.
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