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BONFIRE NIGHT

... BONFIRE NIGHT. All round the bonfires blazing, Keeping up old customs dear. Young and old around them gather. With a hope to meet next year. Brightly shines the waving fsuthogs A« it’s carried and fro: Plain are heard (he cheers of gladness Simple hearts ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1898
Newspaper: Weekly Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

BONFIRE NIGHT IN SOUTH DONEGAL,

... BONFIRE NIGHT IN SOUTH DONEGAL, IzUv'ty pleasing to find that this old custom is still dong Ssnth Donegal withacommend* able conservatism. On the night of the 23rd, despite the thickness of tbs mirk, which must have hid from view very many fires, a brilliant ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1897
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS. BONFIRE NIGHT LEGENDS

... MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS. BONFIRE NIGHT LEGENDS. : Midsnmmer Day, ss we regard it, occurs 'upon the twenty-fourth of June, the festival ‘of St John the Baptist. In former ages the B ptist’s feast was celebrated by bontires and ‘torchlight processions, but as ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1897
Newspaper: Weekly Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

... in attending to injuries which were for the greater part the result of drunken squabbles Mid revelries, the result of bonfire night. Hannah Cronin, Desmond square, off Barrack street, was treated the South Infirmary for two contused wounds on her head ...

Published: Monday 26 June 1893
Newspaper: Cork Constitution
County: Cork, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A WASTE OF FORCE

... Skeltcn. Conan Winn Race-Ist, J Kerr, 2nd, C Kerr, 3rd, S DAvidion, Bicycle Race—let, D Nl‘CArtney, 2nd, F Coatelloe. BONFIRE NIGHT. BONFIRE night met with the customary celebration on Midsummer Eve. On all the hills visible from Monaghan, bright tongues of ...

MIDSUMMER EVE

... MIDSUMMER EVE. BONFIRE NIGHT IN MUNSTER. (Statist, ro nut Haasin.) Wherever the influence of the Celtio races spread in Northern Europe, Like the might of some van flowing river Through ..es delight and winter's deny, it left behind the mimicries ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1897
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 379 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LICENSING ACT

... entercd first Mos Lage ' said she was bottiing, and on the second oo ension she said she wis waiting for bakers This was bonfire night and there were nam. bers of people around the town Ju cross- Xxamivation Lo sl be saw uo owe entediag or lewing, hat bo ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1894
Newspaper: Kerry News
County: Kerry, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ATTACK ON THE FREE GARDENERS’ EXCURSION IN ARMAGH. SOME OF THE EXCURSIONISTS

... Nationalist bands, which were pLiying, and adjacent to where there were several bonfires were burning, It was the Nationalist bonfire night. The Nationalists cheered wildly, and tbe police, believing that it would be dangerous for the handful of excursionists ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1895
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE BONFIRE NUISANCkI

... soil if only let this reason alone the practice should be no logger tolerated by the posers that be. 'lsetitythree yet to bonfire night, and are these parties to be Closed to carry on this .nisojing but profitable for fully three weeks' time? Absurd. GALW:IY ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1898
Newspaper: Galway Express
County: Galway, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MALICIOUS INJURIES

... to oppose on behalf of some ratepayers. The evidence of the applicant was that the burning took place on St John’s Eve, bonfire night. Ills attention was called by neighbour, and on examination found the fire in five daces. He hail some disagreements with ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1893
Newspaper: Cork Constitution
County: Cork, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

utterance beyond the trammels of conventional human speech. From the mountain-side, the boy would often descend ..

... came about. CHAPTER IV.—TIIE EVE OF ST. JOHN. ET us go back a little time. It was Bonfire Night, and the little town of Castlebar was all excitement. For Bonfire Night has from time immemorial been the great gala night in that town, and the youthful part ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1893
Newspaper: Irish Emerald
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1320 | Page: 2 | Tags: none