... Irishmen the I opportunity to become trained and I _ armed. The movement started in pi the Protestant North, and was tole- rated by the British Government and I _ fostered by the Irish Government of rl Grattan's Parliament on the grounds I that, in times of ...

... immortal ballad, Home, Sweet Home, was sung for the first time on May 8, 1823, in Clari, the Maid of Milan. The Chevalier Grattan Flood, Mus.D., here deals with the origin of the song and its composition. THERE are few English songs that make such an ...

... sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. Then they arrested Smith O'Brien, Meagher, and John Blake Dillon, who had gone down into the country and tried to raise an armed rebellion, which resolved its ifintoa scuffle with the police in Ttpperary. Finally they ...