Old-irish Sentence Examples

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  • There are Old-Irish Catholics, under pope's nuncios, under Abba O'Teague of the excommunications, and Owen Roe O'Neill, demanding not religious freedom only, but what we now call ` repeal of the union,' and unable to agree with Catholics of the English Pale.

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  • The old Irish gods in the poetic romances appear to have the same origin and shade away into the fairies.

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  • Hence they had no scruple about rooting out the old Irish from Ulster.

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  • The first individual to pass through Ellis Island was a 15 year old Irish girl named Annie Moore.

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