Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ireland Liberty Springs From Her Martyr's Blood
Geographers tell us that the world may be divided into two hemispheres, one of water and the other of land. Ireland is the centre of the land hemisphere. A most admired poet says that her back is turned to Britain, and her face to the West, indicating that Ireland is favorably situated to become the great entrepot of the commerce between Europe and America. The Irish claim that the glory of discovering this continent belongs to one of their saints, St. Brenden, and that Ireland was the first, as she is now, the most friendly and trusted ally of the great Republic. That no other country, visited by travellers, approaches Ireland in natural attrae tions, is the belief of every Irishman. Where else do we behold so many great and characteristic features? Where such mountains as the magnificent chain of the Connemaras? Where gardens so sylvan and lovely, with winding walks, dike those in forests, fountains and springs? Where lakes like those of Killarney, where savage wildness ceases to be terrible, because it is inconceivably lovely? Where cathedrals and churches of such grandeur and awe-inciting vastness where such a soil, fruitful enough to support fifteen millions of people? Where else can we feel in every air which blows the spirit of health, the freedom from the World - the communion with one's self?
Glorious old Ireland - the temple of nature where man casts of for a time all thoughts but of her, and drinks deep of the purest and loftiest sources of enjoyment-mighty and grand in thy unrivalled beauties; wonderfully beautiful in thy enchanting loveliness, and thy mountains noble and magnificent images of eternal power and grandeur.
The Niobe of nations! There she stands Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago.
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