Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . presents thechange that has taken place in Ireland in recent years by the propo-ganda work of the Gaelic League. Erin weeping beside her harp isno longer a true representation of Ireland. Our artist, Mr. GusOShaughnessy, has caught the correct idea, and he has given us afigure of Ireland hopeful, courageous, self-reliant and conscious ofher own resources, strength and dignity. One hand leans upon theharp to denote Irelands lo
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . presents thechange that has taken place in Ireland in recent years by the propo-ganda work of the Gaelic League. Erin weeping beside her harp isno longer a true representation of Ireland. Our artist, Mr. GusOShaughnessy, has caught the correct idea, and he has given us afigure of Ireland hopeful, courageous, self-reliant and conscious ofher own resources, strength and dignity. One hand leans upon theharp to denote Irelands love of music, a trait that has distinguishedher for generations, while the other holds a tablet, indicative ofthe pre-eminence of the Irish nation as a center of learning in thepast, and conveying the suggestion that, through education, maybe found the remedies for the many ills from which her people suffer. The whole design is strikingly appropriate on a book such asthis, and like a flash forces the comnction on the observer that Irelandis indeed a land of Art, Literature and Music, confirmatory proofof which will be abundantly found inside its covers. Editors. 14. REV. FRANCIS L. REYNOLDS. INTRODUCTION. There is no study that should so naturally interest thepeople of any nation as much as that of their own great pulpit orator, Very Kev. Thomas N. Burke, 0. P.,in his lecture on The Future of the Irish Race at Home andAbroad, has truly said Every race, every i^eople have theirown history, have their tale to tell of joj^ or of sorrow, of tri-umph and of shame; and among the great family of nationswe Celtic Irishmen have our history to look back upon, a his-tory covering many centuries, and going back to as ancientand honorable a source as any j^eople on the face of Godsearth. And from its earliest beginnings down to the presenthour, although that history is written on many pages in tearsand in blood, and although it tells of centuries of unavailingstruggles and defeat
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