Athletics and manly sport . No. 26. MILITARY FORK. Distinctly Irish weapon (iron; drawing one-third tlie actual size). one men on each side, — mdrsheisir air lai\ morSheisir airg-cul, a^s mdrsheisir air fuadach; that is, seven (hterally abig six) in the middle. In the Book of Rights, it is recorded, that comain^ orhurleys, are mentioned among some of the presents from the THE CHIEF GAME OF ANCIENT IRELAND. 199 Arch King to his clients. Foot-ball and hand-ball do notseem to have been practised; and I do not remember to have. No. FORK. (Iron; one-third actual size.) seen any mention
Athletics and manly sport . No. 26. MILITARY FORK. Distinctly Irish weapon (iron; drawing one-third tlie actual size). one men on each side, — mdrsheisir air lai\ morSheisir airg-cul, a^s mdrsheisir air fuadach; that is, seven (hterally abig six) in the middle. In the Book of Rights, it is recorded, that comain^ orhurleys, are mentioned among some of the presents from the THE CHIEF GAME OF ANCIENT IRELAND. 199 Arch King to his clients. Foot-ball and hand-ball do notseem to have been practised; and I do not remember to have. No. FORK. (Iron; one-third actual size.) seen any mention of boxing or wrestling;* but the formersurely was known, for in the Death of Cuchullain, in the * The following extract from a very ancient Gaelic book, The pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne, shows that wrestling. 200 ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT. *Book of Leinster, that chieftain is said to have given cne ofhis assailants a blow of his fist, which knocked out his brains. Next to hurling, the great out-door sport of ancient Ire-land was horse-racing. Tailten and Carman were the placesfor it. There is much mention of horse-racing, a sport forkings ; but I am glad to say that there is no mention of bettingat horse-races at all; but the Irish are mentioned as betting atchess, and betting heavily, too. As for hunting, Irish MSS. are full of it. The game mostmentioned — in fact, the only game mentioned — is the usual way of hunting was with hounds. There are thenames of more than a hundred hounds given in
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