Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Kiltartan History Book
    The Kiltartan History Book
    The Kiltartan History Book
    Ebook74 pages59 minutes

    The Kiltartan History Book

    By William Robert Gregory and Lady Gregory

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 2005
    The Kiltartan History Book

    Related to The Kiltartan History Book

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”

      Oct 6, 2019

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”
      7 min read

    • Article

      My Life As A Bookseller

      Jul 30, 2018

      Last week I spent an hour in a house in Glasgow with an elderly woman who had decided to sell her husband’s books. It’s a two hour drive each way, so a considerable investment in time, particularly on a warm summer’s day. This is how I spend much of

      4 min read

    • Article

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”

      Oct 9, 2019

      “I Indulged In Forgiveness”
      7 min read

    • Article

      STRIKE IT RICH ... With This Gem

      Oct 15, 2020

      STRIKE IT RICH ... With This Gem
      7 min read

    • Article

      French Twist

      Nov 13, 2022

      Is there a French word for uprooting a perfectly good life to move to the other side of the planet? If there isn’t, there should be. Just don’t ask Anna Bibby. The former owner of Auckland’s well-known Anna Bibby Gallery moved to France 13 years ago

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Story for Your Daughters, a Story for Your Sons

      Mar 3, 2020

      The war had closed much of the city, cut off many of the smaller towns. Unable to trace his usual routes, the hat merchant headed into the mountains to try his luck. His father, before he died, had circled a small mountain village on his map, had not

      5 min read

    • Article

      Gubbon Seer

      Feb 1, 2023

      Gubbon Seer
      4 min read

    • Article

      Kintu And Nambi

      Apr 8, 2020

      Kintu And Nambi
      3 min read

    • Article

      How I Began to Write

      Mar 6, 2019

      How I Began to Write
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Stackpole Legend

      Mar 1, 2024

      The Stackpole Legend
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Library of Gromma

      Jul 10, 2023

      Zac was sweating and panting as he reached the top of the hill. The crooked beams of the library loomed over him. He dropped the buckets of water, swore at the few drops that spilled, and escaped the piercing morning sun in the shade of the library.

      22 min read

    • Article

      Prevarication Jones

      May 1, 2019

      Prevarication Jones
      16 min read

    • Article

      A Pub At Woodstock

      Dec 23, 2021

      A Pub At Woodstock
      8 min read

    • Article

      Patrick McCabe: ‘You Can Walk Into Some Irish Bars And Be In A Different Dimension’

      Apr 24, 2022

      At one o’clock on a Thursday lunchtime there’s not a seat to be had in the Canal Bar at the Creighton Hotel in Clones, up near the border in the midlands of Ireland. Regular couples and groups of old friends have got here early for the blackboarded s

      5 min read

    • Article

      Stonehenge

      Jul 11, 2023

      Stonehenge
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Dullard

      Jun 5, 2019

      The villagers of Yockenthwaite knew him as ‘Jack Dull’, ‘Jack Dolt,’ or sometimes just ‘The Dullard’. His real name was John Dullard, last in a long, illustrious line of Dullards, and a man – so they said – of quite miraculous stupidity. The kind of

      7 min read

    • Article

      Grey Pride

      Oct 12, 2018

      Grey Pride
      15 min read

    • Article

      The Library Of Gromma

      Feb 10, 2021

      Zac was sweating and panting as he reached the top of the hill. The crooked beams of the library loomed over him. He dropped the buckets of water, swore at the few drops that spilt, and escaped the piercing morning sun in the shade of the library. He

      22 min read

    • Article

      The Griffin

      Nov 4, 2020

      The Griffin
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Show Boy

      Oct 9, 2019

      The Show Boy
      9 min read

    • Article

      Descent

      Jun 14, 2022

      People got out in strange ways. No stranger, I suppose, than the ways they got in. One year an American military helicopter flew too low over an Italian ski village, killing two families headed up the lift. A woman at Hillcrest had Italian citizenshi

      22 min read

    Reviews for The Kiltartan History Book

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Kiltartan History Book - William Robert Gregory

      Project Gutenberg's The Kiltartan History Book, by Lady I. A. Gregory

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Kiltartan History Book

      Author: Lady I. A. Gregory

      Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11260]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Garrett Alley, and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.

      THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK.

      BY LADY GREGORY.

      ILLUSTRATED

      BY ROBERT GREGORY

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      Seven Short Plays

      Cuchulain of Muirthemne

      Gods and Fighting Men

      Poets and Dreamers

      A Book of Saints and Wonders

      DEDICATED AND RECOMMENDED TO THE HISTORY CLASSES IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY

      CONTENTS

      The Ancient Times

      Goban, the Builder

      A Witty Wife

      An Advice She Gave

      Shortening the Road

      The Goban's Secret

      The Scotch Rogue

      The Danes

      The Battle of Clontarf

      The English

      The Queen of Breffny

      King Henry VIII.

      Elizabeth

      Her Death

      The Trace of Cromwell

      Cromwell's Law

      Cromwell in Connacht

      A Worse than Cromwell

      The Battle of Aughrim

      The Stuarts

      Another Story

      Patrick Sarsfield

      Queen Anne

      Carolan's Song

      'Ninety-Eight

      Denis Browne

      The Union

      Robert Emmet

      O'Connell's Birth

      The Tinker

      A Present

      His Strategy

      The Man was Going to be Hanged

      The Cup of the Sassanach

      The Thousand Fishers

      What the Old Women Saw

      O'Connell's Hat

      The Change He Made

      The Man He Brought to Justice

      The Binding

      His Monument

      A Praise Made for Daniel O'Connell by Old Women and They Begging at the Door

      Richard Shiel

      The Tithe War

      The Fight at Carrickshock

      The Big Wind

      The Famine

      The Cholera

      A Long Remembering

      The Terry Alts

      The '48 Time

      A Thing Mitchell Said

      The Fenian Rising

      A Great Wonder

      Another Wonder

      Father Mathew

      The War of the Crimea

      Garibaldi

      The Buonapartes

      The Zulu War

      The Young Napoleon

      Parnell

      Mr. Gladstone

      Queen Victoria's Religion

      Her Wisdom

      War and Misery

      The Present King

      The Old Age Pensions

      Another Thought

      A Prophecy

      NOTES

      THE KILTARTAN HISTORY BOOK

      THE ANCIENT TIMES

      As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry. The Nemidians came after that and stopped for a while, and then they all died of some disease. And then the Firbolgs came, the best men that ever were in Ireland, and they had no law but love, and there was never such peace and plenty in Ireland. What religion had they? None at all. And there was a low-sized race came that worked the land of Ireland a long time; they had their time like the others. Many would tell you Grania slept under the cromlechs, but I don't believe that, and she a king's daughter. And I don't believe she was handsome either. If she was, why would she have run away? In the old time the people had no envy, and they would be writing down the stories and the songs for one another. But they are too venemous now to do that. And as to the people in the towns, they don't care for such things now, they are too corrupted with drink.

      GOBAN, THE BUILDER

      The Goban was the master of sixteen trades. There was no beating him; he had got the gift. He went one time to Quin Abbey when it was building, looking for a job, and the men were going to their dinner, and he had poor clothes, and they began to jibe at him, and the foreman said 'Make now a cat-and-nine-tails while we are at our dinner, if you are any good.' And he took the chisel and cut it in the rough in the stone, a cat with nine tails coming from it, and there it was complete when they came out from their dinner. There was no beating him. He learned no trade, but he was master of sixteen. That is the way, a man that has the gift will get more out of his own brain than another will get through learning. There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words too. Those that make inventions in these days have the gift, such a man now as Edison, with all he has got out of electricity.

      A WITTY WIFE

      "The Goban Saor was a mason and a smith, and he could do all things, and he was very witty. He was going from home one time and he said to the wife 'If it is a daughter you have this time I'll kill you when I come back'; for up to that time he had no sons, but only daughters. And it was a daughter she had; but a neighbouring woman had a son at the same time, and they made an exchange to save the life of the Goban's wife. But when the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1