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Chapter 12  
     
1.
 Curse the name  
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 Be still, hand of ambition,  
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 Have not the best found the lines of nobility?  
4.
 Honor O’Hart  
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 Praise Brian Boru!  
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 Give honor to the clans of royalty  
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 Those brave and confident souls who show their connection to the great Boru  
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 and other names of ancient Irish Christian texts.  
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 Well done Prince of Desmond,  
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 may your crown of Gold measure your standing.  
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 Respect then to the Irish Royal Houses who have found recognition by the English.  
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 The O'Conor’s of Connacht,  
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 The O'Neill’s of Ulster,  
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 The MacCarthy Mor’s of Munster; and  
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 The MacMorrough Kavanagh of Leinster.  
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 Let us then not forget the princely houses who so too have found favour with the English crown and the scholars pen.  
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 The O'Brien’s of Thomond,  
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 The Maguire’s of Fermanagh,  
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 The O'Donnell of Tyrconnel; and  
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 The O'Rourke of Breffny.  
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 What good fortune then you all that Bede’s work of Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum did survive the dark ages,  
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 That he set straight the savagery and ignorance of pre-Christian irish.  
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 That the ancient cualann were consigned to myth.  
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 How grateful then for Alfred the Great and Historia Brittonum  
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 in ending all ties of mystics and knowledge, of gods and wisdom.  
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 Herald then the age of kings and princes.  
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 The age of men and blood, not magic.  
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 And when Muirchertach Ua Briain did commission Cogadh Gaedhil re Gallaibh it was complete!  
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 With Brian Boru, what genius!  
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 Now, only ambition, Christian power were needed.  
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 Men of ambition could write their own history.  
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 The pens of monks did follow.  
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 But most praise must be reserved for the Four Masters of recent years  
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 Those Franciscan monks of Donegal  
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 Michael, Conary, and Cucogry O'Clery, and by Ferfesa O'Mulconry  
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 For you gave life to those who had accommodated the Normans.  
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 You gave strength to those families now wholly proclaiming their Irish pedigree.  
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 And after the great evils of Cromwell had done their worst  
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 and enlightenment for the educated and elite emerged  
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 you shone brightest.  
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 Well done, good and faithful servants of Ireland!  
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 So all respect O’Hart and curse the Cualann, the Cuilleain, the holly.  
43.
 Curse them not to history, from which they might escape.  
44.
 Tear them, destroy them.  
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 Confuse them, erase their name,  
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 This is an age of politics, not druid.  
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 An age of economics not spirit.  
48.
 Curse them to myth, from which they cannot return.
  
49.
 For only a madman then would raise the standard of the Holly,  
50.
 the Lion of Judah  
51.
 the blood of Akhenaten  
52.
 the blood of the Hyksos  
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 the blood of the Kings and Patriarchs of Ebla  
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 Only one without any credence would be so bold and brash to make claim.  
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 The power of history is against them.  
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 The books have been written.  
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 The covenants signed.  
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 An age over.  

 
 
 

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