The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 24 British Isles Part 2: Scotland, Ireland Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS SCOTLAND
I. BALLADS AND LEGENDS OF EARLY SCOTLAND
LEGENDS OF ST. COLUJIIBA From "Life of St. Columba." THE MURDER OF KING DUNCAN From "Macbeth." THE INVASION OF THE NORSEMl!:N From "Ballads and Lyrics." SIR PATRICK SPENS .
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Abbot Adamnaii
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William Shakespeare
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Charles Mac kay
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An o ld ballad
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II. TWO SCOTTISH HEROES
THE CAPTURE OF WILLIAM WALLACE From "The Scottish Chiefs." THE CORONATION OF ROBERT BRUCE From "The Days of Bruce." BRUCE AT BANNOCKBURN From "A Short History of Scotland." SCOTS WHA HAE .
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Jane Porter
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Grace Aguilar
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P. Ilume Brown
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III. TO THE DEATH OF MARY
TIIE BIER-RIGIIT • Sir Walter Sc ott From "The Fair Maid of Perth." How THE SCOTS LIVED WHILE JAMES I WAS KING P. Hume Brown From "A Short History of Scotland." ON THE FIELD OF FLODDEN . . • . Sir Walter Sc ott EDINBURGU AFTER FLODDEN FIELD William E. Aytowi "THE GOODMAN OF BALLANGIECH" . Sir Walter Sc ott From "Talcs of a Grandfather." THE FLIGHT OF MARY, QUEEN OF ScoTS, TO ENGLAND From "The Abbot." THE FATE OF 1"1AR'i, QUEEN OF SCOTS From "Tales of a Grandfather."
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Sir Walter Scott
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Sir Walter S c ott
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IV. A CENTURY OF UNREST
WHY JENNY GEDDES THREW HER STOOL A T THE DEAN
"Grace Greenwood" (Sara J. Lippincott)
From "Bonnie Scotland."
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William E. Aytoun 153 . P. Hume Brown 157
GATHERING SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK . THE EXECUTION OF 1\-lONTROSE
From "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers."
THE BURIAL l\1ARCH OF DUNDEE • THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE
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From "A Short History of Scotland."
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A RESCUE AT THE BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS
Sir Walter Scott
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From "\Vaverley." How FLORA MACDONALD SAVED PRINCE CHARLIE
Charles Sanford Terry
From "The Young Pretender."
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IRELAND I. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ERIN OISIN IN Tm NA N-oG
An Irish folk-story
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An old Irish legend
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Patrick Weston Joyce
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Patrick Weston Joyce
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Charles Johnston and Carita Spence,
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E. S. Brooks
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THE CHASE OF SUEVE CuLLINN
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From "Myths and Folklore of Ireland," by Jeremiah Curtin From "Old Celtic Romances," translated by P. W. Joyce.
THE STORY OF ST. PATRICK • • • • • THE "ISLAND OF SAINTS AND SCHOLARS"
From "A Concise History of Ireland." THE BOOK OF KELLS •
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From "Ireland's Story."
How BRIAN BORU HELD THE FORD OF TRIBUTE
From "Historic Boys."
II. SIX CENTURIES OF OPPRESSION
Jmtin H. McCartlty
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Tltomas Davis Oliver Cromwell
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Mrs. E. M. Field
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Tltomas Babington Macaulay
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THE HOUSE OF THE GERALDINES •
From "An Outline of Irish History."
THE GERALDINES . . . • . • THE VENGEANCE OF CROhIWELL
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AFTER THE REBELLION OF 1641
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From "Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches," edited by Thomas Carlyle
From "Ethne."
THE SIEGE OF LONDONDERRY THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE
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THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S
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III. IRE LAND AND HE R PEOPLE THE "GRAND CANAL HOTEL" • • • . AN IRISH SCHOOL THE \VINNING BACK OF THE LAND
Charles Lever Gerald Griffin
From" Ireland's Story" Charles Johnston and Carita Spencer • • . . . • . Katharine Tynan From "Peeps at Many Lands- Ireland."
THE IRISH PEOPLE .
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