... establishment of the revolution in Ireland, when they suffered attainder, and, like other great families of that period, underwent a final eclipse. The ...
... them, from memory, the colour of the eyes and hair, and the fashion and hues of the dress. Then his father gave him a black box containing this portrait, ...
... ground for a run. Now it was dark and, terrible work breaking through brambles and hazels and tumbling over rocks. Little Shaeen Mull Ryan, ...
... to his fate, and emerged from the glen on the platform above his captor's knotted old hand still on his arm, and looked round on the tall mysterious ...
... old man and woman), are some of my courtiers and I'm considering now what I shall do with you, whether I shall send you to-night to Lough Guir, riding ...
... abode was only an adventure and an episode, and they believed that any day they might receive instructions to commence their journey. After a little ...
... a long train of funereal clouds were sailing slowly across the sky-so that, faint and wan as it was, the light seldom shone full out, and was often hidden ...
... the inmates, and most certainly it was not pleasant to suspect the establishment of an independent and possibly dangerous lodger or even colony, within ...
... the turret over-head, from which they were forthwith hung by the necks, for a caveat and admonition to all evil disposed persons viewing the same from ...
... a hawk invades their safety, rising all round from the thick ivy that overclimbed the wall on his left, and raising his eyes listlessly, he saw, with ...
... his hand, I am so promised, and no earthly tie or allurement has power to draw me from that holy engagement. Well, he said, returning her caress, ...
... first provoked this horrible feud, which no sacrifice and misery can appease, and no exorcism can quell or even suspend. The wretch has come from afar ...
... all. But the earnest dilated gaze stole downward to the floor, and subsided into an odd wily smile, and she began to whisper to herself, and the ...
... why do you talk of sleeping no more with me? said Alice. Why? Alice dear-no why-no reason-only a knowledge that it must be so, or Una will ...
... She hears and sees Una's dreams, and wonders-and well she may. And she kissed her sister's cheek with a cold kiss, and lay down in her little bed, ...
... from within. The moonbeams slanted bright and clear on the whole side of the castle overlooking the glen, and she plainly beheld the shadow of ...
... she fell into a deep sleep. From this she awoke suddenly, and completely, as will sometimes happen without any apparent cause, and she saw Una come ...
... in the recesses of the glen-the sweet, sad notes of Una's voice, singing those plaintive melodies. This, too, of course, in time will cease, and all ...
... Sheridan Le Fanu Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Mr. Justice Harbottle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Room in the ...
... In 1847 he supported John Mitchell and Thomas Meagher in their campaign against the indifference of the Government to the Irish Famine. His support cost ...