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| RUINS OF MAYNOOTH CASTLE, CO. KILDARE.- In his stirring ballad of "The Geraldines," written in the noontide of the "Young Ireland" poets' intellectual carnival, fifty, or more, years ago, Thomas Davis, the Irish Beranger, apostrophized the proud race of the Fitz-Geralds of Kildare and Desmond in words of fire, sufficient to kindle a spirit of national pride and burning patriotism in any hear no entirely oblivious to noble influences:- What gorgeous shrines, what Brehon lore, what minstrel feasts there were In an around Maynooth's gray keep and palace-filled Adare! |
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