Swords
Mentioned in 11 documents, 15 times across the archives
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113953
1 mention“conceived ideas in the matter. Drogheda, Balbriggan and Swords passed in quick succession and finally the smell of turf greeted us.”
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114428
1 mention“On Easter Monday morning he and Cornelius Colbert went to Liberty Hall and were made Commandants, both of them, by Com. Gen. Pearse. He was given 25 men and some 40 Scouts with orders to occupy Moria ”
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118835
2 mentions“To many a baffled reader of "Finnegan's Wake" the death of Joyce meant merely that the "cult of unintelligibility" had lost its chief prophet. To his admirers, it meant the loss of the greatest figure”
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121265
1 mention“Dear Mr. Editor—I would never dream of crossing swords with an old soldier with as distinguished a record as my friend, Captain Robert Monteith. But never having had any affiliations with angels, I am”
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134658
1 mention“This venerable ruin is situated about twenty miles from the metropolis, a little to the left of the mail-coach line to Drogheda, in the village of Duleek, on the Nanny-water. The ruined Abbey-Church, ”
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134920
2 mentions“Brother Dillon Cosgrave, B.A., O.C.C., read a very interesting paper on "Clonliffe." He said that Dr. Joyce explained the name as meaning "meadow of herbs," but Cardinal Moran in his notes to Archdall”
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183380
1 mention“TRUMPETS AND DRAWN SWORDS”
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183397
1 mention“troops on the altar steps whipped out their swords to present arms, every soldier guarding the barricades in the Dublin streets sprang to attention and presented arms.”
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56266
2 mentions“Sixteen dead men—what on their swords ?”
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56272
2 mentions“The third and final day of this gallant defence came. The previous evening Commdt. Connolly had sent a detachment of Swords men as a relief and, fighting with considerable dash and courage, they succe”
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90176
1 mention“How vain were prouds till flashed the swords”