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out a most difficult task in dealing with so many subjects in 

 the course of her lecture. It would be impossible to follow her 

 through the vast range of subjects dealt with, and at this 

 advanced hour I think I must content myself with moving that 

 the best thanks of this meeting be given to her for the very 

 able manner in which she has placed before us the details of 

 some of the most interesting events in Irish history. 



Rev. James O'Laverty — I was extremely delighted with the 

 beautiful lecture which we have just heard. I perceive that 

 Miss Milligan is like everyone else who has a poetic mind and 

 has studied Irish history — they invariably become very much 

 prejudiced in favour of the Irish. An extremely interesting 

 characteristic of the race was pointed out — that we never seem 

 to forget what is past, an old battle or a defeat of a thousand 

 years is but as yesterday. In the year 332, I think, the Here- 

 monian race destroyed the old palace, near Armagh, of the 

 Irian Kings of Ulster, and for ever ruined the power of that 

 ancient Ulster race. In 1014 the battle of Clontarf was fought 

 under a king who had superseded the Heremonian race in the 

 sovereignty of Ireland. Amongst the army fighting against 

 the invaders there was not a single Ulsterman of the Here- 

 monian race, which then occupied four-fifths of the province, 

 while amongst the most ardent supporters of King Brian were 

 the Ulidians — the old Irian race of Ulster who came to support 

 the man who had overturned the sovereignty of the race, which 

 had seven hundred years before inflicted irreparable ruin on 

 their Irian forefathers. Slill later, at the battle of Down- 

 patrick, in 1260, when the Tyrone men of the Heremonian 

 race attempted to besiege Downpatrick and to drive the English 

 out of it, there was not a single MacCartan or Magennis hero 

 to join with the Tyrone men. fhe traditions of their race had 

 so indelibly fixed in their memory the fall of Emania that nine 

 and a half centuries could not erase it. This is a strange page 

 in Irish history. We blame parents for not having their 

 children taught Irish history, but it is also to be lamented that 

 they are not taught to look back at thmgs that have passed 

 without being prejudiced on either side. 



