Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-05-26

Mr.. Murraugh King of leicester, as his history
tells us, carried of the daughter of the King o
Meath, for this offence, 10 conjunction will
O'Connor, (who was then the principal of tn,
1--WE Irish Kings) the King of Meath expelled
him from his dominions. Nicholas Break
speare, an Englishman was then Pope. Their,
had been trouble between the Christians o
itome, and the Christians In Ireland. Th,
trouble with Dermot gave the English Popt
an opportunity through Henry the Second, tht
English King, to conquer the land. Therefore
with the assistance Of one of the Anglo Nor
man earls named Strongbow, ireland was inva
ded. Strongbow aided by his officers, the two
Fitzgeralds, Raymond and Pendegrast, will
less than thousand men, defeated O'Connel
the chief monarch. Waterford was surrender
ed. Dublin was taken by assault, and the Is
land was in manner wholly subdued, before
Henry the English King afterwards landed, with
superior force.
HisToRY OF THE IRISH.
Now the conquerlng of Ireland was not the
want of any soldierly qualities in the Celt, who
at this time formed large proportion Of Its
population, but simply from q want of good
weapons and military discipline. They did not
make near as good defence as the Saxons of
England because neither their weapons nor
military organizations were as good. Fresh
swarins of Anglo Normans came over, and drove
the original Irish 10 the bogs and hills. Spen-
Ger who Is an accurate historian says: "The
Irish fed to the deserts and mountains, leaving
the wyde country to the conqueror, who in their
stead efstoons placed Englishmen, who posses
scd all the land, and quite shut out the Irish"
Dublin became an English city, and the inhabi-
tants used to 60 annually out, and shake their
spears defantly at the Irish Of the hills,by whom
their were once nearly all massacred. But let
II ha Hat Al H.
mans who did this, are the Fathers Of the great
proport,on Of the present race Of Irishmen.
1heir ancestors on one side conquered their
ancestors on the other. They married the ma
tive Irish women, and on the other side, in
many instances the native Irishmen, married
the Anglo Norman women. A good proportion
sf the ancestors of the present Irish welded the
bill on the Saxon, aad strung the bow and level
ed the lance on the Norman side at Hastings.
The O'Byrnes Qords of the woods the O'Bri-
ems (the strong hands,) the O'Neils (the bloody
hands,) were indeed old Irish septs or clans
But even these men were mixed with Danes,
who were band OF the Teutons, and had some
OF the Danish customs. But where will you
lind an O'Byrne, an O'Brien or an O,Neil, un-
mixed with Saxon blood. On the other hands the
Desmonds, Qhe last countess of which lived so
long and who had danced with Richard the
3rd) who headed the rebellion against the Eng
sh, the Plonkitts barsns of Lowth (now chang
I'D to Plunketts) who were the earls In 1915, the
the McSheckies of Munster, the Bren-
nghams or The great Mortimers, the Cources
,Courseys)were all Normans or English families.
spencer speaks of them as becoming more Irish
han the Irish themselves. This he censures :,
severely, as he had all the prejudcies of the
strong or more numerous branch of the Anglo
Saxon against its weaker, or lesser organization.
10 cite as example few of his statements in
'elation 10 few more Anglo Norman families,
ne says:
The McSuretans (the Lords Desart) are now
very wild Irish. The McCostillages formerly
he de Angclos) now very Irish. The McWil.
Jams formerly the Durkes now very Irish. II
$ needless to cite further cases. The above are
sufficient samples. Spencer who prided him
elf upon being English would hav0 seen his
children and grandchildren chad he have re-
NAMED in Ireland in peace, and had they not
been massacred in the insurrection) calling
themselves Irish as from residence they woull
nave had Irish interests and feelings. Again
nearly the whole ofthe most distinguished Irish
men ofa later day have had Saxon blood in
hem. The great Sarsefield the noblest Irish
nan OF his time, had Saxon father;John Davis
he patriotic Irish poet was also Saxon by one
'ncestor. This is shown by his very name.
IRISH WORDS ENGLISH.
But not only we,e the ancestors of the Irish
English in the time Of Spencer, but also their
anguages, manners, and customs, but the Eng
ish OF 500 years before that period.
10 cite a few words, that were believed to be
Dure Irish as an example; Gallowglass foot
soldier. This was an old abandoned English
word. 1t was originaly Gal-ogla English serve
or or yeoman. So was livery which means
horse meat. C"ynen mans meat. Kin-cog-
lsh, TO bring forth every one ofthe sept or clan,
oy the head, all these were English werds.
The English in the meantime had adopted new
words, new manners and new customs; whilst
he Irish, having no communication with the rest
,f he world held on w the old English ones.-
Therefore deduee from this that tho abuse of
.he Saxon as Saxon as equally an abuse ofthe
ancestor, on the one side, as 1t is that
Of tho Americans or Englishman's and Scotch
mans. As far rs the original plundering and
was concerned, as in the case of all
The Islands composing the United Kingdom, 1t
was the wrongful act of one ancestor towards
another.
But the learned writer says "The Norman
noble and gentleman has lorded it over tho
Saxon serf or peasant" and the descendant of
The Saxon performs every mental office in the
land OF England. If this is so, 1t is much to be
regretted. 1t is the peasant workman that
creates the wealth Of England and every other
State, and no one race should be compelled to
work, whilst another race holds all the lands,
and spends the produce Of their labor. But Nor
man and Saxon are now blended. The great
landholders of England have most of the
Saxon blood in their veins, whilst many laborers
have very probably Norman. At any rate even
If the Saxon did perform every menial office, it
is no reason why upon that account he should
receive the enmity Of his Irish brother. The
Saxons fought the Normans, who lad three to
his one, and succumbed to this superior power.
The Celtic Irish also had 10 sucumb before the
same enemy, who robbed him of his lands in
the same manner. For Strongbow was q Nor
man, and his officers, Robert Ftstephens,
Maurice Pendegrass, Maurice Fitzgerald, Ray
mond, Miles Cogan, Phillip De Bruse, and
Sir Hugh do Lacey were all Normans. They
mon0plized the lands in Ireland as they had in
England, and both Saxon, and what was then
the Celtic Irishmen suffered from the same Nor
man masters. l know it is the custom of some
Irish writers to cry out against the Saxon. But
the censure Is misplaced. IL the descendant
Of the Saxon perform euery mental Office lie is
in no way responsible for any wrong done to
Ireland. For 1t Is not the mental who direct
the policy of a nation but its educated rulers.
1t is unnecessary however to go into an en-
quiry as to the race of our ancestors. There is
hardly citizen in Anglo Saxondom, that is not
q mixture Of both Saxon, Celt, and Norman.
For the original natives of England, whom tho
Saxons conquered and mixed with were the same
people as the original Irish. Whatever differ
ences there are in the qualities of the race,
whether in America Britain, or in Ireland, is
the result of education. OF course the strong
branches OF the race oppressed the weaker,
This has always been the case. But it is this
that, ! am using my pen, and brain to prevent
hence the desire have to see an Anglo Saxon
Confederation which believe will thoroughly
remedy this wrong. Again the learned writer
says:
"Take England and America. Few nations
indeed can possibly have more interests which
conflict and jar with each other than these two.
How could you unity them? How reconcile
their discordant aims, and their opposing COM
mercal and manufacturing rivalries?"