Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-25
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of Celtic civilization and or the Celtic
character. The greatest relics of Gel
tic art, the most interesting exhibits
connected with Celtic history viii be
gathered together at it. The splendid
Illuminated manuscripts of Ireland and
the fine examples of Celtic goldsmiths'
work from that country Will be shown,
as will the arms and armor OF Irish
chiefs. and the portraits of Irish heroes,
from Brian Boroimhe, whose portrait
will be brought from the County Clare
home OF his OBrien descendants, to
O'Connell. and to men of Irish blood
who won distinction for themselves BY
their bravery on American battle
fields.
A special feature of tho exhibition
will be the section devoted to the Irish
in the United States, in which all that
is possible will be exhibited illustrative
OF their achievements there in every
branch of learning and industry. in re-
llgion, in science, in law, in the state
service, civil and military. and in COM
merce.
The exhibition will be illustrative In
a like manner of Scotland. Wales, and
every other Celtic land During it
special concerts of Celtic music will
be given. Irish jlgs and Scottish reels
will be danced, and Celtic subjects will
be tho theme of lectures.
EXCAVATION OF TARA.
The congress will be attended by
Celtic scholars. as well as by Celtic
patriots. Before them reports Will be
laid showing how far LUnion Gel
tique has advanced in its great ar
chacological enterprise-the excava-
ton OF Tara
Tara became the seat of the mon
archs OF Ireland in the dawn of history.
The Ard Righs-high kings-of Ireland
had lived and held their courts there
for centuries when Patrick came to
Ireland. The royal city reached the
height of its glory in the third century
of the Christian era. a period quite
within the limits OF authentic Irish his
tory. Elaborate descriptions of the city
as it stood at that time and, later. at
given in the ancient Irish manuscripts,
and these descriptions are proved to be
correct by the surveys made of the
foundations of tho great buildings on
the hill.
Tara is 4 small but conspicuous hill,
rising almost perpendicularly out OF the
great plain of Meath. Its top is spa
cious and level. On its highest point
stood the great Rath of the kings sur
rounded by stone wall which tradition
says was built by the Fir-Bolgs. the
Belglc race which settled in Ireland in
the very dawn of history. Stones OF
that ancient fertilization still stand on
Tara on the spot wnere they were
originally placed. bulwarks of the royal
enclosure, the Rath ma Righ. on the
summit of Tara hill. The external di-
mensions OF the Rath ma Righ arc SG3
feet. Within 1t stood the House Of
Corrnac; the Forradh, or Judgment
Hall; the mound of the Cow; the
mound Of the Hostages and the Lila
Fail Corumnc, who built the royal resi-
dence within the Rath. lived In the
beginning of the third century. OF
his palace the chronicles say "in the
highest part of the city the king had a |
fair and we'll built castle: in that castle !
he had a fair hall and spacious and |
in that hall he was wont TO sit in juGg- |
ment."
EARTHEN MOUNDS.
The mound of the Cow Is a circular
hillock. six feet high, and 40 feet In d.
ameter 1t Is supposed 10 have got Its
name from the COW Glas, which be-
longed to the smith Saibhnionn. of the
Tuatha de Danaan race. which sue
ceeded the Fir Bolgs In the supremacy
of Ireland, and was itself succeeded by |
the Milesians, from whom most OF the
existing Irish families claim descent.
The mound OF the Hostages. another
circular earthen mound lies to the
northeast of the Forradh On it. II Is
believed, stood the building In which
Cormac lodged the hostages whom ''he
brought from every fortress" when he
made visitation of Ireland land ex-
hiblted at Tara"
TRUE Liza FAIL.
Beside the mound of the Hostages
stood the celebrated coronation stone,
the Liza Fail This stone still stands
at Tara 1t has been removed q short
distance from its original position, 10
the center of the Rath, to mark the
grave OF the -'Croppies" who were killed ]