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No reptiles are found there, and no snake can live there; for, though often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore, and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.

Venerable Bede

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

On Ireland.

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Topic

Ireland

Author

Venerable Bede

Source

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Latin

Time

731 730s 8th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Original Citation

Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 1.

The God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.

Thomas Goold

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Topic

Self-determination Ireland Countries

Speaker

Thomas Goold

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Goold, Thomas. An Address to the People of Ireland on the Subject of the Projected Union. Dublin: J. Moore, 1799.

This country of ours is no sandbank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of Irish mind.

Thomas Davis

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Topic

Ireland

Author

Thomas Davis

Source

Literary and Historical Essays

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Davis, Thomas. Literary and Historical Essays. New York: P.M. Haverty, 1879, pt. 3.