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  • He insisted for days upon calling the Fianna ‘soldiers’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He insisted for days upon calling the Fianna ‘soldiers’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He insisted for days upon calling the Fianna ‘soldiers’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He insisted for days upon calling the Fianna ‘soldiers’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He insisted for days upon calling the Fianna ‘soldiers’.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He insisted for days upon calling the Fianna ‘soldiers’.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He confused the cycles, it is true, taking the Red Branch heroes for contemporaries of the Fianna, which is much as if one should make Heracles meet Odysseus or Achilles in battle; but he had these earlier legends by heart, a rare acquirement among the

    Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • I noticed some time ago, when listening to many legends of the Fianna, that is about Finn, their leader, the most exaggerated of the tales have gathered; and I believe the reason is that he, being the greatest of the

    The Kiltartan History Book Lady Gregory 1892

  • Here, too, they say, lies the great bard Ossian; for they love to think that Finn's son Oisin, [++] the hero poet, survived to the time of St. Patrick, three hundred years after the other 'Fianna' had vanished from the earth, -- the three centuries being passed in Tir-nan-og, the Land of

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Author Michael Plemmons will be selling and signing copies of his book "Fianna" Sunday afternoon at the Atrium Cafe and Ice Cream Parlor, 1519 Military St.,

    Matt's Sports Attack 2010

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