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School: St Columb's Moville

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Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Hamilton Stewart
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 363

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  1. Tír na nÓg

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    Tir na nog the "Land of perpetual Youth" otherwise Hy-Brasil, the "Land of the blest," was the elysium or heaven of the pagan gaels. It lay vaguely somewhere out in the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles off Malin Head, in the path of the setting sun. There may be in the story some dim memory of the lost continent of Atlantis
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  2. The Irish Neptune

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    "Their ocean-god was Manahan M'Lir, whose angry lips
    In their white foam full often would inter whole fleets of ships
    Crom was their day-god and their thunderer made morning and eclipse;
    Bride was their queen of song, and unto her they prayed with fire-touched lips"
    D'Arcy M'Gee.

    Manahan M'Lir is regarded as the Irish Nepture, or sea-divinity: and he is said to lie buried in the Tonn Banks, off the coast of
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hamilton Stewart
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal