Julia Cahill`s Curse part 1
George Moore (1852-1933)
George Moore was born in County Mayo, in 1852, of a well-to-do family. At an early age he wished to become a...
The Disabled Soldier Part 5
“The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore he knew that I understood my business well, but that I shammed...
The Disabled Soldier Part 4
We had but an indifferent passage, for being all confined in the hold, more than a hundred of our people died for want of...
The Disabled Soldier Part 3
I had some dis-position to be a scholar, and was resolved at least to know my letters: but the master of the workhouse put...
The Disabled Soldier Part 2
With what indignation do I hear an Ovid, a Cicero or a Rabutin complain of their misfortunes and hardships, whose greatest calamity was that...
The Disabled Soldier Part 1
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Goldsmith`s family were Irish people of English descent. Oliver Goldsmith was born in County Longford, Ireland. He went to Trinity College, Dublin,...
The Shipwreck of Simonides 2
A lerned man has always a fund of riches in himself.
Simonides, who wrote such excellent lyric poems, the more easily to support his poverty,...
The Prodigal Son 1
The Prodigal Son (From the New Testament, Luke XV)
The prodigal is a parable, spoken by Jesus in praise of forgiveness. It is one of...
The Jewish Mother 1
Biblical Literature
It is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales....
The History of Susanna 1
The History of Susanna (From The Apocrypha)
Susanna was originally a part of the Book of Daniel, but was set apart as apocryphal, because it...
