Dublin an Historical Sketch of Ireland's Metropolis (Classic Reprint)

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The food of the common people of ancient Ire land 1s said to have been very mean and slen der - namely, milk, butter, and herbs: from whence, writes Ware, the Epitome of Strabo calls the Irish herb-eaters. The gentry and nobility lived in higher style. Had we entered a banqueting-hall of the Eblani on a great festi val day, we might have found the company re clining on couches of grass or rushes, round a table furnished with griddle-baked bread milk meats, and varieties of fish and flesh, both boiled and roast. The cup, too, made of wood, or horn, or brass, filled with beer or mead - whisky was then unknown - was passed joyfully from guest to guest, while the metal-strung harp, obe dient to the touch of skill and taste, sent forth stirring sounds, with which oft mingled those of the martial drum, accompanying the bard's recital of warm affection, of illustrious ancestry, and of heroic' deeds.

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