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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BLARNEY , a small See also:

TOWN

town of Co. See also:

Cork, See also:

Ireland, in the See also:

MID

mid See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division, 5 M. N.W. of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Cork on the Cork & Muskerry See also:

LIGHT

light railway. Pop. (1901) 928. There is a large manufacture of See also:

TWEED

tweed. The name " blarney " has passed into the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language to denote a See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of persuasive eloquence, alleged to be characteristic of the natives of Ireland. The " Blarney See also:

Stone," the kissing of which is said to confer this See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty, is pointed out within the See also:

castle. The origin of this belief is not known. The castle, built c. 1446 by Cormac McCarthy, was of immense strength, and parts of its walls are as much as 18 ft. thick. To its founder is traced by some the origin of the See also:

TERM

term " blarney," since he delayed by persuasion and promises the surrender of the castle to the See also:

lord See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

See also:

Richard Millikin's See also:

SONG

song, " The Groves of Blarney " (c. 1798), contributed to the fame of the castle, which is also See also:

BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound up with the See also:

CIVIL

civil See also:

HISTORY

history of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county and the See also:

War of the See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

REBELLION

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