Pale
The Pale or the English Pale was a region in a radius of 20 miles around Dublin which the English in Ireland gradually fortified against the wildness of Gaelic Ireland. Throughout the Middle Ages as the land gained in the Norman conquest gradually receded, so Gaelic Ireland expanded.In the years of the 15th century the Pale became the only real piece of Ireland under the control of the King's Dublin government and a tenuous foothold for the English on the island of Ireland.
The Pale was essentially a fortified ditch and rampart built around parts of the medieval counties of Louth[?], Meath[?], Dublin and Kildare[?], actually leaving half of Meath and Kildare on the other side.
Within the confines of the Pale the leading gentry and merchants lived lives not too different from that of their counterparts in England, except that they lived under the constant fear of attack from the Gaelic Irish.
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burning, make sure of its condition, and be careful how you lay hold
millionaire-a generous benevolent millionaire-who once went about
his office. One day he took it into his thoughtful noddle that he
replace the inadequate and shabby structure in which a certain small
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days the Deacon came back to him, like the dove to the ark, saying
private business was such that he had felt compelled to intrust the
when it left his hands. Brother Smith explained that he (Smith) had
name he was not at liberty to disclose, had put down 2000 dollars.
paper and wrote "Philanthropist, 1000 dollars," and Brother Smith
subscription paper. By extraordinary exertions Brother
town and increase the value of real estate-had got two brethren, who
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dollars," pledging Brother Jones, as he had pledged the others, not
counting-room, and after smilingly introducing himself, produced
set on foot a little scheme to erect a new church for our
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that fair sheet and scrabbled thereon in raging characters,
his way. That struggling congregation still worships devoutly in its
1868, had with some difficulty shaken me into my trousers and boots,
and by an aperture constructed for another purpose. Arrived in.
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