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Show WHY THE IRISH FIGHT T has always been a puzzle to I historians where the Irish T race acquired its fijrhting spirit, and many noted writers have tried to solve thig much-disputed question without any decid ed Tesult, " writes Jack Skelly, reviewing re-viewing the history of the Emerald III "According to tho old legends, Ireland was in the remote times peopled by tribes styled Firbolgs and Danuns, who were eventually subdued by the Milesians and Gaels, who after some hard battling bat-tling eraiued supremacy on the island. These wild tribes afterward after-ward became mixed up more or less with the Gaels, who were famous fa-mous in those days for their restless, rest-less, fighting spirit. "It was the Gauls or Gaels who were the greatest gladiators of the old Roman empire. They were wonderfully built men with great gameness and endurance. In fact, I consider these old gladiators the Irish pugilists of the ancient days. |