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Updated: July 7, 2025
He says that Diarmid was killed by the druids, who put a burning shirt on him, a fragment of mythology that may connect Diarmid with the legend of Hercules, if it is not due to the 'learning' in some hedge-school master's ballad. Then we talked about Inishmaan.
So of him chiefly they sought counsel and direction so much so that old Diarmid, quick to notice what made for the good of his farm, caused Rob Dickson to act as a kind of "grieve" during the time of harvest, when the land was overrun with "Islanders," "Paddies" and "Paipes" for the religious hatred, though never crossing the North Channel, has yet made of the Irish Catholic in Wigtonshire a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to his Presbyterian masters.
There was a brief pause ere the Highlander replied, in a tone of strong emotion, "They were my sons, stranger they were my sons! blood of my blood bone of my bone! fleet of foot unerring in aim unvanquished by foemen till the sons of Diarmid overcame them by numbers! Why do I wish to survive them?
It was a long while before the Fenians knew who that could be walking by the side of Fionn, but when they did they laughed and mocked till Grania bowed her head for shame. 'This time, O Fionn, you will guard her well, said Ossian. For seven years the sons of Diarmid exercised themselves in all the skill of a warrior, and then they came back to Grania's house.
But Angus, the foster-father of Diarmid, knew in what straits his foster-son was, and he stole secretly to the place where Diarmid was hidden with Grania, and asked him what he had done to bring his head into such danger. 'This, said Diarmid; 'Grania, the daughter of Cormac, King of Erin, has fled with me against my will to escape marriage with Fionn.
"It's the lads!" she murmured. "They are in it. I am feared for them." "What?" exclaimed Patsy, but checked by a glance she instantly lowered her voice "not Fergus and Stair and Agnew?" Jean nodded slightly. "Does their father know?" Patsy whispered back. Jean preserved a grave face. "Not any one of us, his own family, can guess what Diarmid Garland knows and does not know.
Fionn was the most skilled, and at length he said, 'There is but one move that can save you the game, O Ossian, and I dare all that are by to show you that move. And in the top of the tree Diarmid heard him, and said, 'O Ossian, why am I not there to show you? 'It is worse for you to be here in the power of Fionn, than for Ossian to lack that move, answered Grania.
The next day Diarmid and Grania journeyed up the Shannon, and they killed a salmon, and crossed the river to eat it, as Angus had told them. Soon they met a youth called Muadan, who wished to take service with them; and he was strong, and carried them over the rivers across their path.
Diarmid slipped his hound, but it profited him nothing, for he did not await the boar, but fled before him.
'I think you are like Diarmid of the Golden Collar. But I should like to see your sword out, and shining in the sun like burnished silver. The captain laughed and grasped the hilt of his good blade. But Oswald said hurriedly 'Don't. Not yet. We shan't ever have a chance like this. If you'd only show us the pursuing practice!
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