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My Land

Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

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Extent of text: 685 words

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Text ID Number: E850004-011

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Source
1. First published in the Nation.

Other writings by Thomas Davis
1. Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914.
2. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (ed.), Thomas Davis, the memoirs of an Irish patriot, 1840-1846. 1890. [Reprinted entitled 'Thomas Davis' with an introduction of Brendan Clifford. Millstreet, Aubane Historical Society, 2000.]
3. Thomas Davis: selections from his prose and poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston. London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin (Every Irishman's Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press, 1914.]
4. Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
5. Essays of Thomas Davis. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W. Tempest, Dundalk, Ireland, under the title 'Essays literary and historical'.]
6. Thomas Davis: essays and poems, with a centenary memoir, 1845-1945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. [Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.]
7. Angela Clifford, Godless colleges and mixed education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast: Athol, 1992.

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Created: by Thomas Davis (1840s)

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Revision History

• (2011-08-08)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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• (2011-08-07)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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• (2009)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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• (1996)

  Audrey Murphy (ed.)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850004-011

My Land: Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

p.365

1. She is a rich and rare land;
   Oh! she's a fresh and fair land;
   She is a dear and rare land—
   This native land of mine.
2. No men than her's are braver—
   Her women's hearts ne'er waver;
   I'd freely die to save her,
   And think my lot divine.
3. She's not a dull or cold land;
   No! She's a warm and bold land;
   Oh! she's a true and old land—
   This native land of mine.
4. Could beauty ever guard her,
   And virtue still reward her,
   No foe would cross her border—
   No friend within it pine!
5. Oh! she's a fresh and fair land;
   Oh! she's a true and rare land;
   Yes! She's a rare and fair land—
   This native land of mine.