Crossword-Solution: EIRE 4 letters, 937 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Some thousands of needy ineffectual men had been raked together to trail their spiritless misery through the West Eire with an appeal that was also in its way a weak and insubstantial threat: “It is Work we need, not Charity.” There they were, half-phantom through the fog, a silent, foot-dragging, interminable, grey procession.

The Eagle stood up, He took the end of my hand:-- 'You are the finest man I ever saw in my life, Go off home, my blessing will be on you for ever, You have saved the fame of Eire for yourself till the Day of the Judgment.' Ah! neighbors, did you hear The goodness and power of Felim? The biggest wild beast you could get, The second fist he drew on it He struck it on the jaw, It fell, and it did not rise Till the end of two days.

The Gods lived there: for the Tuatha De Dannans who settled in Eire after conquering the gigantic races of Firbolgs and Fomorians (Atlanteans) were called Gods, differing in this respect from the Gods of ancient Greece and India, that they were men who had made themselves Gods by magical or Druidical power.

But desire for Eire arises within him and returning, he falls off the magic steed, and becomes an old man weary with years.

Such were the ways of those ancient days— To Patrick for aye that grave was given; And above it he built a church in their praise; For in them had Eire been spoused to heaven.