Crossword-Solution: INNISFAIL 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Young Anglo-Saxons of the best families were sent to receive their education in Innisfail, as the island was then often called; and, from their celebrated institutions of learning, numerous teachers and missionaries went forth to England, Germany (along the Rhine, chiefly), France, and even Switzerland and Italy.

There have been such golden moments even in the tragic history of Ireland, as her poet says-- "One time the harp of Innisfail Was tuned to notes of gladness." And then he goes on to say-- " But yet did oftener tell a tale Of more prevailing sadness." But there was such a golden moment--it was in 1795--it was on the mission of Lord Fitzwilliam.

Then up sprang the flame Mad for her eyes, but those grey worlds were deep In seas of native light: and when I spoke They wander'd shining to the shining moon That gaz'd at us between the parted folds Of yellow, rich with gold and daffodils, Dropping her silver cloak on Innisfail.

Then down came Diarmid to the vale, To the famed sons of Innisfail, And glad was the king, for his foe in his sight Came aidless and powerless to baffle his might.

Here's to you, men I never met, Yet hope to meet behind the veil, Thronged on some starry parapet, That looks down upon Innisfail, And sees the confluence of dreams That clashed together in our night, One river, born from many streams, Roll in one blaze of blinding light.