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THE CHIEF GAME OF ANCIENT IRELAND.
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Arch King to his clients. Foot-ball and hand-ball do not seem to have been practised; and I do not remember to have No 27.
MILITARY FORK. (Iron; one-third actual size).

seen any mention of boxing or wrestling;[1] but the former surely was known, for in the 'Death of Cuchullain,' in the

  1. The following extract from a very ancient Gaelic book, "The pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne," shows that wrestling,