Clontarf

What a pair of old buffers we are coming to be, you and I. Nearly fifty years since we were apprentices together on the Clontarf.

Do you remember old Blauklot the carpenter, on that German ship that picked us up when the Clontarf went to the bottom?

Clontarf, who is not quite so sure with the trigger, is to have the post of honor, and guard the staircase with his sabre.

After the battle of Clontarf in 1014 the Irish had a hundred and fifty years of comparative quiet.

There can be no doubt that she and her brother, Maelmordha, were the remote causes of the famous battle of Clontarf.