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ANCIENT WEAPONS USED IN IRELAND.
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(about the year 820), when the first notice is made of the use of battle-axes and bows and arrows in Ireland.
Chaucer bears witness that the Irish
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allies of Bruce, on the field of Bannockburn (A. D. 1314), knew the use of bow and arrow, for, in apology for the English defeat, he writes:
"To the Scots we would not yield,
But Irish bowmen swept the field"
