A Reading Book in Irish History

by P. W. Joyce

[Expert], skilful, ready.

[Accomplished], very skilful.

[Devoted], given up to earnestly, attached.

[Interlaced], woven in and out.

[Magnifying glass], a glass that makes things seen through it seem large.

[Composition], a piece of writing, a book.

[Library], a collection of books.

[Dun], brown.

[St. Kieran], or more properly Ciaran, lived in the sixth century.

[Clonmacnoise on the Shannon], below Athlone, containing the ruins of what was once a great monastery and college, founded by St. Kieran.