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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7145, 17 February 1930, Page 5

Upright burial, for which Clemenccau expressed a desire —a wish that was respected —was the recognised and traditional form of interment favoured by the kings of Ancient Ireland. It was not considered fitting that a monarch should bo prone. Accordingly, the kings were buried erect, clad in their war panoply, and usually with their faces turned toward their enemies. The Ancient Irish believed that so long as their kings remained in this position they exercised an evil influence on their foes. So powerful was the belief in this ability that on one occasion the body of a king was disinterred by those hostile to his clan, and placed in another grave, head downward, in order to break the succession of disasters which dogged them, while ho rested in his grave with his face toward them.