A Concise History of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to 1837M.H. Gill & Son, 1903 - 312 páginas |
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afterwards ancient Anglo-Irish Annals appointed lord archbishop Armagh army attacked battle became bishop Book Book of Armagh Brehon law Brian brother brought called Cashel castle Catholics century CHAPTER Christianity church command Connaught Cork coyne and livery Danes defeated Dermot Derry Desmond died Donall Dublin duke Dungannon earl of Desmond earl of Kildare earl of Tyrone England English parliament Eremon fighting Fitzgerald force fought garrison Geraldines Grattan Henry Hugh invasion Irish chiefs Irish language Irish parliament Irishmen John Kilkenny killed king of Ireland king of Leinster Laeghaire land Leinster Limerick lord deputy lord justice lord lieutenant marched Meath monastery Munster Murkertagh native O'Brien O'Conor O'Donnell O'Neill Ogham old Irish Ormond party passed Patrick plundered prince prisoner Protestant province rebellion rebels reign religion sent side siege soldiers soon succeeded Tara tenants Thomond tion Tirconnell took town Ulster United Irishmen Waterford Wexford whole William
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Página 147 - ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time...
Página 65 - Brodir had been a Christian man and a mass-deacon by consecration, but he had thrown off his faith, and become God's dastard, and now worshipped heathen fiends, and he was of all men most skilled in sorcery. He had that coat of mail on which no steel would bite. He was both tall and strong, and had such long locks that he tucked them under his belt. His hair was black.
Página 179 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Página 250 - It was in the debates on this question that Hussey Burgh made his reputation as an orator. In one of them he used a sentence that has become famous. Someone had remarked that Ireland was at peace : — " Talk not to me of peace," said he : " Ireland is not at peace ; it is smothered war. England has sown her laws as dragons' teeth: they have sprung up as armed men...
Página 147 - The war had made Munster a desert. In the words of the Four Masters : — " The lowing of a cow or the voice of a ploughman could scarcely be heard from Dunqueen in the west of Kerry to Cashel.
Página 20 - It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers, the musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout the difficult modulations on their various instruments, the harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal an equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords sounded together fourths or fifths.
Página 178 - Carew himself], as well to debarre those straglers from releefe as to prevent all means of succours to Osulevan if hee should returne with new forces, caused all the county of Kerry and Desmond, Beare, Bantry, and Carbery to be left absolutely wasted, constraying all the Inhabitants thereof to withdraw their Catfle into the East and Northern parts of the County of Corke.
Página 191 - The first intelligence of these transactions was received at Athens with consternation. Measures were taken to put the city in a state of defence, as if an invasion were threatened. Philip sent a calm letter of remonstrance, which allayed the fears of the people, but did not abate their anger and ill humor.
Página 54 - Scots willingly received them all, and took care to supply them with food, as also to furnish them with books to read, and their teaching, gratis.
Página 54 - This pestilence did no less harm in the island of Ireland. Many of the nobility, and of the lower ranks of the English nation...