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" ... and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left... "
The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain - Page 456
by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 1

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and,...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland: From the ...

John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after • insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and,...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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An historical and critical review of the civil wars in Ireland, from the ...

John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses thev spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Lawless - Ireland - 1815 - 558 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves -T and If they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocs, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most populous aiul...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 30

England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...looked like anatomies of death, — they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did rate the dead carrions, happy where they could find them,...shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors of war were also greatly aggravated by those of...
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annals of ireland

the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they'found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast, for a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh: For a Period of 1373 Years ...

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...happy where they could find them ; yea, and one another .soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and...flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...spared not lo scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrock'!, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous...
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Considerations on the Present State of Ireland: And on the Best Means of ...

Irishman - Ireland - 1822 - 48 pages
...insomuch as the carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves, and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue there withalf." Such is the description of an eye-witness, and of one whose...
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The Inquirer, Volume 1

1822 - 764 pages
...carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves, and if they found a plot of cresses- or ghamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue there withal f." Such is the description of an eye-witness, and of one...
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