The Life and Times of Aodh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster: Called by the English, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, with Some Account of His Predecessors, Con, Shane, and Tirlough |
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... O'Neill's wars : but he , though a contempor- ary writer , residing in Ireland , and witness of many of the transactions he undertakes to nar- rate , is extremely untrustworthy , and needs cor- roboration often , oftener contradiction ...
... O'Neill's wars : but he , though a contempor- ary writer , residing in Ireland , and witness of many of the transactions he undertakes to nar- rate , is extremely untrustworthy , and needs cor- roboration often , oftener contradiction ...
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... O'Neill's slippery lieutenant in Munster . This is an octavo volume of over 500 pages ; written of course by one of the Clan - Caura , and certainly giving all the details concerning that able but treacherous chief , which the world ...
... O'Neill's slippery lieutenant in Munster . This is an octavo volume of over 500 pages ; written of course by one of the Clan - Caura , and certainly giving all the details concerning that able but treacherous chief , which the world ...
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... the Catholic religion in Ireland , the ecclesiastical affairs of the period are altogether relevant , and needful for a due un- derstanding of O'Neill's true cause and position . With the same view the works of Dr. Moran of XX PREFACE .
... the Catholic religion in Ireland , the ecclesiastical affairs of the period are altogether relevant , and needful for a due un- derstanding of O'Neill's true cause and position . With the same view the works of Dr. Moran of XX PREFACE .
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... O'Neill's wars , and this has no pretension to be a general bibliography of Irish History , but only a sketch of the field to be investigated by any one who shall hereafter aspire to write a Life of O'Neill which may be worthy of the ...
... O'Neill's wars , and this has no pretension to be a general bibliography of Irish History , but only a sketch of the field to be investigated by any one who shall hereafter aspire to write a Life of O'Neill which may be worthy of the ...
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... O'Neill's camp fell to the vic- torious O'Donnells : and the scene upon that bat- tle - field might remind us of Chlodowig and his Franks , dividing their spoil upon the plains of Soissons . " A vast plenty of arms , clothing , and ...
... O'Neill's camp fell to the vic- torious O'Donnells : and the scene upon that bat- tle - field might remind us of Chlodowig and his Franks , dividing their spoil upon the plains of Soissons . " A vast plenty of arms , clothing , and ...
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Page 65 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 239 - Woe to the heart that meditated, woe to the mind that conceived, woe to the council that recommended the project of this expedition, without knowing whether they should, to the end of their lives, be able to return to their native principalities or patrimonies.
Page 224 - 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.
Page 182 - ... to the destruction of Jerusalem, and that nation, for their idolatry: and then making direct application to his own country, in relation to its connivance at Popery, in these impressive words* " From this year will I reckon the sin of Ireland, that those, whom you now embrace, shall be your ruin, and you shall bear their iniquity.
Page 239 - O'Donnell, and many others of his intimate friends. They embarked on the Festival of the Holy Cross, in autumn. This was a distinguished company ; and it is certain that the sea has not borne and the wind has not wafted in modern times a number of persons in one ship more eminent, illustrious, or noble, in point of genealogy, heroic deeds, valour, feats of arms, and brave achievements, than they. Would that God had but permitted them...
Page 230 - This bred such comfort and security in the hearts of all men as thereupon ensued the calmest and most universal peace that ever was seen in Ireland.
Page 79 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 52 - Realm (as in troth it is), easy it is for your Majesty to conjecture in what case, the rest is, where little or no Reformation, either of Religion or Manners, hath yet been planted and continued among them. Yea ; so profane and heathenish are some parts of this your country become, as it hath been preached publicly before me that the sacrament of Baptism is not used among them, and truly I believe it.
Page xii - When Irishmen consent to let the past become indeed History, not party politics, and begin to learn from it the lessons of mutual respect and tolerance, instead of endless bitterness and enmity ; then, at last, this distracted land shall see the dawn of hope and peace, and begin to renew her youth and rear her head amongst the proudest of the nations.
Page 182 - And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days : I have appointed thee each day for a year.