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A Short History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1608 Patrick Weston Joyce No preview available - 2019 |
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ancient Irish Anglo-Irish Annals archbishop Armagh army battle became bishop Book Book of Armagh Book of Leinster Brehon Laws Brian Brian Boru Burgo called Cashel castle Celtic century CHAPTER Christian church Clonmacnoise Columkille Connaught copy Cork coyne and livery custom daer Danes Danish death defeated deputy Dermot died Donall Dublin earl of Desmond early ecclesiastical England English flaith fosterage Four Masters fudirs Geraldines Giraldus Giraldus Cambrensis held Henry Hugh Hy Neill Ibid Introd invasion Irish chiefs Irish language island Kildare killed king of Ireland king of Leinster king's land Leinster Limerick lived lord Mac Murrogh Malachi manuscript marched Meath monastery Munster Murkertagh native O'Brien O'Conor O'Donnell O'Neill Ogham pagan Patrick person plundered prince province reign round saer saints Scotland Scots sent stone Tara tenants territory Thomond tion Tirconnell took translated tribe Turlogh Ulster Waterford Wexford whole
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Page 299 - ... there is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish ; or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof although it be against themselves; so as they may have the protection and benefit of the law, when upon just cause they do desire it.
Page 459 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 64 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose...
Page 132 - In process of time, Britain, besides the Britons and the Picts, received a third nation, the Scots, who, migrating from Ireland under their leader Reuda, either by fair means or by force of arms secured to themselves those settlements among the Picts which they still possess. From the name of their commander, they are to this day called Dalreudins ; for in their language Dal signifies a part.
Page 459 - ... they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 165 - Caiman forsaking their native island retired thither, either for the sake of divine studies, or of a more continent life ; and some of them presently devoted themselves...
Page 165 - 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.
Page 539 - Now because I have often made mention formerly of our destroying the rebels' corn, and using all means to famish them, let me by two or three examples shew the miserable estate to which the rebels were thereby brought. Sir Arthur Chichester, Sir Richard Moryson...
Page 417 - My ancestors were kings of Ulster ; and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine.
Page 421 - Christendom ; and there heard I such lamentable cries and doleful complaints made by that small remain of poor people which yet are left, who (hardly escaping the fury of the sword and fire of their outrageous neighbours, or the famine...