The Great O'Neill, a Biography of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616 |
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Page 62
... hope a hopeless hope - and memories of wild forays on hills that would soothe them in their sleep and tor- ment them as their eyes slowly opened to another day . May one be permitted a mild guess that O'Neill , seeing them go ...
... hope a hopeless hope - and memories of wild forays on hills that would soothe them in their sleep and tor- ment them as their eyes slowly opened to another day . May one be permitted a mild guess that O'Neill , seeing them go ...
Page 190
... hope to win useful time ? It was , for the moment , unnecessary , and he cannot have hoped to deflect them indefinitely from directing a new attack against O'Donnell and Maguire . That clash was in- evitable . Or may we believe that ...
... hope to win useful time ? It was , for the moment , unnecessary , and he cannot have hoped to deflect them indefinitely from directing a new attack against O'Donnell and Maguire . That clash was in- evitable . Or may we believe that ...
Page 258
... hope of success , and at once he got into fresh difficulties . Wingfield had no option but to call up regiment five to assist the insubordinate Cosby , and at that all hope of an orderly retreat was lost . Two more barrels of gunpowder ...
... hope of success , and at once he got into fresh difficulties . Wingfield had no option but to call up regiment five to assist the insubordinate Cosby , and at that all hope of an orderly retreat was lost . Two more barrels of gunpowder ...
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1817 LIBRARIES adventure Armagh army attack Bagenal battle became began Bingham Bishop Blackwater bogs brother brought Burghley Burke Carew Catholic century CHIGAN coast colonists Connaught Cork Council Desmond Dowcra Dublin Castle Dundalk Dungannon Earl of Desmond Earl of Tyrone Elizabeth enemy England English Erne Essex fight Fitzmaurice force friends Gaelic Gaelic captains garrison guerillas horse Hugh O'Neill Ireland Irish John Norreys King Kinsale knew land later letter lived London Lord Deputy Lough Lough Foyle MacCarthy Maguire Majesty MICHIGAN miles mind Monaghan Mountjoy Munster never Newry Niall Garv Niall Garv O'Donnell night Norreys North O'Dogherty O'Neill's O'Rourke once Ormond peace Philip poet Queen raid rebel Red Hugh O'Donnell river Scots sent ships Sidney soldiers sons of Sean Spain Spaniards Spanish story thing tion took town traitor Turlough Tyrconnell Tyrone's Ulster whole winter woods