The Great O'Neill, a Biography of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616 |
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... wars and politics . Only in small countries like Ireland , remote from the creaking , crunching wrestling of the great powers , did the old informative idea persist . In the Confederate wars for Charles , in the Cromwellian massa- cre ...
... wars and politics . Only in small countries like Ireland , remote from the creaking , crunching wrestling of the great powers , did the old informative idea persist . In the Confederate wars for Charles , in the Cromwellian massa- cre ...
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Seán O'Faoláin. PART FOUR WAR : 1595-1601 HE IRISH WARS WERE WARS of the frontier and the forest . The frontier was wherever a fort or a castle stood as a spearhead into the wilderness . Everywhere else was the forest . The English ...
Seán O'Faoláin. PART FOUR WAR : 1595-1601 HE IRISH WARS WERE WARS of the frontier and the forest . The frontier was wherever a fort or a castle stood as a spearhead into the wilderness . Everywhere else was the forest . The English ...
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... wars . Perhaps it is most apt to call them the sixteenth - century forerunners of " the loosèd khaki cut throats ... war last so they may make their profit , " as well as the self - seeking of men in even the highest offices who kept a ...
... wars . Perhaps it is most apt to call them the sixteenth - century forerunners of " the loosèd khaki cut throats ... war last so they may make their profit , " as well as the self - seeking of men in even the highest offices who kept a ...
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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