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... hand to hand until he arrived in Dublin . " O'Donnell then returned home , having first traversed and completed the visitation of all Connacht . He mustered his forces again without much delay in the same year , and marching to Dublin ...
... hand to hand until he arrived in Dublin . " O'Donnell then returned home , having first traversed and completed the visitation of all Connacht . He mustered his forces again without much delay in the same year , and marching to Dublin ...
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... hands of kings and knights , of bishops and abbots ; that , not wishing to remain to be trampled under the feet of the Race of Conn , he fled to one , who , with his mail - clad warriors , was able to protect him against the fury of the ...
... hands of kings and knights , of bishops and abbots ; that , not wishing to remain to be trampled under the feet of the Race of Conn , he fled to one , who , with his mail - clad warriors , was able to protect him against the fury of the ...
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... hand across his check , and felt the three boils on his face , which had been caused by the aeir , and saw ( in the foun- tain ) that one was green , the other red , and the third white . Caier immediately fled that none might see his ...
... hand across his check , and felt the three boils on his face , which had been caused by the aeir , and saw ( in the foun- tain ) that one was green , the other red , and the third white . Caier immediately fled that none might see his ...
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... hands on any of the venerable order of the Bards ; tells him that he ( Mac Daire ) has a deadly weapon- -a venemous satire - to cast , which would cause short- ness of life , and against which neither the solitudes of valleys , the ...
... hands on any of the venerable order of the Bards ; tells him that he ( Mac Daire ) has a deadly weapon- -a venemous satire - to cast , which would cause short- ness of life , and against which neither the solitudes of valleys , the ...
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... - nal documents in the hands of a gentleman in town , relative to his father's arrival in Ireland ; and that many of his progeny are still living in Dublin . Astrologer Doctor Whaley , who lived in Stephen's Green , 27.
... - nal documents in the hands of a gentleman in town , relative to his father's arrival in Ireland ; and that many of his progeny are still living in Dublin . Astrologer Doctor Whaley , who lived in Stephen's Green , 27.
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The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire James Clarence Mangan,John O'Donovan,Aengus O'Daly No preview available - 2018 |
The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire Aenghus O'Daly,James Clarence Mangan,John O'Donovan No preview available - 2014 |
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aċt Aenghus agus ancestor Angus O'Daly Annals Arán Bantry Bard Bard Ruadh barony beag bread Breifne butter Caier called Carew Castle chief chieftain Church Clann Clanrickard Connacht County of Clare County of Cork County of Galway County of Limerick Cuchonnacht d-tiġ Dermot descended Desmond died do'n Donnell Donough Dromtarriff Dublin Duhallow Dunmanus Bay Ealla Earl Eirin English Four Masters Fynes Moryson gaċ Galway Geoffrey O'Donoghue head Herenach Hugh Hy-Many Ireland Irish John Kerry Kilcorban Kilcrohane king king of Connacht King's County lampoon land Limerick Lord Lough Mac Carthy Mac Mahon Mac Namara Mangan Muireadhach Munster naċ Neidhe Njor O'Brien O'Byrne O'Conor O'Daly's O'Dogherty O'Donnell O'Donoghue O'Donovan O'Hanlon O'Keeffe O'Reilly parish Patrick poem poet quatrain race Red Hugh O'Donnell rjaṁ satire satirist seat sept surname Tadhg Teige territory Thomond tribe tribe-name Ulster upper Bann William
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Page 21 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Page 73 - ... sanguinis ; whereas rebels and malefactors which are tied to their leaders by no band, either of duty or blood, do more easily break and fall off one from another; and, besides, their cohabitation in one country or territory gave them opportunity suddenly to assemble and conspire and rise in multitudes against the Crown. And even now, in the time of peace, we find this inconvenience, that there can hardly be an indifferent trial had between the King and the subject, or between party and party,...
Page 28 - He then begins to wither this Antichrist of Ireland with imprecations, awful in the highest degree ; implores that the various diseases which waste the world may attack him, and calls down upon his guilty head the curses of God, the angels, the saints, and of all good men.
Page 20 - That he was none of the idle milkc sops that was brought up by the fire side, but that most of his dayes he spent in armes and valiant enterprises, that he did never eat his meat, before he had...
Page 86 - Counties about it, by meanes of whose priviledges none will follow their stealthes, so as it being situate in the very lap of all the land, is made now a border, which how inconvenient it is, let every man judge.
Page 19 - Bardes, which are to them insteed of Poets, whose profession is to set foorth the praises or dispraises of men in their poems or rymes, the which are had in so high regard and estimation amongst them, that none dare displease them for feare to runne into reproach thorough their offence, and to be made infamous in the mouthes of all men. For their verses...
Page 20 - Iren. There is none so bad, Eudoxus, but shall finde some to favour his doings; but such licentious partes as these, tending for the most part to the hurt of the English, or maintenance of their owne lewde libertie, they themselves being most desirous therof, doe most allow.
Page 20 - ... eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night, slugging in...
Page 70 - 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.