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... reign of King James II . " He continued to fill this station at the Revolution , " says Lodge , " with such impartiality and integrity ( in those arduous times ) , as added lustre to his judicial character . " The representative of this ...
... reign of King James II . " He continued to fill this station at the Revolution , " says Lodge , " with such impartiality and integrity ( in those arduous times ) , as added lustre to his judicial character . " The representative of this ...
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... reign of Queen Elizabeth , and then only for a very short time . In the reign of Edward III . Thomas de Carew set up a claim , as heir to Fitz - Stephen , to all his ancient estates in Cork ; but by an Inquisition taken at Cork , before ...
... reign of Queen Elizabeth , and then only for a very short time . In the reign of Edward III . Thomas de Carew set up a claim , as heir to Fitz - Stephen , to all his ancient estates in Cork ; but by an Inquisition taken at Cork , before ...
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... reigns of Edward III . or of Elizabeth . The Author of Carbria Notitia , evidently seeing through the fallacy of this statement in the Pacata Hibernia , thus modifies it in his account of the south - west of the County of Cork . " And ...
... reigns of Edward III . or of Elizabeth . The Author of Carbria Notitia , evidently seeing through the fallacy of this statement in the Pacata Hibernia , thus modifies it in his account of the south - west of the County of Cork . " And ...
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... reign of Acdh Mac Ainmirech . In 1414 , as we are informed by the Four Masters , Niall O'Higgin , a famous poet of Westmeath , composed a satire for Sir John Stanley , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , which caused his death ; and it was ...
... reign of Acdh Mac Ainmirech . In 1414 , as we are informed by the Four Masters , Niall O'Higgin , a famous poet of Westmeath , composed a satire for Sir John Stanley , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , which caused his death ; and it was ...
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... reign of Queen Elizabeth , the bards became so obnox- ious to the government by their rhymes to foment rebellion , that severe laws were passed in parliament against them , and those who entertained them . It appears from the Public ...
... reign of Queen Elizabeth , the bards became so obnox- ious to the government by their rhymes to foment rebellion , that severe laws were passed in parliament against them , and those who entertained them . It appears from the Public ...
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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.