NEW AND POPULAR HISTORY OF IRELAND1851 |
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... Wexford . Thither he was pursued by the king , Roderic O'Connor , whom he evaded by retiring to fastnesses in the woods . At length the monarch listened to a proposal for a treaty , which Dermot made only to gain time . IIe offered to ...
... Wexford . Thither he was pursued by the king , Roderic O'Connor , whom he evaded by retiring to fastnesses in the woods . At length the monarch listened to a proposal for a treaty , which Dermot made only to gain time . IIe offered to ...
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... Wexford with a fury that threw the others into the shade ; so that the events that occurred in that county , fill most of the histories of the Re- bellion of 1798. There is more English blood in Wexford than in any county in Ireland ...
... Wexford with a fury that threw the others into the shade ; so that the events that occurred in that county , fill most of the histories of the Re- bellion of 1798. There is more English blood in Wexford than in any county in Ireland ...
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... Wexford , and thence to Ferns , and on to Enniscorthy , still pursuing the flying loyalists , longing to flesh their pikes once more in heretics . The number of General Murphy's army swelled as he advanced , and at Enniscorthy , he ...
... Wexford , and thence to Ferns , and on to Enniscorthy , still pursuing the flying loyalists , longing to flesh their pikes once more in heretics . The number of General Murphy's army swelled as he advanced , and at Enniscorthy , he ...
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