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... born in 1800. II , Maurice , born in 1803. III . Mary , born 1806. IV . James , born in 1808 . V. Bridget , born in 1810 , VI . Ellen , born in 1819 . John married ( 1st ) in 1827 , Ellen Shea of Dungourney , County of Cork , ( who died ...
... born in 1800. II , Maurice , born in 1803. III . Mary , born 1806. IV . James , born in 1808 . V. Bridget , born in 1810 , VI . Ellen , born in 1819 . John married ( 1st ) in 1827 , Ellen Shea of Dungourney , County of Cork , ( who died ...
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... , a member of whom was the celebrated Daniel or Dominick O'Daly , who wrote the History of the Geraldines . He was born in the year 1595 , and died at Lisbon in the year 1662 . breach , who wrote an elegy of forty ranns or 12.
... , a member of whom was the celebrated Daniel or Dominick O'Daly , who wrote the History of the Geraldines . He was born in the year 1595 , and died at Lisbon in the year 1662 . breach , who wrote an elegy of forty ranns or 12.
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... born great , and on a stone , i.e. , rocky district , now Burren , a barony forming the northern portion of the County of Clare , remarkable for its limestone rocks . It formed the southern boundary of Clanrickard , which comprised the ...
... born great , and on a stone , i.e. , rocky district , now Burren , a barony forming the northern portion of the County of Clare , remarkable for its limestone rocks . It formed the southern boundary of Clanrickard , which comprised the ...
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... born a woman as the Bard ever had the honour of raising the teora fearba on her cheek . But in her youth she had embraced a religi . ous life , and became abbess of the nunnery of Killoan , near the town of Clare , in the barony of ...
... born a woman as the Bard ever had the honour of raising the teora fearba on her cheek . But in her youth she had embraced a religi . ous life , and became abbess of the nunnery of Killoan , near the town of Clare , in the barony of ...
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... born to a handsome estate was weigh - master in the market - house at Kenmare in 1840 . 3 Mac Donough . This was the name of one of the powerful chieftains of the Mac Carthy family who was seated at Kanturk , in the barony Duhallow , of ...
... born to a handsome estate was weigh - master in the market - house at Kenmare in 1840 . 3 Mac Donough . This was the name of one of the powerful chieftains of the Mac Carthy family who was seated at Kanturk , in the barony Duhallow , of ...
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The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire James Clarence Mangan,John O'Donovan,Aengus O'Daly No preview available - 2018 |
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Aenghus agus AINA ancestor Angus O'Daly Annals Bantry Bard Ruadh barony beag bread Breifne butter Caier called Carew Castle chief chieftain CHIG Church Clann Connacht County of Clare County of Cork County of Galway County of Limerick d-tiġ descended Desmond died do'n Donnell Donough Dromtarriff Dublin Duhallow Dunmanus Bay Ealla Earl Eirin English Four Masters Fynes Moryson gaċ Galway Herenach Hugh Hy-Many Ireland Irish JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN John Kerry Kilcorban Kilcrohane king king of Connacht King's County lampoon land Lord Lough Mac Carthy Mac Mahon Mangan MIC RSITY MIC UNIV MICHI Muintir 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 sept SITY surname Tadhg Teige territory Thomond tribe tribe-name Ulster UNIV MIC upper Bann William
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Page 80 - Out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 19 - ... seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition; him they set up and glorify in their rithmes, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.
Page 20 - ... under his mantle, but used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives, and did light his candle at the flames of their houses, to lead him in the darkness : that the day was his night, and the night his day, that he loved...
Page 20 - ... with the love of himself and his own lewd deeds. And as for words to set forth such lewdness, it is not hard for them to give a goodly and painted...
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 naturall device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Page 80 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought.
Page 45 - ... that now he is become a dangerous enemy to deale withall. Eudox. Surely I can commend him, that being of himselfe of so meane condition, hath through his owne hardinesse lifted himselfe up to the height, that he ' 0 Brin,] Or 0-Birne. SIR JAMES WARE. dare now front princes, and make tearmes with great potentates...
Page 75 - ... pallor in ore sedet, macies in corpore toto, nusquam recta acies, livent rubigine dentes, pectora felle virent, lingua est suffusa veneno.
Page 80 - ... yet thus being kept from manurance and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves, and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster...
Page 104 - It seemed incredible that by so barbarous inhabitants the ground should be so manured, the fields so orderly fenced, the towns so frequently inhabited, and the highways and paths so well beaten, as the Lord Deputy here found them.