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... century . See Tribes and Customs of Hy - Many , p . 125 . In 1245 , died Carroll [ Buidhe , Yellow ] Boy , son of Teige , son of Aenghus Fionnabhrach O'Daly . ( Four Masters ) . A.D. 1268 , died Aenghus O'Daly , a man eminent for poetry ...
... century . See Tribes and Customs of Hy - Many , p . 125 . In 1245 , died Carroll [ Buidhe , Yellow ] Boy , son of Teige , son of Aenghus Fionnabhrach O'Daly . ( Four Masters ) . A.D. 1268 , died Aenghus O'Daly , a man eminent for poetry ...
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... century . Before the Revolution the head of this branch , Denis Daly of Car- rownekelly , in the County of Galway , Esq . , was second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , and a Privy Councillor in the reign of King James II . " He ...
... century . Before the Revolution the head of this branch , Denis Daly of Car- rownekelly , in the County of Galway , Esq . , was second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , and a Privy Councillor in the reign of King James II . " He ...
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... centuries afterwards , the bards were exceedingly insolent , but they were reformed by the laws passed at the synod of Drom - Ceat , where St. Columb- kille attended , in the reign of Aedh Mac Ainmirech.2 In 1414 , as we are informed by ...
... centuries afterwards , the bards were exceedingly insolent , but they were reformed by the laws passed at the synod of Drom - Ceat , where St. Columb- kille attended , in the reign of Aedh Mac Ainmirech.2 In 1414 , as we are informed by ...
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... a learned physician who lived at Bally- ragget , in the County of Kilkenny , early in the seventeenth century . He was author of a work entitled " Hybernie Pathologia Hæreditaria Do rug sê bárr ós Na céadrajb , A d 28.
... a learned physician who lived at Bally- ragget , in the County of Kilkenny , early in the seventeenth century . He was author of a work entitled " Hybernie Pathologia Hæreditaria Do rug sê bárr ós Na céadrajb , A d 28.
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... century . After the establishment of surnames , the chief family of this sept took the surname of O'Ceal- laigh ( O'Kelly ) , from Ceallach , the fourteenth in descent from Maine Mor . See Tribes and Customs of Hy - Many , p . 97. Denis ...
... century . After the establishment of surnames , the chief family of this sept took the surname of O'Ceal- laigh ( O'Kelly ) , from Ceallach , the fourteenth in descent from Maine Mor . See Tribes and Customs of Hy - Many , p . 97. Denis ...
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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 ancestor Angus O'Daly Annals appears Bard barony Book Born branch bread butter called Castle cause century chief CHIG Church Clann composed Connacht copy County of Clare County of Cork County of Galway daughter death descended died Donnell Donough Dublin Earl English famine fear Four Masters gaċ Galway gentlemen give given hand head History Hugh Ireland Irish James John Kerry Kilkenny king Knight land late living Lord Mahon Mangan means MICHI milk Munster never O'Daly O'Donnell O'Reilly parish Patrick period poem poet poor portion present quatrain race referred reign relating remained remark respectable river RSITY satire says seat sept side SITY sons territory Thomas Thomond town tribe UNIV Writers written
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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.