...Henry to take possession of his new territories. " It was on the evening of the 23d of August, 1172, that the first hostile English footstep pressed the...estuary formed by the conflux of the Suir, the Nore, and the Barrow, at the city of Waterford. Accursed be that day in the memory of all future generations...

...Henry to take possession of his new territories. ' It was on the evening of the 23d of August, 1172, that the first hostile English footstep pressed the...estuary formed by the conflux of the Suir, the Nore, and the Barrow, at the city of Waterford. Accursed be that day in the memory of all future generations...

...vividly described by a distinguished Irish orator : " It was on the evening of the 23rd of August 1172, that the first hostile English footstep pressed the...estuary formed by the conflux of the Suir, the Nore, and the Barrow at the city of Waterford. Accursed be that day in the memory of all future generations of...

...footstep pressed the soil of Ireland. It was said to have been a sweet and a mild evening in autumn, when the invading party entered the noble estuary formed by the conflux of the Suir, the Nore. and the Barrow, at the City of Waterford. Accursed be that day in the memory of all future generations...

...of Henry II. to take possession of his new territories, gives us both a history and a picture :— " It was on the evening of the 23rd of August " (October),...Nore, and Barrow at the city of Waterford. Accursed be lh.1t day in the memory of all future generations of Irishmen when the invaders first touched our shores...