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A. M. Sullivan ancient arms Arranmore babe Banba bard bardic battle Behold Blahma's bless'd blood breast brow Catald ceas'd cloud Crom crown Dagda dark death Downpatrick Druid E'en earth Eire's eyes fair faith fall fam'd fame Fardora's fate feast fiend fire Fohla foreign Gadelas Gael Gaulish glory God's gods greenwood heights grief guardian hand harp hath heart heaven hills Hist holy honour hope hosts Inisfail Ireland Irish Brigades island Isle judgment kings land light lov'd Mananan Milesian moon mother mourn nations ne'er neath night o'er O'Neill Ogham Owen Roe O'Neill pass'd peace Peter Carew plains Queen Eire race rais'd regiments reign sacred Saint George saints Sarsfield Saxon Scythian seat shore sire slain sleep soul Spain spake spirit stars strife sword tears thee thine Thou throne thy sons Tribemonster turn'd Twas victory voice waves wisdom Yellow Ford
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Page 140 - Munster ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle that you would have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 140 - ... 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 140 - The end will, I assure me, be very short and much sooner than can be in so great a trouble as it seemeth hoped for, although there should none of them fall by the sword, nor be slain by the soldier, 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.
Page 144 - European nations, travelling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and to communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which I have been long acquainted ; as we see them in the most authentic records of antiquity discharging, with the highest reputation and applause, the function of doctor in France, Germany, and Italy, both during this and the following century.
Page 141 - Alva's bloody sword never touched the young, defenceless, or those whose sex even dogs can recognize and respect. " Sir Peter Carew has been seen murdering women and children, and babies that had scarcely left the breast...
Page 97 - O'Nial was surprised with an arrest, together with his brother and wife, by the earl's order ." His friends were put to the sword before his face ; nor were the women and children spared : he was himself, with his brother and wife, sent to Dublin, where they were cut in quarters.
Page 141 - The English nation was shuddering over the atrocities of the Duke of Alva. The children in the nurseries -were being inflamed to patriotic rage and madness by tales of Spanish tyranny. Yet Alva's bloody sword never touched the young, the defenceless, or those whose sex even dogs can recognise and respect.
Page 54 - Eosnaree, there stands a tumulus, said to be the greatest in Europe. It covers acres of ground, being of proportionate height. The earth is confined by a compact stone wall about twelve feet high. The central chamber, made of huge irregular pebbles, is about twenty feet from ground to roof, communicating with the outer air by a flagged passage. Immense pebbles, drawn from the County of Antrim, stand around it, each of which, even to move at all, would require the labour of many men, assisted with...
Page 47 - O'Donnell never saw Ireland more; for news arrived in Spain, a few months after, that Dun-bui castle, the last stronghold in Munster that held out for King Philip, was taken; and Bearehaven, the last harbour in the south that was open to his ships, effectually guarded by the English; and the Spanish preparations were countermanded; and...
Page 144 - ... in France, Germany, and Italy, both during this and the following century. But that these Hibernians were the first teachers of the scholastic theology in Europe, and so early as the eighth century illustrated the doctrines of religion by the principles of philosophy) I learned but lately...