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The Message of the Masters: A Legend of Aileach (Classic Reprint) Frank Hugh O'Donnell No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 57 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 66 - Not finding,' wrote Loftus to him, ' that easy method of examination to do any good, we made commission to Mr Waterhouse and Mr Secretary Fenton, to put him to the torture, such as your Honour advised us, which was to toast his feet against the fire with hot boots.
Page 58 - The classic tradition, to all appearances dead in Europe, burst out into full flower in the Isle of Saints, and the Renaissance began in Ireland 700 years before it was known in Italy. During three centuries Ireland was the asylum of the higher learning which took sanctuary there from the uncultured states of Europe. At one time Armagh, the religious capital of Christian Ireland, was the metropolis of civilization.
Page 78 - From Scotland came many, and from England not a few, yet all of them generally the scum of both nations, who from debt, or breaking or fleeing from justice, or seeking shelter, came hither, hoping to be without fear of man's justice, in a land where there was nothing, or but little as yet, of the fear of God.
Page 52 - O'Donnell is dead and I do think that it will fall out that he has been poisoned by James Blake, of whom your lordship has been formerly acquainted.
Page 62 - Lecky tells us that the suppression of the native race " was carried on with a ferocity that surpassed that of Alva in the Netherlands, and was hardly exceeded by any page in the bloodstained annals of the Turks.
Page 62 - English ascendency brought with it two new and lasting consequences, the proscription of the Irish religion and the confiscation of the Irish soil. It was a very unfortunate circumstance that the period when the English nation definitively adopted the principles of the Reformation should have nearly coincided with the events I have related ; but at the same time religious zeal did not at first contribute at all essentially to the struggle. The Irish chiefs repeatedly showed great indifference to...
Page 58 - ... both among the learned and among the people. The classic languages — not only Latin, but Greek — were cultivated, spoken, and written with a sort of passionate pedantry, which shows at least how powerful was the sway of intellectual influences over these ardent souls. Their mania for Greek was even carried so far that they wrote the Latin of the church books in Hellenic...
Page 78 - tis she that still could strike the deadly blow ! The Master's bawn, the Master's seat, a surly bodagh^ fills ; The Master's son, an outlawed man, is riding on the hills. But, God be praised, that round him throng, as thick as summer bees, The swords that guarded Limerick wall — his loyal Rapparees 1 His lovin' Rapparees ! Who dare say no...
Page 51 - To be made 1-ii ii • ip ii-f 8ure °'aduertise nether what you thmke; tor, take this from me, vpon my lyf, that, whatsoeuer you do to abridge him, which you shall say to be done out of Providence, shall never be imputed to you for a fault, but exceedingly commended by the Queene; for, God doth know it, the Queen hath ben most hardly drawen vnto it that could be, and hath layed it in my dishe a dozen tymes: " Well, I pray God you and Carew be not deceaued.