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Home Government for Ireland: Irish Federalism! Its Meaning, Its Objects, and ... - Page 100
by Isaac Butt - 1871 - 116 pages
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Strangers to that Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation ...

Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...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 glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked anatomies...
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Forging in the Smithy: National Identity and Representation in Anglo-Irish ...

International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 264 pages
...passage of A View: ... 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 glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked anatomies...
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A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland

Rebecca Solnit - History - 1997 - 206 pages
...long, yet ere one-year-and-a-half they were brought to so wonderful wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked like...
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The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present

James F. Lydon - History - 1998 - 440 pages
...he told how a year and a half of war had brought the inhabitants 'to such wretchedness, as any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked anatomies...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Irish History and Culture

Sonja Massie - History - 1999 - 296 pages
...Next O'Neill to Cause Trouble Gift of Gab "They were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked anatomies...
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Lives of the Irish Martyrs

David Power Conyngham - Martyrs - 2001 - 267 pages
...have been able to stand long ; yet, in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stoney heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked...
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Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page

George Bornstein - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 206 pages
...to that in the famous description of the Munster famine during the Desmond Rebellion, which begins "Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forward upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, they looked like anatomies of death,...
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Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789

Merry E. Wiesner - History - 2006 - 522 pages
...stand long, yet before 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 wood and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they...
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The Butcher Boy

Colin MacCabe - History - 2007 - 104 pages
...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 glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked like...
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume 15

Mormons - 1904 - 746 pages
...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 glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them; they looked like...
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