 | Michael Monahan - Authors, Irish - 1914 - 294 pages
...plunder of a people given over to the Furies of that cruel age: "For, notwithstanding that Munster was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, yet after one year and one half, they were brought to such wretchedness that any stony heart would... | |
 | Éamon De Valera - Draft - 1918 - 60 pages
...and child, horse, beast, and whatsoever we could find." The author of the " Faerie Queen " wrote : " Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corne and cattel, yet, ere one years and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as that any... | |
 | Éamon De Valera - Ireland - 1920 - 148 pages
...strove to establish English rule is described by Edmund Spencer, the author of the "Faerie Queen": "Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corne and cattel, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as thet any... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Ireland - 1921 - 762 pages
...his "View of the State of Ireland" thus graphically pictures a little of what Elizabeth accomplished: "Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corne and cattel, yet, ere one yeare and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as that any... | |
 | Francis Hackett - Ireland - 1922 - 428 pages
...who agreed in this bloody policy, we have that famous passage on the scene he himself beheld: Munster "was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought L they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness... | |
 | Constantia Maxwell - Ireland - 1923 - 408 pages
...the existence of crops in various parts of the country. Spenser says that Munster, before the wars, " was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle," and that the people themselves were "great ploughers and small spenders of corn."8 Fynes Moryson, that... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 pages
...Present State of Ireland. This is how he describes the condition of Munster after "the late wars": "Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and...corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness,... | |
 | Eleanor Hull - Ireland - 1926 - 652 pages
...summer." Starvation quickly finished the work that the sword began, and "notwithstanding that Munster was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1074 pages
...unconcealed admiration the success with which that policy had been pursued ' in these late wars of Munster.' For, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...thought they should have been able to stand long, vet ere one year and one half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...prefixed a short time of his continuance? full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would 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... | |
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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... 
