 | Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...they ' did ate the dead carrions, happy where they ' could find them ; yea, and one another soone ' after ; insomuch as the very carcasses they ' spared...shamrocks, ' there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; 1 yet, not able to continue there withal ; that in ' short space, there was none almost left, AND... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water cresses, or shamrocks, to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal, that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Irish matters - 1844 - 98 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a. plot of watercresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, (yet not able to continue there withal) : that in a short space there was almost none left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - Ireland - 1845 - 528 pages
...— they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after,...there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue therewithal, that in a short space there were none almost remaining and... | |
 | Ireland - 1845 - 882 pages
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 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrion, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after,...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space, there was none almost left,... | |
 | Robert King - Ireland - 1846 - 496 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after; insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal: so that in short space there was none almost left, and... | |
 | Adam Blenkinsop, Sir William Henry Gregory - Ireland - 1847 - 282 pages
...Rebellion," Preface. soone after; insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of the graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; yea, not able to continue there withal ; that in shorte space there was none almost left, and a most... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 360 pages
...; when speaking of the distress, to which the Irish were reduced by the wars in Munster, he says, " if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time." View of the State of Ireland, AD 1596, Fol. Dublin, 1633. p. 72. That the Irish used the shamrock for... | |
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