An Illustrated History of Ireland: From the Earliest PeriodLongmans, Green, and Company, 1868 - 581 страница |
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ancient Anglo-Norman Annals appear Archbishop Armagh army battle Bishop Brehon law Brian Cashel Castle Catholic Celt century Christian Church clergy command commenced Connaught Cormac crannoge cruelty Danes death Dermod Desmond died Drogheda Dublin Dublin Castle Earl Earl of Desmond ecclesiastical enemy England English erected Erinn faith father favour Four Masters Gaedhil give Henry holy honour Hugh Hugh de Lacy Ireland John Kildare Kilkenny King King of Leinster King's land Leinster Limerick Lord Deputy Malachy massacre Meath mention monarch Monastery Munster nation native noble O'Connor O'Donnell O'Neill obliged obtained officers Ogham Ormonde pagan Parliament Patrick period persons plundered possession priests prince probably Protestant received reign religion religious royal saint Saltair says sent slain soldiers soon Strongbow suffered supposed Tara tion took Tuatha Dé Dananns Turlough Ulster United Irishmen Viceroy Waterford Wexford writing
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Страница 554 - The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tends to encourage this system of blood ; and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &C., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.
Страница 496 - The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins: that, that should have made Your bellows go at the forge, as his at the furnace.
Страница xxi - A dense population in extreme distress inhabit an island where there is an established church which is not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an alien church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. Well, what then would honourable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position? They would say at once, 'The remedy is revolution.
Страница 538 - ... freedom, am I to hear of faction. I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory.
Страница 453 - As' for that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience. But if by liberty of conscience, you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to use plain dealing, and to let you know, Where the Parliament of England have power, that will not be allowed of.
Страница 421 - 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.
Страница 44 - No reptiles are found there and no snake can live there; for though often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.
Страница 546 - A lawless banditti have constituted themselves judges of this species of delinquency, and the sentence they pronounce is equally concise and terrible ; it is nothing less than a confiscation of all property, and immediate banishment.
Страница 216 - Henry, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Earl of Anjou, to all his liegemen, English, Norman, Welsh, and Scotch, and to all the nations under his dominions, sends greeting.
Страница 386 - Ah, how I fear lest it be objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions ! You it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves.