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... Soldier with attendant and horseboy , 48 Dun - Aengus , title page . Cromlech on Moytirra , 51 52 Supposed Dedannan ... Soldiers , . • 99 Ancient Irish Chariots , 34 Clonmacnoise in 1825 , • 102 Group on Book - cover of Bone , Plan of ...
... Soldier with attendant and horseboy , 48 Dun - Aengus , title page . Cromlech on Moytirra , 51 52 Supposed Dedannan ... Soldiers , . • 99 Ancient Irish Chariots , 34 Clonmacnoise in 1825 , • 102 Group on Book - cover of Bone , Plan of ...
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... soldiers and pea- sants , by Durer ( A.D. 1521 ) , Sculpture on Window , Signature of Gerald 9th Earl of Kildare , · · • 1600 , 278 Ornament from Book of Kells ,. 279 Settlers ' Houses , Ulster ( 1622 ) , 282 Charlemont Fort , • • 289 ...
... soldiers and pea- sants , by Durer ( A.D. 1521 ) , Sculpture on Window , Signature of Gerald 9th Earl of Kildare , · · • 1600 , 278 Ornament from Book of Kells ,. 279 Settlers ' Houses , Ulster ( 1622 ) , 282 Charlemont Fort , • • 289 ...
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... Soldiers commonly marched to battle inspirited by the martial strains of one or more pipers march- ing at their head , a custom retained to this day , especially among the Scotch . Irish Piper playing at the head of a band marching to ...
... Soldiers commonly marched to battle inspirited by the martial strains of one or more pipers march- ing at their head , a custom retained to this day , especially among the Scotch . Irish Piper playing at the head of a band marching to ...
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... soldiers , turned them out with arms in their hands among the English colonists ( seldom among the old Irish ) to pay themselves in money and food . This was Coyne and Livery . There were here no rules laid down , as there were for ...
... soldiers , turned them out with arms in their hands among the English colonists ( seldom among the old Irish ) to pay themselves in money and food . This was Coyne and Livery . There were here no rules laid down , as there were for ...
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... soldiers for special services , each of whom had two attendants : —a man to look after his arms and accoutrements , and a boy to attend to the horse ; as shown at the end of this chapter . Two kinds of foot - soldiers were employed ...
... soldiers for special services , each of whom had two attendants : —a man to look after his arms and accoutrements , and a boy to attend to the horse ; as shown at the end of this chapter . Two kinds of foot - soldiers were employed ...
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afterwards ancient Irish Anglo-Irish Anglo-Norman Armagh army attacked battle battle of Clontarf became Book Book of Kells Boyne Brehon Law Brian Brian Boru brought caher called Cashel castle Catholics century CHAPTER Christian church Clontarf command Connaught Coyne and Livery Crom Cruach Danes Danish death Dedannans defeated Dermot Derry died Donall druids Dublin earl England English fight force fought Galloglasses garrison Henry hill horse Hy Neill Irish army Irish language island Kells Kildare king of Ireland king of Leinster kings and chiefs kings of Munster land Limerick lord Mac Murrogh Mailmora Malachi marched Meath miles monasteries mound National Museum native O'Conor O'Donnell O'Neill old Irish ollave ornamented pagan palace party Patrick Petrie's Round Towers prince Protestant rebellion reign remained river Scotland sent side siege soldiers stone Strongbow Tara tion Tirconnell took town Tyrone Ulster Waterford whole Wicklow Wilde's Catalogue
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Page 349 - Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II.; and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 216 - ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time...
Page 397 - Resolved, therefore, that, as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as Protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 366 - Aldborough complaining of the injury done to the fishermen of these towns * by the Irish catching herrings at Waterford and Wexford and sending them to the Straits, and thereby forestalling and ruining petitioners...
Page 254 - 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 366 - ... by the cheapness of all sorts of necessaries of life and goodness of materials for making all manner of cloth, doth invite your subjects of England, with their families and servants, to leave their habitations to settle there, to the increase of the woollen manufacture in Ireland, which makes your loyal subjects in this kingdom very apprehensive that the further growth of it may greatly prejudice the said manufacture here...
Page 6 - ART. 67. Penwork. In Ireland art was practised in four different branches : — Ornamentation and illumination of manuscript books ; metal work ; sculpture ; and building. Art of every kind reached its highest perfection in the period between the end of the ninth and the beginning of the twelfth century.
Page 109 - Forget not our wounded companions, who stood In the day of distress by our side; While the moss of the valley grew red with their blood, They stirred not, but conquered and died!
Page 81 - This pestilence did no less harm in the island of Ireland. Many of the nobility, and of the lower ranks of the English nation...
Page 210 - Besides this, such horrible and lamentable spectacles there are to behold, as the burning of villages, the ruin of churches, the wasting of such as have been good towns and castles : yea, the view of the bones and skulls of the dead subjects, who, partly by murder, partly by famine, have died in the fields, as, in truth, hardly any Christian with dry eyes could behold.