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Page vii
... mentioned as having been a good poet , and was Chaplain to a Regi- ment in the Irish Army , was of great ser- vice , by his presence of mind , after the for- tune of the day turned against his coun- trymen , at the battle of Aughrim ...
... mentioned as having been a good poet , and was Chaplain to a Regi- ment in the Irish Army , was of great ser- vice , by his presence of mind , after the for- tune of the day turned against his coun- trymen , at the battle of Aughrim ...
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... mentioned as High Sheriff of the County of Roscommon in 1686 . The Colonel himself appears as one of the twenty - four Burgesses of the reformed or remodelled Corporation of Athlone in November , 1687 , as his brother , John , likewise ...
... mentioned as High Sheriff of the County of Roscommon in 1686 . The Colonel himself appears as one of the twenty - four Burgesses of the reformed or remodelled Corporation of Athlone in November , 1687 , as his brother , John , likewise ...
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... mentioned , it would seem Colonel O'Kelly at first only wrote the Macario Excidium , in order that some account , though it were but an epitome , of the war , on the Jacobite side , might remain from his pen , ere he died ; but that ...
... mentioned , it would seem Colonel O'Kelly at first only wrote the Macario Excidium , in order that some account , though it were but an epitome , of the war , on the Jacobite side , might remain from his pen , ere he died ; but that ...
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... mentioned , as a Captain of Horse in the Irish army , at the battle of Aughrim . Both the father and the son having been in Limerick when the Treaty took place , and the family estate being consequently preserved , the Captain , on his ...
... mentioned , as a Captain of Horse in the Irish army , at the battle of Aughrim . Both the father and the son having been in Limerick when the Treaty took place , and the family estate being consequently preserved , the Captain , on his ...
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... mentioned ; and , through this branch of the name , they have descended , in our time , to Denis Henry Kelly , Esq . , of Castle Kelly® . * The authorities for the above Memoir , besides the leading contemporary publications , or other ...
... mentioned ; and , through this branch of the name , they have descended , in our time , to Denis Henry Kelly , Esq . , of Castle Kelly® . * The authorities for the above Memoir , besides the leading contemporary publications , or other ...
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