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... carried into captivity by one of those Irish expeditionary forces which , at the time , swept the coasts of Britain and Gaul , spreading terror and devastation around . In Ireland he became the slave of a chief named Milchu , and spent ...
... carried into captivity by one of those Irish expeditionary forces which , at the time , swept the coasts of Britain and Gaul , spreading terror and devastation around . In Ireland he became the slave of a chief named Milchu , and spent ...
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... carrying off Dervorgilla , the wife of Ternan O'Ruarc , Prince of Brefney . For this offence he was finally de- throned by the Ard - ri , Roderick O'Conor , and driven into exile . Banished from Ireland , Mac- Morrough sought the help ...
... carrying off Dervorgilla , the wife of Ternan O'Ruarc , Prince of Brefney . For this offence he was finally de- throned by the Ard - ri , Roderick O'Conor , and driven into exile . Banished from Ireland , Mac- Morrough sought the help ...
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... carried on with spirit and valour on both sides . De Lacy , who was the first governor of Ireland , was succeeded in 1173 by Strong- bow , the strongest and most capable of the Normans.1 Henry , jealous of his power , made a treaty 1 A ...
... carried on with spirit and valour on both sides . De Lacy , who was the first governor of Ireland , was succeeded in 1173 by Strong- bow , the strongest and most capable of the Normans.1 Henry , jealous of his power , made a treaty 1 A ...
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... carried Richard and his army across St George's Channel . Dis- embarking at Waterford , he advanced to Kilkenny , where he waited a fortnight for reinforcements under the Duke of Albemarle . With his whole force , he then marched ...
... carried Richard and his army across St George's Channel . Dis- embarking at Waterford , he advanced to Kilkenny , where he waited a fortnight for reinforcements under the Duke of Albemarle . With his whole force , he then marched ...
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... carry on the war , and do the king all the injury in his power . There was no help for Richard but to break up his camp and march immediately for Dublin . Even this movement was not accomplished without molesta- tion , for MacMurrough ...
... carry on the war , and do the king all the injury in his power . There was no help for Richard but to break up his camp and march immediately for Dublin . Even this movement was not accomplished without molesta- tion , for MacMurrough ...
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Page 256 - Though in her tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still there is on her lips a spirit of life, and on her cheek a glow of beauty : Thou art not conquered : beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 220 - I am now to address a free people ! Ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Page 256 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 88 - My ancestors were kings of Ulster ; and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine. O'Donnell shall never come into his country, nor Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum or Lecale. They are now mine. With this sword I won them — with this sword I will keep them.
Page 200 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 201 - It is true, indeed, that within the memory of man, the Parliaments of England have sometimes assumed the power of binding this kingdom by laws enacted there...
Page 241 - Mr. Sheriff, take the body of Tone into custody; take the provost-marshal and Major Sandys into custody, and show the order of the court to General Craig.
Page 161 - Even after the barricade had been passed, there was a terrible half-hour of suspense. It was ten o'clock before the ships arrived at the quay. The whole population was there to welcome them. A screen made of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of unloading began. First were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal. Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon,...
Page 3 - Victorious, bearing innumerable epistles. And he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of it which contained the words,
Page 138 - Being thus entered, we refused them quarter ; having, the day before, summoned the town. I believe we put to the sword the whole number of the defendants. I do not think thirty of the whole number escaped with their lives.