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... · 258 CHAPTER XXIV THE TITHE WAR , • 271 CHAPTER XXV THE REPEAL MOVEMENT , FAMINE - DEATH OF O'CONNELL , · THOMAS DRUMMOND , CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII 302 • 308 315 CHAPTER I ST PATRICK HE early history of Ireland is viii CONTENTS.
... · 258 CHAPTER XXIV THE TITHE WAR , • 271 CHAPTER XXV THE REPEAL MOVEMENT , FAMINE - DEATH OF O'CONNELL , · THOMAS DRUMMOND , CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII 302 • 308 315 CHAPTER I ST PATRICK HE early history of Ireland is viii CONTENTS.
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... tithes which the Catholic population paid to the Protestant State Church . But the government resolved to uphold the tithe system in defiance of the popular demands . The result was a fierce agitation , which culminated literally in a ...
... tithes which the Catholic population paid to the Protestant State Church . But the government resolved to uphold the tithe system in defiance of the popular demands . The result was a fierce agitation , which culminated literally in a ...
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... the wealthy , the 6,000,000 Catholics to the poorest classes . The latter supported their 1 Abridged from Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland . clergy according to their means , with gener- osity ;. 271 CHAPTER XXIV THE TITHE WAR,
... the wealthy , the 6,000,000 Catholics to the poorest classes . The latter supported their 1 Abridged from Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland . clergy according to their means , with gener- osity ;. 271 CHAPTER XXIV THE TITHE WAR,
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... tithe system . In a memorable sentence , for which he was much censured at the time , Dr Doyle struck the key - note of the new agitation . ' Let your hatred of tithes , ' he said , " be as lasting as your love of justice . ' In October ...
... tithe system . In a memorable sentence , for which he was much censured at the time , Dr Doyle struck the key - note of the new agitation . ' Let your hatred of tithes , ' he said , " be as lasting as your love of justice . ' In October ...
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... tithes . February 1831 , steps were taken to enforce the law . Colonel Sir John Harvey , the resi- dent magistrate of the district , collected a strong force of military and police , and with them seized the vantage points of the parish ...
... tithes . February 1831 , steps were taken to enforce the law . Colonel Sir John Harvey , the resi- dent magistrate of the district , collected a strong force of military and police , and with them seized the vantage points of the parish ...
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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,...
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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.