The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are Adopted and Embodied as the Running Text Authority, Terminate: with a Brief Essay on the Native Annalists, and Other Sources for Illustrating Ireland, and Full Statistical and Historical Notices of the Barony of Boyle, Band 2author, 1845 |
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... Donald O'Duffy , styled Archbishop of Con- naught , died here , and in 1175 , its Abbot was associated with the Archbishop of Tuam , as an ambassador from the unfortunate Roderic O'Conor to King Henry the Second . In 1270 , the beau ...
... Donald O'Duffy , styled Archbishop of Con- naught , died here , and in 1175 , its Abbot was associated with the Archbishop of Tuam , as an ambassador from the unfortunate Roderic O'Conor to King Henry the Second . In 1270 , the beau ...
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... Donald O'Melaghlin . In 1143 , Morrough O'Melaghlin was expelled from his kingdom , and his son Conor was substituted ; Morrough afterwards destroyed the bridge and fort of Athlone , and in 1146 , having regained his kingdom , he ...
... Donald O'Melaghlin . In 1143 , Morrough O'Melaghlin was expelled from his kingdom , and his son Conor was substituted ; Morrough afterwards destroyed the bridge and fort of Athlone , and in 1146 , having regained his kingdom , he ...
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... Donald O'Loughlin , is commemorated with deep regret by the Annalists , who extol him not less for his mental than his personal attactions ; not more for the nobility of his birth than the pre - eminence of his genius : the more mar ...
... Donald O'Loughlin , is commemorated with deep regret by the Annalists , who extol him not less for his mental than his personal attactions ; not more for the nobility of his birth than the pre - eminence of his genius : the more mar ...
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... Donald , the son of Hugh , the before - mentioned King of Ireland , and who is himself styled Prince of Ali- chia , took the pilgrim's staff , and embraced a monas- tic life , thereby relinquishing to his brother , Niall L2 THE HISTORY ...
... Donald , the son of Hugh , the before - mentioned King of Ireland , and who is himself styled Prince of Ali- chia , took the pilgrim's staff , and embraced a monas- tic life , thereby relinquishing to his brother , Niall L2 THE HISTORY ...
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... Donald , king of Tara , and the noblest chiefs of Ireland [ marched ] to Dublin , against the green ( a ) foreigners , and their warriors , and against Maol- mordha , son of Murrough , King of Leinster ; for he it was who collected and ...
... Donald , king of Tara , and the noblest chiefs of Ireland [ marched ] to Dublin , against the green ( a ) foreigners , and their warriors , and against Maol- mordha , son of Murrough , King of Leinster ; for he it was who collected and ...
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Abbey Abbot according afterwards alluded amongst ancient Annalists Annals of Boyle Annals of Inisfallen Annals of Ulster Archbishop Armagh army Athlone barony battle belfries Bishop Brefny Brian burned Cashel castle Cathal Crovdearg century chief church clergy Clonmacnois Conor Cormac County Roscommon Danes death Dermot devastated died Donald Donogh Dublin Earl ecclesiastical Elphin erected Felim fell forces founded Four Masters record friary Galway granted Henry holy hostages Hugh de Lacy Hugh O'Conor Irish island John Kildare King of Connaught King of Ireland King of Leinster land Limerick Lough Lough Ree Mac Carthy Mac Murrough Maolsechnall Meath mentioned Milesian monarch monastery Munster native Niall notice O'Duffy O'Ferral O'Flaherty O'Kelly O'Melaghlin O'Neill O'Toole Parliament Patrick plundered prince province reign Richard Roderic O'Conor Roscommon Round Towers royal sept slain slew styled successor synod Tara Teigue territory Thady Tiernan O'Ruarc Tigernach tion town Tuam Turlough O'Brien Turlough O'Conor Ulster victory William
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Seite 175 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Seite 8 - Gospel, count up as an hour each, the first age from Adam to Noah; the second, from Noah to Abraham; the third, from Abraham to David; the fourth, from David to the...
Seite 4 - They use to place him that shall be their captaine upon a stone, always reserved to that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill. In some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captaine's foot...
Seite 4 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him...
Seite 194 - O'Flaherty takes occasion to introduce a melancholy picture of his own fortunes : " Being deprived of my father," he says, " at two months old, I became, by the laws of my country, a ward to the king, and, according to the custom of the kingdom, paid money for his protection ; but, before the law allowed me to take possession of my inheritance, I lost my guardian, by the murder of my king, when I was nineteen years old, and the royal heir, six months younger than myself, was forced to seek his bread...
Seite 80 - ... most of his brethren, and saw the absolute necessity of the whole nation uniting as one man for their defence ; for which reason he laboured so hard with this congregation of the clergy, that he .got them at last to enter into a superficial union, for burying all that was past in oblivion, to declare that no security for life, fortune, or religion, could be expected from Cromwell, to express their detestation of all animosities between the old Irish, English, or Scots royalists, and their resolution...
Seite 58 - Nial," says a learned writer, " did he venture to invade the coasts of Gaul, but, allured by the prospect of plunder, which the state of the province, then falling fast into dismemberment, held forth, forced his way to the foot of the Alps, and was there killed, it is said, by a flash of lightning; leaving the throne of Ireland to be filled henceforth by a line of Christian kings.
Seite 68 - Heath and Brefny, sojourned here for a short time, and soon afterwards, on the English invasion, a castle was erected in Adare, of which John de Verdon having obtained a royal grant, early in the reign of Edward the First, he endowed, in the town, Leinster against King Leogaire, in which he was taken prisoner, but then released, on his swearing by the sun and a friary of the order of the Holy Trinity for the redemption of Christian captives. In the time of Edward the Second, Adare was incorporated,...
Seite 61 - Magi, and earnestly inquiring by whom, or for what purpose, it was displayed, those priests are recorded to have made the memorable reply: " This fire, which has been kindled in our presence, before the flame was lit up in your palace, unless extinguished this very night, shall never be extinguished more; yea, it will triumph over all the fires of our ancient rites, and he, who lights it, shall scatter your kingdom.
Seite 57 - ... in the language of Moore, "a youth, then in his sixteenth year, whom Providence had destined to be the author of a great revolution in Ireland, and whom the land, to which he was then borne a stranger and a slave, has now, for fourteen hundred years, commemorated as its Christian Apostle.