The History of Ireland, Volumen 2Baudry's European Library, 1837 |
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abbot æræ ancient Anlaf annalists Annals of Inisfallen Annals of Ulster antiquity appears archbishop Armagh army authority battle BATTLE OF CLONTARF bishop Brian called Cashel chap chief chieftains chronicler church clergy Clontarf Connaught Cormac course Culdees Dalcassian Danes Danish death Dermot dominion Donchad Dublin ecclesiastical English Eugenian Feidlim Finliath force foreign Four Masters Giraldus Hibernia Hist historians holy hostages Hy-Niells Inisfall Inisfallen instance invaders Ireland Irish island isles king of Leinster king of Munster kingdom land Lanigan Leath Mogh Limerick Malachy Meath Mogh monarch monastery Murkertach natives Niell ninth century North Britain northern Northmen O'Connor O'Lochlin pentarchy period Picts plunder possession prince province quæ records reign religious respecting royal Roydamna saint Saxon says Scots Sitric succession Tanistry Tara territory throne Tigernach tribute troops Turgesius Turlough usurpation Vallancey victory warfare whole writers
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Página 130 - O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntless earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound : Fate demands a nobler head ; Soon a king shall bite the ground. Long his loss shall Erin weep, Ne'er again his likeness see; Long her strains in sorrow steep, Strains of immortality!
Página 73 - Scotch borders ; the bloodiest fight, say authors, that ever this island saw : to describe which the Saxon annalist, wont to be sober and succinct, whether the same or another writer, now labouring under the weight of his argument, and overcharged, runs on a sudden into such extravagant fancies and metaphors, as bear him quite beside the scope of being understood.
Página 208 - Henry King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Earl of Anjou, to all his liegemen, English, Norman, Welsh and Scotch, and to all other nations under his dominion, sends greeting.
Página 328 - That albeit Ireland was a distinct dominion, yet the title thereof being by conquest, the same by judgment of law might by express words be bound by Act of the Parliament in England.
Página 332 - England, and he adds that if from these records ' it be concluded that the Parliament of England may bind Ireland, it must also be allowed that the people of Ireland ought to have their representatives in the Parliament of England ; and this, I believe, we should be willing enough to embrace, but this is a happiness we can hardly hope for.
Página 103 - Among other things is not to be forgotten the good peace that he made in this land, so that a man who had any confidence in himself might go over his realm, with his bosom full of gold, unhurt.
Página 232 - Christian views, the synod unanimously decreed and ordered that all the English throughout the island, who were in a state of slavery, should be restored to their former freedom.
Página 128 - ... in the records of Ireland, the only sorrows which appear to have mingled with the general triumph are those breathed at the tombs of the veteran monarch, and the numerous chieftains who fell in that struggle by his side.
Página 168 - Normans advanced to the chief archbishopric there, would needs now assume to themselves the name of Normans also, and cause their bishops to receive their consecration from no other metropolitan but the archbishop of Canterbury. And forasmuch as they were confined within the walls of their own cities, the bishops which they made had no other diocese to exercise their jurisdiction in, but only the bare circuit of those cities...
Página 215 - STATELY the feast, and high the cheer ; Girt with many an armed peer, And canopied with golden pall, Amid Cilgarran's castle hall, Sublime in formidable state, And warlike splendour, Henry sate; Prepared to stain the briny flood Of Shannon's lakes with rebel blood. Illumining the vaulted roof, A thousand torches flamed aloof: From massy cups, with golden gleam, Sparkled the red metheglin's stream...