The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Adapted for Youth, Schools, and FamiliesThomas Dean and Company - 209 páginas |
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Página 34 - Dermod, prince of Leinster, has been received into the bosom of our grace and benevolence : wherefore, whosoever, within the ample extent of our territories, shall be willing to lend aid toward this prince as our faithful and liege subject...
Página 34 - Prince of Leinster, has been received into the bosom of our grace and benevolence: wherefore, whosoever, within the ample extent of our territories, shall be willing to lend aid towards this prince as our faithful and liege subject, let such person know that we do hereby grant to him for said purpose our licence and favour.
Página 125 - ... gave information of the intended attack upon Dublin Castle, in which were plentiful stores of arms and ammunition. Two or three of the conspirators were immediately arrested ; but there was no time to stay the progress of the insurrection, which burst forth with tremendous violence, October 23. 1641. The colonists of Ulster, who had no suspicion of the existence of such a conspiracy, suddenly found themselves surrounded by mobs of infuriated Irishmen armed with staves, pitchforks, and other rude...
Página 51 - ... him to abandon his project, for he knew it to be the policy of Henry to allow every province to remain undisturbed that paid its tribute ; but De Courcy was resolved to try his fortune. In defiance of all authority, he set off at the head of a band of soldiers for Downpatrick, the capital of Ulster. The inhabitants of the city were aroused at daybreak from their sleep by the sound of the English bugles, and starting up, saw the streets filled with armed troops. The houses were forced open and...
Página 25 - So well observed were the laws, that she performed the whole of her journey without being robbed. A similar tale is told of Alfred the Great, and of Robert I., duke of Normandy, both of whom are said to have kept their dominions in such excellent order, that golden bracelets...
Página 87 - ... speak of the Henries of the house of Lancaster, he calls them, " lately in deed, not of right, Kings of England ; and hence arose the distinction of a king dejure, and a king de facto. On the death of Edward, the Crown descended to his eldest son, Edward V., who with his brother the Duke of York, are generally believed to have been murdered in the Tower, by order of their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester; after he had insinuated into the populace, a suspicion of the bastardy of the two young...
Página 160 - ... act, Great Britain and Ireland were henceforth to constitute one kingdom, and to be called " The United Kingdom " accordingly. There was to be one parliament : and in this parliament the spiritual peers of Ireland, and twenty-eight temporal peers, elected for life by the peers of Ireland, were to sit in the House of Lords, and one hundred members in the House of Commons. The Protestant churches of the two countries were to be united. The two countries were to be on equal terms as regarded trade...
Página 73 - This celebrated act declared that " fostering," and intermarriage with the natives, should be regarded as high treason, and punished accordingly ; and that any man of English descent who should assume an Irish name, speak the Irish language, or adopt the laws, customs, or dress of the natives, should forfeit all his lands and tenements, or be imprisoned. The English were also forbidden by this act to entertain the Irish minstrels and bards, or to listen to their songs or tales. Nor were they to allow...
Página 58 - Strongbow, and in consequence became earl of Pembroke. This nobleman was made governor of Ireland, and built the abbey in consequence of a vow, which he made during a storm at sea, that, if he should reach the land in safety, he would found a monastery on the spot where his foot first touched dry land. This building received its name in consequence of being inhabited by monks from Tintern Abbey in Wales. During the long reign of Henry III...
Página 173 - Irish farmers are most successful at trenching ; they form the land into beds, and shovel out a deep trench between them, throwing up the earth.