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Abercorn became Castle of Dublin Castle Yard Castlereagh Catholic Chesterfield Chief Secretary chronicle Clanricarde Connaught conquest Court Crown death Desmond Dublin Castle Duke Earl of Ormonde emancipation England English Excellency faith favour Fitzwilliam fourth Earl friends garrison Government Grace held Henry honour horses Ireland Irish Irishmen island James John Perrot Kilkenny King knight Lady land Leger Leinster liberal London Lord Carlisle Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis Lord Deputy Lord Eglinton Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Justice Lord Lieutenant Lord Spencer Lord Wellesley Majesty Marquis Meanwhile Meath ment Munster murder Naas native O'Connell O'Connor O'Neil O'Tooles Parliament party patriot perhaps Phoenix Park political Prince Prorex Protestant Ascendancy Queen rebellion rebels reign Richard Royal seems sent Shane Sidney Sir John Sir William Strafford strong styled sword tenants Thomas tion took Tower Tyrconnell Ulster Union Viceregal Lodge Viceroy Viceroyalty Viceroys of Ireland Wales Wellesley
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Seite 183 - The Irish militia are totally without discipline — contemptible before the enemy when any serious resistance is made to them, but ferocious and cruel in the extreme when any poor wretches, either with or without arms, come within their power : in short, murder appears to be their favourite pastime.
Seite 126 - For there is no nation of people under the sunne that doth love equall and indifferent justice better than the Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof, although it be against themselves, so as they may have the protection and benefitof the law, when upon just cause they do desire it...
Seite 165 - ... criminal must be complied with, and even cheerfully, by men of sense. Diogenes the Cynic was a wise man for despising them ; but a fool for showing it. Be wiser than other people, if you can ; but do not tell them so.
Seite 249 - His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed His virtues were so rare ; His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly; Ah, many's the time and oft!
Seite 185 - I shall live to get out of this most cursed of all situations, and most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court!
Seite 111 - This gentleman conversing with Roberts, upon the events of those times when he held a place under administration, and particularly on the manner in which the house of commons was then managed ; Roberts avowed without reserve, that while he remained at the treasury, there were a number of members who regularly received from him their payment or stipend, at the end of every session, in bank notes.
Seite 128 - Doune; there, under covert of a rock, his gun resting on the withered branch of a stunted oak, he waited day by day, with all the patience and expectancy of a tiger in his lair. Sir Cahir was a man to be marked in a thousand; he was the loftiest and proudest in his bearing of any man in the province of Ulster; his Spanish hat with the heron's plume was too often the terror of his enemies —the rallying point of his friends, not to bespeak the O'Doherty: even the high breastwork of loose stones,...
Seite 290 - The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest, And the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast ; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part.
Seite 183 - The violence of our friends,' he said, ' and their folly in endeavouring to make it a religious war, added to the ferocity of our troops, who delight in murder, most powerfully counteract all plans of conciliation.
Seite 42 - Buy O'Hogan, on good horses, towards the province of Ulster. On their arrival at the Liffey, they found its usual passes guarded, for the Government were on the watch to prevent O'Donnel's escape to his own country. But the Liffey is in so many places fordable, that he found no difficulty in passing it, and getting through the plains of Meath. On coming to the Boyne, they were obliged to throw themselves on the patriotic fidelity of a poor fisherman, who not only faithfully ferried them over, but...