Ireland Under English Rule: Or, A Plea for the Plaintiff, Bind 1G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 |
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Adrian annals Appendix Armagh authority barbarous became Bill Brehon Brehon law British Government bull Celtic century Christian Church circumstances civilization claimed Coercion Acts condition confiscated Connaught consequence crime Cromwell death Dublin emigrated England English Government established evidence existed extermination fact famine force gained given Henry the Second History of Ireland hundred Irish affairs Irish Catholics Irish Famine Irish history Irish language Irish nation James John justice King Kingdom Kingdom of Ireland land laws leaders London Lord Fitzwilliam massacre measure ment Munster murder never O'Connor officers Orangemen Penal period persecution persons Pieces of Irish Pitt Plowden political Pope population portion Presbyterians prisoners prosperity Protestant Ascendancy purpose race rebellion record reform reign religion religious Robert Emmet Roman Catholics statement suffering thousand tion treaty treaty of Limerick troops truth Ulster Union United Irishmen whole William women writer
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Side 66 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Side 260 - I have been charged with that importance, in the efforts to emancipate my country, as to be considered the key-stone of the combination of Irishmen, or as your Lordship expressed it, "the life and blood of the conspiracy.
Side 118 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Side 110 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles...
Side 69 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Side 251 - ... might the frantic suicide hope that the act which destroys his miserable body, should extinguish his eternal soul Again I therefore warn you, do not dare to lay your hands on the constitution ; it is above your power.
Side 137 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Side 230 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Side 46 - Adrian the bishop, the servant of the servants of God, to his most dear son in Christ, the noble king of England, sendeth greeting and apostolick benediction.
Side 92 - I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs.