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Description: Identifier: historyofireland1884have (find matches) Title: The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Haverty, Martin, 1809-1887 Subjects: Publisher: New York : Thomas Kelly Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ry within which the dominionof the king of England was acknowl-edged. He was recognized as a superiorfeudal sovereign; but, as we have al-ready remarked, the Irish princes didnot conceive that by these new relationsthe fee-simple of the soil was transferredto Henry. So far, the territory overwhich his actual dominion extended,seems to have been almost unresistinglyyielded up to him ; but, as if to compen-sate for the fatal apathy with whichthis intrusion was allowed to take place,every further encroachment was resistedby the Irish of that and of subsequenttimes with manful and desperate en-eigy. Thus, not only was the Englishcolony long circumscribed within itsfirst limits, which comprised less than athird of the island, but it becameafter a few reigns much more re-stricted ; while throughout the rest ofthe country the Irish language, laws,and usages prevailed as they hadhitherto done. Yet we constantlyhear of the conquest of Ireland byHeniy II. As the first exercise of his authorit-v Text Appearing After Image: V THE BLESSED CORNELIUS. 201 under the treaty, Henry appointed anIrishman named Angustin to the thenvacant see of Waterford, and sent him,under the care of St. Laurence, to receiveconsecration from the archbishop of(yashel, as his metfcpolitau. This actwas intended as a concession to theIrish clergy. The venerable primate, Giolla Mac-liag, or St. Gelasius, as he is called byColgau, died in the year 1173, at thepatriarchal age of eighty-seven years.He did not attend the synod of Cashelin 1172, although he went on a visitationof Conn aught, and presided at a synodof that province the same year, on whichoccasion three churches were conse-crated. He, however, paid his respectsto Henry 11. in Dublin, and the circum-stance of his having in his train a whitecow, on the milk of which he chiefly * Very soon after his consecration as arclibisliop,Conor or Concliobliar MacConcoille proceeded, on tlieaffairs of his diocese, to Rome, and was supposed to havedied there, his death being recorded in Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The history of Ireland - from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent (14598277540)
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