Annals of Ireland: Three FragmentsJohn O'Donovan |
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Abbot aċt Adamnan Aedh Aedh Allan Aedh Finnliath afterwards agus Ailech amail aṁlaid Annals of Ulster anno Aoda barony battle báttur beit bliadain Borumha Ceallach Cearbhall Cianachta Cille Cinaeth clnn Colman Colum Cille Conaill Conaing Congal Cormac cruaid Cuimin Danes death Diarmaid died díob dóib Donnbo Dublin Dunchadh Dunlaing Dunlang eidir Eirínn féin fén Fergal Finnachta Fionnaċta Flann Four Masters gaċ host iarttain imurro iomda Ireland Irgalach Irish isin killed King of Erin King of Leinster Laigín Laignib Leinster-men leit Loch Lochlanns Loclannaib longport Maelsechlainn Magh mait Maoilseacloinn marbad Meath Moling mór moritur muinntir Muman Munster Néill Niall Ogyg Osraighe plundered published Annals quieuit reign Ro baoi ro ráid saoi Saxon sin po slain slaughter Suibhne táinig tangattur thou Tigh trí uair uile Ulaid
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Page 103 - This day Bruide" fights a battle for the land of his grandfather, Unless the Son of God wish it otherwise, he will die in it. To-day the son of Oswy was killed in a battle with green swords, Although he did penance, he shall lie in Hi after his death; This day the son of Oswy was killed, who had the black drinks ; Christ heard our supplications, they spared Bruide the brave.
Page 252 - Edited from the Book of Lecan in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy ; in the original Irish, with a Translation and Notes, and a Map of Hy-Many, by JOHN O'DONOVAN.
Page 73 - The cleric told this to Adamnan. " Say unto him," said Adamnan, " that I will sing fifty psalms during that time, and that there is a psalm among that fifty in which I will ask and beseech the Lord to shorten his life for him.
Page 177 - They also killed all his people. His head was afterwards brought to the Lochlanns, who placed it on a pole, and continued for some time to shoot at it, and afterwards cast it into the sea.
Page 27 - Now Donnbo was a widow's son of the Fera-Ros,2 and he never went away from his mother's house for one day or one night, and there was not one in all Ireland of fairer countenance, or of better figure, form, or symmetry than he; there -was not in all Ireland one more pleasant or entertaining, or one in the world who could repeat more...
Page 129 - Gallgael who were killed there, for they were a people who had renounced their baptism, and they were usually called Northmen, for they had the customs of the Northmen, and had been fostered by them, and though the original Northmen were bad to the churches, these were by far worse in whatever part of Erin they used to be.
Page 252 - Hy-Fiachrach, in the Counties of Sligo and Mayo. Edited from the Book of Lecan, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, and from a copy of the Mac Firbis MS.
Page 256 - JOHN O'DONOVAN, Esq., and JAMES HENTHORN TODD, DD X. An Account of the Firbolgs and Danes of Ireland, by Duald Mac Firbis, from a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with a Translation and Notes, by JOHN O'DONOVAN, Esq.
Page 197 - ... shrieks of the one host in the act of being slaughtered, and the shouts of the other host exulting over that slaughter. There were two causes for which the men of Munster suffered so sudden a defeat...