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The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Limerick, by P. Fitzgerald (And J.J. M'gregor) 2 Vols
The History Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Limerick by P Fitzgerald 2 Vols - And J.J. M'gregor Author:Patrick Fitzgerald General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ty of Clare, with fifteen hundred horse, and two thousand foot. Clare Castle surrendered on the first summons, and Carrigaholt having soon followed the example, he proceeded to place garrisons in various places to check the transport of provisions to Gal- way ; but his design was interrupted by the alarming illness of Ireton, who about this time expired at Limerick of the plague which had so long devastated that city. His body was carried to England, and interred in Henry the Seventh's Chapel at Westminster; but after the Restoration it was taken up and buried under the gallows at Tyburn. taken prisoner a few months after by the Parliament forces, and hanged, notwithstanding his services in their cause; and most of those who had been the first revivers of the rebellion met with a similar fate. A very different character of the Bishop of Eraly is given by Doctor Bourke, titular Bishop of Ossory, in his Hibernia Do- minicana. " Terence Albert O'Brien, Bishop of Emly," says the Doctor " was a friar of the Dominican convent at Limerick, a Doctor of Divinity, elected a provincial of that Order in 1643, and appointed Bishop of Emly in 1644. He was so active in persuading the Irish to hold out against Cromwell's forces, that Ireton, during the siege of Limerick, offered him £40,000 to desist from his exhortations, and quit the city, with a passport to another kingdom -- but he heroically refused the offer, and was in consequence exempted from pardon. He behaved in his last moments with manly fortitude, and addressed Ireton with a prophetic spirit, accusing him of the highest injustice, and summoned him to t...« less