Identifier: bantryberehaveno00sull (find matches)
Title: Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sullivan, T. D. (Timothy Daniel), 1827-1914
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Publisher: Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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r rain, fast fell her tears, And he, whose heart through troubled years Its inward griefs in silence kept, Bowed down his head, and wildly wept. 30 BANTRY, BEREHAVEN AND In Spain, high-placed beside the King, The wearied exiles rest at last;If honours, wealth, and peace could bring A charm to hide the painful past,Twas Donals now ; but annals sayHis heart was by his native bay;His words were of the gallant menWhose good swords flashed through pass and glenWhereer he led ; and when he thoughtOer all the wrongs the Saxon wrought—Their treacherous arts, their faithless words,More deadly than their guns or swords—Their thirst for blood, their greed of gold ;Their rage that spared not young or old ;Their myriad crimes that heaven must hateAnd God will punish, soon or late—Oft did his thoughts break out aloud,And many a time he firmly vowedHis race, though now proscribed and banned,Would have and hold their native land,And guard with patriot pride and joyThe very stones of old Dunboy.
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Dunbby Castle.From a Map in the Pacata Hibemia. THE 0SULLIVAN SEPT 31 CHAPTER V. IN the midst of all this wrack and ruin the she-dragon, Elizabeth, died (March 24, 1603) andJames the First came to the throne. By thattime the Irish war was practically ended. The few Irishchiefs who until then had been keeping up a sort ofdesultory resistance, gave up the hopeless strife, andsought to get terms from the new monarch, prayingthat they might be admitted to the peace and allowedto retain possession of their lands. With some a settle-ment was made, but for OSullivan and ORourke therewas no pardon. Life in their own country having thusbecome impossible to them, they were compelled toseek shelter in foreign lands. OSullivan sailed for Spain,where he was cordially welcomed by the king, whoconferred on him rank, titles, and high honours, andaccorded to him a considerable pension with whichto support his dignity. While OSullivan was carrying on his brave and des-perate but vain resistance to the

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