As to the first,—O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and O’Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, hearing that the Government had determined to seize them on a charge of conspiracy, apparently groundless, suddenly left Ireland, sailing from Rathmullan, on Lough Foyle, to France (1607). Their estates were confiscated, and ‘The Plantation of Ulster’ began.
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From Dublin Verses (Elkin Mathews, 1895)—a collection of poems by members of Trinity College, Dublin. By permission of author and publisher.
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Macmillan’s Magazine (September, 1900). By permission of the author and the editor of Macmillan’s Magazine.
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The Rising of the Moon and Other Poems (1869). By permission of Messrs. Cameron & Ferguson, the present publishers.
l. 2. ma bouchal. My boy.
11. banshee. The fairy spirit of doom (Irish, ban-sidhe).