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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX A. (speech, p. 168.) A FEW FACTS FROM THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S 'ANNALS OF CHRISTENDOM.'1 A Collection Of Some Of The Massacres And Murthers ComMitted On The Irish In Ireland Since The 23d Of October 1641. County of Antrim. 1641. About the beginning of November, the English and Scots Forces in Cnockfergus murthered in one Night, all the Inhabitants of the Territory of the Island Gee, to the Number of above Three Thousand Men, Women, and Children, all innocent Persons, in a Time when none of the Catholicks of that County were in Arms or Bebellion. Note, that this was the first Massacre committed in Ireland of either side. 1641. Mr. Mac Naghten having built a small Fortress in the said County, to preserve Himself and his Followers from Outrages, until he had understood what the Cause of the then Rebellion was; as soon as Colonel Campbel came near with Part of the Army, he sent to let him know that he would come to him with his Party, which he did, and they were next Day murthered to the Number of eighty, by Sir John Clothworthy, now Lord Masselin, his Soldiers. About the same time a hundred poor Women and Children were murthered in one Night, at a place called Balliaghiun, by Direction of the English and Scots Officers commanding in that County.,-_ County of Derry, 1641. Some three hundred Men, Women, and Children of the Irish, having freely come under the Protection of the Garrison of London Derry, were stripp'd, plundered, and killed by the said Garrison. 1 From the Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland (London, Wilford, 1721), pp. 329-369. 1644. Mr. Morris, Mr. Daniel, Natural Son to the late Earl Antrim, was hanged at Coolrane by the Governour's Orders, notwithstanding he had Colonel Michael Jones his Pass. County ...
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Michael Davitt is a broadcaster for RTE. He has numerous other publictions which include Gleann ar Ghleann (1982), Bilgeard Sraide (1983), An Tost a Scagadh (1993) and Scuais (1999).
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1459002695
- ISBN 13 9781459002692
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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