The Story of the Irish Before the Conquest. From the Mythical Period to the Invasion Under Strongbow
The Story of the Irish Before the Conquest. From the Mythical Period to the Invasion Under Strongbow
Ferguson, Mary Catharine Guinness, 1823-1905
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It will be remembered that his grandfather had married Ere, daughter of Loam M6r, and thus he was nearly connected with the sovereigns of Scotland as well as with successive kings of Ireland; for his cousins, Domnall and Fergus, became joint kings of Erin on the death of Dermid a few years after the Battle of Cuildrevne. The copy of the Psalms, which was the original cause of all this trouble, yet exists, and is preserved as an heir-loom in the femily of the O'DonneUs of New- port, representati...ves of St. Columba's race. The Ca'ah or Oa^^ocA (The " Battler ")« consists of fifty- eight leaves of fine vellum, written in a small, uniform 182 The Irish before the Conquest. [ch. vl but rather hiirried hand, with some slight attempts at illumination." Of its inner cases nothing is recorded, but the magnificent external silver-gilt case, set with precious stones, in which it now reposes, was made at the expense of Cathbar O'Donnell, Chief of TyrconneUl, and Donnell O'Raffertj, Abbot of Kells, some time before the year 1098, at which time this Abbot of Eells died.
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