FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34  
35   36   37   >>  
hat are drunken never see heaven. And as to drink, a man that takes the first glass is as quiet and as merry as a pet lamb; and after the second glass he is as knacky as a monkey; and after the third glass he is as ready for battle as a lion; and after the fourth glass he is like a swine as he is. 'I am thirsty' [IRISH: Ta Tart Orm], that was one of our Lord's seven words on the Cross, where he was dry. And a man far off would have given him drink; but there was a drunkard at the foot of the Cross, and he prevented him." THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM "That was a great slaughter at Aughrim. St. Ruth wanted to do all himself, he being a foreigner. He gave no plan of the battle to Sarsfield, but a written command to stop where he was, and Sarsfield knew no more than yourself or myself in the evening before it happened. It was Colonel Merell's wife bade him not go to the battle, where she knew it would go bad with him through a dream. But he said that meant that he would be crowned, and he went out and was killed. That is what the poem says: If Caesar listened to Calpurnia's dream He had not been by Pompey's statue slain. All great men gave attention to dreams, though the Church is against them now. It is written in Scripture that Joseph gave attention to his dream. But Colonel Merell did not, and so he went to his death. Aughrim would have been won if it wasn't for the drink. There was too much of it given to the Irish soldiers that day--drink and spies and traitors. The English never won a battle in Ireland in fair fight, but getting spies and setting the people against one another. I saw where Aughrim was fought, and I turned aside from the road to see the tree where St Ruth was killed. The half of it is gone like snuff. That was spies too, a Colonel's daughter that told the English in what place St. Ruth would be washing himself at six o'clock in the morning. And it was there he was shot by one O'Donnell, an Englishman. He shot him from six miles off. The Danes were dancing in the raths around Aughrim the night after the battle. Their ancestors were driven out of Ireland before; and they were glad when they saw those that had put them out put out themselves, and every one of them skivered." [ILLUSTRATION: WILLIAM III] THE STUARTS "As to the Stuarts, there are no songs about them and no praises in the West, whatever there may be in the South. Why would there, and they running away and leaving the country
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34  
35   36   37   >>  



Top keywords:

battle

 

Aughrim

 
Colonel
 

Merell

 

Sarsfield

 

written

 

attention

 

English

 

Ireland

 
killed

setting

 

people

 
turned
 

fought

 

Stuarts

 
praises
 

leaving

 

country

 

running

 

traitors


drunken

 
soldiers
 

dancing

 

Donnell

 

Englishman

 
driven
 

ancestors

 
skivered
 

STUARTS

 
daughter

morning
 

ILLUSTRATION

 

WILLIAM

 
washing
 

knacky

 

wanted

 
monkey
 

slaughter

 

AUGHRIM

 
command

foreigner

 

BATTLE

 
prevented
 

thirsty

 

drunkard

 

fourth

 
Pompey
 
statue
 

Calpurnia

 
listened