. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . ty with a claim forthe thousand pounds that had been set upon it. Fitzwilliamwrote, exulting in the consummation, but wishing to God thatthe traitors end had been more in accordance with his daggers, to his thinking, had done their work too quickly;and all he could do was to hoist the great Shanes head and leaveit to blacken—where so many Irish heads had blackened andwere still to blacken—over the gate of Dublin Castle. TheMacdonnells were more civilised than this English noble intheir vengeance. Shanes body, wrapped, for lack of a bett
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . ty with a claim forthe thousand pounds that had been set upon it. Fitzwilliamwrote, exulting in the consummation, but wishing to God thatthe traitors end had been more in accordance with his daggers, to his thinking, had done their work too quickly;and all he could do was to hoist the great Shanes head and leaveit to blacken—where so many Irish heads had blackened andwere still to blacken—over the gate of Dublin Castle. TheMacdonnells were more civilised than this English noble intheir vengeance. Shanes body, wrapped, for lack of a bettershroud, in a keenes old shirt, was miserably interred atGlenarm, the home of the Macdonnell chief. The ONeillssent to beg that this great shaker of Ulster might rest with hisown kin. But the abbot of the monastery answered, Have T 2 276 HIS GRAVE AT GLEN ARM CHAP. you not in your church James Macdonnell, lord of Antrim andCantire, who was buried among strangers at Armagh ? Then,whilst you continue to tread on the grave of James, lord of. Antrim and Cantire, know ye that we in Glenarm will trampleon the dust of your great ONeill. Yet, after Shanes death, the ONeills and Macdonnellscontracted an alliance. James Macdonnells wife—the mother XVIII THE GOOD STONE 277 of Ineen Dhu, Red Hughs fierce mother—was then welladvanced in years, but she could bring with her in dowrya great army of redshanks. So Turlough Luineach, whosucceeded Shane as the ONeill, wrote to express his willing-ness to wed with either mother or daughter. But the LadyAgnes Campbell, of whom Sir Henry Sidney wrote that shewas a grave, wise, well-spoken lady, both in Scotch, English,and French, and very well-mannered, preferred to give herdaughter to Shanes vanquisher, the ODonnell, and she herselfmarried Turlough, at a great feast held in Rathlin, when therewas a whole fortnight of banqueting. Such was the end of Shane the Proud; such the tragedyenacted somewhere by this still standing fragment of wall. T
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