Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . of striking terror into the Irish brutallymassacred the prisoners by breaking their limbs, and hurlingthem from the summit of the precipice into the sea. Thisatrocity was a fitting prelude to the English wars in Ireland;but most historians vindicate Raymond le Gros from tbestigma which it cast upon the English arms. In the meantime Strongbow had assembled bis army ofadventurers and mercenaries at Milford, and was about toemba
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . of striking terror into the Irish brutallymassacred the prisoners by breaking their limbs, and hurlingthem from the summit of the precipice into the sea. Thisatrocity was a fitting prelude to the English wars in Ireland;but most historians vindicate Raymond le Gros from tbestigma which it cast upon the English arms. In the meantime Strongbow had assembled bis army ofadventurers and mercenaries at Milford, and was about toembark, when he received a peremptory order from Henryforbidding the expedition. What was to be done? His hesi-tation, if any, was very brief, and he adopted the desperatealternative of disobeying his king. He accordingly sailed, andwith an army of about 1,200 men, of whom 200 were knights,landed near Waterford on the 23d of August, the eve of day. Hfre he was immediately joined by hisfriend Raj^nond le Gros, who had been three months in Ire-land, and the very next day he proceeded to lay siege toWaterford, The citizens displayed great heroism in their. ?MARRIAGE OF EVA McMURROUGH TO EARL STROXGBOW. llll, XoliUAA 111 defence, and twice repulsed the attempts of tlie length a large breach was made in the wall by the fall ofa house which projected over it, and which came topplingdown when the props by which it had been supported werecut by Raymonds knights; and the besiegers pouring intothe city made a dreadful slaughter of the inhabitants. Atower in which Reginald, or Gillemaire, as the Irish annalistscall him, a lord of Danish extraction, and OThelan, prince ofthe Deisi, continued to defend themselves, was taken; andthese two brave men were on the point of being massacred bytheir pitiless captors, when Dermot MacMurrough arrived,and for the first and only time we see mercy exercised at hisrequest. The carnage of the now unresisting inhabitants
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