Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept . e of Wolfe 1 To memorise the expedition and honour its Irish leader,the Town Commissioners of Bantry, in 1898, —the centenarypear of the Irish insurrection—gave to the market square of theirtown the name of Wolfe Tone Square. The motion wasmade by the Parliamentary representative of the district, Gilhooly; it was seconded by Mr. Donovan, , andcordially adopted. 8 BANTRY, BEREHAVEN AND Tone, and the outbreak of the Irish insurrection in1798, do not come within the scope of this work; butnumerous recent publications, at popular prices, bri
Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept . e of Wolfe 1 To memorise the expedition and honour its Irish leader,the Town Commissioners of Bantry, in 1898, —the centenarypear of the Irish insurrection—gave to the market square of theirtown the name of Wolfe Tone Square. The motion wasmade by the Parliamentary representative of the district, Gilhooly; it was seconded by Mr. Donovan, , andcordially adopted. 8 BANTRY, BEREHAVEN AND Tone, and the outbreak of the Irish insurrection in1798, do not come within the scope of this work; butnumerous recent publications, at popular prices, bringthe record within the reach of every patriotic Irishman-Here I turn back from the period of those navaloperations to deal with the events of an earlier time,when, in the later part of the 16th century and theopening years of the 17th, Ireland was being sweptwith fire and sword by the soldiery of England, andthe part of the country with which these pages arespecially concerned was made the scene of horrors andsufferings THE 0SULLIVAN SEPT CHAPTER II. THE story of how the territories of Bere and Ban trypassed from the hands of the OSullivans formsa chapter of Irish history which I propose tooutline briefly in the following pages. The overthrow,dispossession and dispersion of the Sept date from theclosing years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Fromthe beginning to the end of that reign there was analmost continuous tangle of wars between France,Spain, and England, largely due to events arising outof the Reformation, then in its earlier stages ; andIreland, refusing to accept the new doctrines and formof worship proffered to her by Henry the Eighth andhis daughter, was inevitably drawn into the suppression of the monasteries and seizure of theChurch revenues in England had enriched whole swarmsof needy nobles, sleek courtiers, and adventuroussoldiers ; and there was still a field for such profitableoperations in Ireland. The opportunity was availed
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