Lays of the red branch . f^M^MtiM. THE ABDICATION OF FERGUS MAC ROY. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. [Conor, King of Ulster, contemporaiy and rival of Maev,Queen of Connaught, reigned at Emania (now the Navan), nearArmagh, about the commencement of the Christian era. Heowed his first accession to the monarchy to the ai ts of his motherNessa, on whom Fergus, his predecessor in the kingly office andstep-father, doated so fondly tliat she had been enabled to stip-ulate, as a condition of bestowing her hand, that Fergus shouldabdicate for a year in favour of her youthful son. The year hadbeen indefinitely prol
Lays of the red branch . f^M^MtiM. THE ABDICATION OF FERGUS MAC ROY. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. [Conor, King of Ulster, contemporaiy and rival of Maev,Queen of Connaught, reigned at Emania (now the Navan), nearArmagh, about the commencement of the Christian era. Heowed his first accession to the monarchy to the ai ts of his motherNessa, on whom Fergus, his predecessor in the kingly office andstep-father, doated so fondly tliat she had been enabled to stip-ulate, as a condition of bestowing her hand, that Fergus shouldabdicate for a year in favour of her youthful son. The year hadbeen indefinitely prolonged by the fascinations of Nessa aidedby the ability of Conor, who, although he concealed a treacher-ous and cruel disposition under attractive graces of manners andperson, ultimately became too popular to be displaced; andFergus, whose nature disinclined him to the labours of Govern-ment; had acquiesced in accepting as an equivalent the excite-ments of war and chase, and the unrestricted pleasure of therevel. Associating with C
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