The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . was?waging war against theGauls. He patheticallytold his story and be-sought Henry to assisthim to drive back theKing of Connaught, forwhich if it shouldplease him in his good-ness to do, he, Dermot,?would acknowledgeHenry to be lord, andserve him faithfully ailhis life as his ambition and?desire to add Irelandto his possessions be-came evident quite earlyin his reign, for heappealed to Nicholas Brakspere (Adrian IV.), the only Englishman
The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . was?waging war against theGauls. He patheticallytold his story and be-sought Henry to assisthim to drive back theKing of Connaught, forwhich if it shouldplease him in his good-ness to do, he, Dermot,?would acknowledgeHenry to be lord, andserve him faithfully ailhis life as his ambition and?desire to add Irelandto his possessions be-came evident quite earlyin his reign, for heappealed to Nicholas Brakspere (Adrian IV.), the only Englishman that everoccupied the papal throne, to put in force the Edict ofConstantine, which permitted him to assume a right in thedisposal of islands and throw over them the protecting regisof the Catholic Church. In 1156, the Pope yielded to thesolicitations and prayers of the English monarch, and issueda Bull giving him the necessary authority to deal with hands, however, were so full with his French difficul-ties that he could not spare an expeditionary force, so hemet the exigencies of the case by issuing Letters Patent to. GRAFTOX STREET. certain of his subjects to raise a knightly army and invadtIreland. It is to the calamities wiiich befel the country afterthe landing of this expedition, and the causes which led upto it, that Thomas Moore, one of Dublins most honoured .-indgifted sons, refers when, in that beautiful song, The ValleyLay Smiling Before Me, he says: .\lrcady tlic curse is upon her, And slranRcrs her valleys profane ;They come to diviilc—to dishonour. And tyrants they long will remain. Dermot grew wearyof Henrys delay in coming to his assistance,and made touchingappeals to the \\elshbarons, who had beengreatly exasperated bythe inroads of the Danesfrom Dublin and theeast coast of Ireland. Apenniless mercenary wasthe first to come was Richard, sur-named Strongbow. sonof the I^^arl of Pembroke,who at first proceededwarily and with exas-perati
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