A poetic description of the Dissolution of the Monasteries as a storm

A poetic description of the Dissolution of the Monasteries as a storm

Lough Derg--Seventeenth Century--Dissolution--Criticism

"Then the great winter swept over the land, and, with the winter, the flail that scourged Ireland spared not Derg..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

Leslie, Shane, The Story of St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. xi

B. Herder book co., St. Louis, Mo. and London

1917

Digitised by Google, sponsored by Harvard University

Public domain

Monograph

English

History of Ireland

Text

DD_0053

54.6153, -7.8864

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044020440756

"Then the great winter swept over the land, and, with the winter, the flail that scourged Ireland spared not Derg. The great religious houses fell an easy prey to the spoiler, and one day the spoiler stood by the shores of the lough. Rough soldiery turned the canons of St. Augustine adrift and sacked the island, but it remained, though beaten by the storms and mutilated by Acts of Parliament, the shrine of the Gael and the symbol of his own history."

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