Desmond Sentence Examples

O'Neill ravaged the Pale, failed in an attempt on Dundalk, made a truce with the MacDonnells, and sought help from the earl of Desmond.

He served with the English against Desmond in Munster in 1580, and assisted Sir John Perrot against the Scots of Ulster in 1584.

The Dominican Abbey, of the 13th century, has Early English remains of great beauty and a tomb to Edmund, the last of the White Knights, a branch of the family of Desmond intimately connected with Kilmallock, who received their title from Edward III.

Grattan had married in 1782 Henrietta Fitzgerald, a lady descended from the ancient family of Desmond, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.

The college was founded by an earl of Desmond in 1464.

The town was plundered by the earl of Desmond in 1579.

Here he became acquainted with Cormac MacCarthy, king of Desmond, who had sought refuge with Malchus, and, when he subsequently regained his kingdom, rendered great services to Malachy.

He was more or less encouraged by the earls of Desmond and Kildare.

A few of his followers who landed were cut off, and he went on to Ireland to join the earl of Desmond in Munster.

When he declared himself to be Richard of York, he obtained some support in Ireland from the earl of Desmond and other lords; but he did not risk open rebellion till he had visited Flanders, and had been acknowledged as her undoubted nephew by Duchess Margaret.

Few joined the impostor save the earl of Desmond, and he was repulsed from Waterford, and dared not face the army which the lord deputy put into the field against him.

He was supported by Maelmuad, king of Desmond, and Donoban, king of Hy Fidgeinte, and Hy Cairpri.

At the baptism of his son George - " false, fleeting, perjured Clarence " - who was born in Dublin Castle, Desmond and Ormonde stood sponsors together.

Next year Maurice Fitzgerald was made earl of Desmond, and from his three brethren descended the historic houses of the White Knight, the knight of Glin, and the knight of Kerry.

The influence of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, whom Desmond had offended, then made itself felt.

Desmond was beheaded, ostensibly for using Irish exactions, really, as the partisans of his family hold, to please Elizabeth.

The earl of Desmond having shown rebellious tendencies was detained for six years in London.

Ormonde, who was in London, could alone restore peace; all his disputes with Desmond were at once settled in his favour, and he was even allowed to resume the exaction of coyne and livery, the abolition of which had been the darling wish of statesmen.

Fitzmaurice fell soon after in a skirmish near Castleconnell, but Sanders and Desmond's brothers still kept the field.

When it was too late to act with effect, Desmond himself, a vain man, neither frankly loyal nor a bold rebel, took the field.

Sanders perished obscurely in 1581, and in 1583 Desmond himself was hunted down and killed in the Kerry mountains.

In 1598 James Fitzthomas Fitzgerald assumed the title of Desmond, to which he had some claims by blood, and which he pretended to hold as Tyrone's gift.

The title of Sugan or straw-rope earl has been generally given to the Desmond pretender.

Both ends of the island were soon in a blaze, and the Four Masters says that in seventeen days there was not one son of a Saxon left alive in the Desmond territories.

The destruction of their crops starved the people into submission, and the contest was only less terrible than the first Desmond war because it was much shorter.

Raymond also gets increasingly rebellious under Desmond's bossiness, especially when he learns that actors at this other National Theater actually get paid.

If 'the earl had known how to profit by this victory, he might now have successfully withstood the English power in Ireland; for in every part of Ireland - and especially in the south, where James Fitzthomas Fitzgerald with O'Neill's support was asserting his claim to the earldom of Desmond at the head of a formidable army of Geraldine clansmen - discontent broke into flame.

Raymond also gets increasingly rebellious under Desmond 's bossiness, especially when he learns that actors at this other National Theater actually get paid.

Legend Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world has died, He was 64.

Desmond paid just £ 23.5m for London City Airport in 1995, buying what was then an underperforming asset from construction company Mowlem.

In the same year Desmond Morris produced the international best-seller The Naked Ape, relating human behavior from a zoologist 's perspective.

The conference was headline by keynote speaker Archbishop Desmond Tutu.