A Life of the Rt. Rev. Edward Maginn, Coadjutor Bishop of Derry: With Selections from His Correspondence (Classic Reprint)

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The silence of death succeeded the din of that dreadful struggle. The remnant of the natives who could not emigrate deserted the open country, and courted the safer obscurity of the remotest woods and glens. The only sound which breaks the fearful stillness is the din of an infant Trade within the walls of the victorious towns, the monoto nous chants of the Kirk. Or the imperative accents of the garrisons. From monkless Mellifont to dismantled Donegal, there is neither native church nor native chief. The Erne and the Bann flow on through peaceful valleys - peaceful as death. In the halls of Dungannon, upon the towers of Shane's Castle, there is neither warder nor servitor, nei ther hospitable nor martial fire, neither sound of harp nor clang of trumpet. Nothing remains for the protection of ce hapless remnant of the Gael, outlawed on their own soil, but the fame of their strug gle, or the wild vengeance of the maddened Rapares, pouncing by night on his long-watched Presbyterian prey. Neither Scot nor Saxon fully believes his own boast that the spirit of the Old race is broken. The cautious drysalters and cordwainers of Derry, making their way in cavalcade from town to town, put up at every turn in the road the timorous petition, From wolves and woodkerne, good Lord deliver us i.

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