Quotes About Leinster

This is the importance of the Irish problem for Marshal. It tested his capacity as not other episode of his life. He had to fend off the king with one hand & preserve his lordship in Leinster with the other. Here we find the first signs that the man had some streak of greatness in him; that he was more than a simpering courtier. In the Leinster years we discover why the Marshal came in the end to rule England.

One other most notable happening in this king's reign was the laying upon Leinster of the famous Boru tribute — a crime which, for long centuries, was to be the cause of bloody wars that should shake the Island.

Her name was Sorcha--the English call it Sarah--and she grew up in a family related to the king of Leinster.

Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. You (censored)—(deleted)—(omitted)—(unprintability), he roared.