An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Quotes

“If there had been a little less home dissension, there would have been a great deal less foreign oppression.”
― Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities, and tyrannies, however highly painted, pale before the savage vengeance which English kings have exercised, on the slightest provocation, towards their unfortunate subjects.”
― Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800