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Shakespeare's Restless World
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Shakespeare's Restless World 7. Ireland: Failures in the Present Ireland: Failures in the Present - Photo Gallery

Further pictures on Ireland: Failures in the Present.

  • Most famous plate of the set: shows chief of the Mac Sweynes at dinner, being entertained by a bard & a harper
  • Irish chieftain receives the priest's blessing before departing to fight the English, shown in full armour
  • English solders return in triumph, carrying severed Irish heads & leading a captive by a halter
  • Sir Henry Sidney, Lord-Deputy, with an armed force, sets out from Dublin Castle for a progress through Ireland
  • The English army puts the Irish army to flight. The piper is cut down with his pipes beside him

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  • Shakespeare's Restless World—7. Ireland: Failures in the Present

    7/20 A rare woodcut offers an insight into the troubles and tragedies of Elizabethan Ireland.

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