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Letter of Florence Mac Carthy to the Earl of Thomond, on the ancient history of Ireland (Author: Florence MacCarthy Reagh)
paragraph 7
I omitt to trouble your Lordship with divers others that increased religion and learning in Germany, France and England, where they founded Glastonburie64 and divers other places, and taught the Saxons the use of letters, as appeareth by some of their own best antiquaries,65 and by the Saxon letters which are our characters.
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And for their own country St. Bernard in the life of Maelmaedhog O'Morgair called Malachias66 writes what monuments they left, and what a number of learned men have been there, who although their eloquence was great could not keep their unfortunate nobility from civil war, which moved some to threaten and foretell the infinite ruins that within a little happened, for shortly after the year of our Lord 800 Atreus orAirtri mac Cathail,67 commanding the Half of Mowh, and Aodh mac Neill the Half of Conn, the Danes began to invade that country called then of the nation Scotland,68 until the country people calling it Ere (of the wife of Mac Cuill that reigned there at our coming69); the Eastern nations added land70 and so called it Ereland.