Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallowglasses
Literary usage of Gallowglasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1867)
"It represented him stretched at full length, holding a sceptre in his hand ; and
on the side slabs were sculptured groups of gallowglasses, or body guards ..."
2. Ireland Under the Tudors: With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History by Richard Bagwell (1885)
"... Kilkenny at 40?., and Waterford at 10L MacBrien Arra agreed to pay sixpence
a year for each ploughland, and to furnish sixty gallowglasses for a month. ..."
3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Thomas Marc Parrott (1904)
"13. kerns and gallowglasses. Shakespeare got these unusual words from ...
Originally, at least, the gallowglasses were heavy-armed foreign soldiers, ..."
4. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1867)
"But can it be assumed with equal safety that gallowglasses followed the standard
of King Felim? Felim assumed the sovereignty of Connaught in 1233, ..."
5. A Short History of the Irish People by Alexander George Richey (1887)
"[The Irish foot-soldiers during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were of
two kinds, called by the English gallowglasses and Kerne. ..."
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