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To show the importance which the invaders attached to their system, and the ardor with which they set about putting it in practice, we have only to extract a few passages from the old annals of the islands; they are wonderfully expressive in their simplicity: "A.D. 1176. The English were driven from Limerick by Donnall O'Brian.
Limerick changed hands several times, until Donnall O'Brian, who was left in possession, set fire to it rather than see it fall again into the hands of the invaders. In Meath, where the numerous castles of De Lacy were situated, a war to the knife was being waged.
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