A chronicler of Oliver Cromwell
16 May 1972[additional information in PDF….]
triumphant make at the time in any war, and. which becomes the raw material from which the historian moulds his history. One of the first to . discover the rich abundance of material waiting for the skilled attention of the historian was John P. Prendergast who in September, 1848, was given permission by the Lord Lieutenant to study the records in the Tower of Dublin Castle: “It may be imagined with what interest I followed the porter up that dark winding staircase of this gloomy tower, once the prison of the Castle, and was ushered into the small central space that seemed dark even after the dark stairs we had just left. As the eye became accustomed to the spot, it appeared that the doors of five cells made in the prodigious thickness of the walls opened on the central space. From one of them Red Hugh O’Donnell is said to have escaped, by getting down the privy of his cell to the Poddle River that runs round the base of the Tower.”
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