part 11

Conor Ó Kelly came like a wild dog after sheep, and he got a shot of a strong spear from valiant Eoin McKeever.

Dennis Healy -- a prince who was not stingy under any loss -- struck and fired his two hands on the forehead of cheerful Brian McCosgraigh.                                                    145

A blow which blinded his eyes and made his tongue silent; and before he left the spot his death came suddenly.

Patrick McEgan knocked McHelan into a ghost; he made fragments of his bones, and of McGrain's afterwards.

Diarmuid Ó Mulranny gave a blow in the eyebrow to Malachy Ó Mulreedy which left him stretched on the ground.

Breasal Carney gave a lash with a spade in the breast to Connor Mac an Diachuir who was as wild as a cock.

Black Tadgh Mooney gave a thrust of a pike in the stomach which took a screech and a moan out of the tall-headed Tadhg McJames.       150

Fergal Devlin gave a blow with the shaft of his spear which left strong William Sheehy stretched on the ground.

William Ó Muighruin knocked Brian Ó Dormin on the ground; Diarmuid Murphy knocked Mr. Donoghue into the mire.

"A thousand welcomes to you, O son-in-law," said swift Pearse Keating when he flung to the ground, fat Brian McEdmund.

"May your neck be now broken,"   said deceitful Deincalach, "if you are under the feet of angry Conn McCourt."

Charles McGuinness gave Giollálosa Nevin a blow which made and empty mass of him which brought sorrow on his brother.          155

Big Diarmuid Ó Callaran, who was a churl, drove a nail at Charles which blinded the sight of his eyes.

Patrick Fitzsimon gave Eoin a blow with a big cudgel on the top of his skull which made him howl.

Philip Martin, a man who was usually glum, hit Bartley Cooney with a broad flagstone.

The school master gave a well-measured blow to McKeever, which made fragments of his hand, and left the poor fool defeated.