"However, the specific accusation of droit de seigneur, none of the three historians seem to support"
Slevin actually says that there is no evidence to support it as does Liam Nolan - both thought it credible enough to include in their histories without dismissing it out of hand
Nolan makes the poin that there was a large body of information to hand that he did not use due to his being unable to confirm it
Malclolmson dismisses all criticism of Leitim out of hand
As for your novelist, she deals only with the murders - can't find a comment from her one way or the other
Several things about this; the victims would hardly go about shouting what had happened to them at a time when rape victims wre considered as guilty as their rapists, if not moreso
One victim was said to hev drowned herself to avoid the shame
The families would not make too much of a fuss for fear of eviction
The auhorities would have bent over backwards to cover such events up to save embarrasing his ludship - Irland was a powder keg of revolt and land wars without adding something like this to the already toxic atmosphere.
Despite all this, a century and a half later these accusations have remained as fresh as they were on the day they were made
You have yet to comment on the document you were linked to which outlined the sexual behavior of our betters at the height of their powers
I would say I wonder why but I wouldn't be telling the truth
"Haven't you been paying attention Jim?"
I sure have - as old as I am my sense of smell is as good as it ever was Teribus
Your style of evasion and your cap-doffing sycophancy would have giben you away across the length of a football field
You've just given yourself away by identifying yourself with something Baccy wrote anyway
None so dim.... as they should have said
Jim Carroll