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OF RODERICK O'CONOR.
The successful ambition of Thorlogh O'Conor had thus
added, as we have seen in the last chapter, a fifth
dynasty to the number of competitors for the sovereignty.
And if great energy and various talents could alone
entitle a chief to rule over his country, this Prince
well merited the obedience of his cotemporaries. He is
the first of the latter kings who maintained a regular
fleet at sea; at one time we find these Connaught galleys
doing service on the coast of Cork, at another co-operating
with his land forces, in the harbour of Derry. The year
of his greatest power was the fifteenth of his reign
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