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‘But by God!’, expostulated Sir John Perrott in October 1586, ‘I daily grow weaker and weaker of the body through the great pain I have of the stone, growing more and more upon me in this slimy country.’ Journeying through Connacht, as Elizabeth I’s Lord Deputy told George Carew, he suffered so much
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Palmer, P. (2016). Where Does It Hurt? How Pain Makes History in Early Modern Ireland. In: Dillane, F., McAreavey, N., Pine, E. (eds) The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31388-7_2
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