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His widow became Baroness Decies on May 25, 1936, by marrying the Irish peer, John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies.
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Widowed for a third time, Lady Decies died in 1944.
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Lady Decies photographed with her friend, and fellow lover of diamonds, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, at the Red Cross Ball and the Metropolitan Opera's 60th season.
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Christum negant male pereant, acclamatum est Decies, for two hours 'space; qui Christum non colunt, Augusti inimici sunt, acclamatum est ter decies; and by and by idolaters again under that Apostate Julianus; all Arians under Constantius, good Catholics again under Jovinianus, And little difference there is between the discretion of men and children in this case, especially of old folks and women, as
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The bell directed its course to Ireland until it reached a harbour on the south coast, scil.: -- in the Decies of Munster, at an island called, at that time, High Sheep Island [Aird na gCcaorac] and the ship made the same port, as Declan declared.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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After this Declan returned to his own country -- to the Decies of
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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Evidently the donors of the cauldrons which purchased the freedom of the saint were of the Decies; they are said to have been Munster folk (the name of the province is variously spelled).
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Declan set out in haste by direction of the angel to Inneoin, i.e. the place which is in the centre of the plain of Femhin in the northern part of the Decies.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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The _Desi_ (VG), or Dessi, were a semi-nomadic pre-Celtic people once established in the barony of Deece, Co. Meath, but afterwards in the baronies of Decies in Waterford: both these baronies still bear their name.
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On yet another occasion Declan was in his own region -- travelling over Slieve Gua in the Decies, when his horse from some cause got lame so that he could proceed no further.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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