A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
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The History of Ireland is the most fascinating and least known of records. When Britons were represented as savages, Ireland was a place of saints and researchers. The author of this edition of D'Arcy McGee's superb and unbiased work took advantage of the awakening interest in Irish writing to present to the public a book of elegant history, as cheap as widely circling romance. It was his wish to teach his countrymen about their national records. It is difficult to close the introduction without an expression of regret at the dark and horrible destiny that overtook the honorable, enthusiastic,...
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- A Popular History of Ireland:
- Earliest Period
- Emancipation of the Catholics
- PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- HISTORY OF IRELAND
- BOOK I.
- CHAPTER I. THE FIRST INHABITANTS.
- CHAPTER II. THE FIRST AGES.
- CHAPTER III. CHRISTIANITY PREACHED AT TARA—THE RESULT.
- CHAPTER IV. THE CONSTITUTION, AND HOW THE KINGS KEPT IT.
- CHAPTER V. REIGN OF HUGH II.—THE IRISH COLONY IN SCOTLAND OBTAINS ITS INDEPENDENCE.
- CHAPTER VI. KINGS OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER VII. KINGS OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER VIII. WHAT THE IRISH SCHOOLS AND SAINTS DID IN THE THREE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES.
- BOOK II.
- CHAPTER I. THE DANISH INVASION.
- CHAPTER II. KINGS OF THE NINTH CENTURY (CONTINUED)—NIAL III.—MALACHY I.—HUGH VII.
- CHAPTER III. REIGN OF FLAN "OF THE SHANNON" (A.D. 879 TO 916).
- CHAPTER IV. KINGS OF THE TENTH CENTURY; NIAL IV.; DONOGH II.; CONGAL III.; DONALD IV.
- CHAPTER V. REIGN OF MALACHY II. AND RIVALRY OF BRIAN.
- CHAPTER VI. BRIAN, ARD-RIGH—BATTLE OF CLONTARF.
- CHAPTER VII. EFFECTS OF THE RIVALRY OF BRIAN AND MALACHY ON THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION.
- CHAPTER VIII. LATTER DAYS OF THE NORTHMEN IN IRELAND.
- BOOK III. WAR OF SUCCESSION.
- CHAPTER I. THE FORTUNES OF THE FAMILY OF BRIAN.
- CHAPTER II. THE CONTEST BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH—RISE OF THE FAMILY OF O'CONOR.
- CHAPTER III. THORLOGH MORE O'CONOR—MURKERTACH OF AILEACH—ACCESSION OF RODERICK O'CONOR.
- CHAPTER IV. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING AMONG THE IRISH, PREVIOUS TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION.
- CHAPTER V. SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE IRISH PREVIOUS TO THE NORMAN INVASION.
- CHAPTER VI. FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE IRISH PREVIOUS TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION.
- BOOK IV. THE NORMANS IN IRELAND.
- CHAPTER I. DERMID McMURROGH'S NEGOTIATIONS AND SUCCESS—THE FIRST EXPEDITION OF THE NORMANS INTO IRELAND.
- CHAPTER II. THE ARMS, ARMOUR AND TACTICS OF THE NORMANS AND IRISH.
- CHAPTER III. THE FIRST CAMPAIGN OF EARL RICHARD—SIEGE OF DUBLIN—DEATH OF KING DERMID McMURROGH.
- CHAPTER IV. SECOND CAMPAIGN OF EARL RICHARD—HENRY II. IN IRELAND.
- CHAPTER V. FROM THE RETURN OF HENRY II. TO ENGLAND TILL THE DEATH OF EARL RICHARD AND HIS PRINCIPAL COMPANIONS.
- CHAPTER VI. THE LAST YEARS OF THE ARD-RIGH, RODERICK O'CONOR.
- CHAPTER VII. ASSASSINATION OF HUGH DE LACY—JOHN "LACKLAND" IN IRELAND—VARIOUS EXPEDITIONS OF JOHN DE COURCY—DEATH OF CONOR MOINMOY, AND RISE OF CATHAL, "THE RED-HANDED" O'CONOR—CLOSE OF THE CAREER OF DE COURCY AND DE BURGH.
- CHAPTER VIII. EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN CONNAUGHT.
- CHAPTER IX. EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN MUNSTER AND LEINSTER.
- CHAPTER X. EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN MEATH AND ULSTER.
- CHAPTER XI. RETROSPECT OF THE NORMAN PERIOD IN IRELAND—A GLANCE AT THE MILITARY TACTICS OF THE TIMES—NO CONQUEST OF THE COUNTRY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER XII. STATE OF SOCIETY AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE NORMAN PERIOD.
- BOOK V. THE ERA OF KING EDWARD BRUCE.
- CHAPTER I. THE RISE OF "THE RED EARL"—RELATIONS OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.
- CHAPTER II. THE NORTHERN IRISH ENTER INTO ALLIANCE WITH KING ROBERT BRUCE—ARRIVAL AND FIRST CAMPAIGN OF EDWARD BRUCE.
- CHAPTER III. BRUCE'S SECOND CAMPAIGN, AND CORONATION AT DUNDALK—THE RISING IN CONNAUGHT—BATTLE OF ATHENRY—ROBERT BRUCE IN IRELAND.
- CHAPTER IV. BATTLE OF FAUGHARD AND DEATH OF KING EDWARD BRUCE—CONSEQUENCES OF HIS INVASION—EXTINCTION OF THE EARLDOM OF ULSTER—IRISH OPINION OF EDWARD BRUCE.
- BOOK VI. THE NATIVE, THE NATURALIZED, AND "THE ENGLISH INTEREST."
- CHAPTER I. CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND—ITS EFFECTS ON THE ANGLO-IRISH—THE KNIGHTS OF SAINT JOHN—GENERAL DESIRE OF THE ANGLO-IRISH TO NATURALIZE THEMSELVES AMONG THE NATIVE POPULATION—A POLICY OF NON-INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE RACES RESOLVED ON IN ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER II. LIONEL, DUKE OF CLARENCE, LORD LIEUTENANT—THE PENAL CODE OF RACE—"THE STATUTE OF KILKENNY," AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES.
- CHAPTER III. ART McMURROGH, LORD OF LEINSTER—FIRST EXPEDITION OF RICHARD II., OF ENGLAND, TO IRELAND.
- CHAPTER IV. SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS OF RICHARD II.—LIEUTENANCY AND DEATH OF THE EARL OF MARCH—SECOND EXPEDITION OF RICHARD AGAINST ART McMURROGH—CHANGE OF DYNASTY IN ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER V. PARTIES WITHIN "THE PALE"—BATTLES OF KILMAINHAM AND KILLUCAN—SIR JOHN TALBOT'S LORD LIEUTENANCY.
- CHAPTER I. ACTS OF THE NATIVE PRINCES—SUBDIVISION OF TRIBES AND TERRITORIES—ANGLO-IRISH TOWNS UNDER NATIVE PROTECTION—ATTEMPT OF THADDEUS O'BRIEN, PRINCE OF THOMOND, TO RESTORE THE MONARCHY—RELATIONS OF THE RACES IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER VII. CONTINUED DIVISION AND DECLINE OF "THE ENGLISH INTEREST"—RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, LORD LIEUTENANT—CIVIL WAR AGAIN IN ENGLAND—EXECUTION OF THE EARL OF DESMOND—ASCENDANCY OF THE KILDARE GERALDINES.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE AGE AND RULE OF GERALD, EIGHTH EARL OF KILDARE—THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN FOR THE ENGLISH INTEREST—THE YORKIST PRETENDERS, SIMNEL AND WARBECK—POYNING'S PARLIAMENT—BATTLES OF KNOCKDOE AND MONABRAHER.
- CHAPTER IX. STATE OF IRISH AND ANGLO-IRISH SOCIETY DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.
- CHAPTER X. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.
- BOOK VII. UNION OF THE CROWNS OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
- CHAPTER I. IRISH POLICY OF HENRY THE EIGHTH DURING THE LIFETIME OF CARDINAL WOLSEY.
- CHAPTER II. THE INSURRECTION OF SILKEN THOMAS—THE GERALDINE LEAGUE—ADMINISTRATION OF LORD LEONARD GRAY.
- CHAPTER III. SIR ANTHONY ST. LEGER, LORD DEPUTY—NEGOTIATIONS OF THE IRISH CHIEFS WITH JAMES THE FIFTH OF SCOTLAND—FIRST ATTEMPTS TO INTRODUCE THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION—OPPOSITION OF THE CLERGY—PARLIAMENT OF 1541—THE PROCTORS OF THE CLERGY EXCLUDED—STATE OF THE COUNTRY—THE CROWNS UNITED—HENRY THE EIGHTH PROCLAIMED AT LONDON AND DUBLIN.
- CHAPTER IV. ADHESION OF O'NEIL, O'DONNELL AND O'BRIEN—A NEW ANGLO-IRISH PEERAGE—NEW RELATIONS OF LORD AND TENANT—BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THE CROWN—RETROSPECT.
- BOOK VIII. THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION.
- CHAPTER I. EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD SIXTH.
- CHAPTER II. EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP AND MARY.
- CHAPTER III. ACCESSION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH—PARLIAMENT OF 1560—THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY—CAREER AND DEATH OF JOHN O'NEIL "THE PROUD."
- CHAPTER IV. SIR HENRY SIDNEY'S DEPUTYSHIP—PARLIAMENT OF 1569—THE SECOND "GERALDINE LEAGUE"—SIR JAMES FITZ-MAURICE.
- CHAPTER V. THE "UNDERTAKERS" IN ULSTER AND LEINSTER—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SIR JAMES FITZMAURICE.
- CHAPTER VI. SEQUEL OF THE SECOND GERALDINE LEAGUE—PLANTATION OF MUNSTER—EARLY CAREER OF HUGH O'NEIL, EARL OF TYRONE—PARLIAMENT OF 1585.
- CHAPTER VII. BATTLE OF GLENMALURE—SIR JOHN PERROTT'S ADMINISTRATION—THE SPANISH ARMADA—LORD DEPUTY FITZWILLIAM—ESCAPE OF HUGH ROE O'DONNELL FROM DUBLIN CASTLE—THE ULSTER CONFEDERACY FORMED.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE ULSTER CONFEDERACY—FEAGH MAC HUGH O'BYRNE—CAMPAIGN OF 1595—NEGOTIATIONS, ENGLISH AND SPANISH—BATTLE OF THE YELLOW FORD—ITS CONSEQUENCES.
- CHAPTER IX. ESSEX'S CAMPAIGN OF 1599—BATTLE OF THE CURLIEU MOUNTAINS—O'NEIL'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN—MOUNTJOY, LORD DEPUTY.
- CHAPTER X. MOUNTJOY'S ADMINISTRATION—OPERATIONS IN ULSTER AND MUNSTER—CAREW'S "WIT AND CUNNING"—LANDING OF SPANIARDS IN THE SOUTH—BATTLE OF KINSALE—DEATH OF O'DONNELL IN SPAIN.
- CHAPTER XI. THE CONQUEST OF MUNSTER—DEATH OF ELIZABETH, AND SUBMISSION OF O'NEIL—"THE ARTICLES OF MELLIFONT."
- CHAPTER XII. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH.
- BOOK IX. FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. TILL THE DEATH OF CROMWELL.
- CHAPTER I. JAMES I.—FLIGHT OF THE EARLS—CONFISCATION OF ULSTER—PENAL LAWS—PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION.
- CHAPTER II. LAST YEARS OF JAMES—CONFISCATION OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES—ACCESSION OF CHARLES I.—GRIEVANCES AND "GRACES"—ADMINISTRATION OF LORD STRAFFORD.
- CHAPTER III. LORD STRAFFORD'S IMPEACHMENT AND EXECUTION—PARLIAMENT OF 1639-'41—THE INSURRECTION OF 1641—THE IRISH ABROAD.
- CHAPTER IV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1641.
- CHAPTER V. THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION—ITS CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
- CHAPTER VI. THE CONFEDERATE WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1643—THE CESSATION.
- CHAPTER VII. THE CESSATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
- CHAPTER VIII. GLAMORGAN'S TREATY—THE NEW NUNCIO RINUCCINI—O'NEIL'S POSITION—THE BATTLE OF BENBURB.
- CHAPTER IX. FROM THE BATTLE OF BENBURB TILL THE LANDING OF CROMWELL AT DUBLIN.
- CHAPTER X. CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN—-1649-1650.
- CHAPTER XI. CLOSE OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR.
- CHAPTER XII. IRELAND UNDER THE PROTECTORATE—ADMINISTRATION OF HENRY CROMWELL—DEATH OF OLIVER.
- BOOK X. FROM THE RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. TO THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.
- CHAPTER I. REIGN OF CHARLES II.
- CHAPTER II. REIGN OF CHARLES II. (CONCLUDED.)
- CHAPTER III. THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER IV. ACCESSION OF JAMES II.—TYRCONNELL'S ADMINISTRATION.
- CHAPTER V. KING JAMES IN IRELAND—IRISH PARLIAMENT OF 1689.
- CHAPTER VI. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1689—SIEGES OF DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.
- CHAPTER VII. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1690—BATTLE OF THE BOYNE—ITS CONSEQUENCES—THE SIEGES OF ATHLONE AND LIMERICK.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE WINTER OF 1690-91.
- CHAPTER IX. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1691—BATTLE OF AUGHRIM—CAPITULATION OF LIMERICK.
- CHAPTER X. REIGN OF KING WILLIAM.
- CHAPTER XI. REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.
- CHAPTER XII. THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD DURING THE REIGNS OF WILLIAM AND ANNE.
- BOOK XI. FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I. TO THE LEGISLATIVE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
- CHAPTER I. ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.—SWIFT'S LEADERSHIP.
- CHAPTER II. REIGN OF GEORGE II.—GROWTH OF PUBLIC SPIRIT—THE "PATRIOT" PARTY—LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION.
- CHAPTER III. THE LAST JACOBITE MOVEMENT—THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD—FRENCH EXPEDITION UNDER THUROT, OR O'FARRELL.
- CHAPTER IV. REIGN OF GEORGE II. (CONCLUDED)—MALONE'S LEADERSHIP.
- CHAPTER V. ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.—FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—OCTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHED.
- CHAPTER VI. FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—STATE OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1776.
- CHAPTER VII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—"FREE TRADE," AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
- CHAPTER VIII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHED.
- CHAPTER IX. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—FIRST PERIOD.
- CHAPTER X. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—SECOND PERIOD.
- CHAPTER XI. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—THIRD PERIOD—CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL OF 1793.
- CHAPTER XII. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN IRELAND—SECESSION OF GRATTAN, CURRAN, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FROM PARLIAMENT, IN 1797.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE UNITED IRISHMEN.
- CHAPTER XIV. NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND—THE THREE EXPEDITIONS NEGOTIATED BY TONE AND LEWINES.
- CHAPTER XV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798—THE WEXFORD INSURRECTION.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE INSURRECTION ELSEWHERE—FATE OF THE LEADING UNITED IRISHMEN.
- CHAPTER XVIII. ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS—BEFORE THE UNION.
- CHAPTER XIX. LAST SESSION OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT—THE LEGISLATIVE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
- BOOK XII. FROM THE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO THE EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS.
- CHAPTER I. AFTER THE UNION—DEATH OF LORD CLARE—ROBERT EMMET'S EMEUTE.
- CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF LORD HARDWICKE (1801 TO 1806), AND OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD (1806 TO 1808).
- CHAPTER III. ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND (1807 TO 1813).
- CHAPTER IV. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—1813 TO 1821.
- CHAPTER V. RETROSPECT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.
- CHAPTER VI. THE IRISH ABROAD, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.
- CHAPTER VII. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION—1821 TO 1826.
- CHAPTER VIII. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—THE CLARE ELECTION—EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS.
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