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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 VI. 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. |
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 EXCLU |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
CHAPTER I. AFTER THE UNION - DEATH OF LORD CLARE - ROBERT EMMET'S EMEUTE. |