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.