Category: History - British
Early notices of Ireland 1 The Celtic constitution 2 The tribal system 5 The Celtic land law 7 Common origin of Celtic and Teutonic institutions 11 The ancient Irish Church 12 Gradual introduction of Roman ecclesiastical polity 14
Lawyers and casuists might dispute about the succession. Logically, Mary and Elizabeth could not both be legitimate; but the people of England swept these cobwebs away. Catherin...
27. CHAPTER IX.Henry VIII. was proclaimed without opposition, and amid great rejoicings in all the principal towns, but his accession made no immediate difference to Ireland. Kildare prepared...
34. CHAPTER XV.During the quarter of a century which elapsed between Henry's accession and his final breach with Rome, the King showed great submission to the papal chair. The wishes of such a...
28. CHAPTER X.Among the letters which Alen brought with him from England was one of thanks for past services to Connor Maguire, chief of Fermanagh. Maguire belonged to the party in Ulster whi...
36. CHAPTER XVII.No Parliament was held in Ireland during Edward VI.'s reign; and the official establishment of Protestantism is generally supposed to date from a royal order, dated Feb. 6, 1551...
35. CHAPTER XVI.The death of Henry VIII. made no immediate difference to Ireland, for St. Leger continued to govern as before. There was such a tendency to depress the Ormonde interest that the...
30. CHAPTER XI.Grey was immediately chosen Lord Justice by the Council, and his patent as Deputy was not long delayed. He began badly, his temper involving him in one of those personal difficu...
33. CHAPTER XIV.The attendance of Irishmen during the session of Parliament was not altogether barren of immediate results. Fergananim O'Carroll, chief of Ely, having become blind, was murdered...
31. CHAPTER XII.The O'Connors having been quieted for the moment, Ormonde, who had private as well as public reasons for his advice, proposed a temporising policy towards O'Neill and O'Reilly o...
26. CHAPTER VIII.Ireland was destined to give the victor of Bosworth much trouble, but his accession made little immediate difference to the Anglo-Irish community. Kildare continued to act as Ch...
21. CHAPTER III.The claims of the Kings of England to Ireland were very vague. They sometimes acted as patrons of the Irish Ostmen, who were not unwilling to follow the example of their Northum...
20. CHAPTER II.Norwegian ships began to appear on the Irish coast in 795, one year after the destruction of the church at Lindisfarne. The islands were harried, Lambay being perhaps the first...
19. CHAPTER I.The main object of this book is to describe in some detail, and as impartially as possible, the dealings of England with Ireland during the reigns of Henry VIII. and his three c...
32. CHAPTER XIII.With the usual plundering inroads on the Pale Brereton was able to cope; and the greater chieftains were quiet, for Gerald of Kildare was safe. O'Donnell, who may have resented...
24. CHAPTER VI.The Crown did nothing for Ireland. Torn by intestine quarrels, and denied a just government, the colony grew yearly weaker. Many of the settlers found their position intolerable...
22. CHAPTER IV.Richard I. did not interfere with his brother's jurisdiction over Ireland, and this may be the reason why the records of the colony during his reign are so scanty. The invaders,...
23. CHAPTER V.The Irish invited Bruce, but they made no regular or general effort in his favour. Their total incapacity for anything like national organisation had forbidden the idea of a nat...
25. CHAPTER VII.The history of the Irish Parliament in the middle ages corresponds pretty closely with that of England. The idea of the three estates is plainly visible as early as 1204, when J...
15. CHAPTER XV.Points at issue between King and Pope 288 See of Armagh 289 Dublin 290 Meath 290 Cashel 291 Tuam 292 Remoter sees 292 King and Pope in Leinster, Munster, and Connaught 293 Corru...
29. iv. 5938) Desmond increases his loss by Henry's malpractices to[164] _Brewer_, vol. iv. No. 5620; Lee to Henry VIII., July 4, 1529, _ib._ 5756. For the question of the brief see Brewer, Introd. to vol. iv. pp. ccccxxiii. and ccccxliv., and...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.St. Leger is again Lord Deputy 384-396 The succession 384 The Queen and the Pope 386 Bishop Bale at Kilkenny 386 The Primacy is restored to Armagh 391 Restoration of Kildare 392...
16. CHAPTER XVI.St. Leger still Deputy 325 Education of Irish nobles at Court 326 Sir Edward Bellingham Lord Deputy 327-345 His efforts to protect the Pale 328 Pirates on the Irish coast 329 Be...
14. CHAPTER XIV.St. Leger Lord Deputy 262-287 O'Donnell abjures the Pope 262 O'Neill abjures the Pope 264 Other chiefs follow suit 266 The Munster nobles do likewise 267 O'Neill made Earl of Ty...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Kildare family in power 124-128 The Ormonde family much reduced 125 Viceroyalty of Surrey 128-139 The Pale a very small district 129 Misery of the country 131 O'Donnell and...
17. CHAPTER XVII.St. Leger Lord Deputy 354-359 Protestantism officially promulgated 354 Doctrinal conference 355 Browne and Dowdall 356 Tolerant views of St. Leger 357 Sir James Croft Lord Deput...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The Fitzgeralds were Yorkists, the Butlers Lancastrians 102 Lambert Simnel crowned in Ireland 104 The Irish Yorkists cut to pieces at Stoke 105 Mission of Sir Richard Edgcombe 1...
11. CHAPTER XI.Administration of Lord Leonard Grey 195-220 The royal supremacy established by law 196 The Act of Absentees 197 The O'Neills 198 Poverty of the Crown 199 Grey in the West of Ire...
6. CHAPTER VI.Lionel, Duke of Clarence 80 The statute of Kilkenny 81 Its effect in dividing the rival races 83 Richard II.'s first visit 85 His second visit 86 His complete failure 87 Henry I...
12. CHAPTER XII.Ormonde proposes to reform his country 221 Grey almost constantly engaged in war 222 His quarrel with the Butlers 223 The O'Carrolls 223 The O'Mores 224 Rash expedition of Grey...
10. CHAPTER X.The Geraldine rebellion 163 Loyalty of the Butlers 164 Geraldine siege of Dublin 166 Failure of the rebellion 169 Surrender of Kildare 177 The Desmonds and MacCarthies 180 Desmo...
3. CHAPTER III.Ireland given to England by the Popes 37 First interference of Henry II. 39 An Anglo-Norman party in Ireland 40 Strongbow 41 Anglo-Norman invasion 42 Henry II. in Ireland 47 Dif...
2. CHAPTER II.First inroads of the Northmen 17 Turgesius 17 Danes and Norwegians 18 Danish power in Ireland 19 Its limits 21 Revival of the Celts 22 Brian Borumha 23 Battle of Clontarf 28 Con...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Confusion after Grey's recall 247 Sir Anthony St. Leger Lord Deputy 249-261 His policy 250 Case of the O'Tooles 251 The King will not allow a military brotherhood 254 Desmond ab...
4. CHAPTER IV.John Lord of Ireland 58 King John in Ireland 59 Leinster divided after Strongbow's death 61 The De Burgos in Connaught 61 The colony declines under Henry III. 62 Results of Edwa...
5. CHAPTER V.Why the Bruces failed 69 Decline of the colony 70 The colonists become _Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores_ 71 Creation of the great earldoms 71 Irish corporate towns 73 Anglo-Norman fa...
7. CHAPTER VII.A close copy 94 Growth of representative institutions 95 The sphere of English law contracted under Edward III. 96 The Parliament of Kilkenny not representative of Ireland 97 Th...
1. CHAPTER I.Early notices of Ireland 1 The Celtic constitution 2 The tribal system 5 The Celtic land law 7 Common origin of Celtic and Teutonic institutions 11 The ancient Irish Church 12 G...