The Story of Ireland: A Narrative of Irish History, from the Earliest Ages to the Insurrection of 1867 ...

Kenedy, 1898 - 657 σελίδες

Chapter Page Authors Preface	3

Preface to American Edition	7

IntroductoryHow we learn the facts of early history	9

The Milesians sighting the Promised Isle	11

How Ireland fared under the Milesian dynasty	19

How the Unfree Clans tried a revolution and what came of it How the Romans thought it vain to attempt a conquest of Ireland	23

Recital of the Bardic Tales in Ancient Erinn	26

The death of King Conor Mac Nessa	35

How Henry recalled the adventurers How he came over himself to punish them and befriend the Irish	121

How Henry made a treaty with the Irish kingand did not keep it	127

The Deathbed of King Henry the Second	132

How the AngloNorman colony fared	135

The bier that conquered The story of Godfrey of Tyrconnell	140

How the Irish nation awoke from its trance and flung off its chains The career of King Edward Bruce	150

How this bright day of independence was turned to gloom How the seasons fought against Ireland and famine fought for England	156

Mac Murrough warned of the plot by his Bard	169

The Golden Age of PreChristian Erinn	38

The death of King Dahi	42

How Ireland received the Christian Faith	45

A retrospective glance at pagan Ireland	51

St Columba led blindfolded into the Convention	55

Chapter	63

How the French sailed off and the deserted Irish army starved in rags	69

The Danes in Ireland	74

The Irish army in exile How Sarsfield fell on Landen plain	75

The murder of King Mahon	78

How the government conspiracy now achieved its purpose How	81

Chapter Page	83

How a dark thundercloud gathered over Ireland	85

The glorious day of Clontarf	89

After the Battle The scene upon Ossorys plain The last days of national freedom	99

How England became a compact kingdom while Ireland was breaking into fragments	103

How Henry the Second feigned wondrous anxiety to heal the disorders of Ireland	106

The treason of Diarmid MMurrogh	108

The Norman landing	112

The meeting of Eva and Strongbow	119

The Reformers at their work	207

Stealing away the Tyrconnell princes	238

The Conflict before Armagh	257

Dunboy besieged	295

The Flight of the Earls	327

Authentic portrait of Owen Roe ONeill	363

Depositing the captured English Standards in Limerick Cathedral	370

Battle of the Boyne	410

The Dog of Aughrim	451

The capture of Lord Edward Fitzgerald	515

How the horrors of the famine had their effect on Irish politics	554

How the Irish exodus came about and the English press gloated over	560

A scene from the Irish exodus	561

How some Irishmen took to the politics of despair How Englands	566

The unfinished chapter of eighteen hundred and sixtyseven	574

Valedictory	581

Revival of Parliamentary agitation in Ireland The demand	593

How Irishmen of opposite opinions combined at last in their coun	602

Obstruction Men and methods that worried the House of Commons	615

Πνευματικά δικαιώματα

Τίτλος	The Story of Ireland: A Narrative of Irish History, from the Earliest Ages to the Insurrection of 1867 ...
Συγγραφέας	Alexander Martin Sullivan
Εκδότης	Kenedy, 1898
Πρωτότυπο από	Πανεπιστήμιο του Ιλινόι στο Ουρμπάνα-Σαμπέιν
Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις	16 Σεπτ. 2014
Μέγεθος	657 σελίδες

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