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A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete

Thomas D'Arcy McGee · Public domain text

298,286 words · about 20 h 53 min to read

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Author
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868)
Language
English
Subjects
Ireland › History
Length
298,286 words · about 20 h 53 min
Sections
82 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (82)
  1. Opening about 5 min
  2. I. THE FIRST INHABITANTS about 5 min
  3. II. THE FIRST AGES about 9 min
  4. III. CHRISTIANITY PREACHED AT TARA—THE RESULT about 11 min
  5. IV. THE CONSTITUTION, AND HOW THE KINGS KEPT IT about 9 min
  6. V. REIGN OF HUGH II.—THE IRISH COLONY IN SCOTLAND OBTAINS ITS INDEPENDENCE about 10 min
  7. VI. KINGS OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY about 9 min
  8. VII. KINGS OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY about 9 min
  9. VIII. WHAT THE IRISH SCHOOLS AND SAINTS DID IN THE THREE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES about 13 min
  10. I. THE DANISH INVASION about 16 min
  11. II. KINGS OF THE NINTH CENTURY (CONTINUED)—NIAL III.—MALACHY I.—HUGH VII about 18 min
  12. III. REIGN OF FLAN "OF THE SHANNON" (A.D. 879 TO 916) about 11 min
  13. IV. KINGS OF THE TENTH CENTURY; NIAL IV.; DONOGH II.; CONGAL III.; DONALD IV about 17 min
  14. V. REIGN OF MALACHY II. AND RIVALRY OF BRIAN about 11 min
  15. VI. BRIAN, ARD-RIGH—BATTLE OF CLONTARF about 12 min
  16. VII. EFFECTS OF THE RIVALRY OF BRIAN AND MALACHY ON THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION about 9 min
  17. VIII. LATTER DAYS OF THE NORTHMEN IN IRELAND about 10 min
  18. I. THE FORTUNES OF THE FAMILY OF BRIAN about 10 min
  19. II. THE CONTEST BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH—RISE OF THE FAMILY OF O'CONOR about 10 min
  20. III. THORLOGH MORE O'CONOR—MURKERTACH OF AILEACH—ACCESSION OF RODERICK O'CONOR about 10 min
  21. IV. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING AMONG THE IRISH, PREVIOUS TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION about 13 min
  22. V. SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE IRISH PREVIOUS TO THE NORMAN INVASION about 13 min
  23. VI. FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE IRISH PREVIOUS TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION about 10 min
  24. IV. THE NORMANS IN IRELAND about 12 min
  25. II. THE ARMS, ARMOUR AND TACTICS OF THE NORMANS AND IRISH about 8 min
  26. III. THE FIRST CAMPAIGN OF EARL RICHARD—SIEGE OF DUBLIN—DEATH OF KING DERMID McMURROGH about 10 min
  27. IV. SECOND CAMPAIGN OF EARL RICHARD—HENRY II. IN IRELAND about 10 min
  28. V. FROM THE RETURN OF HENRY II. TO ENGLAND TILL THE DEATH OF EARL RICHARD AND HIS PRINCIPAL COMPANIONS about 11 min
  29. VI. THE LAST YEARS OF THE ARD-RIGH, RODERICK O'CONOR about 11 min
  30. 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 about 10 min
  31. VIII. EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN CONNAUGHT about 9 min
  32. IX. EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN MUNSTER AND LEINSTER about 11 min
  33. X. EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN MEATH AND ULSTER about 10 min
  34. 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 about 12 min
  35. XII. STATE OF SOCIETY AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE NORMAN PERIOD about 6 min
  36. I. THE RISE OF "THE RED EARL"—RELATIONS OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND about 32 min
  37. VI. THE NATIVE, THE NATURALIZED, AND "THE ENGLISH INTEREST." about 1 h 55 min
  38. IX. STATE OF IRISH AND ANGLO-IRISH SOCIETY DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES about 9 min
  39. X. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES about 11 min
  40. I. IRISH POLICY OF HENRY THE EIGHTH DURING THE LIFETIME OF CARDINAL WOLSEY about 44 min
  41. I. EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD SIXTH about 10 min
  42. II. EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP AND MARY about 36 min
  43. V. THE "UNDERTAKERS" IN ULSTER AND LEINSTER—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SIR JAMES FITZMAURICE about 1 h 29 min
  44. XII. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH about 11 min
  45. IX. FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. TILL THE DEATH OF CROMWELL about 45 min
  46. IV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1641 about 15 min
  47. V. THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION—ITS CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT about 14 min
  48. VI. THE CONFEDERATE WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1643—THE CESSATION about 9 min
  49. VII. THE CESSATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES about 9 min
  50. VIII. GLAMORGAN'S TREATY—THE NEW NUNCIO RINUCCINI—O'NEIL'S POSITION—THE BATTLE OF BENBURB about 12 min
  51. IX. FROM THE BATTLE OF BENBURB TILL THE LANDING OF CROMWELL AT DUBLIN about 10 min
  52. X. CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN—-1649-1650 about 6 min
  53. XI. CLOSE OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR about 14 min
  54. I. REIGN OF CHARLES II about 9 min
  55. II. REIGN OF CHARLES II. (CONCLUDED.) about 5 min
  56. III. THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY about 9 min
  57. IV. ACCESSION OF JAMES II.—TYRCONNELL'S ADMINISTRATION about 8 min
  58. V. KING JAMES IN IRELAND—IRISH PARLIAMENT OF 1689 about 24 min
  59. VIII. THE WINTER OF 1690-91 about 5 min
  60. IX. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1691—BATTLE OF AUGHRIM—CAPITULATION OF LIMERICK about 8 min
  61. X. REIGN OF KING WILLIAM about 12 min
  62. XI. REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE about 9 min
  63. XII. THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD DURING THE REIGNS OF WILLIAM AND ANNE about 4 min
  64. I. ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.—SWIFT'S LEADERSHIP about 27 min
  65. IV. REIGN OF GEORGE II. (CONCLUDED)—MALONE'S LEADERSHIP about 10 min
  66. V. ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.—FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—OCTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHED about 6 min
  67. VI. FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—STATE OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1776 about 6 min
  68. VII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—"FREE TRADE," AND THE VOLUNTEERS about 7 min
  69. VIII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHED about 8 min
  70. IX. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—FIRST PERIOD about 13 min
  71. X. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—SECOND PERIOD about 35 min
  72. XIII. THE UNITED IRISHMEN about 7 min
  73. XIV. NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND—THE THREE EXPEDITIONS NEGOTIATED BY TONE AND LEWINES about 9 min
  74. XV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798 about 15 min
  75. XVI. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798—THE WEXFORD INSURRECTION about 20 min
  76. XVII. THE INSURRECTION ELSEWHERE—FATE OF THE LEADING UNITED IRISHMEN about 16 min
  77. XVIII. ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS—BEFORE THE UNION about 31 min
  78. XII. FROM THE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO THE EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS about 20 min
  79. III. ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND (1807 TO 1813) about 16 min
  80. IV. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—1813 TO 1821 about 12 min
  81. V. RETROSPECT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III about 8 min
  82. VI. THE IRISH ABROAD, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III about 33 min

The opening of I. THE FIRST INHABITANTS

Ireland is situated in the North Atlantic, between the degrees fifty-one and a half and fifty-five and a half North, and five and a quarter and ten and a third West longitude from Greenwich. It is the last land usually seen by ships leaving the Old World, and the first by those who arrive there from the Northern ports of America. In size it is less than half as large as Britain, and in shape it may be compared to one of those shields which we see in coats-of-arms, the four Provinces—Ulster, Connaught, Leinster, and Munster—representing the four quarters of the shield.

Around the borders of the country, generally near the coast, several ranges of hills and mountains rear their crests, every Province having one or more such groups. The West and South have, however, the largest and highest of these hills, from the sides of all which descend numerous rivers, flowing in various directions to the sea. Other rivers issue out of large lakes formed in the valleys, such as the Galway river which drains Lough Corrib, and the Bann which carries off the surplus waters of Lough Neagh (Nay).

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