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1884 Antique IRELAND IRISH HISTORY Gaelic Celtic Pagan Kings Catholic St Patrick: $295.00
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Historical Subject Matter Discussed/Illustrated in this Book (Partial Only, See Full Contents Below): History of Ireland Irish Ancient Modern Celtic Gaelic Pagan Christian Catholic Protestant Kings Tara St. Patrick England Great Britain Milesians Ulster Leinster Munster Connaught Meath Cormac Palladius St. Finian St. Kieran O’Donnel Tribe Bangor Abbey Feargus Danes Picts Naval Combat Norman Invasion Massacre Rebellion Rory O’Connor Siege of Dublin Richard Strongbow Cork Fitzgeralds Knights Templars Welsh Wales Houses of York and Lancaster Piracy Battle of Wakefield Battle of Bosworth Two Roses Cardinal Wolsey Henry VIII Monasteries Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth Schism Pope Thomas More Garrison Maynooth Castle Skeffington Cromwell Jesuits Scotland Sir Hugh Willoughby Lady Jane Gray Queen Mary Earl of Tyrone Shane O’Neill Catholic Army Martyrs Siege of Sligo Castle Cahir Castle Dunboy MacGeoghegan Cormac MacCarty James VI King of England Guy Fawkes Red List Black List Treaty of Limerick Penal Laws Colonial Nationality Agitations Lucas Volunteering Declaration of Independence Irish Parliament Plot Union United Irishmen Insurrection of 1798 Orangemen O’Connell Veto Agitation Catholic Association Emancipation The Famines Monster Meetings Irish Confederation Poor Laws * * * * * * * * "One of the most important works that have ever been written respecting Ireland, is the history of the Abbe Mac-Geoghegan …" -- From the Preface THE HISTORY OF IRELAND ANCIENT AND MODERN, Taken from the Most Authentic Records, and Dedicated to the Irish Brigade. By the Abbe Mac-Geoghegan. 630 pages with index. THE NATIONAL HISTORY OF IRELAND From the Treaty of Limerick to the Year 1868. Being a Continuation of the History of the Abbe Mac-Geoghegan. By John Mitchell. Mitchell's History of Ireland, Continued from 1852 to 1884. By David P. Conyngham. Published in 1884 by D. & J. Sadlier and Company, New York. 10” x 7” cloth decorated cloth hardcover. Illustrated with engraved plates. 1279 pages. CONDITION: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo. Recased in sturdy buckram with original decorated cloth laid on both covers and spine. Firmly bound. Text is clean and complete. Some foxing. No torn, loose or missing pages. Top outer corner of pages near the front a bit nibbled. A tissue overleaf on one of the plates was torn, so I repaired it with archival tape. Bookplate inside front cover. Some preserved four-leaf clovers and a lock of hair tucked inside. Nice overall. A noble example of this grand and scarce Irish history. DESCRIPTION: This is one of the largest and most comprehensive histories of Ireland ever published. It’s an amazing 1,279 pages in length, covering all of Irish history from ancient pagan times up to the year 1884. This giant book is actually two histories in one and over the years has been published as both a single volume (as we see here in this sale) and as two separate volumes. Part One, called THE HISTORY OF IRELAND ANCIENT AND MODERN traces Irish history from the earliest days to the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in 1691. The author, Abbe James Mac-Geoghegan (or Goeghegan), was born at Uisneach, Westmeath, Ireland, but was educated at the Irish College at Paris, where he was also later ordained into the Church. It was in Paris, while serving as chaplain to the Irish Brigades in service of France, that Mac-Geoghegan wrote his history of Ireland. It was originally published at Paris and Amsterdam in three volumes between 1758 and 1763, as Histoire de L’Irlande Ancienne et Moderne. The first English translation appeared in 1831. Part Two, THE NATIONAL HISTORY OF IRELAND, is a continuation of Mac-Geoghegan’s history. It was written more than a century later. The author, John Mitchell, was an Irish Nationalist activist who was tried and convicted of treason by Ireland’s British-dominated government in 1848. He was deported to penal colonies in Bermuda and Australia before escaping to New York in 1853. While incarcerated at Australia, he wrote his Jail Journal, which became one of Irish Nationalism’s most famous texts. In New York, Mitchel founded a newspaper called The Irish Citizen and continued to fight for the cause of a free Ireland. It was during this period that he wrote his NATIONAL HISTORY OF IRELAND. (If you wish to know more about John Mitchel, Wikipedia has a very lengthy entry). Mitchel chronicles a tumultuous period of Ireland’s past, beginning with the broken Treaty of Limerick in 1691 and continuing through to the bitter political and social conflicts of the mid-19th century. Mitchel states in his Introduction: That period of a century and a half embraces a series of deeply interesting events in the annals of our country – the deliberate Breach of the Treaty of Limerick – the long series of Penal Laws – the exile of the Irish soldiery to France – their achievements in the French and other services – the career of Dean Swift – the origin of a Colonial Nationality among the English of Ireland – the Agitations of Lucas – the Volunteering – the Declaration of Independence – the history of the Independent Irish Parliament – the Plot to bring about the Union – the United Irishmen – the Negotiations with France - the Insurrection of 1798 – the French Expeditions to Ireland – the Union (so called) – the decay of Trade - the fraudulent Imposition of Debt upon Ireland – the Orangemen – the beginning of O’Connell’s power – the Veto Agitation – the Catholic Association – Clare Election – Emancipation – the series of Famines – the Repeal Agitation – the Monster Meetings – the State Trials – the Great Famine – the Death of O’Connell – the Irish Confederation – the fate of Smith O’Brien and his comrades – the Legislation of the United Parliament for Ireland – Poor Laws – National Education – the Tenant-Right Agitation – the present condition of the country, etc … If the writer has succeeded – as he has earnestly desired to do – in arranging those facts in good order, and exhibiting the naked truth concerning English domination since the Treaty of Limerick, as our fathers saw it, and felt it; -- if he has been enabled to picture, in some degree like life, the long agony of the Penal Days, when the pride of the Irish race was stung by daily, hourly humiliations, and their passions goaded to madness by brutal oppression; -- and to further picture the still more destructive devastations perpetrated upon our country in this enlightened 19th century; then it is hoped that every reader will draw for himself such general conclusions as the facts will warrant, without any declamatory appeals to patriotic resentment, or promptings to patriotic aspiration: -- the conclusion, in short, that, while England lives and flourishes, Ireland must die a daily death, and suffer an endless martyrdom; and that if Irishmen are ever to enjoy the rights of human beings, the British Empire must first perish. This book also features ten handsome full-page engraved illustrations, including prominent figures of the Irish Nationalism movement. CONTENTS ARE: Part One ~ THE HISTORY OF IRELAND ANCIENT AND MODERN. By Abbe James Mac-Geoghegan. CHAPTER ONE: Natural History of Ireland * Cambrensis’s doubtful testimony * Plains and bogs of Ireland * Gold and silver mines * Produce and growth of the island * Works of nature * Celebrated Lakes * Petrifaction * The Giant’s Causeway * The Irish warlike and witty CHAPTER TWO: Antiquity of the Scoto-Milesians * Emperor Zeo * Ancient Bards * Origin of the languages * The Psalter of Cashel * Perfidy of the Allies * Derivation of the Irish * The Alphabet * Influence of the Scoto-Milesians * Absurdities of English criticism * Ireland under the name of Jerna CHAPTER THREE: Fabulous history of the Gadelians * Britain, why so called * Feargus * Innisfall * Ancestors of the Milesians * Egyptians instructing the Irish * Fleet of the Milesians dispersed * Firbolgs in Connaught * Heremon lands in Ireland * Religion of the Pagan Irish ,P> CHAPTER FOUR: Golden Calf worshipped by Pagan Irish * Human victims offered to the sacrifice * Idolatry in Ireland * Divisions of the Irish * Marriages arranged * Music of the ancient Irish * Funeral ceremonies of the Milesians CHAPTER FIVE: Civil and political government * Heptarchy of the Saxons * Anointing at the Coronation * Banners of the Gadelians * First session of the assembly * Lands conferred * Mechanics formed * Forcherus and Nedius the poets * Examination of Psalter of Teamor by St. Patrick CHAPTER SIX: War the ruling passion * Order of the Golden Chain * Sailing round Britain * The Palace of Eamhuin * Coming of the Saviour foretold * Eminent geographers * Rebellion crushed * Massacre of the monarch and nobility * Will of Cathire More * Antiquity of the Scotch doubted CHAPTER SEVEN: Derivation of the word Ireland * O’Flaherty * St. Columbanus * Birth of St Patrick * Fasting observed by the Scots * Abbe de Fleury, the historian * Passion of St. Killian CHAPTER EIGHT: Milesius’s sons divide Ireland * Names of the old proprietors * Poem of O’Douvegan * Province of Ulster * Tribe of the Magennises * Patrimony of the O’Cahans * Province of Leinster * Munster * Connaught * Meath CHAPTER NINE: Death of Dathy * Piety of Cormac * Mission of Palladius * Saint Patrick preaching the gospel * Early life of the Saint * Suicide of Milche * Conversion of the Irish * Contemplation and prayer * Exemption of Ireland from all venomous reptiles * Founding a Metropolitan See * Christian fortitude and patience of Aongus CHAPTER TEN: General Assembly at Tara * War against the people of Leinster * Ardmach * Death of Iariath * Cormac, Bishop of Trim * Death of Saint Patrick * A miracle on St. Michael’s day * Sees reunited * Establishment of monks * Thirteen orders * “Insulae Sanctorum Monasteries” * Death of St. Finian CHAPTER ELEVEN: Love of justice * Tombs of the nobility * St. Kieran * Chief of the tribe of the O’Donnel * Abbey of Cluain-Damh * Bangor abbey * Feargus III and Domhnall I * Priory of the Blessed Virgin * Reiterated complaints * Claims of Aidan * Deaf to remonstrances CHAPTER TWELVE: Invasion of Ireland by the Danes * Condition of the Church * Three classes of Saints * A fervent prayer * Tonsures * Difference of opinion * Cycle of nineteen years * Schism * Doherty’s description * Adamnan * Singular prophecy * Sedulius * St. Gall * Opposition to civilization * Disciples of Bede * Treatise on predestination * Advantages of the Scoto-Milesians CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Decline of religion * Blood and slaughter * Powerful on sea * Convulsion of the elements * Destruction of the Picts * The Irish exasperated * Nose money * Malachi’s stratagem * Discord * Cormac’s uneasiness * Death of Cormac * Naval combat CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Battle of Tara * Brien-Borohoimhe * Prefixing the article O and Mac * Battle of Clontarf * Disagreement among the antiquarians * Duke of Normandy * Norman invasion * Three councils in Ireland * Reestablishment of the Abbey of Bangor * A ridiculous and incredible anecdote CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Exacting hostages * Terdelach O’Conner proclaimed monarch * National council of Kells * Synod in the Abbey of Mellifont * Celebrated bull of Pope Adrian IV * Rights of the Popes * Uninterrupted succession of the monarchs * Massacre of St. Thomas of Canterbury * “Island of Saints” CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Revenge * Rory O’Connor * Fatal blow to Ireland * Sentence of excommunication * Peaceful measures * Treaty of peace * Death of Dermod * Continental affairs * Siege of Dublin * Richard Strongbow coerced * Expedition to Ireland * Release of Richard Fitzstephen CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The two races * Strongbownians * The issue of Maurice * Attachment to religion * Illustrious descent of the Butlers * The Sept of the Burkes * Theobald * Murder * A cursory piece * John Darcy, the Lord-Justice of Ireland * Expedition of Sir John Courcy CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: English colony in Leinster * Generosity of Strongbow * Distribution of property * The Danes of Cork * Death of the Archbishop of Armagh * Miserable death of Strongbow * Hostility to the Fitzgeralds * Staff of St. Patrick * Usurpation * Confiscation * Spoliation of the Churches * Funeral obsequies CHAPTER NINETEEN: Coeur de Lion, King of England * Shipwreck * Captivity of Richard I * Levying tax * Jealousy between the Lacy’s and John de Courcey * Hugh O’Neill deposed * A tragical scene * Death of Archbishop of Dublin * John Lackland * Confiscation * Commanderies of Knights Templars CHAPTER TWENTY: Attack on Cluan * MacNoisk * Order of St Dominick * Foundation of the Dominicians * Maurice Fitzgerald, Chief Justice * Tyranny and injustice * David-ap-Llewellin * Earthquake * Controversy * Rebellion in Munster * The English Pale CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Death of Henry III * Domestic war * Theatre of tyranny * John de Sandford * Flight of De Vesey * Pretentions of the English * Cruel treatment of the Welsh * Revolts * Union of Wales with England * John Duns Scotus CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Resentment of the nobles * Alliance of Gaveston * Conduct of the English * Robert Bruce * Nicholas Butler * Insupportable bondage * Oath of allegiance * Summon to surrender * Richard Tuite and Miles Verdon * Bruce’s overthrow CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Edward of Windsor * Fall of the Monarchy * Quarrels of the Butlers and Birminghams * Advantages gained * Irish Bonaght * A petition to the King of England * O’Neill’s letter * New code * Pillage CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Continued disturbances in Ireland * Letters patent * Order revoked * Troubles in Ireland subsiding * Ancient proprietors * The second plague * Church of St Patrick destroyed * War with Scotland * Order of the Garter CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Richard II, the Black Prince * Dissentions * Henry Crump * Conquest of Ireland * Feigned submission * Pensions * Apparent submission of the Irish * Tragical end of Richard II * Division of the Houses of York and Lancaster CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Owen Glendower * Personal enmity * Hostile movement of the Welsh * Glendower a prisoner * Defeat of Mortimer * Conduct of the Welsh women * Learned men * Piracy * Shrine of St Cubin * Duke of Lancaster dangerously wounded CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Henry V * Checking dissipation * Parliament convened at Naas * Surrender of Castle Colmolin * Annals of Ireland * Petition to Parliament * Henry V victorious * Hanging of twelve French gentlemen CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Petition to the King * Poverty of Richard O’Hedian * Opposite interests * Tract on the abuses of government * Duke of York’s letter * Remonstrances * Imbecility of the King * Levying of troops in Wales * Retreat of Andrew Trollop * Invasion of England * Public revenue CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Battle of Wakefield * Owen Tudor a prisoner * Battle of Towton * Promotions * Mints * Attainted of High Treason * Diversity of opinions * Hatred of Queen Elizabeth * Edward IV * Desmond beheaded * Military society * Title of Viscount created * Richard III * Battle of Bosworth * “Long live the king!” CHAPTER THIRTY: An end to the feuds of the Two Roses * Restoration of Thomas Butler * Dispute * Keating excommunicated * Suspicion of Kildare’s loyalty * Dreadful devastation * Defeat of Simnel * Oath of Allegiance * Pope’s Bull * Introduction of firearms * Intrigues of the Duchess of Burgundy CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Execution of Delapool * Assassination * Jealousy the source of discord * A ludicrous scene * Custom abolished * Death of Thomas Butler * Conquering the Irish * Plunder * Provincial synod * Cardinal Wolsey * His ruling passion CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Decline of religion * Ambitious and profligate monk * Martin Luther * Lutheran Religion * Predestination and freedom of the will * Doctrine of Calvin * Catholic theologians * Ravages of the plague * Accusations of the Earl of Kildare * Continual rains * Suppressing monsasteries * Continued discord CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Schism of Henry VIII * Catherine of Aragon divorced * Moors driven out of Spain * Debauchery of Henry * Intrigues of Wolsey * His downfall and death * Death of William Warham * Anne Bullen * Cramner appointed Archbishop of Canterbury CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Secret marriage * Henry’s tyranny * Birth of Queen Elizabeth * Annihilation of the Pope’s authority in England * Conspiracy * Pathetic discourse * Name of King sacred, Rebel odious * Allen brutally murdererd * Rebellion * Progress of Schism in England * Henry’s divorce null and void * Henry condemned by the Pope * Thomas More and Fisher put to death CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Surrender of the garrison of Maynooth Castle * Execution of Fitzgerald * Skeffington * Confusion in England * Henry’s supremacy * Cromwell * Anarchy * Statutes enacted in Parliament * Law against absentees * Suppression of the tributes * Death of Catherine * Anne Bullen or Boleyn CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Incursions on the English provinces * Archbishop Brown * Letter of Thady O’Birne * Pillage * Blows aimed against religion * Anne of Cleves * Cromwell beheaded * Executions general throughout England * Introduction of Jesuits into Ireland * Distates of the Irish for titles of honor * Tanistry CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: St. Leger * Change of government * Difficulties to encounter * Spread of schism * The Reformation * War with the Scotch * Surrender of Boulogne * Liturgy and public prayers * Baron of Dungannon surprised * Ulster desolated * Sir Hugh Willoughby’s expedition * Death of Edward VI * Lady Jane Gray * Queen Mary CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Queen Mary crowned * Lady Jane Grey beheaded * Restoration of the old religion * Heresy proscribed * Abdication * Earl of Sussex, lord lieutenant * Pursuit of the Scotch * Death of Queen Mary * Treatise by Edward Walsh CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Elizabeth crowned Queen of England * Spiritual and temporal government * Distaste to marriage * Insincerity towards the Pope * The Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy approved * John Knox * The Presbyterians * Treaty * O’Neill’s movements * Jealousy CHAPTER FORTY: Henry Sidney, lord-lieutenant * MacCarty More * Garret a prisoner in the tower * Great exploits of the Earl of Tyrone * Sacrifice of Shane O’Neill * Religious feuds * Tyranny of the English government * The Pope’s sentence against Queen Elizabeth * Successes of Fitzmaurice CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: Vindicating the country’s freedom * The Pontiff’s zeal for the Irish Catholics * James Fitzmaurice complimented * Sir John Desmond in command of the Catholic Army * Letter to the Irish clergy * Plundering the country * Plunkett cruelly slaughtered * Faith of Grey * Desmond a fugitive CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Persecution on the increase * John Lescalopier * Generosity of the French * Martyrs * A treacherous governor * A nation that will not bend * Tyranny of Bingham * Black perfidy and punic faith * Authors born in Ireland CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: Last war of the Catholics against Elizabeth * The War of Tyrone * Promises of the Spaniards * The Principal Irish, ancient and modern, who abetted or opposed the war * Tyrone’s quarrel with Elizabeth * Fatal expedition of the Spaniards * O’Rourke’s last words * Edict of Elizabeth * Reduction of Enniskillen CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: A truce of two months * O’Neill supporting the cause of religion * Thirst for wealth * REaising of the siege of Sligo * Retreat of the English army CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: The Queen anxious for peace * Armagh taken by surprise * Sham battle * Continued complaints * Death of Rory O’Morra * The English cut to pieces * The Key of Ulster * Burrough mortally wounded * Vanity and bad faith of the English * Rising of the noblemen in Munster CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: Deplorable state of Ireland * General revolt * Marshal Bagnal killed * Earl of Essex, lord lieutenant * Surrender of Castle Cahir * Death of Clifford’s army * O’Neill’s three specific conditions CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: Tyrone deaf to Mountjoy’s proposals * Carew’s campaigns * Florence MacCarty taking up arms * Revolt of Niall Garve * Creating a diversion * Forces of the Irish continually diminishing CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Succor from Spain * The Catholic cause suffering * Unfounded reports * Siege of Rinncharrin and Caslanne Park * The English attack the Spanish fleet * Siege and surrender of Kinsale * Death of Dom Juan de Aquila CHAPTER FORTY-NINE: Clement VIII, complimenting O’Neill * The country laid waste * Fleet in Bantry Bay * Resorting to dishonorable means * Storming of Castle Dunboy * Obstinate and determined defence * Heroism of Richard MacGeoghegan CHAPTER FIFTY: Cormac MacCarty a prisoner * His escape * Death of Queen Elizabeth * Sir Robert Naughton * Discord * Mary Stuart’s misfortunes * Her execution * Species of tyranny unheard of * The will cannot be coerced in its acts CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: James VI, King of England * Unison of England and Scotland * Thomas Sarsfield * Gunpowder plot * Guy Fawkes * Hume the historian * An act of aggression * James prodigality * Decline of regal authority * Conspiracy of Maguire * Peace proclaimed by Ormond * League against the king * French battalions in Ireland * Articles of Limerick * Report * Conclusion Part Two ~ THE NATIONAL HISTORY OF IRELAND. By John Mitchel. Revised and Continued to the Present Time. By D.P. Conyngham. CHAPTER ONE ~ FROM THE TREATY OF LIMERICK TO THE END OF 1691: Treaty of Limerick. * Violated or not ? * Arguments of Macaulay. * Dr. Dopping, Bishop of Meath * No faith to be kept with Papists * First act in violation of the treaty * Situation of the Catholics. * Charge against Sarsfield CHAPTER TWO ~ 1692-1693: William the Third not bigoted * Practical toleration for four years * First 1'arllament in this reign * Catholics excluded by a resolution * Extension of civil existence for Catholics * Irish Protestant Nationality * Massacre of Glencoe * Battle of Steinkirk * Court of St Germains * "Declaration" * Battle of Landen, and death of Sarsfield CHAPTER THREE ~ 1693-1698: Capel Lord-Lieutenant * War In the Netherlands * Capture of Namur * Grievances of the Protestant colonists * Act for disarming Papists * Laws against education * Against priests * Against intermarrying with Papists * Act to "confirm" Articles of Limerick * Irish on the continent CHAPTER FOUR ~ 1698-1702: Predominance of the English Parliament * Molyneux * Decisive action of the English Parliament * Court and country parties * Suppression of woollen manufacture * Commission of confiscated estates * Its revelations * Vexation of King William * Peace of Ryswick * Act for establishing the Protestant succession * Death of William CHAPTER FIVE ~ 1702-1704: Queen Anne * Rochester lord-lieutenant * Ormond lord-lieutenant * War on the continent * Successes under Marlborough * Second formal breach of the Treaty of Limerick * Bill to prevent the further growth of Popery * Clause against the Dissenters * Catholic lawyers heard against the bill * Pleading of Sir Toby Butler * Bill passed * Object of the Penal Laws * To get hold of the property of Catholics * Recall of the Edict of Nantes * Irish on the continent * Cremona CHAPTER SIX ~ 1704-1714: Enforcement of the Penal Laws * Making informers honourable * Pembroke lord-lieutenant * Union of England and Scotland * Means by which it was carried * Irish House of Lords in favour of an Union * Laws against meeting at Holy Wells * Doherty’s description * Catholics excluded from Juries * Wharton lord lieutenant * Second Act to prevent growth of Popery * Rewards for " discoveries "---Jonathan Swift * Nature of his Irish Patriotism * Papists the "common enemy " * The Dissenters * Colony of the Palatines * Disasters of the French, and Peace of Utrecht * The "Pretender" CHAPTER SEVEN ~ 1714-1723: George I * James III * Perils of Dean Swift * Tories discussed * Ormond, Oxford, and Bolingbroke impeached * Insurrection in Scotland * Calm in Ireland * Arrests * Irish Parliament * " Loyalty" of the Catholics * "No Catholics exist in Ireland " * Priest-catchers * Bolton lord-lieutenant * Cause of Sherlock and Annesley * Conflict of jurisdiction * Declaratory Act establishing dependence of the Irish Parliament, * Swift's Pamphlet * State of the country * Grafton lord-lieutenant * Courage of the priests * Atrocious Bill CHAPTER EIGHT ~ 1723-1727: Swift and Wood's Copper * Drapier's Letters * Claim of Independence * Primate Boulter * Swift popular with the Catholics * His feeling towards Catholics * Desolation of the country * Back-rents * Absenteeism * Great Distress * Swift’s modest Proposal * Death of George I CHAPTER NINE ~ 1727-1741: Lord Carteret Lord-Lieutenant * Primate Boulter ruler of Ireland * His policy * Catholic Address * Not noticed * Papists deprived of elective franchise * Insolence of the “Ascendency" * Famine * Emigration * Dorset Lord-Lieutenant * Agitation of Dissenters * Sacramental Test * Swift's virulence against the Dissenters * Boulter's policy to neetmok extirpate Papists * Rage against the Catholics * Debates on money bills * "Patriot Party " * Duke of Devonshire lord-lieutenant * Corruption * Another famine * Berkeley * English commercial policy in Ireland CHAPTER TEN ~ 1741-1745: War on the Continent * Dr Lucas * Primate Stone * Battle of Dettingen * Lally * Fontenoy * The Irish Brigade CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ 1745-1753: Alarm in England * Expedition of Prince Charles Edward * A Message of Peace to Ireland " * Vice-royalty of Chesterfield * Temporary Toleration of the Catholics * * Berkeley * The Scottish Insurrection * Culloden * “Loyalty of the Irish” * Lucas and the Patriots * Debates on the Supplies * Boyle and Malone * Population of Ireland CHAPTER TWELVE ~ 1753-1760: Unpopularity of the Duke of Dorset * Earl of Kildare * His Address * Patriots in power * Pension List * Duke of Bedford lord-lieutenant * Case of Saul * Catholic meeting in Dublin * Commencement of Catholic agitation * Address of the Catholics received * First recognition of the Catholics as subjects * Lucasian mobs * Project of Union * Thurot's expedition * Death of George II * Population * Distress of the country * Operation of the Penal Laws * The Geoghegans * Catholic Petition * Berkeley's ''Querist " CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ 1760-1762: George III * Speech from the Throne * "Toleration " * France and England In India * Lally's Campaign there * State of Ireland * The Revenue Distress of trade * Distress in the country * Oppression of the Farmers * Whiteboys * Riots * "A Popish Conspiracy " * Steel-Boys and Oak-Boys * Emigration from Ulster * Halifax, Viceroy * Flood and the Patriots * Extravagance and Corruption * Agitation for Septennial Parliaments CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ 1762-1768: Tory Ministry * Failures of the Patriots * Northumberland, Viceroy * Mr Fitzgerald's speech on pension-list * Mr Perry's address on the same subject * Effort for mitigation of the Penal Laws * Mr Mason's argument for allowing Papists to take mortgages * Doherty’s description * Rejected * Death of Stone and Earl of Shannon * Lord Hartford, Viceroy * Lucas and the Patriots * Their continued failures * Increase of the National Debt, * Townshend, Viceroy * New system * The "Undertakers" * Septennial bill changed into Octennial * And passed * Joy of the People * Consequences of this measure * Ireland still "standing on her smaller end " * Newspapers of Dublin * Gra’tan CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~ 1762-1767: Reign of Terror in Munster * Murder of Father Sheehy * “Toleration” under the House of Hanover * Precarious condition of the Catholic clergy * Primates in hiding * Working of the Penal Laws * Testimony of Arthur Young CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~ 1767-1773: Townshend, Viceroy * Augmentation of the army * Embezzlement * Parliament prorogued * Again prorogued * Townshend buys his majority * Triumph of the " English Interest " * New attempt to bribe the Priests * Townshend's " Golden Drops " * Bill to allow Papists to reclaim bogs * Townshend recalled * Harcourt, Viceroy * Proposal to tax absentees * Defeated * Degraded condition of the Irish Parliament * American Revolution, and new era CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~ 1774-1777: American affairs * Comparison between Ireland and the Colonies * Contagion of American opinions in Ireland * Paltry measure of relief to Catholics * Congress at Philadelphia * Address of Congress to Ireland * Encouragement to Fisheries * Four thousand “armed negotiators '" * Financial distress * * First Octennial Parliament dissolved * Grattan * Lord Buckingham, Viceroy * Successes of the Americans CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ 1777-1779: Buckingham Viceroy * Misery, and Decline of Trade * Discipline of Government Supporters * Lord North’s first Measure in favour of Catholics * Passed in England * Opposed in Ireland * What it amounted to * Militia Bill * The Volunteers * Defenceless State of the Country * Loyalty of the Volunteers * Their Uniforms * Volunteers Protestant at first * Catholics desirous to join * Volunteers get the Militia Arms * Their aims * Military System * Numbers in 1780 CHAPTER NINETEEN ~ 1779-1780: Free Trade and Free Parliament * Meaning of " Free Trade " * Non-importation agreements * Rage of the English * Grattan's motion for free trade * Hussey Burgh * Thanks to the Volunteers * Parade in Dublin * Lord North yields * Free Trade Act * Next step * Mutiny Bill * The 19th of April * Neetmok * Declaration of Right * Defeated in Parliament, but successful in the country * General determination * Organizing * Arming * Reviews * Charlemont * Briberies of Buckingham * Carlisle, Viceroy CHAPTER TWENTY ~ 1781-1782: Parliament * Thanks to the Volunteers * Habeas Corpus * Trade with Portugal * Grattan's financial expose * Gardiner's measure for Catholic Belief * Dungannon * The 15th of February 1782 * Debates on Gardiner's Bill * Grattan's Speech * Details of this measure * Burke's opinion of it * Address to the King asserting Irish Independence * England yields at once * Act repealing the 6th George I * Repeal of Poynings' Law * Irish Independence CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE ~ 1783-1784: Effects of Independence * Settlement not final * English plots for the Union * Corruption of Irish Parliament * Enmity of Flood and Grattan * Question between them * Renunciation Act * Second Dungannon Convention * Convention of Delegates in Dublin * Catholics excluded from all Civil Rights * Lord Kenmare * Lord Kenmare disavowed * Lord Temple * Knights of St Patrick * Portland viceroy * Judication Hill * Habeas Corpus * Bank of Ireland * Repeal of Test Act * Proceedings of Convention * Flood's Reform Bill * Rejected * Convention dissolved * End of the Volunteers * Militia CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ~ 1784-1786: Improvement of tho country * Political position anomalous * Rutland, viceroy * Petitions for Parliamentary Reform * Flood's motion * Rejected * Grattan's bill to regulate the revenue * Protective duties demanded * National Congress * Dissensions as to rights of Catholics * Charlemont's intolerance * Orders Commercial Propositions * New propositions of Mr Pitt * Burke and Sheridan * Commercial propositions defeated * Mr Conolly * The national debt * General corruption * Court majorities * Patriots defeated * Ireland after five years of independence CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ~ 1787-1789: Alarms and rumours of disturbances * Got up by Government * Act against illegal combinations * Mr Grattan on Tithes * Failure of his efforts * Death of Duke of Rutland * Marquis of Buckingham, Viceroy * Independence of Mr Curran * Mr Forbes and the Pension list * Failure of his motion * Triumph of corruption * Troubles in Armagh County * "Peep-of-Day Boys " * "Defenders " * Insanity of the King * The Regency CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ~ 1789: Unpopularity of Buckingham * Formation of an Irish character * Efforts of Patriots In Parliament * All in vain * Purchasing votes * Corruption * Whig Club * Lord Clare on Whig Club * Buckingham leaves Ireland * Pension List * Peep-of-Day Boys and Defenders * Westmoreland, Viceroy * Unavailing efforts against corruption * Material prosperity * King William's Birthday * French Revolution CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ~ 1790-1791: New election * New peers * Sale of peerages * Motion against Police Bill * Continual defeats of Patriots * Insolence of the Castle * Progress of French Revolution * Horror of French principles * Burke * Divisions amongst Irish Catholics * Wolfe Tone * General Committee of Catholics * Tone froes to Belfast * Establishes first United Irish Club * Dublin United Irish Club * Parliamentary Patriots avoid them * Progress of Catholic Committee * Project of a Convention * Troubles in County Armagh CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ~ 1791-1792: Principles of United Irish Society * Test * Addresses * Meeting of Parliament * Catholic relief * Trifling measure of that kind * Petition of the Catholics * Rejected * Steady majority of two-thirds for the Castle * Placeholding members * Violent agitation upon the Catholic claims * Questions put to Catholic Universities of the Continent * Their answers * Opposition to project of Convention * Catholic question in the Whig Club * Catholic Convention in Dublin * National Guard CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ~ 1792-1793: The Catholic Convention * Reconciliation of differences amongst the Catholics * Their deputation to the king * Successes of the French fortunate for the Catholics * Dumourioz and Jemappes * Gracious reception of the Catholic deputation * Belfast mob draw the carriage of Catholic delegates * Secret Committee of the Lords * Report on Defenders and United Irishmen * Attempt of committee to connect the two * Lord Clare creates " alarm among the better classes” * Proclamation against unlawful assemblies * Lord Edward Fitzgerald * French Republic declares war against England * Large measure of Catholic relief immediately proposed * Moved by Secretary Hobart * Act carried * Its provisions * What it yields, and what it withholds * Arms and gunpowder act * Act against conventions * Lord Clare the real author of British policy in Ireland as now established * Effect and intention of the “Convention Act " * No such law in England * Militia bill * Catholic Committee * No reform * Close of session CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT ~ 1793-1795: Small results of Catholic Relief Bill * Distinctions still kept up * Excitement against the Catholics * Trials of Defenders * Packing Juries * Progress of United Irishism * Opposed by Catholic bishops * Arrest of Bond and Butler * Prosecution of A Hamilton Rowan * Last effort for Parliamentary Reform * Defeated * United Irish Meeting in Dublin dispersed by the Police * Rev Wm Jackson and Wolfe Tone * Rowan charged with Treason * Rowan escapes * Tone allowed to quit the country * Vow of the Cave Hill* Fitzwilllam's Administration * Fitzwilliam deceived by Pitt * Dismissal of Mr Beresford * Plan of Mr Pitt * Insurrection first * "Union" afterwards * Fitzwilliam recalled * Great Despondency * The " Orangemen " * Beginning of Coercion and Anarchy CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE ~ 1795-1797: "To Hell or Connaught" * "Vigour beyond the Law " * Lord Carhampton's Vigour * Insurrection Act * Indemnity Act * The latter an invitation to Magistrates to break the law * Mr Grattan on the Orangemen * His Resolution * The Acts Passed * Opposed by Grattan, Parsons, and Lord Edward Fitzgerald * Insurrection Act destroys Liberty of the Press * Suspension of Habeas Corpus * U I Society * New Members * Lord E Fitzgerald * MacNeven * Emmet * Wolfe Tone at Paris * His Journal * Clarke * Carnot * Hocbe * Bantry Bay Expedition * Account of, in Tone's Journal * Fleet Anchors in Bantry Bay * Account of the affair by Secret Committee of the Lords * Government fully Informed of "the Projects ” CHAPTER THIRTY ~ 1797: Reign of Terror in Armagh County * No Orangemen ever Punished * “Defenders" called Banditti * “Faulkner’s Journal," Organ of the Castle * Cheers on the Orangemen * Mr Curran's Statement of the havoc in Armagh * Increased rancor against Catholics and U I after the Bantry Boy Affair * Efforts of Patriots to Establish a Permanent Armed Force * Opposed by Government * And Why * Proclamation of Counties * Bank Ordered to Suspend Specie Payments * Alarm * Mr Duigenan * Secession from Parliament of Grattan, Curran &c * General Lake in the North * "Northern Star" Office Wrecked by Troops * Proclamation * Outrages in the Year 1707 * Salutary Effect of the United Irish System on the Peace of the Country * Armagh Assizes * Slanderous Report of a Secret Committee * Good Effects of United Irishism in the South * Miles Byrne * Wexford County CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE ~ 1797-1798: Wolfe Tone's Negotiations in France and Holland * Lewins * Expedition of Dutch Government Destined for Ireland * Tone at the Texel * His Journal * Tone's uneasiness about Admitting Foreign Dominion over Ireland * MacNeven's Memoir * Discussion as to Proper Point for a Landing * Tone on Board the Vryheid * Adverse Winds * Rage and Impatience of Tone * Disastrous Fate of the Batavian Expedition * Camperdown CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO ~ 1793: Spies * Secret Service Money * Press Prosecution * " Remember Orr!" * Account of Orr * Curran's Speech * His Description of Informers * Arts of Government * Sowing Dissensions * Forged Assassination List * "Union" Declines * Addresses of " Loyalty " * Maynooth Grant Enlarged * Catholic Bishops "Loyal" * Forcing a Premature Explosion * Camden and Carhampton * 0utrages on the People, to Force Insurrection * Testimony of Lord Moira * Inquiry Demanded in Parliament * Repulsed and Defeated bv Clare and Castlereagh * Insolence and Unlimited Power of Ministers * General Abercrombie Resigns * Remarkable General Order * Pelham Quits Ireland * Castlereagh's Secretary * The Hessians' Free Quarters * The Ancient Britons * Proclamation of Martial Law * Grattan's Picture of the Times * Horrible Atrocities in Wexford * Massacres * The Orangemen * Their Address of Loyalty * All these Outrages before any Insurrection CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ~ 1798: Reynolds, the Informer * Arrests of U I Chiefs In Dublin * The Brothers Sheares * Their Efforts to Delay Explosion * Clare and Castlereagh Resolve to Hurry It * Advance of the Military * Half-Hanging * Pitch Caps * Scourging Judkin Fitzgerald * Sir John Moore's Testimony * His Disgust at the Atrocities * General Napier's Testimony * Catholic Bishops and Peers Profess their " Loyalty " * Armstrong, Informer * Arrest of the Sheares * Arrest and Death of Lord Edward * Mr Emmet's Evidence before Secret Committee * Insurrection Breaks Out * The 23rd of May * Naas * Prosperous * Kilcullen * Proclamation of Lake * Of the Lord Mayor of Dublin * Skirmishes at Carlow * Hacketstown, &c * Insurgents have the Advantage at Dunboyne * Attack on Carlow * Executions * Sir E Crosbie * Massacre at Gibbet Rath of Kildare * Slaughter on Tara Hill * Suppression of Insurrection in Kildare, Dublin, and Meath CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR ~ 1793: Wexford a Peaceable County * Lord Castlereagh's Judicious Measures * Catholics driven out of Yeomanry Corps. * Treatment of Mr Fitzgerald. * United Irish in Wexford. * The Priests Oppose that Society. * How they were Requited. * Miles Byrne * Torture In Wexford. * Orangemen in Wexford. * North Cork Militia. * Hay's Account of the Ferocity of the Magistrates. * Massacre of Carnew. * Father John Murphy. * Burning of his Chapel. * Miles Byrne's Account of First Rising * Oulard. * Storm of Enniscorthy. * Wexford Evacuated by the King's Troops * Occupied by Insurgents. * All the County now in Insurrection * Estimated numbers of Insurgents * Population of the County. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE ~ 1798: Camp on Vinegar Hill * Actions at Ballyoannoo * At Newtownbarry * Tubberneering * Fall of Walpole * Two Columns * Bagenal Harvey Commands Insurgents * Summons New Ross to Surrender * Battle of New Ross * Slaughter of Prisoners * Retaliation * Scullabogue * Bagenal Harvey Shocked by affair of Scullabogue * Resigns Command * Father Philip Roche General * Fight at Arklow * Claimed as a Victory by King's Troops * Account of it by Miles Byrne * The Insurgents Execute some Loyalists in Wexford Town * Dixon * Retaliation * Proclamation by "People of Wexford " * Lord Kingsborough a prisoner * Troops Concentrated round Vinegar 101 * Battle of Vinegar Hill * Enniscorthy and Wexford Recovered * Military Executions * Ravage of the Country * Chiefs Executed in "Wexford * Treatment of Women * Outrages in the North of the County * Fate of Father John Murphy* Column * Of Antony Perry's * Combat at Ballyellis * Miles Byrne's Account of it * Extermination of Ancient Britons * Character of "Wexford Insurrection * Got up by the Government CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX ~ 1798: Rising in Ulster * Antrim * Saintfield * Ballinahinch * Insurgents defeated * McCracken and Monroe hanged * Skirmish in Cork County * Courts martial * Many executives * Hanging of Father Redmond * Surrender of Fitzgerald and Aylmer * Compact between prisoners and government * In order to save the lives of Byrne and Bond * Compact violated by government * Byrne hanged * Bond dies suddenly in prison * Reign of terror in Dublin * Brothers Sheares tried * Hanged * Other state trials * Curran in court * “The Three Majors” * Sirr, Swan and Sandys * The “Major’s People” * John Claudius Beresford * Tortures in Dublin * Country in wild alarm * Spiked heads * Fit time to propose legislative union * Marquis Cornwallis comes as Viceroy * To bring about the Union * “Impression of Horror” * Apparent measures to end the devastations * Offers of “protection” * Not efficacious * Testimony of Lord Camden himself * True account of the “Compact” * United Irishmen sent to Fort George CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN ~ 1798: Parliament * The Act of Attainder * French landing under Humbert * Killala * Conduct of the little French Army * Ballina * The Races of Castlebar * Panic and rout of British force * French give a ball * Lord Cornwallis collects a great army * Marches to meet the French * Encounters them at Ballinamuck * Defeat and capture of the French * Recovery of Ballina * Slaughter * Courts-martial, etc * End of the Insurrections of 1798 * New French expedition * Commodore Bonapart * T W Tone * Encounter British fleet at mouth of Lough Swilly * Battle * The Hoche captured * Tone a prisoner * Recognized by Sir George Hill * Carried to Dublin * Condemned to be hanged * His address to the Court * Asks as a favor to be shot * Refused by Cornwallis * Suicide in prison CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ~ 1798-1799: Examination of O’Connor, Emmet and MacNeven * Lord Enniskillen and his court martial * Property of Union * Bar meeting * Speech from the throne * Union proposed * Reception in the Lords * In the Commons * Ponsonby * Fitzgerald * Sir Jonah Barrington * Castlereagh’s explanation * Speech of Plunket * First division on the Union * Majority of one * Mr Trench and Mr. Fox * Methods of conversion to Unionism * First contest a drawn battle * Excitement in Dublin CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE ~ 1799: Second debate on Union * Sir Lawrence Parsons * Mr Smith * Ponsonby and Plunket * Division * Majority against government * Ponsonby’s resolution for perpetual independence * Defection of Fortescue and others * Resolution lost * “Possible Circumstances” * Tumult * Danger of Lord Clare * Second debate in the Lords * Lord Clare Triumphant * Loyalists Claim Bill * Rebels Disqualification Bill * “Flogging Fitzgerald” * Asks indemnity * Regency Act * Opposed by Castlereagh CHAPTER FORTY ~ 1799: Union proposed in British Parliament * Opposed by Sheridan * Supported by Canning * Great speech of Mr. Pitt * Ireland to be assured of British protection * Of English Capital * Promises to the Catholics * Mr. Pitt’s Resolutions for Union * Sheridan * Dundas * Resolutions passed * In the House of Lords * Labors of Cornwallis and Castlereagh * Corruption * Intimidation * Onslaught of troops in Dublin * Lord Cornwallis makes a tour * Lord Downshire disgraced * Handcock of Athlone * His song and palinode * Opposition inorganic * The Orangemen * The Catholics * Arts to delude them * Dublin Catholics against Union * O’Connell * System of Terror * County meeting dispersed by troops * Castlereagh’s announcement of “Compensation” CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ~ 1799-1800: Progress of Union conspiracy * Grand scale of bribery * Castlereagh organizes “Fighting Men” * Dinner at his house * Last session of the Irish Parliament * Warm debate the first day * Daly attacks Bushe and Plunket * Reappearance of Grattan * His speech * Corry attacks him * Division * Majority for Government * Doherty’s description * Castlereagh proposes “Articles” of Union * His speech * Promises great gain to Ireland from Union * Ireland to “save a million a year” * Proposed constitution of United Parliament * Irish peerage * Ponsonby * Grattan * Again a majority for the Castle * Lord Clare’s famous speech * Duel of Grattan and Corry * Torpor and gloom in Dublin * The Catholics * “Articles” finally adopted * By Commons * By Lords CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ~ 1800: The Union in English Parliament * Opposed by Lord Holland * Mr Grey * Sheridan * Irish Act for Electors * Distribution of seats * Castlereagh brings in bill for the Union * Warm debates * Union denounced by Plunket, Bushe, Saurin, Grattan * Their earnest language * Last days of the Parliament * Last scene * Passes the Lords * The protesting peers * The Compensation Act * The King congratulates the British Parliament * Lord Cornwallis * The Irish * Union to date from January 1, 1801 * Irish debt * History of it CHAPTER FORTY-THREE ~ 1800-1803: The Catholics duped * Resignation of Pitt * Mystery of this resignation * First measure of United Parliament * Suspension of habeas corpus * Report of Secret Committee * Fate of Lord Clare * Lord Hardwicke, Viceroy * Peace of Amiens * Treaty violated by England * Malta * War again declared by England * Mr Pitt resumes office * Coalition against France CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ~ 1802-1803: First year of the Union * Distress in Ireland * Riot in Dublin * Irish exiles in France * Renewed hopes of French aid * The two Emmets, MacNeven and O’Connor in France * Apprehensions of invasion in England * Robert Emmet comes from France to Ireland * His associates * His plans * Miles Byrne * Despard’s conspiracy in England * Emmet’s preparations * Explosion in Patrick Street * The 23d of July * Failure * Bloody Riot * Murder of Lord Kilwarden * Emmet sends Miles Byrne to France * Retires to Wicklow * Returns to Dublin * Arrested * Tried * Convicted * Hanged * Fate of Russell CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE ~ 1803-1804: Reason to believe that Government was all the time aware of the Conspiracy * “Striking Terror” * Martial law * Catholic address * Arrests * Informers * Vigorous measures * In Cork * In Belfast * Hundreds of men imprisoned without charge * * Brutal treatment of prisoners * Special commission * Eighteen persons hung * Debate in Parliament * Irish exiles in France * First consul plans a new expedition to Ireland * Formation of the “Irish Legion” * Irish legion in Bretagne * Official reply of the First Consul to T.A. Emmet * Designs of the French government * Bonaparte’s mistake * French fleet again ordered elsewhere * The Legion goes to the Rhine, and to Walcheren * End of the Addington Ministry * Mr. Pitt returns to office * Condition of Ireland * Decay of Dublin * Decline of trade * Increase of debt * Ruinous effects of the Union * Presbyterian clergy pensioned, and the reason CHAPTER FORTY-SIX ~ 1804-1805: Mr. Pitt in Office * Royal Speech * No Mention of Ireland * Alarm about Invasion * Martello Towers * Reliance of the Irish Catholics on Mr. Pitt * Treatment of the Prisoners * Mr. James Tandy * Mr. Pitt Raises a Storm against the Catholics * Catholic Meeting in Dublin * Habeas Corpus Act again Suspended * Ireland" Loyal" * Duplicity of Lord Hardwicke * Catholic Deputies go to Mr. Pitt * A " Sincere Friend" * Mr. Pitt Refuses to Present Catholic Petition * Declares he will Resist Emancipation * Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox Present it * Debate in the Lords * In the Commons * Speeches of Fox, Doctor Duigenan, Grattan * Perceval, Pitt, Sir John Newport * Emancipation Refused both by Lords and Commons * Great Majorities CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN ~ 1804-1800: Prosecution of Judge Fox * His Offence - Enforcing Law on Orangemen * Prosecution of Judge Johnson * His Offence - Censuring the Irish Government * Decline of Pitt's Power * Castlereagh Defeated in Down County * Successes of Bonaparte * Cry for Peace * Death of Mr. Pitt * Whig Ministry * Mr. Fox * His Opinion of the Union * First Whisper of "Repeal" * Release of State Prisoners * Dismissal of Lord Redesdale as Chancellor * Duke of Bedford, Viceroy * The Catholics Cheated Again * Equivocation of the Viceroy * Ponsonby * Curran's Promotion * The Armagh Orangemen * Mr. Wilson the Magistrate CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT ~ 1806-1807: Revenue and Debt of Ireland * Rapid Increase of Debt * Drain of Wealth from Ireland * Character of the Imports and Exports * Rackrents, Tithes, &c. * Distress of the People * The "Threshers" * Threshers Hung * Catholic Meetings * Increase of Maynooth Grant * From Apprehension of the Irish College in France * Catholic Officers' Bill * To Promote Depopulation * Bill Abandoned * Change of Ministry * The King Demands a No-Popery Pledge * Duke of Cumberland * Perceval Administration * Camden and Castlereagh in Office * No-Popery * Recruiting in Ireland * John Keogh on Catholic Officers' Bill * O'Connell * Too Easy Gratitude of the Irish towards Whigs * Populace Draw the Duke of Bedford's Coach CHAPTER FORTY-NINE ~ 1807-1808: Duke of Richmond, Viceroy * Sir A. Wellesley, Secretary * Their System * Depression of Catholics * Insolence of Orangemen * Government Interference in Elections * Ireland Gets a New Insurrection Act * And an Arms Act * Grattan Advocates Coercion Acts * Sheridan Opposes Them * Acts Passed * The Bishop of Quimper * Means Used to Create Exasperation against Catholics * "Shanavests" and " Caravats" * "Church in Danger" * Catholic Petition * Influence of O'Connell * Lord Fingal * Growing Liberality amongst Protestants * Maynooth Grant Curtailed * Doctor Duigenan Privy Councillor * Catholic Petition Presented * The " Veto" Offered * Mr. Ponsonby and Mr. Grattan * They Urge the Veto as a Security * Petition Rejected * Controversies on the Veto * Bishops' Resolutions * No Catholics in Bank of Ireland * Dublin Police CHAPTER FIFTY ~ 1808-1809: The Duke of Richmond's Anti-Catholic Policy * The Orangemen Flourish * Their Outrages and Murders * Castlereagh and Perceval Charged with Selling Seats * Corruption * Sir Arthur Wellesley * Tithes * Catholic Committee Reorganized * John Keogh on Petitioning Parliament * O'Connell and the Convention Act * Orangemen also Reorganized * Orange Convention * More Murders by Orangemen * Crooked Policy of the Castle * Defection of the Bandon Orangemen * Success of the Castle Policy in Preventing Union with Irishmen CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE ~ 1810-1812: Duke of Richmond's "Conciliation" * Orange Oppression * Treatment of Catholic Soldiers * The Veto again * Debate on Veto in Parliament * Catholic Petition Presented by Grattan * Rejected * O'Connell's Leadership * New Organization of Catholics * Repeal of the Union First Agitated * Insanity of the King * Treachery of the Regent * Prosecution of the Catholic Committee * Convention Act * Suppression of the Committee * New Measures of O'Connell * Mr. Curran at Newry Election * Effects of the Union CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO ~ 1813-1821: Grattan’s Emancipation Bill * More Veto * Quarantotti * Unanimity in Ireland against Veto * Mr. Peel and his New Police * Stipendiary Magistrates * Close of the War * Restoration of the Bourbons * Waterloo * Evil Effects on Ireland * The Irish Legion in France * Its Fate * Miles Byrne and his Friends * Effects of the Peace in Impoverishing the Irish * Cheap Ejectment Law passed * Beginning of Extermination * "Surplus Population" * Catholic Claims Ruined by the Peace * O'Connell and Catholic Board * Board Suppressod * O'Connell in Court * His Audacitv * His Scorn of the Dublin Corporation * Duel with D'Esterre * Distress in Ireland * Famine of 1817 * Coercion in Ireland * "Six Acts " in England * Mr. Plunket's Emancipation Bill * Peel and the Duke of York * Royal Visit to Ireland * Catholics Cheated Again CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE ~ 1822-1825: Famine of 1822 * Its Causes * Financial Frauds upon Ireland * Horrors of the Famine * Extermination * Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act * Castlereagh Cuts his Throat * Marquis Wellesley Viceroy * Sir Harcourt Lees * The Bottle Riot * Catholic Association Formed * Dr. Boyle, "J.K.L." * Progress of Catholic Association * "Catholic Rent" * Maynooth Professors "Loyal" * Rage of the Orangemen * " O'Connell, the Pope, and the Devil" * Passiveness of the Dissenters * O'Connell’s Appeals to them * Intellectual and Literary Power of the Movement * Act to Suppress "Unlawful Associations " * First Attempt to Cheat the Catholics * A Relief Bill with “Wings" * Defeated Catholic Deputation in London * O'Connell and the Whigs * Strong Feeling in Ireland against "Wings" CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR ~ 1825-1829: Action of the Catholic Association * Waterford Election * Louth Election * Change of Ministry * Canning Premier * Lord Anglesea Viceroy * The New Reformation " * Pope and Maguire * Death of Canning * Goderich Cabinet * Catholic Petition for Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts * Acts Regaled * Clare Election * O'Connell Returned * Its results * Suppression of Catholic Association * Peel and "Wellington Prepare Catholic Relief Bill * Rage of the Bigots * Reluctance of the King * O'Connell at the Bar of the House * Paasage of the Emancipation Act * Disfranchisement of the Forty-Shilling Freeholders * Abstract of the Relief Act * The New Oath * Meaning and Spirit of the Relief Act CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE ~ 1829-1840: Results of the Relief Act * O’Connell elected for Clare * Drain of Agricultural Produce * Educated class of Catholics bought * The Tithe War * Lord Angelsea, Viceroy * O’Connell’s Proclamations * Prosecution of O’Connell * National education * Tithe-tragedies * Newtownbarry * Carrickshock * Change of Dynasty in France * Reform agitation in England * What reform meant in Ireland * Cholera * Resistance to tithe * Lord Grey’s coercion act * Abolition of Negro slavery * Church temporalities act * Repeal debate * Surplus population * Surplus produce * Tithe-carnage at Rathcormack * Queen Victoria’s accession * Three measures against Ireland * Poor law * Tithe law * Municipal Reform * Castle-Sheriffs CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX ~ 1840-1843: Spirit of Legislation for Ireland * More spying in the post office * Savings bank * “Precursor Society” * Support to the Whigs * Whigs go out * Peel comes in * Repeal Association * Export of food * Extermination * The Repeal Year * Corporation debate * The younger Nationalists * New Arms Bill * O’Brien moves for inquiry * Preparations for coercion * All England against repeal * Monster meetings * Mallow * Tara * Mullaghmast * Clontarf * Proclamation CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN ~ 1843-1844: Why England could not yield * Cost to her of repeal * Intention of government at Clontarf * The “Projected Massacre” * Meeting prevented * State prosecution * O’Brien declares for Repeal * Packing of the Jury * Verdict of guilty * Debate in Parliament * Russell and Macaulay on packing of juries * O’Connell in abcxs Parliament * Specuilation of the Whigs * Sentence and imprisonment of the Conspirators * Effects on Repeal Association * Appeal to the House of Lords * Whig Law Lords * Reversal of the sentence * Enthusiasm of the people * Their patience and self-denial * Decline of the Association CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT ~ 1844: Decadence of Repeal Association * Land Tenure Commission * Necessity of Exterminating " Surplus Population " * Report of the '' Landlord and Tenant Commission " * Tenant-Right to be Disallowed * Farms to be Consolidated * People to be Extirpated * Methods of the Minister to Divide Repealers * Grant to Maynooth * Queen's Colleges * Secret Agents at Rome * American Slavery * Distraction in Repeal Ranks * Bill for "Compensation to Tenants " * Defeated * Death of Thomas Davis * The Famine * Commission of Chemists to gain Time * Demands of Ireland * Of the Corporations * Of O'Connell and O'Brien * Repudiation of Alms * Coercion Bill * Repeal of Corn Laws * Irish Harvests go to England * "Relief Measures" * Delays * Fraud * Havoc of the People * Peel's System of Famine Slaughter fully Established * Peel Resigns Office CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE ~ 1846-1847: Progress of the Famine Carnage * Pretended Relief Measures * Imprisonment of O'Brien * Dissensions in Repeal Association * Break up of that Body * Savages of Famine * " Labour Rate Act * Useless Public Works * Extermination * Famine of 1847 * How they lived in England * Advances from the Treasury * Attempts of Foreign Countries to relieve the Famine * Defeated by British Government * Vagrancy Act * Parish Coffins * Constant Repudiation of Alms * An Englishman's Petition for Alms to Ireland * "Ingratitude" of the Irish * Death of O'Connell * Preparations to Insure the Next Year's Famine * Emigration * British Famine Policy * New Coercion Act called for * Famine in Ireland CHAPTER SIXTY ~ 1847-1848: Lord Clarendon, Viceroy * His Means of Insuring the Shipment to England of the Usual Tribute * Bribes the Baser Sort of Editors * Patronage for Catholic Lawyers * Another Coercion Act * Projects for Stopping Exports of Grain * Arming * Alarm of Government * Whigs active in Coercion * French Revolution of February * Confederate Clubs * Deputation from Dubtin to Paris * O'Brien's Last Appearance in Parliament * Trials of O'Brien and Meagher * Trial of Mitchel * Packing of the Jury * Reign of Terror in Dublin CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE ~ 1848-1849: Reconstitution of the Irish Confederation * New National Journals Established * The Tribune * The Felon * New Suspension of Habeas Corpus * Numerous Arrests * O'Brien attempts Insurrection * Ballingarry * Arrest and Trial of O'Brien and others * Conquest of the Island * Destruction of the People * Encumbered Estates Act * Its Effects * No Tenant-Right * "Rate-in-Aid" * Queen's Visit to Ireland * Places given to Catholics * Catholic Judges * Their Office and Duty * Ireland " Prosperous " * Statistics of the Famine Slaughter * Destruction of Three Millions of Souls * Flying from "Prosperity" CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO ~ 1850-1851: Repopulation * Emigration * " Plea for the Celtic Race" * Decay of the Irish Electoral Body * Act to Amend Representation * "Papal Aggression" * Rage in England * Ecclesiastical Titles Bill * Never Enforced * And Why? * Orange Outrage in Down County * " Dolly's Brae " * Style of Orange Processions * Condition of the Country * Further Emigration * Still more Extermination * Crime and Outrage * Plenty and Prosperity in England * Conclusion CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE ~ 1852-1860: Alarm in England at the attitude of France * The Sadlier-Keogh treachery * The Crimean War * A Romantic abduction CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR ~ 1861-1867: The Civil War in America * The English in favor of the South; the Irish in favor of the North * The Alabama * The Fenian Movement * The Rising * The Manchester Martyrs CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE ~ 1868-1875: Ireland’s first Cardinal * Disestablishment of the Irish Church * The Home Rule Agitation * Gladstone as a reformer * The Irish Land Bill of 1870 * French War * Dethronement of the Emperor Napoleon CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX ~ 1876-1882: Charles Stewart Parnell * Land League Agitation * Excitement in Ireland * Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act * Arrests and Imprisonments * Assassination of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke * Ceremonies of the unveiling of the O’Connell Monument and the opening of the Dublin Exhibition, August 15th, 1882 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Florence O’Maolconaire, or Conroy * Father Luke Wadding * Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh APPENDIX NO. 1: The Articles of Union APPENDIX NO. 2: Original Red List, Or the Members who voted against the Union in 1799, and 1800, with observations * Original Black List APPENDIX NO. 3: An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 2d July, 1800 APPENDIX NO. 4: Proclamations Found in Emmet’s Arms-Depots, Intended to Be Issued on the Day of the Outbreak Remember folks, this is an 1884 original. 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