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

Forsideomslag
P. J. Kenedy, 1892 - 657 sider

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The Golden Age of PreChristian Erinn
38
The death of King Dahi
42
How Ireland received the Christian Faith
45
Chapter Page
46
A retrospective glance at pagan Ireland
51
St Columba led blindfolded into the Convention
55
Chapter Page
63
The Danes in Ireland
74
The murder of King Mahon
78
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
How Herry 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
Godfrey of Tyrconnell borne into battle
145
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
Edward Bruce crowned king of Ireland
161
Mac Murrough warned of the plot by his Bard
169
How the vainglorious English king tried another campaign against
177
How a new element of antagonism came into the struggle How
184
The rebellion of Silken Thomas
196
The Reformers at their work
207
Edward Mary and Elizabeth The career
216
Hugh of Dungannon How Queen Elizabeth brought up the young
235
Stealing away the Tyrconnell princes
238
How Hugh of Dungannon was meantime drawing off from England
246
How the government and Hugh made a treaty of peace How England
322
The Flight of the Earls
327
A memorable epoch How Milesian Ireland finally disappeared from
339
How the lords justices got up the needful bloody fury in England
352
Something about the conflicting elements of the civil war in 16429
360
Authentic portrait of Owen Roe ONeill 50
370
How the king disavowed the treaty and the Irish repudiated it
377
The agony of a nation
383
How King Charles the Second came back on a compromise How a
394
Battle of the Boyne
410
How James abandoned the struggle but the Irish would not give up
422
How William procured a new siege train and breached the wall
435
How Ginckle besieged Athlone How the Irish kept the bridge
441
The Dog of Aughrim
451
How glorious Limerick once more braved the ordeal How at length
462
How the treaty of Limerick was broken and trampled under foot by
469
The Irish army in exile How Sarsfield fell on Landen plain
479
How Ireland began to awaken from the sleep of slavery The dawn
488
What national independence accomplished for Ireland How England
501
How the British minister forced on the rising The fate of the brave
509
The capture of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
515
How the government conspiracy now achieved its purpose How
520
Ireland after the Union The story of Robert Emmet
531
How the Irish people next sought to achieve the restoration of their
546
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
Decline of the Land League No Rent Dynamite and the dagger
632
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