OR

THE DESTRUCTION OF CYPRUS ;

BEING

A SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION IN IRELAND,

BY

COLONEL CHARLES O'KELLY,

OF SKRYNE, OR AUGHRANE, NOW CASTLE KELLY, COUNTY GALWAY.

;.

EDITED,

FROM FOUR ENGLISH COPIES, AND A LATIN MS. IN THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY,

WITH NOTES, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR AND HIS DESCENDANTS,

38X923

FOUNDED MDCCCXL.

Patron:

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT.

President:

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF LEINSTER.

Vice-Presidents:

THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF KILDARE, M.P., M.R.I.A.
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LEITRIM, M.R.I.A.

THE RIGHT HON. THE VISCOUNT ADARE, M. P., M. R. I.A.

Council:

Elected December 21, 1849.

REV. SAMUEL BUTCHER, D.D., M. R.I.A.
REV. CHARLES GRAVES, A. M., M.R. I.A.

JAMES HARDIMAN, ESQ., M.R.I.A.

WILLIAM ELLIOT HUDSON, Esq., M. R. I. A.

CAPTAIN T. A. LARCOM, R.E., V.P.R.I.A.

CHARLES MAC DONNELL, ESQ., M.R.I.A.

GEORGE PETRIE, ESQ., LL. D., R. H. A., V. P. R.I.A.

REV. WILLIAM REEVES, D.D., M. B., M.R.I.A.

VERY REV. DR. RENEHAN, President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
AQUILLA SMITH, ESQ., M. D., M. R. I.A., Treasurer.

J. HUBAND SMITH, ESQ., A. M., M. R.I.A.

REV. J. H. TODD, D.D., M.R.I.A., Secretary.