A Popular History of Ireland Volume 2

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Author

McGee, Thomas D'Arcy, 1825-1868

Title

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2

Credits

This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan with help from Charles Aldarondo and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Ireland -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6633

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6633

Release Date

October 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A Popular History of Ireland: — Earliest Period — Emancipation of the Catholics — by Thomas D'Arcy McGee — Volume II — CONTENTS—VOL. II
2. 2.HISTORY OF IRELAND
3. 3.BOOK VIII. THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION. (Continued from Volume I)
4. 4.CHAPTER IV. SIR HENRY SIDNEY'S DEPUTYSHIP—PARLIAMENT OF 1569—THE SECOND "GERALDINE LEAGUE"—SIR JAMES FITZ-MAURICE.
5. 5.CHAPTER V. THE "UNDERTAKERS" IN ULSTER AND LEINSTER—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SIR JAMES FITZMAURICE.
6. 6.CHAPTER VI. SEQUEL OF THE SECOND GERALDINE LEAGUE—PLANTATION OF MUNSTER—EARLY CAREER OF HUGH O'NEIL, EARL OF TYRONE—PARLIAMENT OF 1585.
7. 7.CHAPTER VII. BATTLE OF GLENMALURE—SIR JOHN PERROTT'S ADMINISTRATION—THE SPANISH ARMADA—LORD DEPUTY FITZWILLIAM—ESCAPE OF HUGH ROE O'DONNELL FROM DUBLIN CASTLE—THE ULSTER CONFEDERACY FORMED.
8. 8.CHAPTER VIII. THE ULSTER CONFEDERACY—FEAGH MAC HUGH O'BYRNE—CAMPAIGN OF 1595—NEGOTIATIONS, ENGLISH AND SPANISH—BATTLE OF THE YELLOW FORD—ITS CONSEQUENCES.
9. 9.CHAPTER IX. ESSEX'S CAMPAIGN OF 1599—BATTLE OF THE CURLIEU MOUNTAINS—O'NEIL'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN—MOUNTJOY, LORD DEPUTY.
10. 10.CHAPTER X. MOUNTJOY'S ADMINISTRATION—OPERATIONS IN ULSTER AND MUNSTER—CAREW'S "WIT AND CUNNING"—LANDING OF SPANIARDS IN THE SOUTH—BATTLE OF KINSALE—DEATH OF O'DONNELL IN SPAIN.
11. 11.CHAPTER XI. THE CONQUEST OF MUNSTER—DEATH OF ELIZABETH, AND SUBMISSION OF O'NEIL—"THE ARTICLES OF MELLIFONT."
12. 12.CHAPTER XII. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH.
13. 13.BOOK IX. FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. TILL THE DEATH OF CROMWELL.
14. 14.CHAPTER I. JAMES I.—FLIGHT OF THE EARLS—CONFISCATION OF ULSTER—PENAL LAWS—PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION.
15. 15.CHAPTER II. LAST YEARS OF JAMES—CONFISCATION OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES—ACCESSION OF CHARLES I.—GRIEVANCES AND "GRACES"—ADMINISTRATION OF LORD STRAFFORD.
16. 16.CHAPTER III. LORD STRAFFORD'S IMPEACHMENT AND EXECUTION—PARLIAMENT OF 1639-'41—THE INSURRECTION OF 1641—THE IRISH ABROAD.
17. 17.CHAPTER IV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1641.
18. 18.CHAPTER V. THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION—ITS CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
19. 19.CHAPTER VI. THE CONFEDERATE WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1643—THE CESSATION.
20. 20.CHAPTER VII. THE CESSATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
21. 21.CHAPTER VIII. GLAMORGAN'S TREATY—THE NEW NUNCIO RINUCCINI—O'NEIL'S POSITION—THE BATTLE OF BENBURB.
22. 22.CHAPTER IX. FROM THE BATTLE OF BENBURB TILL THE LANDING OF CROMWELL AT DUBLIN.
23. 23.CHAPTER X. CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN—-1649-1650.
24. 24.CHAPTER XI. CLOSE OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR.
25. 25.CHAPTER XII. IRELAND UNDER THE PROTECTORATE—ADMINISTRATION OF HENRY CROMWELL—DEATH OF OLIVER.
26. 26.BOOK X. FROM THE RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. TO THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.
27. 27.CHAPTER I. REIGN OF CHARLES II.
28. 28.CHAPTER II. REIGN OF CHARLES II. (CONCLUDED.)
29. 29.CHAPTER III. THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
30. 30.CHAPTER IV. ACCESSION OF JAMES II.—TYRCONNELL'S ADMINISTRATION.
31. 31.CHAPTER V. KING JAMES IN IRELAND—IRISH PARLIAMENT OF 1689.
32. 32.CHAPTER VI. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1689—SIEGES OF DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.
33. 33.CHAPTER VII. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1690—BATTLE OF THE BOYNE—ITS CONSEQUENCES—THE SIEGES OF ATHLONE AND LIMERICK.
34. 34.CHAPTER VIII. THE WINTER OF 1690-91.
35. 35.CHAPTER IX. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1691—BATTLE OF AUGHRIM—CAPITULATION OF LIMERICK.
36. 36.CHAPTER X. REIGN OF KING WILLIAM.
37. 37.CHAPTER XI. REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.
38. 38.CHAPTER XII. THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD DURING THE REIGNS OF WILLIAM AND ANNE.
39. 39.BOOK XI. FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I. TO THE LEGISLATIVE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
40. 40.CHAPTER I. ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.—SWIFT'S LEADERSHIP.
41. 41.CHAPTER II. REIGN OF GEORGE II.—GROWTH OF PUBLIC SPIRIT—THE "PATRIOT" PARTY—LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION.
42. 42.CHAPTER III. THE LAST JACOBITE MOVEMENT—THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD—FRENCH EXPEDITION UNDER THUROT, OR O'FARRELL.
43. 43.CHAPTER IV. REIGN OF GEORGE II. (CONCLUDED)—MALONE'S LEADERSHIP.
44. 44.CHAPTER V. ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.—FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—OCTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHED.
45. 45.CHAPTER VI. FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—STATE OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1776.
46. 46.CHAPTER VII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—"FREE TRADE," AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
47. 47.CHAPTER VIII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHED.
48. 48.CHAPTER IX. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—FIRST PERIOD.
49. 49.CHAPTER X. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—SECOND PERIOD.
50. 50.CHAPTER XI. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—THIRD PERIOD—CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL OF 1793.
51. 51.CHAPTER XII. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN IRELAND—SECESSION OF GRATTAN, CURRAN, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FROM PARLIAMENT, IN 1797.
52. 52.CHAPTER XIII. THE UNITED IRISHMEN.
53. 53.CHAPTER XIV. NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND—THE THREE EXPEDITIONS NEGOTIATED BY TONE AND LEWINES.
54. 54.CHAPTER XV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798.
55. 55.CHAPTER XVI. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798—THE WEXFORD INSURRECTION.
56. 56.CHAPTER XVII. THE INSURRECTION ELSEWHERE—FATE OF THE LEADING UNITED IRISHMEN.
57. 57.CHAPTER XVIII. ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS—BEFORE THE UNION.
58. 58.CHAPTER XIX. LAST SESSION OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT—THE LEGISLATIVE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
59. 59.BOOK XII. FROM THE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO THE EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS.
60. 60.CHAPTER I. AFTER THE UNION—DEATH OF LORD CLARE—ROBERT EMMET'S EMEUTE.
61. 61.CHAPTER II. ADMINISTRATION OF LORD HARDWICKE (1801 TO 1806), AND OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD (1806 TO 1808).
62. 62.CHAPTER III. ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND (1807 TO 1813).
63. 63.CHAPTER IV. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—1813 TO 1821.
64. 64.CHAPTER V. RETROSPECT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.
65. 65.CHAPTER VI. THE IRISH ABROAD, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.
66. 66.CHAPTER VII. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION—1821 TO 1826.
67. 67.CHAPTER VIII. O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—THE CLARE ELECTION—EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS.

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