A History of Ireland and Her People, free ebooks, ebook, etext. Title: Eleanor Hull (1. Author: A History of Ireland and Her People (1. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English. Date first posted: February 2. Date most recently updated: February 2. Production notes. Footnotes are shown at end of paragraph in. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. PREFACE. Old Matthew Paris writes: 'The case of historical writers is hard; for if they tell the truth they provoke men, and if they write what is false, they offend God.' Of all histories this dictum is perhaps most true of. Big Break Contest. To clear the title page: Go to Document > Title Page; Select all the text with Apple (Command) + A on Mac and Control + A on Windows. The Great Zoo of China is a 2014 novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly. It was published in November 2014. Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during January, 2016.This month we received:157 covers in the Fiction category27 covers in the Nonfiction categoryComm. Books are created from printed editions. Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. Books in compliance with a particular. Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the. This e. Book is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictions. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at. GO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGEA HISTORY OF IRELAND AND HER PEOPLEby. Eleanor Hull(1. 93. CONTENTSVOLUME 1—To the Close of the Tudor Period. Preface. I. Pre- Christian Ireland. II. Early Christian Ireland. Electronic library of Books, Latest ebook Releases, Download eBooks absolutely for Free! Get updates about Matthew Reilly and recommended reads from Simon & Schuster. Plus, get a FREE eBook when you sign up! III. The Northmen. IV. Clontarf and After. V. The Normans in Ireland. VI. The O'Conors of Connacht and the O'Briens of Thomond. VII. The Invasion of Edward Bruce and the Gaelic Revival. VIII. The Statute of Kilkenny. IX. The Geraldines: The House of Desmond and the House of Kildare. X. The New Policy of Henry VIII. XI. The Change in Religion. XII. Sir Henry Sidney. XIII. Shane O'Neill and the Scots in Ulster. XIV. The First Plantations. XV. The Desmond Rebellion. XVI. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. XVII. Essex in Ireland and the Ulster Campaign. XVIII. The Munster Planters. XIX. Fineen (Florence) Mac. Carthy Reagh. XX. The Battle of Kinsale. XXI. The Flight of the Earls and the End of Mediaeval Ireland. APPENDICES. I. Pope Adrian's Bull "Laudabiliter" and Note upon It. II. Letter from Cathal Crovdearg O'Conor, King of Connacht, to Henry III. III. Extract from a Letter written by Richard II to his Uncle, the Duke of York. Arrival in Dublin, February 1, 1. IV. Intelligence Message for Henry IV on the State of Ireland in 1. V. List of Books belonging to the Library of Gerald, Ninth Earl of Kildare, 1. VI. Letter of Conn O'Neill during his Imprisonment in Dublin Castle, 1. VII. Letter of Shane O'Neill to the Earl of Sussex, Viceroy of Ireland, 1. VIII. Historical Work done by Sir George Carew relating to Ireland. VOLUME 2—From the Stuart Period to Modern Times. I. James I and Ireland. II. The Plantation of Ulster. III. Wentworth in Ireland. IV. The Rebellion of 1. V. The Confederate Wars in Ireland. VI. The Ormonde Peace. VII. Cromwell in Ireland. VIII. The Restoration. IX. James II in Ireland. X. James II's Irish Campaign. XI. After Limerick. XII. Commercial Disabilities. XIII. The Struggle for Legislative Independence. XIV. Grattan's Parliament. XV. Revolution and Rebellion. XVII. O'Connell and Emancipation. XVIII. The Famine. XIX. Young Ireland and the Fenians. XX. Remedial Legislation. XXI. Parnell and the Land League. XXII. John Redmond and Home Rule. XXIII. Sinn Fein and the Rising of Easter Week, 1. XXIV. War and Conciliation. XXV. The Treaty. Epilogue. APPENDICES. I. Phelim O'Neill's Commission from King Charles I. II. Oration of P. H. Pearse over the grave of O'Donovan Rossa. III. Proclamation of the Irish Republic, April 2. IV. Commission given by Eamon de Valera to the Envoys to the British Government. October 7, 1. 92. V. The Three Oaths. VI. Articles of Agreement on the Boundary Question. VII. Speech of Arthur Griffith in Dail Eireann on December 1. The Treaty. VIII. Poem 'Renunciation' by P. H. Pearse. IX. 'Moral Force' by Terence Mac. Swiney. A HISTORY OF IRELAND AND HER PEOPLEVOLUME IPREFACEOld Matthew Paris writes: "The case of historical writers is hard; for if. God." Of all histories this dictum is perhaps most true of Irish. The most urgent of these political issues. England toward Ireland. Ireland; but the conditions of the. It is taken. almost for granted by patriotic writers that native Ireland was enjoying a. Golden Age from which she was rudely awakened by the irruption of the English. There is no more exacting problem than that of the. Lecky truly says, "Irish history possesses an interest of the highest. In very few histories can we trace so clearly the effects of political. The problem was much. Ireland itself. account for much; and it is perhaps because the theory of a Golden Age breaks. Irish writers anxious to. Ireland had no. control. In the new situation, now that Ireland has once more regained freedom. The professed desire of many of the younger school of. Irishmen is for a return to the conditions, the methods, and the laws of the. A clear understanding as to where this. Ireland as well as the many and varied attempts of England to. The early intentions of the ruling power to act justly toward. Ireland broke down in a despair that led to the most ruthless methods of. The fault was partly English, partly Irish, but still more. English Crown and the. Irish people. How Ireland would have developed had the Normans never set foot. Ireland is a question as impossible to answer as a similar question. England. The coming of the Normans was as inevitable in the one case. Western Europe; and the result of their conquests was in. Historical and Political Essays. I have endeavoured in the following history to interpose as little as was. The. result has been in numberless cases a surprise to myself; so different is the. Irish history is a series of contradictions; its unexpectedness creates. In these circumstances it has seemed best, so far as space permitted, to. By this means some portion of that fresh flavour which we taste in old. Montaigne charges against "the middle sort of historians" that. The writers of the day were. Tudor period, when Irish. We. might like them better if they had not talked so much; but at least we have. To know the. history of any period we must know the men who made that history; the personal. History never repeats itself, for the men who made it yesterday are. But it is upon the men that. I have to acknowledge with gratitude the kindness of the following noblemen. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, for a. Earl of Cork, called the 'Great' Earl of Cork, now at. Hardwick Hall, formerly at Lismore, attributed to Paul van Somers; the Right. Hon. Lord Sackville, for the portrait of Katherine Fitz. Gerald, the "Old. Countess of Desmond," at Knole; the Right Hon. Lord de l'Isle and Dudley, for. Sir Henry Sidney, at Penshurst Place; Lady Nesta Fitz. Gerald. for the portrait of Garrett Oge, ninth Earl of Kildare, at Carton, Maynooth. Hon. Francis Agar- Robartes, for the portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, at. Wimpole; Mr Francis Joseph Bigger, for the portrait of Shane O'Neill, at Castle. Shane, Ardglass; and the Rev. F. H. Hodgson, for the portrait of Sir George. Carew, first Earl of Totnes, at Clopton House, Stratford- on- Avon. I have been. unable to discover the owners of the two interesting portraits of Hugh O'Neill. Earl of Tyrone, which were exhibited in the Loan Collection of. Portraits, London, in 1. Though known as a portrait of Hugh O'Neill, the. Haec est Christophori simulaia canalis imago. To Mr Newport B. White I am indebted for kindly translating King Cathal. Crovdearg" O'Conor's letter in the Appendices, and to my brother, Mr C. M. Hull, for help in proof- reading and indexing. ELEANOR HULLI.—PRE- CHRISTIAN IRELANDWhen Agricola in the fifth year of his British campaign (A. D. 8. 2) "manned. British coast which faces Hibernia, with a forward. Ireland, for good or ill, hung in the balance. Wherever the Roman arms made themselves felt, wherever by conquest or. Imperial law, religion, ideas, extended themselves, there followed. Ireland for many hundreds of years. Roman rule in Britain and Gaul. In spite of the Roman general's belief that "with one legion and a fair. Hibernia could be overpowered and held," he never set. Agricola's day no important. Ireland. Set apart. Europe after the fall of Rome, Ireland was left undisturbed to work out her own. In Gaul and Britain, with the dying out of the native tongue and the. Latin, the native records, oral or written, were. Tacitus, Agricola, xxiv. In Ireland, on the other hand, thanks to its exemption from Roman dominion. Most of them have come down to us in the. Ireland at a time before history proper. They supply the most complete record of a civilization. Christian period preserved by any European nation north of the. Alps. They claim to represent the life of the first century of the Christian. Some of the ornaments described in the tales, for. European influences as Ireland. Such are the beautiful brooches of the La. Tène period and especially the leaf- shaped fibulae found in Ireland. Cuchulain. tales; in Britain and Gaul, where they were also worn, they fell into disuse. Though not nearly so common as the. Tara. brooch is the best- known example, six specimens of the fibula have been found. Emain Macha or Navan Rath, the centre of the. Cuchulain tales in which these descriptions occur. It is evident that the bards. The earliest tales of Ireland are partly concerned with mythological. Tuatha De. Danann, and partly with the doings of a group of heroic men and women, of whom. Cuchulain is the central figure. The chief centre of the group was. Emain Macha in Ulster. In this district the outlines of forts, burial- places. The same may be said of the. Rath Cruachan, now Croghan, in Connacht, which is the centre. Connacht traditions. In general the tales relate to an. Ulster and Connacht, which was then. Meave (Medhbh) as formidable as the British. Boadicea (Boudicca). She is said to have gathered to the contest. Four Great Fifths"or provinces into which Ireland was then divided and to. Ulster, primarily to regain possession of a famous bull, but. Connacht and the South over that of the. North. The incidents and fights into which the war resolved itself, in which. Ulster, Cuchulain. The Táin bó Cualnge is the. Ireland. There has been much dispute as to how the early division into five provinces. According to an old tradition, the first partition was carried out in. Firbolg, one of the pre- Gaelic peoples of Ireland, and was.
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