The Normans in Ireland. - The Apostolic Age. - The Danish Invasions. - Brian St. Patrick. of Races. - Irish Church in the Middle Ages. CHAPTER II. Henry VIII. of England elected King of Ireland. — Antecedents of this 11 19 30 Reformation in Ireland. - The first Catholic Insurrection.- Accession of Queen Mary. Catholic Reaction. Irish Bishops.- Death of Queen Mary. — State of Parties. . Restoration of the 46 CHAPTER IV. The Irish Catholic Strength at the Accession of Elizabeth. - Test Oaths enacted.-First Catholic Confederacy. - The Insurrection of the Desmonds. Confiscation of Munster. The First Martyrs. The Ulster Princes. - Second Catholic Confederation.- Alliance with Spain. - Battle of Kinsale. 55 · CHAPTER V. Stuarts succeed to the Throne. - Endowment of Trinity College. - 85 CHAPTER VI. The Presbyterians and Puritans in Ireland. - Extermination their Roe O'Neil.-Ormond.- Cromwell in Ireland. - The Puritan Penal BOOK II. CHAPTER 1. Restoration of Charles II.-Act of Settlement. - Ormond's Attempt CHAPTER II. Accession of James II. Talbot, Lord Deputy.-Irish Soldiers in 139 Reign of William III. CHAPTER III. Violation of the Treaty of Limerick. - Proscription of the Bishops and Clergy. — Further Confiscations of Catholic Property. CHAPTER IV. 165 Queen Anne's Reign. "Act to discourage the Growth of Popery." Sir Taby Butler heard at the Bar of the Houses of Parliament. His Character. Immense Emigration. mate McMahon. - Priest Hunting. — Pri . . 171 CHAPTER V. Irish Catholics abroad. - Irish Colleges at Louvain, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, &c.— Irish Soldiers in Foreign Service. The Irish Brigade in France. How their Reputation reacted on England. - CHAPTER VI. The Jacobites and the Irish Catholics.. - The Stuarts consulted at Rome on the Appointment of Irish Bishops. - The Rapparees. BOOK III. 191 206 CHAPTER I. Irish Parties in the Reign of George II. -"The Patriots." - "The 215 CHAPTER II. State of Ireland at the Accession of George III. - Publications on the Catholic Question. The Great Famine. - Catholic Committees for petitioning Parliament.- Proposed Relief Bill of 1762.- Rumored French Invasion. - Agrarianism. Martyrdom of Father Nicholas Sheehy and his Friends. Spread of Secret Societies. The Methodists in Ireland. . 232 CHAPTER III. - Concessions in 1774 and 1778. Second Catholic Committee formed.. 244 CHAPTER IV. Maynooth College founded. Union of Defenders and United Irishmen. Insurrection of 1798.- Falsehoods concerning Catholics engaged in it. Proposed Legislative Union. -Pitt and the Bishops. The Act of Union; its Results on the Catholic Cause. CHAPTER V. ville. - Catholic Question in the Imperial Parliament. - Pitt. - Fox. Gren- Visit of George IV. to Ireland. - The Catholic Question in Parlia- ment. Its Progress and Power. - The Catholics before Parliament in Person. - Foreign 278 290 |