CONTENTS.

Preface,

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BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.

The early Irish Church and State. The Milesians. — Druidism. –

St. Patrick. — The Apostolic Age. — The Danish Invasions. — Brian

at Clontarf. — St. Malachi. — The Normans in Ireland. — The War

of Races. — Irish Church in the Middle Ages.

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CHAPTER II.

Henry VIII. of England elected King of Ireland. - Antecedents of this

Election. The Clergy not consulted. - The Chiefs canvassed indi-

vidually. — After the Election. — Apostate Bishops. - Confiscation,

Sacrilege, and Reformation.

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CHAPTER III.

King Edward and Queen Mary. — Cranmer's Attempts to establish the

Reformation in Ireland. The first Catholic Insurrection. - Acces-

sion of Queen Mary. - Catholic Reaction. - Restoration of the

Irish Bishops. - Death of Queen Mary. - State of Parties. . . . 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.

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CHAPTER V.

Stuarts succeed to the Throne. – Endowment of Trinity College.

Usher and O’Daniel. - Confiscation of Ulster. — “Recusant” Party.

- Charles I. - A new Persecution. — Strafford's Viceroyalty. –

Confiscation of Connaught. The School of Wards. The Solemn

League and Covenant. .

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CHAPTER VI.

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The Presbyterians and Puritans in Ireland. — Extermination their

Policy. — Ulster. Rising of 1641. · New Catholic Confederacy

founded by Rory O'Moore. — Oath of Confederation. - General

Insurrection. - Catholic Legislation. - Peters and Jerome. Owen

Roe O'Neil. - Ormond. -- Cromwell in Ireland. - The Puritan Penal

Laws. — Death of Cromwell.

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Restoration of Charles II. — Act of Settlement. Ormond's Attempt

to Gallicanize the Irish Church. — Synod of 1666. — Lord Berkeley's

Viceroyalty. - The New Test Act. -“The Popish Plot.” — Mar-

tyrdom of Primate Plunkett. Assassination of Count Redmond

O'Hanlon.

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CHAPTER II.

Accession of James II. - Talbot, Lord Deputy. — Irish Soldiers in

England. - Invasion of William III. — Irish Parliament of 1686.

Reign of William III. — Violation of the Treaty of Limerick. - Pro-

scription of the Bishops and Clergy. — Further Confiscations of

Catholic Property.

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CHAPTER IV.

Queen Anne's Reign. -“ Act to discourage the Growth of Popery."

- Sir Toby Butler heard at the Bar of the Houses of Parliament. -

His Character. - Immense Emigration. — Priest Hunting. - Pri-

mate McMahon.

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CHAPTER V.

Irish Catholics abroad. — Irish Colleges at Louvain, Paris, Rome, Lis-

bon, &c. — Irish Soldiers in Foreign Service. - The Irish Brigade

in France. - How their Reputation reacted on England.

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CHAPTER VI.

The Jacobites and the Irish Catholics. – The Stuarts consulted at

Rome on the Appointment of Irish Bishops. — The Rapparees.

The Wandering Ministrels and “ Newsmen.”

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BOOK III.

CHAPTER I.

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Irish Parties in the Reign of George II. 6. The Patriots." -

-" The

Castle Party." — Increase of the Catholics. — Establishment of

Charter Schools. - Swift's Portraits of the Protestant Prelates.

Battle of Culloden. - Change of Catholics' Tactics.

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OF THE IRISH WRITERS;

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LIFE OF ART. M'MURROGH; “ HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF O'CONNELL AND HIS

FRIENDS," ETC., ETC., ETC.

" For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues:

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