A Popular History of Ireland V2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee A Popular History of Ireland V2 Table of Contents A Popular History of Ireland V2.............................................................................................................................1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee.................................................................................................................................2 BOOK VIII. THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION..................................................................................................5 CHAPTER IV. SIR HENRY SIDNEY'S DEPUTYSHIP—PARLIAMENT OF 1569— THE SECOND “GERALDINE LEAGUE”—SIR JAMES FITZ−MAURICE.....................................................................6 CHAPTER V. THE “UNDERTAKERS” IN ULSTER AND LEINSTER—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SIR JAMES FITZMAURICE...............................................................................................................10 CHAPTER VI. SEQUEL OF THE SECOND GERALDINE LEAGUE—PLANTATION OF MUNSTER—EARLY CAREER OF HUGH O'NEIL, EARL OF TYRONE—PARLIAMENT OF 1585.............................................................................................................................................................13 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......................16 CHAPTER VIII. THE ULSTER CONFEDERACY—FEAGH MAC HUGH O'BYRNE—CAMPAIGN OF 1595—NEGOTIATIONS, ENGLISH AND SPANISH—BATTLE OF THE YELLOW FORD—ITS CONSEQUENCES...............................................................................20 CHAPTER IX. ESSEX'S CAMPAIGN OF 1599—BATTLE OF THE CURLIEU MOUNTAINS—O'NEIL'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN— MOUNTJOY, LORD DEPUTY..........24 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...........................................28 CHAPTER XI. THE CONQUEST OF MUNSTER—DEATH OF ELIZABETH, AND SUBMISSION OF O'NEIL—“THE ARTICLES OF MELLIFONT.”......................................................33 CHAPTER XII. STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH...............................................................................................................................................36 BOOK IX. FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. TILL THE DEATH OF CROMWELL...............................39 CHAPTER I. JAMES I.—FLIGHT OF THE EARLS—CONFISCATION OF ULSTER— PENAL LAWS—PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION...........................................................................................40 CHAPTER II. LAST YEARS OF JAMES—CONFISCATION OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES—ACCESSION OF CHARLES I.—GRIEVANCES AND “GRACES”—ADMINISTRATION OF LORD STRAFFORD.................................................................45 CHAPTER III. LORD STRAFFORD'S IMPEACHMENT AND EXECUTION—PARLIAMENT OF 1639−'41—THE INSURRECTION OF 1641—THE IRISH ABROAD...................................................50 CHAPTER IV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1641.......................................................................................54 CHAPTER V. THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION—ITS CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT...............................................................................................................58 CHAPTER VI. THE CONFEDERATE WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1643—THE CESSATION.................62 CHAPTER VII. THE CESSATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES...........................................................65 CHAPTER VIII. GLAMORGAN'S TREATY—THE NEW NUNCIO RINUCCINI— O'NEIL'S POSITION—THE BATTLE OF BENBURB............................................................................................68 CHAPTER IX. FROM THE BATTLE OF BENBURB TILL THE LANDING OF CROMWELL AT DUBLIN......................................................................................................................................................72 CHAPTER X. CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN—−1649−1650.....................................................................75 CHAPTER XI. CLOSE OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR........................................................................77 CHAPTER XII. IRELAND UNDER THE PROTECTORATE—ADMINISTRATION OF HENRY CROMWELL—DEATH OF OLIVER......................................................................................................80 BOOK X. FROM THE RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. TO THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I...................83 CHAPTER I. REIGN OF CHARLES II......................................................................................................84 i A Popular History of Ireland V2 Table of Contents A Popular History of Ireland V2 CHAPTER II. REIGN OF CHARLES II. (CONCLUDED.)......................................................................87 CHAPTER III. THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY....................................................................................................................89 CHAPTER IV. ACCESSION OF JAMES II.—TYRCONNELL'S ADMINISTRATION........................92 CHAPTER V. KING JAMES IN IRELAND—IRISH PARLIAMENT OF 1689......................................95 CHAPTER VI. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1689—SIEGES OF DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.................................................................................................................................97 CHAPTER VII. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1690—BATTLE OF THE BOYNE—ITS CONSEQUENCES—THE SIEGES OF ATHLONE AND LIMERICK........................100 CHAPTER VIII. THE WINTER OF 1690−91..........................................................................................103 CHAPTER IX. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1691—BATTLE OF AUGHRIM—CAPITULATION OF LIMERICK....................................................................................105 CHAPTER X. REIGN OF KING WILLIAM...........................................................................................108 CHAPTER XI. REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.............................................................................................112 CHAPTER XII. THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD DURING THE REIGNS OF WILLIAM AND ANNE........................................................................................................................................................115 BOOK XI. FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I. TO THE LEGISLATIVE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND...................................................................................................................................117 CHAPTER I. ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.—SWIFT'S LEADERSHIP................................................118 CHAPTER II. REIGN OF GEORGE II.—GROWTH OF PUBLIC SPIRIT—THE “PATRIOT” PARTY—LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION..................................................................121 CHAPTER III. THE LAST JACOBITE MOVEMENT—THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD— FRENCH EXPEDITION UNDER THUROT, OR O'FARRELL............................................................124 CHAPTER IV. REIGN OF GEORGE II. (CONCLUDED)—MALONE'S LEADERSHIP....................127 CHAPTER V. ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.—FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP— OCTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHED...........................................................................................................130 CHAPTER VI. FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—STATE OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1776...........................................................................................................................................................132 CHAPTER VII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—“FREE TRADE,” AND THE VOLUNTEERS...........134 CHAPTER VIII. GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHED........................................................................................................137 CHAPTER IX. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—FIRST PERIOD......................................................140 CHAPTER X. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—SECOND PERIOD..................................................144 CHAPTER XI. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—THIRD PERIOD— CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL OF 1793.....................................................................................................................................................148 CHAPTER XII. THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN IRELAND—SECESSION OF GRATTAN, CURRAN, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FROM PARLIAMENT, IN 1797..........................................................................................................................152 CHAPTER XIII. THE UNITED IRISHMEN............................................................................................156 CHAPTER XIV. NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND—THE THREE EXPEDITIONS NEGOTIATED BY TONE AND LEWINES................................................................159 CHAPTER XV. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798...................................................................................162 CHAPTER XVI. THE INSURRECTION OF 1798—THE WEXFORD INSURRECTION...................166 CHAPTER XVII. THE INSURRECTION ELSEWHERE—FATE OF THE LEADING UNITED IRISHMEN...............................................................................................................................................172 CHAPTER XVIII. ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS—BEFORE THE UNION...........177 CHAPTER XIX. LAST SESSION OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT—THE LEGISLATIVE UNION ii A Popular History of Ireland V2 Table of Contents A Popular