Contents - Story of Ireland

A. M. Sullivan
c. 1900
CONTENTS

CHAPTER XXXI.
“Those Geraldines! those Geraldines!”

CHAPTER XXXII.
The rebellion of Silken Thomas

CHAPTER XXXIII.
How the “Reformation” was accomplished in England, and how it was resisted in Ireland

CHAPTER XXXIV.
How the Irish chiefs gave up all hope and yielded to Henry; and how the Irish clans served the chiefs for such treason

CHAPTER XXXV.
Henry's successors: Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth—The career of “John the Proud”

CHAPTER XXXVI.
How the Geraldines once more leagued against England under the banner of the cross—How “the royal Pope” was the earliest and the most active ally of the Irish cause

CHAPTER XXXVII.
How Commander Cosby held a “feast” at Mullaghmast; and how “Ruari Oge” recompensed that “hospitality”—A viceroy's visit to Glenmalure, and his reception there

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
“Hugh of Dungannon”—How Queen Elizabeth brought up the young Irish chief at court, with certain crafty designs of her own

CHAPTER XXXIX.
How Lord Deputy Perrot planned a right cunning expedition, and stole away the youthful prince of Tyrconnell—How, in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, the boy chief learned his duty toward England; and how he at length escaped and commenced discharging that duty

CHAPTER XL.
How Hugh of Dungannon was meantime drawing off from England and drawing near to Ireland

CHAPTER XLI.
How Red Hugh went circuit against the English in the North—How the crisis came upon O'Neill

CHAPTER XLII.
O'Neill in arms for Ireland—Clontibret and Beal-an-athabuie

CHAPTER XLIII.
How Hugh formed a great national confederacy and built up a nation once more on Irish soil

CHAPTER XLIV.
How the reconstructed Irish nation was overborne—How the two Hughs “fought back to back” against their overwhelming foes—How the “Spanish aid” ruined the Irish cause The disastrous battle of Kinsale

CHAPTER XLV.
“The last Lord of Beara”—How Donal of Dunboy was assigned a perilous prominence, and nobly undertook its duties—How Don Juan's imbecility or treason ruined the Irish cause

CHAPTER XLVI.
How the queen's forces set about “tranquillizing” Munster—How Carew sent Earl Thomond on a mission into Carbery, Bear, and Bantry

CHAPTER XLVII.
How the lord president gathered an army of four thousand men to crush doomed Dunboy, the last hope of the national cause in Munster

CHAPTER XLVIII.
The last days of Dunboy a tale of heroism

CHAPTER XLIX.
How the fall of Dunboy caused King Philip to change all his plans, and recall the expedition for Ireland; and how the reverse broke the brave heart of Red Hugh—How the “Lion of the North” stood at bay, and made his foes tremble to the last

CHAPTER L.
The retreat to Leitrim; “the most romantic and gallant achievement of the age”

CHAPTER LI.
How the government and Hugh made a treaty of peace—How England came under the Scottish monarchy; and how Ireland hopefully hailed the Gaelic sovereign

CHAPTER LII.
“The Flight of the Earls”—How the princes of Ireland went into exile, menaced by destruction at home

CHAPTER LIII.
A memorable epoch—How Milesian Ireland finally disappeared from history; and how a new Ireland, Ireland in exile, appeared for the first time—How “plantations” of foreigners were designed for the “colonization” of Ireland, and the extirpation of the native race

CHAPTER LIV.
How the lords justices got up the needful bloody fury in England by a “dreadful massacre” story—How the Confederation of Kilkenny came about

CHAPTER LV.
Something about the conflicting elements of the civil war in 1642-9—How the Confederate Catholics made good their position, and established a national government in Ireland

CHAPTER LVI.
How King Charles opened negotiations with the Confederate Council—How the Anglo-Irish party would “have peace at any price,” and the “native Irish” party stood out for peace with honor—How Pope Innocent the Tenth sent an envoy, “not empty-handed,” to aid the Irish cause

CHAPTER LVII.
How the nuncio freed and armed the hand of Owen Roe, and bade him strike at least one worthy blow for God and Ireland—How gloriously Owen struck that blow at Benburb

CHAPTER LVIII.
How the king disavowed the treaty, and the Irish repudiated it—How the council by a worse blunder clasped hands with a sacrilegious murderer, and incurred excommunication—How at length the royalists and confederates concluded an honorable peace

CHAPTER LIX.
How Cromwell led the Puritan rebels into Ireland—How Ireland by a lesson too terrible to be forgotten was taught the danger of too much loyalty to an English sovereign

CHAPTER LX.
The agony of a nation

CHAPTER LXI.
How King Charles the Second came back on a compromise—How a new massacre story was set to work—The martyrdom of Primate Plunkett

CHAPTER LXII.
How King James the Second, by arbitrarily asserting liberty of conscience, utterly violated the will of the English nation—How the English agreed, confederated, combined, and conspired to depose the king, and beat up for “foreign emissaries” to come and begin the rebellion for them

CHAPTER LXIII.
How William and James met face to face at the Boyne—A plain sketch of the battlefield and the tactics of the day

CHAPTER LXIV.
“Before the battle”

CHAPTER LXV.
The battle of the Boyne

CHAPTER LXVI.
How James abandoned the struggle; but the Irish would not give up

CHAPTER LXVII.
How William sat down before Limerick and began the siege—Sarsfield's midnight ride—The fate of William's siege train

CHAPTER LXVIII.
How William procured a new siege train and breached the wall—How the women of Limerick won their fame in Irish history—How the breach was stormed and the mine sprung—How William fled from “unconquered Limerick”

CHAPTER LXIX.
How the French sailed off, and the deserted Irish army starved in rags, but would not give up the right—Arrival of “St Ruth, the Vain and Brave”

CHAPTER LXX.
How Ginckel besieged Athlone—How the Irish “kept the bridge,” and how the brave Custume and his glorious companions “died for Ireland”—How Athlone, thus saved, was lost in an hour

CHAPTER LXXI.
“The Culloden of Ireland”—How Aughrim was fought and lost—A story of the battlefield; “the dog of Aughrim,” or, fidelity in death

CHAPTER LXXII.
How glorious Limerick once more braved the ordeal—How at length a treaty and capitulation were agreed upon—How Sarsfield and the Irish army sailed into exile

CHAPTER LXXIII.
How the Treaty of Limerick was broken and trampled under foot by the “Protestant interest,” yelling for more plunder and more persecution

CHAPTER LXXIV.
“The penal times”—How “Protestant ascendancy” by a bloody penal code endeavored to brutify the mind, destroy the intellect, and deform the physical and moral features of the subject Catholics

CHAPTER LXXV.
The Irish army in exile—How Sarsfield fell on Landen Plain—How the regiments of Burke and O'Mahoney saved Cremona, fighting in “muskets and shirts”—The glorious victory of Fontenoy!—How the Irish exiles, faithful to the end, shared the last gallant effort of Prince Charles Edward

CHAPTER LXXVI.
How Ireland began to awaken from the sleep of slavery—The dawn of legislative independence

CHAPTER LXXVII.
How the Irish volunteers achieved the legislative independence of Ireland; or, how the moral force of a citizen army effected a peaceful, legal, and constitutional revolution

CHAPTER LXXVIII.
What national independence accomplished for Ireland—How England once more broke faith with Ireland, and repaid generous trust with base betrayal

CHAPTER LXXIX.
How the English minister saw his advantage in provoking Ireland into an armed struggle; and how heartlessly he labored to that end

CHAPTER LXXX.
How the British minister forced on the rising—The fate of the brave Lord Edward—How the brothers Sheares died hand-in-hand—The rising of ninety-eight