CHAPTER III.—Sir Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy—Negotiations of

the Irish Chiefs with James the Fifth of Scotland—First Attempts to Introduce the Protestant Reformation—Opposition of the Clergy—Parliament of 1541—The Protectors of the Clergy Excluded—State of the Country—The Crowns United-Henry the Eighth Proclaimed at London and Dublin

Anglo-Irish Peerage—New Relations of Lord and Tenant—Bishops appointed by the Crown—Retrospect

BOOK VIII.

1560—The Act of Uniformity—Career and Death of John O'Neil "the Proud"

1569—The Second "Geraldine League"—Sir James Fitzmaurice

Death of Sir James Fitzmaurice

Munster—Early Career of Hugh O'Neil, Earl of Tyrone—Parliament of 1585

Administration—The Spanish Armada—Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam—Escape of Hugh Roe O'Donnell from Dublin Castle—The Ulster Confederacy formed

O'Byrne—Campaign of 1595—Negotiations, English and Spanish—Battle of the Yellow Ford—Its Consequences

Mountains—O'Neil's Negotiations with Spain—Mountjoy Lord Deputy

Munster—Carew's "Wit and Cunning"—Landing of Spaniards in the South—Battle of Kinsale—Death of O'Donnell in Spain

Submission of O'Neil—"The Articles of Mellifont"

BOOK IX.

Ulster—Penal Laws—Parliamentary Opposition

Counties—Accession of Charles I.—Grievances and "Graces"—Administration of Lord Strafford

of 1639-'41—The Insurrection of 1641—The Irish Abroad

Military Establishment

Cessation

Rinuccini—O'Neil's Position—The Battle of Benburb

Dublin

Henry Cromwell—Death of Oliver

BOOK X.

Seventeenth Century

Derry and Enniskillen

of the Boyne—Its Consequences—the Sieges of Athlone and Limerick

Aughrim—Capitulation of Limerick

Anne

BOOK XI.

"Patriot" Party—Lord Chesterfield's Administration

Abroad—French Expedition under Thurot, or O'Farrell

Leadership—Octennial Parliaments Established

and 1776

Independence Established

Relief Bill of 1793

Revolution in Ireland—Secession of Grattan, Curran, and their Friends, from Parliament, in 1797

Expeditions Negotiated by Tone and Lewines

Irishmen

Union of Great Britain and Ireland

BOOK XII.

Emmet's Emeute

Duke of Bedford (1806 to 1808)

Reign of George III

Association—1821 to 1825

Election—Emancipation of the Catholics

HISTORY OF IRELAND

BOOK I.