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Edgecombe, Sir Edward,135Edward, I.,107Edward II.,108;Battle of Bannockburn,108Edward III.,113;he summons landowners,114;appoints Lionel, Duke of Clarence, viceroy,114;Statute of Kilkenny is passed,115Elizabeth, Queen,165;entertains Shane O'Neill at Court,68;account of his visit,168;Ireland during her reign,171-172Emmett, Robert,376Emmett, Thomas Addis,354Encumbered Estate Court,400Enniskillen, town of,247Eochaidh king, tale of,35Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of,206;take the command in Ireland,208;proceeds against Tyrone,208;his disasters,208;takes Cahir Castle,208;meets Lugane Earl,208;meets Tyrone at Lagan,209;returns to England,210Eva, daughter of Dermot,86Everard, Sir John,227,228
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Falkland, Lord,231Famine, the first symptoms of,96;great distress,397;Mr. Forster reports,397;Relief Act passed,399;the ruin which followed it,400;after effects,403Fedlim O'Connor, king of Connaught,108Fenian prisoners, rescue of, at Manchester,405Fenian rising,401Fenni or Fenians,11Fercal, tribes of,161Ferns, town of,83Finn, McCumal,14Finn or Fingal, father of Ossian,11Finvarragh, king of the fairies,21Firbolgs, race of,6Fitton, Sir Edward,176Fitzgerald, Lord Edward,354-359Fitzgerald, Maurice,83Fitzgerald, Mr., member for Clare,380Fitzgerald, Raymond (le Gros),85Fitzgerald, Sir James,191Fitzgerald, Sir John,191FitzHenry, Robert and Meiler, sons of Nesta,76Fitzmaurice, Lady,188Fitzmaurice of Lexnaw,111Fitzmaurice, Sir James,178;breaks into rebellion,178;relations between him and Sir James Perrot,179;burns Kilmallock179;marches into Ulster,179;burns Athlone,179;joins the Mac-an-Earlas,180;lays Galway waste,180;crosses the Shannon,180;surrenders and takes the required oaths at Kilmallock,180;sails to France,180;returns,184;his death,187Fitzsimons, Walter, Archbishop of Dublin,137FitzStephen, Robert,83FitzUrse of Louth,111Fitzwilliam, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant,349-350Fitzwilliam, Sir William, Lord-deputy,199Flood, Rt. Hon. Henry,323Foltlebar and Feradach, Legends,16Formorians, race of,5Forster, Mr. W.E.,397Forty-shilling Freeholders, Bill of,349"Four Masters," the annals of the,9Foyle, Lough,165Freeman's Journal,322Fuidhar, or "broken man,"28
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Gall (Saint),36Galway, bay and town of,104Galway, Jury of,247George, Duke of Clarence,129Gerald de Barri, Gerald of Wales, or Giraldus Cambrensis,78;grandson of Nesta,78;priest and chronicler,78;his character as a writer,78Gerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, son of Geroit Mor,130Gerald of Windsor, husband to Nesta,76Geraldines,101;Giraldus' opinion of them,101;ancestors of Earls Kildare and Desmond,102;important position,102;their keep at Maynooth,102;power in Ireland,102;Geroit Mor, or Gerald the Great, 7th Earl of Kildare,130Gilbert, Sir Humphry,179Gilla Dacker and his horse, legend of,14Ginkel, Dutch general of William III.,291Gladstone, Mr. W.E.,406;disestablished the Irish Church,406;introduced Irish Land Act of 1870,407;of 1881,409;imprisoned members of Land League,411;proposed measure of Home Rule of 1886,414Glenmama near Dunlaven,68Godred, King of Man,87Gormanstown, Lord,249Granard, Lord Justice,280Grattan, Henry,328;his loyalty and patriotism,328;he enters Parliament,330;his eloquence,330;Declaration of Rights,330;retires into private life,332;protests against the Union,332;member of English Parliament,332;his death and burial,333"Great Darcy of Platten,"132Gregory, Pope,44Grey, de Wilton, Lord-deputy,189Grey, Leonard, Lord, Deputy,151,152Griffiths, Sir Richard, Irish geologist,312
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Habeas Corpus Act,351Hadrian IV., Pope,81Hamilton, Sir Richard,282Harcourt, Lord,325Hardi, French General,365Harvey, Bagenal, United Irishman and general of the rebels,363Hasculph, Danish Governor,86-87Hatton, Sir Christopher, "an Undertaker,"194Heber and Heremon, sons of Milesius,10Hoadly, Archbishop of Armagh,320Hoche, General,355Hoche, vessel called the,365Home Rule, the question of,44Howth, Earl of,134,136Humbert, French general,364Hy-Nial, or royal house of O'Neil,42,52
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Iar Connaught, mountains of,104Ireland, Primeval,1;its early vicissitudes,3;South European plants in,5;early history of,5-11;its legends,13-21;Celtic Ireland,23;early laws of,26-29;St. Patrick's visit to,32;the Northern scourge of,50;invasion by Anglo-Normans,76;King John in,98-100;invasion of, by Edward Bruce,107;Richard II. visits to,119;attempt to force Protestantism upon,158-160;Molyneux's, "The case of," &c.,313;Union of Great Britain and Ireland,367-376Ireland, the future of,413"Ireland, Young," party,390-395Irish Catholic Association,407Irish Celts,25Irish Church, disestablishment of,409Irish Education Act,408Irish elk,4Irish export of woollen goods forbidden,309Irish famine, 396,403Irish hare,4Irish heroes,418Irish Land Act,407Irish volunteers,336-340Inchiquin, Lord,256Iona,44
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James II. recalls Lord Ormond,280;restores Catholics to office,280;his treatment of Protestants,281-282;his flight to France,282;arrives in Ireland,283;his reception,284;besieges Londonderry,285;goes to Dublin,286;is defeated at the battle of the Boyne,288;his flight,289John, the Mad Berserker-warrior,87Jones, Michael, Colonel,259Jones, Paul, pirate,326Joyce's, Mr., "Celtic Romances,"13
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Kelts, battle of,99Keogh, Judge,403Kerry, defence of,215Kerry, plants and animals in,5Kildare, Dean of,149Kildare, house of,102;earls of,130>/a>,134,150;"Silken Thomas,"147;vice-deputy,147;renounces allegiance to England,147;takes Dublin,148;burns Trim and Dunboyne,149;is defeated,150;imprisoned and hanged,150Kilkea, castle of,144Kilkenny, castle of,105Kilkenny, statutes of,115Killala, Bishop of,365Kilmallock burnt,179:church of,179Kimbaoth, prince of Milesia,10King's County,52Kinsale, harbour of,215Knights of Glyn,102;of Kerry,102Knockmaa, a hill of,8Knocktow, battle of,144;cause of,106
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Lacy, Hugo de, viceroy of Henry II.,92Lagan, ford of,209Lalor, James,393Lambay, stand of,55Lambert, Simnel,331;received in Dublin and crowned,134;defeated at Stoke,135;taken prisoner and appointed turnspit,135Land League, the,409Land Lepers,53,59Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury,81Langan, Comte de,288Laoghaire, King of Meath,34Larkin, Fenian hanged,406Lecky's, Mr., "History of the Eighteenth Century,"300Lee, Captain,199Leix, town of,161Leland the historian,10Liffy river,87Lilibullero, anti-Catholic song,283Limerick, articles of,295Limerick, first siege of,291Limerick, treaty of,295Limerick, wood and town of,117Lindisfarne, peninsula of,45Londonderry, siege of,285Lovell, Lord,135Lucas, Charles,323Luinagh Tyrlough,195Lundy, governor of Londonderry,285
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Mac-an-Earlas, sons of Clanricarde,191Macarthy, Colonel,288McCarthy, Dermot,90Maccumacthenius, St. Patrick's chronicler,34Magan, betrayer of Lord Edward Fitzgerald,361Maguire, Lord,241Mahon, King of Munster,61Malachy or Melachlin, Ard-Reagh,52Malby, Sir Nicolas, governor of Connaught,187Mananan MacLir, Legend of Gilla Dacker,17Marshall, William, Earl of Pembroke,103Maryborough anciently Campa,162Mary, Queen of England,163;her death,164Maynooth, castle of,102Mayo, Lord,267Mayo mountains,8Maxwell, Colonel,362McGeoghehan, Abbé, historian,1McGillapatrick, Lord of Upper Ossory,168McHugh,191McMahon, Hugh, chief of Monaghan,192McMurrough, Dermot, King of Leinster,83,241McMurrough, son of Dermot,83McToole, Sir Owen,197McWilliam, Burke of Galway,154McWilliam Eighter, and McWilliam Oughter, the Nether and Further Burkes,111McWilliam of Clanricarde,142Meagher,391Meath, plains of,8Mila de Cogan, Norman governor of Dublin,87Milcho chieftain,3Milesians or Scoti,9,10Mitchell, John,391Molyneux, Thomas, Dr.,311Molyneux, William, the "Ingenious Molyneux,"311Montalembert, M. de,40Montmorency, Henry de,85Mortimer, Roger, viceroy,110Mountgarret, Lord,249Mountjoy, Charles Blount,211;his character,211;establishes military stations,213;defeats by starvation,213;defeats Tyrone and the Spanish fleet,216Moytura, pre-historic battle of the southern,7Muckern, or Mulkearn noi,187Mullingar, town of,292Munroe, General,255Murhertach, house of,74Murphy, Father John,362Murphy, Father Michael,304
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Nation, The, newspaper,390Neil Grey,167Newtown Butler, battle of,288Norris, General Sir Henry,206Norris, Sir Thomas,194Norsmen, or Northmen, or Danes,7,53-56Northern Star, newspaper,358Nuad, King of the Tuatha-da-Danaans,7-9
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"Oakboys," Society of the,345O'Brian, Prince of Thomond,90O'Brien, race of,60O'Brien, Smith,391O'Brien, the Fenian,406O'Byrnes,128O'Carrol of Argial,91O'Connell, Daniel, makes his first speech,379;his energy,379;sets on foot the Irish Catholic Association,379;carries Catholic rent,380;contests the county of Clare,381;his character,382;his efforts to procure repeal,385;his enmity to secret societies,385;founds the Loyal National Repeal Association,386;his prosecution,387;found guilty and imprisoned,387;his last appearance and death,389O'Connell, John,391O'Connor, Roderick, the Ard-Reagh,75,84-91O'Connors of Connaught,74Octennial Bill, the,325O'Curry,53O'Dogherty, Sir John,198O'Donnell, Calvagh,167O'Donnell, of Tyrconnel,167O'Donnell, Hugh, or Red Hugh,200.O'Donnell, murder of Carey,412O'Donnell, Rory,221O'Donovans,63O'Driscoll's piratical clan of West Cork,27O'Dynor, Dermot, or Dermot of the Bright Face,17O'Flaherty, Edmund,403Oilen-an-Oir, or Gold Island,185Ollamhs or Sennachies, head bards,19O'Lochlin of House of O'Neill,74O'Moore, Rory or Roger,241O'Neill, Owen,248O'Neill, Shane, called the Proud,165;his character,166;his eloquence, habits, and morals,166;his encounter with Sussex,167;his visit to the English Court,168;receives title of Captain of Tyrone,169;returns to Ireland,169;Sussex attempt to poison him,169;his descent on the Scots,170,and on Connaught,170;his last disaster and death,172,173O'Neill, Sir Phelim,241O'Neills, or Hy-Nials,60-74Orange Lodges, institution of,345O'Reilly of Brefny,167O'Rorke, chieftain of Connaught,91O'Rorke of Brefny, chieftain of Leinster,91Ormond, house of,105-128Ossian, poet and bard,11-35Ossory, clan of,84Oswald, King of Northumbria,44Oswin, King of Northumbria,46O'Toole, Garrot,191O'Toole, St. Lawrence, Archbishop of Dublin,86Oulart, hill of,362Owel, Lough, near Mullingar,55