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Paladius, missionary,33Parnell, Mr.,411Parnell, Sir John,371Parsons, Sir William,242Patrick (Saint), his birth,33;lands in Ireland,33;visits to Meath and to Connaught, Antrim, and Armagh,34;legends of, by Mr. Aubrey de Vere,35"Peep of Day Boys," Society of,345Pelham, Sir William, Lord-deputy,188Penal Code, the,300Perkin Warbeck, 136,137Perrot, Sir John,176-179Peter's Pence, collection of,79Petrie, George, LL.D.,7Petty, Sir William, his survey of Ireland,271Philip II., King of Spain,183Phoenix organization,404Phoenix Park tragedy,411Picts,53Pierce, Captain,173Plunkett, Dr., Archbishop of Dublin,279Portland, Duke of,350Poynings' Act,138Poynings' Act repealed,287Poynings, Sir Edward,140Preston, Colonel,249Protection of Life and Property Bill,409
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Raleigh, Sir Walter,190-191Rents, Black,17,123Rents, Fair Rent and Free Sale,410Rents, Rack,28Rents, Stipulated,28Ribbon Association,385Richard II. lands at Waterford,119;his meeting with Art McMurrough,119;entertains the chiefs,120;receives their oaths of allegiance,120;returns to Ireland,122;encounters Art McMurrough,122;leaves Ireland,123Rupert, Prince,259;his arrival at Kinsale,259
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Sadleirs, John and James,403Sanim Celtic Festival (November 1st),14Sarsfield, Patrick,280Saunders, Pope's Legate,184Schomberg, Duke of,288Schwartz, Martin, Dutch General,135Scoti, tribes of the,9Scullabogue, barn of,363Sebastian, King of Portugal, killed at the battle of Alcansar,184Senchus Mor, ancient law-book,25,28Shannon, Lord,322Shannon, river,91Sheil, Richard Lalor,379Sidney, Henry, Sir,174;becomes Lord-deputy,174;appoints presidents in the provinces,176;his scheme for reducing expenses,177;his visits to Munster and Connaught,179Sigurd, Earl of Orkney,66Silvermine hills of Tipperary,291Simon, priest and tutor to Lambert Simnel,135Sitric, a Viking,67Skeffington, Sir William,148Slemish mountains,33Sligo, town of,254Smerwick, town of,185Somerset, Edward Earl of Glamorgan,254South European Plants in Ireland,5Southern Moytura,7Spanish Armada,197Spenser, Edmund, poet,190Stanihurst, historian, the,131Steel boys, Society of,345St. John, Sir Oliver, deputy,231St. Leger, Sir Wareham, "Undertaker,"194St. Ruth, General,292Stephen, Head Fenian centre,405Stokes, battle of,135Stokes, Miss Margaret,312Stone, Archbishop of Armagh,320Strafford, Wentworth, in Ireland,232;orders subsidy of £100,000,234;he overawes the juries,234;his character,235;his suppression of the woollen trade,235;founds the linen trade,235;clears the sea of pirates,235;sets a Court of High Commission to work,237;his treatment of Archbishop Ussher,237;his account of his dealings with Convocation,237;his return to England,239;tried for treason, condemned, and executed,239;effect of his death in Ireland,239Strangford Lough,33Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke,82;his marriage with Eva,86;takes Waterford,86;is besieged in Dublin,87;flees to Waterford,88;thence to England,88;meets Henry,88;and returns to Ireland,89Stukeley, Thomas, Sir, 170,184Sulcost, battle of,61Surrey, Earl of, deputy,145Swift, Jonathan, Dean of St. Patrick's,315;his character,315;his Drapier Papers,317;his attack on Wood's patent,315;his popularity,319Swords in Meath,247
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Talbot, Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel,208Tanist laws of succession,27Tara in Meath,63;battle of,63Tenant League Confederation,403Tenure, Fixity of,410Thomond, Lady,303Thomond, Lord,247Tower, the "Tower Earl" of Desmond,192Townshend, Lord,325Towton, battle of,129Tuam, Archbishop of,254Tuatha-da-Danaans, race of,7Turgesius or Thorgist,55Turlough, grandson of Brian,82Tyrconnel, Lady,289Tyrconnel, Richard, Earl of,280Tyrconnel, Rory O'Donnell, Earl of,221Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of,199;receives his title from Elizabeth,199;contrasted with Shane,199;his religious views,200;arbitrary arrest of his brother-in-law,200;marries Bagnall's sister,201;prepares for rebellion,202;assumes the title of the O'Neill,202;is victorious over Bagnall,205;meets Essex at Lagan,209;struggle with Mountjoy,214;he hurries south to meet the Spaniards,215;encounters Mountjoy and is defeated,216;reported plot against England,220;flies the country,221;dies in exile,222
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Union, Pitt's plan of,268Union, the,367United Irishmennewspaper,394United Irishmen, the Society of,386Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh,163;treatment of by Strafford,237
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Vere, Aubrey de, Mr., Legends of St. Patrick,35Vinegar Hill,363Volunteers, Irish, the,334-340
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Ware Papers,163Waterford, town of,262;defence of,86;Danes of,85;Richard II. lands at,122Wexford, town of,83;castle of,87;siege by Cromwell,262Whitby, Synod of,46Whiteboys, outrages of,342-344Wicklow, landing of St. Patrick in,33William of Orange in Ireland,288;he lands at Carrickfergus,288;meets James's army, is victorious at the battle of the Boyne,289;offers free pardon,290;besieges Limerick,291;his evidence about the treaty of Limerick,296Willoughby, Sir Francis, Governor of Dublin,246Winter, Admiral,187Wolfe, Tone,354;leader of United Irishmen,354;meets Lord Edward Fitzgerald in Paris,355;his scheme of descent,355;descent fails,357;a fresh attempt,358;again fails,361;is arrested on board theHoche,361;condemned and dies in prison,366Wood, patentee of halfpence,317
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Yellow Ford, battle of the,203"Young Ireland," party of,388,390