A Popular History of Ireland, Volume 2A Popular History of Ireland:Reading editionChapter navigation62 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…A Popular History of Ireland:Volume IIChapter IV · SIR HENRY SIDNEY'S DEPUTYSHIP—PARLIAMENT OF 1569—THE SECOND "GERALDINE LEAGUE"—SIR JAMES FITZ-MAURICE.Chapter V · THE "UNDERTAKERS" IN ULSTER AND LEINSTER—DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SIR JAMES FITZMAURICE.Chapter VI · SEQUEL OF THE SECOND GERALDINE LEAGUE—PLANTATION OF MUNSTER—EARLY CAREER OF HUGH O'NEIL, EARL OF TYRONE—PARLIAMENT OF 1585.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.Chapter VIII · THE ULSTER CONFEDERACY—FEAGH MAC HUGH O'BYRNE—CAMPAIGN OF 1595—NEGOTIATIONS, ENGLISH AND SPANISH—BATTLE OF THE YELLOW FORD—ITS CONSEQUENCES.Chapter IX · ESSEX'S CAMPAIGN OF 1599—BATTLE OF THE CURLIEU MOUNTAINS—O'NEIL'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN—MOUNTJOY, LORD DEPUTY.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.Chapter XI · THE CONQUEST OF MUNSTER—DEATH OF ELIZABETH, AND SUBMISSION OF O'NEIL—"THE ARTICLES OF MELLIFONT."Chapter XII · STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH.Chapter I · JAMES I.—FLIGHT OF THE EARLS—CONFISCATION OF ULSTER—PENAL LAWS—PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION.Chapter II · LAST YEARS OF JAMES—CONFISCATION OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES—ACCESSION OF CHARLES I.—GRIEVANCES AND "GRACES"—ADMINISTRATION OF LORD STRAFFORD.Chapter III · LORD STRAFFORD'S IMPEACHMENT AND EXECUTION—PARLIAMENT OF 1639-'41—THE INSURRECTION OF 1641—THE IRISH ABROAD.Chapter IV · THE INSURRECTION OF 1641.Chapter V · THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATION—ITS CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Chapter VI · THE CONFEDERATE WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1643—THE CESSATION.Chapter VII · THE CESSATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.Chapter VIII · GLAMORGAN'S TREATY—THE NEW NUNCIO RINUCCINI—O'NEIL'S POSITION—THE BATTLE OF BENBURB.Chapter IX · FROM THE BATTLE OF BENBURB TILL THE LANDING OF CROMWELL AT DUBLIN.Chapter X · CROMWELL'S CAMPAIGN—-1649-1650.Chapter XI · CLOSE OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR.Chapter XII · IRELAND UNDER THE PROTECTORATE—ADMINISTRATION OF HENRY CROMWELL—DEATH OF OLIVER.Chapter I · REIGN OF CHARLES II.Chapter II · REIGN OF CHARLES II. (CONCLUDED.)Chapter III · THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.Chapter IV · ACCESSION OF JAMES II.—TYRCONNELL'S ADMINISTRATION.Chapter V · KING JAMES IN IRELAND—IRISH PARLIAMENT OF 1689.Chapter VI · THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1689—SIEGES OF DERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.Chapter VII · THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1690—BATTLE OF THE BOYNE—ITS CONSEQUENCES—THE SIEGES OF ATHLONE AND LIMERICK.Chapter VIII · THE WINTER OF 1690-91.Chapter IX · THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR—CAMPAIGN OF 1691—BATTLE OF AUGHRIM—CAPITULATION OF LIMERICK.Chapter X · REIGN OF KING WILLIAM.Chapter XI · REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE.Chapter XII · THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD DURING THE REIGNS OF WILLIAM AND ANNE.Chapter I · ACCESSION OF GEORGE I.—SWIFT'S LEADERSHIP.Chapter II · REIGN OF GEORGE II.—GROWTH OF PUBLIC SPIRIT—THE "PATRIOT" PARTY—LORD CHESTERFIELD'S ADMINISTRATION.Chapter III · THE LAST JACOBITE MOVEMENT—THE IRISH SOLDIERS ABROAD—FRENCH EXPEDITION UNDER THUROT, OR O'FARRELL.Chapter IV · REIGN OF GEORGE II. (CONCLUDED)—MALONE'S LEADERSHIP.Chapter V · ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.—FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—OCTENNIAL PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHED.Chapter VI · FLOOD'S LEADERSHIP—STATE OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN 1760 AND 1776.Chapter VII · GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—"FREE TRADE," AND THE VOLUNTEERS.Chapter VIII · GRATTAN'S LEADERSHIP—LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE ESTABLISHED.Chapter IX · THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—FIRST PERIOD.Chapter X · THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—SECOND PERIOD.Chapter XI · THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—THIRD PERIOD—CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL OF 1793.Chapter XII · THE ERA OF INDEPENDENCE—EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN IRELAND—SECESSION OF GRATTAN, CURRAN, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FROM PARLIAMENT, IN 1797.Chapter XIII · THE UNITED IRISHMEN.Chapter XIV · NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND HOLLAND—THE THREE EXPEDITIONS NEGOTIATED BY TONE AND LEWINES.Chapter XV · THE INSURRECTION OF 1798.Chapter XVI · THE INSURRECTION OF 1798—THE WEXFORD INSURRECTION.Chapter XVII · THE INSURRECTION ELSEWHERE—FATE OF THE LEADING UNITED IRISHMEN.Chapter XVIII · ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS—BEFORE THE UNION.Chapter XIX · LAST SESSION OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT—THE LEGISLATIVE UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.Chapter I · AFTER THE UNION—DEATH OF LORD CLARE—ROBERT EMMET'S EMEUTE.Chapter II · ADMINISTRATION OF LORD HARDWICKE (1801 TO 1806), AND OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD (1806 TO 1808).Chapter III · ADMINISTRATION OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND (1807 TO 1813).Chapter IV · O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—1813 TO 1821.Chapter V · RETROSPECT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.Chapter VI · THE IRISH ABROAD, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.Chapter VII · O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION—1821 TO 1826.Chapter VIII · O'CONNELL'S LEADERSHIP—THE CLARE ELECTION—EMANCIPATION OF THE CATHOLICS.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →Volume IIAll chapters and sections (62)Other sectionsA Popular History of Ireland:Sections2Volume 2 / Book 8 · Chapters456789101112Volume 2 / Book 9 · Chapters123456789101112Volume 2 / Book 10 · Chapters123456789101112Volume 2 / Book 11 · Chapters12345678910111213141516171819Volume 2 / Book 12 · Chapters12345678from theEarliest Periodto theEmancipation of the Catholicsby Thomas D'Arcy McGeeIn Two VolumesVolume II →