A Popular History of Ireland, Volume 1A Popular History of Ireland:Reading editionChapter navigation57 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…A Popular History of Ireland:Volume IChapter I · THE FIRST INHABITANTS.Chapter II · THE FIRST AGES.Chapter III · CHRISTIANITY PREACHED AT TARA—THE RESULT.Chapter IV · THE CONSTITUTION, AND HOW THE KINGS KEPT IT.Chapter V · REIGN OF HUGH II.—THE IRISH COLONY IN SCOTLAND OBTAINS ITS INDEPENDENCE.Chapter VI · KINGS OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY.Chapter VII · KINGS OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY.Chapter VIII · WHAT THE IRISH SCHOOLS AND SAINTS DID IN THE THREE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURIES.Chapter I · THE DANISH INVASION.Chapter II · KINGS OF THE NINTH CENTURY (CONTINUED)—NIAL III.—MALACHY I.—HUGH VII.Chapter III · REIGN OF FLAN "OF THE SHANNON" (A.D. 879 TO 916).Chapter IV · KINGS OF THE TENTH CENTURY; NIAL IV.; DONOGH II.; CONGAL III.; DONALD IV.Chapter V · REIGN OF MALACHY II. AND RIVALRY OF BRIAN.Chapter VI · BRIAN, ARD-RIGH—BATTLE OF CLONTARF.Chapter VII · EFFECTS OF THE RIVALRY OF BRIAN AND MALACHY ON THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION.Chapter VIII · LATTER DAYS OF THE NORTHMEN IN IRELAND.Chapter I · THE FORTUNES OF THE FAMILY OF BRIAN.Chapter II · THE CONTEST BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH—RISE OF THE FAMILY OF O'CONOR.Chapter III · THORLOGH MORE O'CONOR—MURKERTACH OF AILEACH—ACCESSION OF RODERICK O'CONOR.Chapter IV · STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING AMONG THE IRISH, PREVIOUS TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION.Chapter V · SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE IRISH PREVIOUS TO THE NORMAN INVASION.Chapter VI · FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE IRISH PREVIOUS TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION.Chapter I · DERMID McMURROGH'S NEGOTIATIONS AND SUCCESS—THE FIRST EXPEDITION OF THE NORMANS INTO IRELAND.Chapter II · THE ARMS, ARMOUR AND TACTICS OF THE NORMANS AND IRISH.Chapter III · THE FIRST CAMPAIGN OF EARL RICHARD—SIEGE OF DUBLIN—DEATH OF KING DERMID McMURROGH.Chapter IV · SECOND CAMPAIGN OF EARL RICHARD—HENRY II. IN IRELAND.Chapter V · FROM THE RETURN OF HENRY II. TO ENGLAND TILL THE DEATH OF EARL RICHARD AND HIS PRINCIPAL COMPANIONS.Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF THE ARD-RIGH, RODERICK O'CONOR.Chapter VII · ASSASSINATION OF HUGH DE LACY—JOHN "LACKLAND" IN IRELAND—VARIOUS EXPEDITIONS OF JOHN DE COURCY—DEATH OF CONOR MOINMOY, AND RISE OF CATHAL, "THE RED-HANDED" O'CONOR—CLOSE OF THE CAREER OF DE COURCY AND DE BURGH.Chapter VIII · EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN CONNAUGHT.Chapter IX · EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN MUNSTER AND LEINSTER.Chapter X · EVENTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—THE NORMANS IN MEATH AND ULSTER.Chapter XI · RETROSPECT OF THE NORMAN PERIOD IN IRELAND—A GLANCE AT THE MILITARY TACTICS OF THE TIMES—NO CONQUEST OF THE COUNTRY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.Chapter XII · STATE OF SOCIETY AND LEARNING IN IRELAND DURING THE NORMAN PERIOD.Chapter I · THE RISE OF "THE RED EARL"—RELATIONS OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.Chapter II · THE NORTHERN IRISH ENTER INTO ALLIANCE WITH KING ROBERT BRUCE—ARRIVAL AND FIRST CAMPAIGN OF EDWARD BRUCE.Chapter III · BRUCE'S SECOND CAMPAIGN, AND CORONATION AT DUNDALK—THE RISING IN CONNAUGHT—BATTLE OF ATHENRY—ROBERT BRUCE IN IRELAND.Chapter IV · BATTLE OF FAUGHARD AND DEATH OF KING EDWARD BRUCE—CONSEQUENCES OF HIS INVASION—EXTINCTION OF THE EARLDOM OF ULSTER—IRISH OPINION OF EDWARD BRUCE.Chapter I · CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND—ITS EFFECTS ON THE ANGLO-IRISH—THE KNIGHTS OF SAINT JOHN—GENERAL DESIRE OF THE ANGLO-IRISH TO NATURALIZE THEMSELVES AMONG THE NATIVE POPULATION—A POLICY OF NON-INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE RACES RESOLVED ON IN ENGLAND.Chapter II · LIONEL, DUKE OF CLARENCE, LORD LIEUTENANT—THE PENAL CODE OF RACE—"THE STATUTE OF KILKENNY," AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES.Chapter III · ART McMURROGH, LORD OF LEINSTER—FIRST EXPEDITION OF RICHARD II., OF ENGLAND, TO IRELAND.Chapter IV · SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS OF RICHARD II.—LIEUTENANCY AND DEATH OF THE EARL OF MARCH—SECOND EXPEDITION OF RICHARD AGAINST ART McMURROGH—CHANGE OF DYNASTY IN ENGLAND.Chapter V · PARTIES WITHIN "THE PALE"—BATTLES OF KILMAINHAM AND KILLUCAN—SIR JOHN TALBOT'S LORD LIEUTENANCY.Chapter I · ACTS OF THE NATIVE PRINCES—SUBDIVISION OF TRIBES AND TERRITORIES—ANGLO-IRISH TOWNS UNDER NATIVE PROTECTION—ATTEMPT OF THADDEUS O'BRIEN, PRINCE OF THOMOND, TO RESTORE THE MONARCHY—RELATIONS OF THE RACES IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.Chapter VII · CONTINUED DIVISION AND DECLINE OF "THE ENGLISH INTEREST"—RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK, LORD LIEUTENANT—CIVIL WAR AGAIN IN ENGLAND—EXECUTION OF THE EARL OF DESMOND—ASCENDANCY OF THE KILDARE GERALDINES.Chapter VIII · THE AGE AND RULE OF GERALD, EIGHTH EARL OF KILDARE—THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN FOR THE ENGLISH INTEREST—THE YORKIST PRETENDERS, SIMNEL AND WARBECK—POYNING'S PARLIAMENT—BATTLES OF KNOCKDOE AND MONABRAHER.Chapter IX · STATE OF IRISH AND ANGLO-IRISH SOCIETY DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.Chapter X · STATE OF RELIGION AND LEARNING DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.Chapter I · IRISH POLICY OF HENRY THE EIGHTH DURING THE LIFETIME OF CARDINAL WOLSEY.Chapter II · THE INSURRECTION OF SILKEN THOMAS—THE GERALDINE LEAGUE—ADMINISTRATION OF LORD LEONARD GRAY.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 PROCTORS OF THE CLERGY EXCLUDED—STATE OF THE COUNTRY—THE CROWNS UNITED—HENRY THE EIGHTH PROCLAIMED AT LONDON AND DUBLIN.Chapter IV · ADHESION OF O'NEIL, O'DONNELL AND O'BRIEN—A NEW ANGLO-IRISH PEERAGE—NEW RELATIONS OF LORD AND TENANT—BISHOPS APPOINTED BY THE CROWN—RETROSPECT.Chapter I · EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD SIXTH.Chapter II · EVENTS OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP AND MARY.Chapter III · ACCESSION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH—PARLIAMENT OF 1560—THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY—CAREER AND DEATH OF JOHN O'NEIL "THE PROUD."Beginning of this editionNext chapter →Volume IAll chapters and sections (57)Other sectionsA Popular History of Ireland:Sections1Volume 1 / Book 1 · Chapters12345678Volume 1 / Book 2 · Chapters12345678Volume 1 / Book 3 · Chapters123456Volume 1 / Book 4 · Chapters123456789101112Volume 1 / Book 5 · Chapters1234Volume 1 / Book 6 · Chapters12345178910Volume 1 / Book 7 · Chapters1234Volume 1 / Book 8 · Chapters123from theEarliest Periodto theEmancipation of the Catholicsby Thomas D'Arcy McGeeIn Two VolumesVolume I →