The Geraldines: An Experiment in Irish Government, 1169-1601

322 pp. 8vo. A history of the important Irish family, spanning nearly 450 years. 'The Geraldines were descended from the ancient and powerful Gherardini of Florence. Maurice FitzGerald, the great Norman invader, was thus sprung from a house whose beginnings to back to the days of Troy. From the reign of Henry II to the reign of Elizabeth his descendants dominate Irish history.'