The Story of Ireland (The Story of the Nations)

xxix, 435 pp. Includes fold-out map. CONTENTS: Primeval Ireland; The Legends of the Legend-Makers; Pre-Christian Ireland; St. Patrick the Missionary; The First Irish Monasteries; Columba and the Western Church; The Northern Scourge; Brian of the Tribute; From Brian to Strongbow; The Anglo-Norman Invasion; Henry II in Ireland; Effects of the Anglo-Norman Invasion; John in Ireland; The Lords Palatine; Edward Bruce in Ireland; The Statute of Kilkenny; Richard II in Ireland; The Deepest Depths; The Kildares in the Ascendant; Fall of the House of Kildare; The Act of Supremacy; The New Departure; The First Plantations; Wars against Shane O'Neill; Between Two Storms; The Desmond Rebellion; Between Two More Storms; Battle of the Yellow Ford; The Essex Failure; End of the Tyrone War; The Flight of the Earls; The First Contested Election; Old and New Owners; Strafford; 'Forty-One; The Waters Spread; Civil War; The Confusion Deepens; Cromwell in Ireland; Cromwell's Methods; The Act of Settlement; Oppression and Counter Oppression; William and James in Ireland; The Treaty of Limerick; The Penal Code; The Commercial Code; Molyneux and Swift; Henry Flood; Henry Grattan; The Irish Volunteers; Danger Signals; The Fitzwilliam Disappointment; 'Ninety-Eight; The Union; O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation; "Young Island"; The Famine; The Latest Development; Conclusion.