The Project Gutenberg eBook, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, by Mary Frances Cusack, Illustrated by Henry Doyle

Title: An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

Author: Mary Frances Cusack

Release Date: January 22, 2005 [eBook #14754]

Language: English

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AN ILLUSTRATED

HISTORY OF IRELAND

From AD 400 to 1800

Mary Frances Cusack

'The Nun of Kenmare'

Illustrations by

Henry Doyle

First published in 1868.

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE JUDGE O'HAGAN,

AND TO

HIS SISTER MARY,

FOUNDRESS AND ABBESS OF SAINT CLARE'S CONVENT, KENMARE,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

By

The Author.

List of Full-Page Illustrations

ETC.

• THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL
• SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT IRISH MANUSCRIPTS
• ST. PATRICK GOING TO TARA
• KING BRIAN BOROIMHE KILLED BY THE VIKING
• MARRIAGE OF EVA AND STRONGBOW
• INTERVIEW BETWEEN MACMURROUGH AND THE OFFICERS OF RICHARD II.
• INTERVIEW BETWEEN ESSEX AND O'NEILL
• MASSACRE AT DROGHEDA
• IRETON CONDEMNING THE BISHOP OF LIMERICK
• GRATTAN'S DEMAND FOR IRISH INDEPENDENCE
• O'CONNELL REFUSING TO TAKE THE OATH
• IRELAND AND AMERICA

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