Gormflaith, Brian Boroimhe’s wife, 210. 
Gospels, the, used by St. Patrick, 134. 
Graces, the, 474. 
Grammatica Celtica, 46. 
Granard and Staigue, 237. 
Grattan’s demand for Irish independence, 590
  his life, 607
  entrance into the Imperial Parliament, 640. 
Grainne, pursuit of, and Diarmaid, 106. 
Greeks said to have visited Ireland, 139. 
Grey, Lord, desecrates churches, 133. 
Grey, John de, 301. 
Guaire, his hostility to St. Columba, 167.

H.

Harp, when first used as an emblem, 249. 
Haverty’s History of Ireland, 221n. 
Henry II. lands in Ireland, 270
  produces the Bull, 274
  makes his son Lord of Ireland, 287
  holds a synod at Cashel, 273
  his palace, 272
Henry IV., his reign, 368
  his death, 294. 
Henry V., 369. 
Henry VI., Wars of the Roses, 371. 
Henry VII., 379. 
Henry VIII., 387
  persecutions during the reign of, 401
  Dr. Browne’s letter to, 399. 
Herodotus, quotations from, 69. 
Hibernia, the first buried in, 57. 
Himantiliginos, game of, 141. 
Himerus and Iberus, 70. 
Hispania Illustrata, 70. 
Historians of Erinn, 40. 
Historians of the seventeenth century, 531. 
Historic Tales, 86. 
Historical value of genealogies, 80, 87. 
History, Ecclesiastical, 227. 
History of the Exile, 91. 
Hoggen’s Butt, and Le Hogges, 272. 
Holy wells not superstitious, 143. 
Honorius III., 305. 
Howth family founded, 298n. 
Hua Alta, race of, 125. 
Hy-Figeinte (Munster), 125. 
Hy-Kinsallagh (co.  Carlow), 125. 
Hymn of St. Fiacc, 117.
  of St. Patrick, 120. 
Hy-Nials, contention between the, 223
  palace of, 224
  the northern, 192
  divided into two clans, 204.

I

Idols, worship of, 88. 
Immoralities of the reformed clergy, 404. 
Imperial standard, 639. 
Inchiquin, 488
  massacre at Cashel by, 496. 
Innocent I., 100. 
Innocent X., 490. 
Insult to the Irish peeresses, 608. 
Insurrection in Wexford, 626.
  in Ulster, 629. 
Ireland, climate of, 80,
  colonization of, 57.
  article on, in Rees’ Cyclopaedia, 67.
  last colonization of, 75.
  ancient laws of, 144.
  antiquarian remains in, 153.
  first mill in, 165.
  fauna and flora of, 253.
  literary ladies in, 374.
  persecutions in, 388. 
Ireland, ecclesiastical property forfeited in, 403.
  plantations attempted in, 429, 432.
  social life in, seventeenth century, 529.
  before the Union, and after, 637.
  early geographical account of, 72.
  early social account of, 73. 
  Bede’s account of, 79.
  the Romans feared to invade, 95. 
  Saxon invasion of, 185.
  first Danish invasion of, 188
    second invasion, 224.
  the circuit of, 197. 
  Murtough’s circuit of, 224.