The Story of Ireland eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 349 pages of information about The Story of Ireland.

The Story of Ireland eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 349 pages of information about The Story of Ireland.

CONCLUSION

Irish heroes—­Causes of their want of popularity—­Irish versus Scotch heroes—­“Prince Posterity”.

List of illustrations.

[Nearly all the archaeological illustrations in this volume are from “The Early Christian Architecture of Ireland,” by Miss M. Stokes, who has kindly allowed them to be reproduced.  The portraits are chiefly from engravings, &c., kept in the Prints Room of the British Museum.]

Holy island, Lough DERG. 
Map of Ireland in reign of Henry VII. 
Cross in cemetery of TEMPUL BRECCAN. 
West cross, MONASTERBOICE. 
Doorway of MAGHERA church. 
KILBANNON tower. 
Kells round tower. 
Base of Tuam cross. 
Doorway of Killeshin church. 
Interior of CORMAC’S chapel (Cashel). 
West front of st. CRONAN’S church. 
West Doorway of FRESHFORD church. 
Sir Henry Sidney (portrait of). 
Askeaton castle. 
Catherine, the “Old” Countess of Desmond. 
Sir John Perrot (portrait of). 
Cahir castle (in 1599). 
Capture of the earl of Ormond by the O’MORES. 
Ireland in the reign of James I.
Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, 1641. 
Archbishop ussher (portrait of). 
James, duke of Ormond (portrait of). 
Henry Cromwell (portrait of). 
“Tiger” Roche. 
Dean swift (portrait of). 
Philip, earl of Chesterfield (portrait of). 
Right Hon.  Henry flood (portrait of). 
Right Hon.  Henry Grattan, M.P. (Portrait of). 
James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont (portrait of). 
Right Hon.  Edmund Burke (portrait of). 
The earl of Moira ("A man of importance"). 
Right Hon.  Edmund Burke (sketch from life). 
Theobald Wolfe tone (portrait of). 
Lord Edward Fitzgerald (portrait of). 
The four courts, Dublin. 

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