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, theOldCountess 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). 
TigerRoche
Dean swift (portrait of). 
Philip, earl of Chesterfield (portrait of). 
Right HonHenry flood (portrait of). 
Right HonHenry Grattan, M.P. (Portrait of). 
James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont (portrait of). 
Right HonEdmund Burke (portrait of). 
The earl of Moira ("A man of importance"). 
Right HonEdmund Burke (sketch from life). 
Theobald Wolfe tone (portrait of). 
Lord Edward Fitzgerald (portrait of). 
The four courts, Dublin

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