Spenser’s account of, 439.
  division of, by the Firbolg chiefs, 60.
  receives the faith generously, 111.
  given the name of Hibernia, 70.
  the first writer who names, 71.
  called Iernis, 71. 
Ireton’s cruelties and miserable death, 507. 
Irish genealogies, their rise, 85.
  keen, 141.
  painters, 608.
  musicians, 608. 
  MSS., 45.
  authors, 608.
  actors, 608.
  missionaries, 173.
  missionary saints, 178.
  poetry, 180.
  poets, 605.
  bishops at the Council of Lateran, 289.
  war-cries forbidden, 383.
  pedigrees, their importance, 81.
  people transplanted as slaves to Barbadoes, 514.
  chronology compared with Roman, 81.
  schools and scholars, 183.
  alphabet, 152.
  butter and cheese, 246.
  fireplace, 247.
  clothing, 250.
  priests, their devotion to the people, 587.
  communications with Rome, 490.
  old, the, and the new English, 491.
  priests, their peculiar position, 586.
  history, materials for, 39.
  martyr, the first, 125.
  saints, 167.
  religious, 221. 
Irish king sent to the Isle of Man, 225. 
  Rinuccini’s account of the, 491. 
  Catholic landowners, injustice towards, 509. 
  Brigade, formation of, 574. 
Irishmen, celebrated, of the eighteenth century, 592,
Iron Duke, 639. 
Island Magee, massacre of, 481. 
Ita, St. 169.

J.

Jackson, Rev. William, his miserable death, 616. 
James I., his reign, 463. 
James II., his reign, 555
  arrival in Ireland, 557. 
Japhet, Milesians descended from, 84. 
Jerome’s, St., statement on Ireland, 74. 
John of the Shamrocks, 434. 
John, Prince, receives title of King of Ireland, 287
  his visit to Ireland, 292
  second visit to Ireland, 302
  succeeds to the English crown, 296
  starves a bishop to death, 301
  letter of Innocent III. to, 295
  death, 304. 
Josephus, 68. 
Judgment of a king, 103.

K.

Kadlubeck, historian of Poland, 48. 
Keating, the historian, 531.
  on Erinn, 43n.
  quotations from, on the division of Ireland, 60.
  on descent from the Scythians, 68.
  on the battle of Bealagh Mughna, 193.
  books referred to by, 45.
  on colour, as a distinction of rank, 89n.
  on battle of Dundalk, 203.
  burial-place, 532.
  inscription in honour of, 533. 
Kennedy, Prince of Munster, 202. 
Kildare, Earl of, and Henry VII., 384.
  accused of treason, 384.
  last Catholic Earl of, 387.
  letter of, 388. 
Kildare, Monastery of, 132. 
Kilian, St., 177. 
Kincora, Brian’s “Happy Family” at, 209
  destruction of, 226. 
Knights of the Royal Branch, 125. 
Kunrann the poet, 187.

L.