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The Story of Ireland
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26 Chapters
Chapter 1 PRIMEVAL IRELAND.
Chapter 2 THE LEGENDS AND THE LEGEND MAKERS.
Chapter 3 PRE-CHRISTIAN IRELAND.
Chapter 4 ST. PATRICK THE MISSIONARY.
Chapter 5 THE FIRST IRISH MONASTERIES.
Chapter 6 ST. COLUMBA AND THE WESTERN CHURCH.
Chapter 7 THE NORTHERN SCOURGE.
Chapter 8 BRIAN OF THE TRIBUTE.
Chapter 9 FROM BRIAN TO STRONGBOW.
Chapter 10 THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION.
Chapter 11 HENRY II. IN IRELAND.
Chapter 12 EFFECTS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION.
Chapter 13 JOHN IN IRELAND.
Chapter 14 THE LORDS PALATINE.
Chapter 15 EDWARD BRUCE IN IRELAND.
Chapter 16 THE STATUTE OF KILKENNY.
Chapter 17 RICHARD II. IN IRELAND.
Chapter 18 THE DEEPEST DEPTHS.
Chapter 19 THE KILDARES IN THE ASCENDANT.
Chapter 20 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF KILDARE.
Chapter 21 THE ACT OF SUPREMACY.
Chapter 22 THE NEW DEPARTURE.
Chapter 23 THE FIRST PLANTATIONS.
Chapter 24 WARS AGAINST SHANE O'NEILL.
Chapter 25 BETWEEN TWO STORMS.
Chapter 26 THE DESMOND REBELLION.
Chapter 27 BETWEEN TWO MORE STORMS.
Chapter 28 BATTLE OF THE YELLOW FORD.
Chapter 29 THE ESSEX FAILURE.
Chapter 30 END OF THE TYRONE REBELLION.
Chapter 31 THE FLIGHT OF THE EARLS.
Chapter 32 THE FIRST CONTESTED ELECTION.
Chapter 33 OLD AND NEW OWNERS.
Chapter 34 STRAFFORD.
Chapter 35 'FORTY-ONE.
Chapter 36 THE WATERS SPREAD.
Chapter 37 CIVIL WAR.
Chapter 38 THE CONFUSION DEEPENS.
Chapter 39 CROMWELL IN IRELAND.
Chapter 40 CROMWELL'S METHODS.
Chapter 41 THE ACT OF SETTLEMENT.
Chapter 42 OPPRESSION AND COUNTER OPPRESSION.
Chapter 43 WILLIAM AND JAMES IN IRELAND.
Chapter 44 THE TREATY OF LIMERICK.
Chapter 45 THE PENAL CODE.
Chapter 46 THE COMMERCIAL CODE.
Chapter 47 MOLYNEUX AND SWIFT.
Chapter 48 HENRY FLOOD.
Chapter 49 HENRY GRATTAN.
Chapter 50 THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS.
Chapter 51 DANGER SIGNALS.
Chapter 52 THE FITZWILLIAM DISAPPOINTMENT.
Chapter 53 'NINETY-EIGHT.
Chapter 54 THE UNION.
Chapter 55 O'CONNELL AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
Chapter 56 YOUNG IRELAND.
Chapter 57 THE FAMINE.
Chapter 58 THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT.
Chapter 59 CONCLUSION.
Chapter 60 No.60
Chapter 61 No.61
Chapter 62 No.62
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Chapter 26 THE DESMOND REBELLION.

The tale of the great Desmond rebellion which ended only with the ruin of that house, and with the slaughter or starvation of thousands of its unhappy adherents, is one of those abortive tragedies of which the whole history of Ireland is full. Our pity for the victims' doom, and our indignation for the cold-blooded cruelty with which that doom was

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