INDEX.
A.
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Abbey, the Black, Kilkenny, 318.
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- of Mellifont, 231.
- of St. Mary, 317.
- of Holy Cross, 317.
- of Dunbrody, 289.
- of Tintern, 317.
- of St. Saviour's, Dublin, 318.
- of St. Thomas the Martyr, 287.
- of Boyle, 316.
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Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, 623.
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Act of Emancipation passed, 647.
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- his Festology, 180
- his Chronicle, 41.
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Aengus Grove, Synod at, 227.
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Aengus, King, baptism of, 123
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- his death, 130
- ancestor of the O'Keeffes, O'Sullivans, O'Callahans, and MacCarthys, 130.
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Africa, Phoenician circumnavigation of, 69.
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Agrarian outrages and their causes, 613.
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Aideadh Chonchobair, legend of, 127.
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Amalgaidh, King, and his seven sons, 123.
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Amato, prelate who consecrated St. Patrick, 115.
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Andrew, St., Church of, in Henry II.'s time, 272.
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Anglo-Irish and old Irish, their differences at Kilkenny, 487.
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- compiled by Four Masters, 51
- accounts in, confirmed _ab extra_, 68
- poetry from, 198
- kept with great care, 233
- dedication of, 53
- quotations from, 58, 59, 75, 88, 90, 94, 132, 144, 198, 199, 218, 232n, 265, 283, 388, 307, 312n. 313.
- of Tighernach, 48.
- of Innis MacNerinn, 39.
- of Innisfallen, 39.
- of Boyle, 39.
- of Clonmacnois, 60n.
- of Loch Cé, 115.
- of Ballitore, 630.
- preserved by Celtic Race, 67.
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Anselm, St., commends the Irish prelates, 229.
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Antiquities of pre-Christian Erinn, 148.
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Antwerp, Irish soldiers in, 478.
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Aqua vini and aqua vitæ, 245.
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Architecture of Tara, 167.
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Ardmore round tower, 237.
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- founded, 120
- streets of, 187n.
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- on history taught by verse, 86n.
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- castle of, 314
- bridge built, 308n.
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Attacotti, revolt of the, 96.
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Augustinians, Order of, 316.
B.
- Bachall Isu, St. Patrick's, 114
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- its wanton destruction, 115.
- Ballitore, sufferings in, 630.
- Balor of the Evil Eye, 64.
- Banbha, the Lady, 43.
- Banqueting hall at Tara, 160.
- Baptism, ceremonies at, 229.
- Baraid, a Scandinavian chief, 195.
- Barbadoes, the Irish seat as slaves to, 515.
- Bards of Erinn, or filés, 40.
- Barretts, feud between Cusacks and, 332.
- Barrington, Sir Jonah, on the last night of Irish Parliament, 639.
- Barry, an Irishman, 601.
- Barrys and Roches, 445.
- Battle of Magh Tuireadh, 61.
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- of Sliabh Mis, 75.
- at Taillten, 75.
- between the Firbolgs and Tuatha Dé Dananns, 62.
- Connor, 343.
- of Géisill, 78n.
- of Bealagh Mughna (Ballaghmoon), Kildare, 193.
- of Dundalk, 201.
- of Sulcoit, near Tipperary, 205.
- of Belach-Lechta, near Macroom, co. Cork, 207.
- of Glen-Mama (Glen of the Gap), near Dunlavin, 208.
- of Clontarf, 214.
- of Downpatrick, 325.
- of Benburb, 493.
- of the Boyne, 563.
- of Aughrim, 570.
- of the Ford of Comar, Westmeath, 160.
- of Magh-Rath, 171.
- of Almhain (near Kildare), 186.
- of Desertcreaght, 332.
- of St. Callixtus' day, 352.
- of Ford of the Biscuits, 451.
- Beare, O'Sullivan, his History, 534.
- Beasts, the three, to be hunted, 517.
- Bede's account of Ireland, 79
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- Belgium, MSS. preserved in, 46.
- Beltinne, or fire of Baal, 119
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- Benignus, St., St. Patrick's successor in the See of Armagh. 116.
- Berchau, St., 162.
- Beresford faction, 616.
- Bill, curious, of a play, 547n.
- Bishops, Protestant, indifferent about regular ordination, 536.
- Black Death. 86.
- Blefed or pestilence, 162.
- Bog butter and cheese, 246.
- Bohun, Humphrey de, 270.
- Bonnell, his statistics, 540.
- Book, a, given for a ransom, 377.
- Books preserved, list of, 39, 44
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- Book of Chronicum Scotorum, 39.
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- of Laws, 40.
- of Ballymote, 37.
- of Leinster, 40.
- of Lecain, 37
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- Annals of Ulster, 39.
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- of Innisfallen, 39.
- of Boyle, 39.
- of Four Masters, 51.
- of Tighernach, 39.
- of Inis MacNerinn, 39.
- of Clonmacnois, 60n.
- Speckled, 37.
- Cuilmenn, 40.
- Saltair of Tara, 39
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- of Uachongbhail, 39.
- Cin Droma Snechta, 39
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- Saltair of Cashel, 39
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- Saltair of Cormac, 41.
- of St. Mochta, 44.
- of Cuana, 44.
- of Dubhdaleithe, 44.
- Saltair of Temair, 43.
- Saltair-na-Rann, 41.
- of Leabhar buidhe Sláine, 44.
- of Leabhar na h-Uidhre, 44.
- of Eochaidh O'Flannagain, 44.
- of Inis an Duin, 44.
- Short, of St. Buithe's Monastery, 44.
- of Flann of St. Buithe's Monastery, 44.
- of Flann of Dungeimhin (Dungiven, co. Derry), 44.
- of Dun da Leth Ghlas (Downpatrick), 44.
- of Doiré (Derry), 44.
- of Sabhall Phatraic (co. Down), 44.
- of Uachongbhail (Navan), 44.
- Leabhar dubh Molaga, 44.
- Leabhar buidhe Moling, 44.
- Leabhar buidhe Mhic Murchadha, 44.
- Leabhar Arda Macha. 44.
- Leabhar ruadh Mhic Aedhagain, 44.
- Leabhar breac Mhic Aedhagain, 44.
- of O'Scoba of Cluain Mhic Nois (or Clonmacnois), 44.
- of Leabhar fada Leithghlinne, 44.
- Book of Invasions, 54.
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- of Duil Droma Ceata, 44
- of Clonsost, (Queen's county), 44.
- of Trias Thaumaturgas, 52.
- of Hispania Illustrata, 70,
- of Acaill, 104.
- of Armagh, 109.
- of Rights, 253n.
- Boromean Tribute, the origin of, 98
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- Boulter, Dr., 581.
- Bran Dubh, bravery and stratagem of, 168.
- Bravery of the Dalcassians, 218.
- Breas, the warrior, 62.
- Brehon laws, 147
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- Brendan, St. and his voyages, 169.
- Brian Boroimhé, 205
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- avenges the death of Mahoun, 207
- deposes Malachy, 209
- his wife, 211
- his death, 217
- romantic ballad of the lady, 209
- originator of surnames, 210n.
- Brigid, St., her birthplace, 131.
- Briton, origin of name, 60.
- Brodir, the apostate Dane, 212
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- kills Brian Boroimhé, 217.
- Browne, Dr., 395.
- Bruce, invasion of, 350.
- Bruce's, Edward, campaign, 342
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- Brunehalt, Queen, 173.
- Burke, MacWilliam, 299
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- head of the Burke family in Ireland, 299.
- Burke, MacWilliam, 326
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- wars of, with the FitzGeralds, 326
- defeat of, by O'Connor, 328.
- Burke, celebrated statesman of 18th century, 593
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- his school days, 594
- his hatred of oppression, 595
- his marriage, 596
- becomes secretary, 597
- his maiden speech, 598
- on Indian policy, 604.
- Burkes and Geraldines, 333.
- Burgat, Dr., his Brevis Relatio, 518n.
- Burgo, Richard de, 309.
- Burnt Njal, quotations from, 217.
- Butlers, the, their history, 354.
C.
- Cæsar, his accounts of the Druids, 138.
- Cairbré, Satire of, 63.
- Cairbré, Cinn-Cait, 97.
- Cairbrés, the three, 102.
- Caligraphy, Irish skilled in, 185.
- Callaghan of Cashel, 196.
- Cambridge, treatise on origin of, 71.
- Camden on Ogygia, 72.
- Cannibalism, charge of, refuted, 74.
- Cannon-balls first used, 381n.
- Canons, St. Patrick's, 117.
- Carew's, Sir P., claim, 428.
- Carhampton, Lord, cruelties of, 617n.
- Carmelite monasteries, 323.
- Cashel, the Saltair of, 44.
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- the Synod of, 275.
- massacre at, 496.
- Castlehaven Memoirs, 482n.
- Casts for celts, 246.
- Cataldus, St., 178.
- Catalogue of lost books, 44.
- Cathair Crofinn, a circular fort, 165.
- Cathal Carragh, 296.
- Cathal Crovderg, 296.
- Catholic Emancipation, 647.
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- worship publicly restored, 411,
- Association, 583.
- priests, their peculiar position and difficulties, 586.
- question, a ministerial difficulty, 639.
- delegates met in Dublin, 615.
- Catholics, Orangemen bribed to persecute, 616n
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- Cauldrons as tribute, 241.
- Cavalry, 309n.
- Ceann Cruach, great ancient idol of the Irish, 121.
- Ceasair, taking of Erinn by, 54
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- landing in Ireland of, 57.
- Celedabhaill, his quatrains, 198.
- Celestine, Pope, sends St. Patrick to Ireland, 115.
- Celsus, St., 227
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- Celtic language, antiquity of, 147
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- Celtic literature, 37.
- Celtic and Roman history, 81.
- Celts, description of, 160.
- Chariots used in Ireland, 167.
- Charlemont, Earl of, his life, 607.
- Charles I., reign of, 473
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- Charles II., reign of, 520
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- his treatment of the loyalists, 521.
- Chesterfield and Adam Smith on Ireland, 603.
- Chichester, Sir John, 580.
- Chichester's Parliament, 471.
- Chieftains, Irish, 303.
- Child, interment of a, 157n.
- Christ, the age of, 94.
- Christian missions, 108.
- Christianity, introduction of, 112.
- Chronicle of Cormac MacCullinan, 41.
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- of Aengus Ceilé Dé, 41.
- of Richard of Cirencester, 139.
- Chronicum Scotorum, 58
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- compiled by, 50
- account in, 57
- on Partholan's landing in Ireland, 58.
- Chronology, difficulties of, 44
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- Cin Droma Snechta, 39
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- quotations from, 43
- on Irish immigration, 58.
- Circular forts, 165.
- Cistercians, Order of, 316.
- Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, 155.
- Clanrickarde, Earl of, 356.
- Clare, Lord, on Irish cultivation, 638.
- Clare election, the, 649.
- Clarence, Duke of, 371.
- Clergy, state of the Catholic, in the reign of Elizabeth, 426.
- Clonmacnois, the Annals of, 60n.
- Clubs in the seventeenth century, 545
- Clynn, the annalist, 319.
- Cobhthach Cael, 90.
- Codex, containing Venerable Bede's works, 47.
- Coigley, Father, arrested and hanged, 624.
- Colgan, his labours, 52
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- College of Physicians, establishment of, in Dublin, 543.
- Colleges, continental, established for Irish students, 535.
- Colonists--Scythians, Greeks, 68.
- Colonization, proofs of our early, 55
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- Columba, St., and the Bards, 168.
- Columbanus, St., his rule, 173
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- Commercial status of Irish towns, 540.
- Comyn, John, Archbishop of Dublin, 291
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- Conchessa, 112.
- Confessions, St. Patrick's, 113.
- Conairé II., 103
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- Conn of the Hundred Battles, 101.
- Conn's half of Ireland, 102.
- Connaught, ancient, 64
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- massacre in, 297
- three claimants for, 307
- rising of the men, 323
- plantation of, 475.
- Conor Mac Nessa, legend of, 127
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- Controversy, theological, of the "Three Chapters," 175.
- Cooke, Mr., publishes a pamphlet, 631.
- Coote's cruelties, 482.
- Cork Militia, cruelties of the, 626.
- Cormac, author of Saltair of Tara, 104.
- Council at Tara, 172.
- Courcy, John de, in Ulster, 286
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- his valour, 286
- his defeat in Antrim, 288
- his death. 298.
- Craftiné, the poet, 91.
- Crannoges, 159.
- Cranmer, Archbishop, 410.
- Cremation not usual in Erinn, 155.
- Crom Chonaill, the, 162.
- Cromlechs, 155
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- in the Phoenix Park, 161.
- Cromwell arrives in Ireland, 500
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- marches to Drogheda, 500
- massacre at Drogheda. 501
- letters, 502
- his cruelties, 503
- brutality of his soldiers, 503
- his massacre at Wexford, 503.
- Cromwellian settlement in Ireland, 512n.
- Crovderg, Hugh, 307
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- Cruelties of English officers, 417.
- Crystède, his account of Ireland, 363.
- Cuilmenn, the, 40.
- Culdees, the, 182
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- Curia Regis, held at Lismore, 273.
- Curragh of Kildare, 255.
- Curran, his life, 606.
- Cusack, Sir Thomas. 409
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- Custom-house built, 638.
D.
- Dá Derga, destruction of the court of, 91.
- Dagges, 413n.
- Dalriada, the Irish, 131.
- Danes, Malachy's exploits against the, 207
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- in Ireland, 204
- cruelties of the, 190
- divided into Black and White Gentiles, 191
- found sea-port towns, 200
- supposed conversion of, 204
- pipes, 241
- the Dalcassians fight the, 205.
- Danish fortress in Dublin, 278n
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- the first invasion, 188
- attempted second invasion, 224
- pirates, first raid of the, 188
- valour, battle of Clontarf, 215.
- Dante, 385.
- D'Alton on the Round Towers, 163
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- on History, Religion, &c., of Ancient Ireland, 68n.
- Dathi, 107.
- Defective Titles, Commission of, 475.
- Derry, siege of, 558.
- Dervorgil, the Lady, 234.
- Desmond, Earls of, their ancestors and descendants, 282n.
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- Castle, 221.
- Earl of, his witty reply, 384.
- Destruction of the idols, 121.
- Details of the atrocities of the military, 621.
- Diarmaid, Princess, pursuit of, 106.
- Diarmaid's reign, misfortunes of, 167.
- Dicho, St. Patrick's first convert, 116.
- Dinnseanchus, a topographical work, 164.
- Dog, story of a faithful, 571.
- Domhnach, Gaedhilic term for Sunday, 121.
- Domhnach Airgid, 134n.
- Dominican Order in Ireland, 318.
- Donatus, St., 178.
- Doneraile Conspiracy, 643.
- Dowdall, Dr., opposition of, 410.
- Downpatrick, battle of, 325.
- Drapier's Letters, the, 581.
- Dress of the poorer classes in Ireland in seventeenth century, 552.
- Drink of the ancient Irish, 243.
- Drinking vessels of different kinds, 243.
- Druids and their teaching, 137.
- Drumceat, first convention held at, 167.
- Drury, his cruelties, 443
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- Dubhdaleithe, Book of, 44.
- Dublin in the seventeenth century, 544.
- Dublin, fashionable and prosperous, 638.
- Dubtach salutes St. Patrick at Tara, 121.
- Duke of Clarence, Viceroy, 371.
- Duke of York, viceroyalty of, 375.
- Dunboy, siege of, 460.
- Duncheadh, St., 221.
- Dundalk, battle of, 201.
E.
- Early missionaries. 108.
- Eber, 84.
- Ecclesiastics, cruelties practised on, 452.
- Ecclesiastical property, confiscation of, 403.
- Edward I., reign of, 329.
- Elizabeth, Queen, accession of, 412
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- martyrs in the reign of, 416.
- Emania, Palace of, 89.
- Embargo laws, 578.
- Emmet's career, 640.
- Enda, St., 169.
- English, invasion of the, 257.
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- come to Ireland for instruction, 178.
- quarrels of, barons, 300.
- law refused to Ireland, 362.
- writers, mistakes of, 361.
- schism, real cause of, 394.
- Irish emigrants defeat the, 584.
- Enniskilleners, cruelties of the, 559.
- Eras, three, in Irish history, 387.
- Eremon, reign of, 77
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- his death, 78
- families descended from, 84.
- Eric, or compensation for murder, 146.
- Erinn, St. Patrick's mission to, 112.
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- ancient chronicles of, 48n.
- pre-Noahacian colonization of, 55.
- takings of, 57.
- early geographical accounts of, 72.
- social accounts of, 73.
- ancient laws of, 144.
- religion of, 137.
- customs of, 139.
- language of, 147.
- antiquities of, 153.
- five great roads of ancient, 101.
- Essex, Earl of, tries to colonize Ulster, 432
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- his interview with O'Neill, 456
- his death, 433.
- Ethnea, Princess, 123.
- Eva, her marriage with Strongbow, 264.
- Exchequer of the King of England in Dublin, fourteenth century, 339.
- Exiled Irishmen, 478.
F.
- Fairs, Irish, seventeenth century, 538.
- Falkland, Lord, suspected of favouring the Catholics, 473.
- Fauna, description of, 253.
- Fené-men, the, 42n.
- Fenian poems and tales, 87
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- Fes, or triennial assembly, 163.
- Fethlimia, Princess, 122.
- Fiacc's Hymn, Scholiast on, 111.
- Fidh Aengussa, the Synod of, 227.
- Fifth taking of Ireland, 62,
- Fiacre, St., 177.
- Finnachta Fleadhach, the Hospitable, 171.
- Finnen, St., 162,
- Fintan, son of Bochra, the Irish historian, 40.
- Firbolg chiefs, division of Ireland by, 60
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- Fish in Ireland, 80n
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- FitzAldelm, his viceroyalty, 285
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- FitzGerald, war between De Burgo and, 326.
- FitzGerald, war between De Vesci and, 333.
- FitzGerald, Lord Edward, joins the United Irishmen, 618
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- arrest of, 624
- his death, 624.
- Fithil, the poet, 40.
- FitzMaurice obtains foreign aid, 441
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- FitzStephen, 260.
- FitzWilliam, Earl, viceroyalty, of 616.
- Flahertach, Abbot, and King of Munster, 194
- Flann, his Synchronisms, 49
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- synchronizes the chiefs and monarchs with the kings of Erinn, 50.
- Flann, King, his reign, 192.
- Flint used to make weapons of defence, 160.
- Flood, his life, 607.
- Flora, description of, 253.
- Foillan, St., 177.
- Fomorians, the, 60-64.
- Food of the ancient Irish, 241
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- of poorer classes in seventeenth century, 553.
- Ford of the Biscuits, battle of, 451.
- Fothadh of the Canons, 180.
- Franciscan Order in Ireland, 319
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- their patriotism, 344
- their convents, 312
- remarkable spring, 319
- persecution of, 474.
- Friars Preachers, Order of, 318.
- Fridolin, St., 178.
- Froude's History of England,
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- quotations from his account of the English clergy, 440.
- Fursey, St., 177.
G.
- Gall, St., 177.
- Galls, description of, 187n.
- Gallic Church, labours of the Irish in 177.
- Gaul, the Celts of, 73.
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- Irish saints venerated in, 183.
- Géisill, battle of, 78n.
- Genealogies, differences between, and pedigrees, 80-82.
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- Milesian, 79.
- peculiar historical value of, 80.
- and pedigrees, 51.
- General Assembly at Kilkenny, 485.
- Geographical accounts of Ireland, 72
- George I., 582.
- Geraldines, rising of, 1534, 390
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- ancestor of the, 333
- their wars, 334
- defeated at Kenmare, 325.
- Germanus, St., his Canons, 117.
- Gertrude, St., daughter of King Pepin, 177.
- Gherardini, letter from the, 384.
- Gilla Caemhain, an Irish writer, 49
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- gives annals of all times, 49.
- Ginkell, General, 568.
- Glundubh, Nial, lamentation for, 196.
- Gold ornaments, 157.
- Goldsmith, his life, 609.
- Gordon's, Mr., account of the atrocities of the military, 628, 629.
- Gormgal, St., 221.
- Gormflaith, Brian Boroimhé'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
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- his life, 607
- entrance into the Imperial Parliament, 640.
- Grainné, 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
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- 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
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- Henry V., 369.
- Henry VI., Wars of the Roses, 371.
- Henry VII., 379.
- Henry VIII., 387
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- 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.
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- Hy-Nials, contention between the, 223
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- 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
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- massacre at Cashel by, 496.
- Innocent I., 100.
- Innocent X., 490.
- Insult to the Irish peeresses, 608.
- Insurrection in Wexford, 626.
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- Ireland, climate of, 80,
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- colonization of, 57.
- article on, in Rees' Cyclopædia, 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.
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- 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
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- the circuit of, 197.
- Murtough's circuit of, 224.
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Knights of the Royal Branch, 125.
- Kunrann the poet, 187.
L.
- Lacy, De, made Viceroy of Ireland, 289
-
- endeavours to become King of Ireland, 291
- cruel death, 293
- family become extinct, 311.
- Lady physicians, 66.
- Laeghairé, King, holds a pagan festival, 119
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- receives St. Patrick at Tara, 120
- his oath, 129
- his death, 129
- his burial, 129n.
- Lammas-day, 164.
- Landing of the Picts, 79.
-
- of Partholan, 58.
- of Ceasair, 57.
- Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 228.
- Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, 301.
- Language of ancient Erinn, 147
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- writing in pre-Christian Erinn, 148
- Ogham writing, 150.
- Laws, the Brehon code of, 144
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- its peculiarities, 145.
- of the Innocents, 172.
- of succession, 146.
- of ancient Erinn, 144.
- Leix, St. Patrick's visit to, 124
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- cruelties of the deputy of, 417.
- Lewis, Sir G.C., 85n.
- Lhind, quotations from, 95n.
- Lia Fail, 76
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- or Stone of Destiny, 165
- mention of, 165.
- Life, social, previous to the English invasion, 237.
- Limerick, siege of, by Ireton. 506
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- by William of Orange, 566
- by Ginkell, 571.
- Linen trade, 251, 540.
- Literary ladies in Ireland, 374
- Literary men of the seventeenth century, 531.
- Livin, St., 178.
- Londres, Henry de, made Governor of Ireland, 306
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- surnamed Scorch Villain, 306.
- Louvain collection, 46
-
- Loyola, St. Ignatius, 120n.
- Lucas, his life, 607.
M.
- Macaille, St., 131.
- MacArt's, Cormac, Saltair. 40
-
- his reign, 103
- his death, 105.
- Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome, 247n.
- Maccallin, St., 221.
- MacCarthy, King of Desmond, 229.
- MacCarthy More murdered at Tralee, 357.
- MacCullinan, Cormac, priest and king, 192
-
- his reign, 193
- his death, 193n.
- MacCumhaill, Finn, 105
-
- his courtship with the Princess Ailbhé, 105.
- MacFirbis, quotations from, 54, 58
-
- his book on pedigrees, 85
- his pedigrees of the ancient Irish and Anglo-Norman families, 50
- murdered, 51.
- MacGilluire, Coarb of St. Patrick, 315.
- MacLiag, the poet, 210n.
- MacMurrough, Dermod, King of Leinster, 233
-
- attends synod at Mellifont, 234
- his interview with Henry II., 258
- Henry grants him letters-patent, 259
- his death, 266.
- MacMurrough, Art, 367
-
- MacNally, advocate of the United Irishmen, 618.
- Macutenius on St. Patrick's Canons, 118.
- Maelmuire, "servant of Mary," 227n.
- Maelruain, St., of Tallaght, 179.
- Magna Charta, 305.
- Magog and his colony, 68
-
- Magrath, Miler, the apostate, 78.
- Mahoun, brother to Brian, 204
-
- Mailduf, St., 178.
- Malachy, St., 229
-
- visits Rome, 231
- death of, 231.
- Malachy II., 198
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- exploits against the Danes, 208
- wins his "collar of gold," 208
- Brian deposes, 209
- his death, 218.
- Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, 141.
- Marco Polo, 46.
- Marisco, De, his treachery, 311
-
- Mary, Queen, 410.
- Massacre of a prelate, priest, and friars, 402
-
- of a bishop, 466
- at Wexford-bridge, 628
- at Cashel, 496
- at Wexford, 503
- of three priests, 445
- of three Franciscans, 453
- at Drogheda, 501
- at Mullamast, 438
- at Fort del Ore, 444
- at Scullabogue House, 627.
- Mellifont, Abbey of, 231
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- Meloughlin, King of Meath, 191.
- Metalogicus, the, of John of Salisbury, 275n.
- Milcho, St. Patrick's master in captivity, 116.
- Milesian genealogies, 84, 88.
- Milesians, landing of the, 75
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- Milford Haven, 292.
- Milidh, fleet of the sons of, entrance into Ireland, 75.
- Mississippi Scheme, 584.
- Mochta, St., 151.
- Moira, Lord, exposes the cruelty of the yeomanry, 619.
- Moling, St., 109.
- Monastery of Kildare, St. Brigid's, 132.
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- Kilcrea, 321.
- of Bobbio, 176.
- of Timoleague, 321,
- of Tallaght, 179.
- of St. Columbkille, 293.
- of Cluain Eidhneach, 179.
- of Donegal, 321
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- desolation and plunder of, 189.
- of Clonbroney, 188n.
- of St. Columba, 230, 234.
- of Ibrach (Ivragh), Kerry, 230.
- of Lismore, 226.
- of St. Kevin, 235.
- of Dunbrody, 289.
- of St. Peter's of Lemene, near Chambery, 381.
- of Clonfert, 170.
- of Mellifont, 234.
- of Clonmacnois, 221.
- Irrelagh (Muckross), 322.
- Clonmel, 322.
- Drogheda, 322.
- Cill-Achaidh, 374.
- Montgomery, 584.
- Montmarisco, 237
-
- Monroe, 493.
- Monroe, Henry, 629.
- Moore, his History, 37
-
- his partiality for Malachy, 209
- on religion, 111
- his life, 605.
- Morann the good, and his collar of gold, 97.
- MSS. preserved in Trinity College, 44.
-
- of ancient Irish history, 39n.
- Celtic, preserved in Belgium, 45.
- Continental, 45n.
- in British Museum, 46.
- Stowe collection of, 45n.
- MSS., Latin, 46.
-
- Loftus, 415.
- Burgundian, 46.
- legendary and historical, of Irish history, 39.
- Muckross Abbey, 322.
- Muircheartach, first Christian king of Ireland, 131.
- Muircheartach, his circuit of Ireland, 197
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- Murphy, Father, killed, 628.
- Murrough's game of chess, 211.
- Murtough of the Leathern Cloaks, 196.
N.
- Neamhnach, the well, 164.
- Napier's, Lady, letter respecting the tenantry of Duke of Leinster, 623.
- Nathi, King, 116.
- National joy at the restoration of Catholic worship, 464.
- Nemedh, arrival of, 59.
- Nemenians, emigration of, 60, 62.
- Nemthur, St. Patrick's birthplace, 110.
- Nennius, 69.
- Nesta, her beauty and infamy, 259.
- Nestor, 48.
- Netterville, John, Archbishop of Armagh, 318.
- Newspapers in seventeenth century, 545.
- Newtownbutler, engagement at, 595.
- Nial of the Nine Hostages, 106.
- Nial Black Knee, 194.
- Nicholas, St., College of, 51.
- Niebuhr, his theory of history, 82.
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- on the story of Tarpeia, 82n.
- on learning by verse, 86.
- Noah, genealogies from, 58.
- Normans, their arrival in Ireland, 257.
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- their luxurious habits, 272.
- Cambrensis' account of them, 277.
- the, ridicule the Irish nobles, 293.
- feuds of the, in Ireland, 300.
- their treachery, 311.
- Viceroys, 285.
- Nuada of the Silver Hand, 61
-
- Numa Pompilius, 89.
O.
- O'Brien, Turlough, Monarch of Ireland, 222
-
- O'Brien, Donnell, King of Thomond, 271.
- O'Briens, from whom descended, 84.
- O'Clery, Michael, one of the Four Masters, 52
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- his literary labours and piety, 54
- his first work, Trias Thaumaturgas, 52
- rewrote the Book of Invasions, 54
- patronized by Fearghal O'Gara, 53.
- O'Connell, Daniel, in the House of Parliament, 647
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- obtains Catholic Emancipation, 647
- represented Ireland, 641
- his life, 642
- his maiden speech, 643
- Doneraile Conspiracy, 643.
- O'Curry, when Moore visited, 37
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- his opinion of early Irish civilization, 104
- his labours, 38
- on Erinn, 48n
- on Keating's statement of Irish descent, 68
- on Cormac's writings, 104n
- on the Bachall Isu, 115
- on Brehon Laws, 145
- on Irish saints, 178
- on musical instruments, 250
- on Irish martyrs, 416.
- O'Connor, Hugh, 308.
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- Felim, 309, 313.
- of Offaly, 339.
- Roderic, 235.
- expelled from Offaly, 408
-
- Margaret, a literary lady, 374.
- Nuala, 321
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- establishes the monastery of Franciscans at Donegal, 321
- her death, 322.
- Arthur, 624.
- O'Connor Faly, Margaret, visits England, 411.
- O'Daly, the poet, 303.
- O'Donnell, Hugh, entertainment of, at Windsor, 387.
- O'Donnell, Hugh Roe, his treacherous capture, 447
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- O'Donnell More, died at Assaroe, 313.
- O'Donovan, Dr., quotations from, on Brehon laws, 144.
- Odran, St., 147.
- O'Duffy, Catholicus, 304.
- O'Duffy, Donnell, 233.
- O'Flaherty, his Chronology, 81.
- Ogham writing, 149.
- Oghma, Danann prince, invented the writing called Ogham Craove, 76.
- Ogygia of the Greeks, 72.
- Ogygia, account in, of ancient writings, 148n.
- O'Hagan, the Abbot Imar, 229.
- O'Hartigan, Kenneth, 221.
- O'Hurly, Dr., 453.
- Ollamh Fodhla, 89.
- Ollamh, office and qualifications of a, 83, 86.
- O'Loughlin, Donnell, 226.
- O'Loughlins of Tyrone, 231.
- O'More, Rory Oge, 437
-
- O'Neill, Donough, 207
- O'Neill, Shane, 409
-
- feared by the English, 418
- attempts to poison him, 419
- Lord Chancellor Cusack persuades him to forget the poisoning, 420
- he is killed treacherously, 422.
- O'Neill, Hugh, marriage of, 450
-
- his insurrection, 454
- defeats Bagnal, 455
- his interview with Essex, 456
- attempts to assassinate him, 458
- his power decreases, 461
- plot to entrap him, 468
- his flight and death in Rome, 469.
- O'Neill, Sir Phelim, 480
-
- marches against Monroe, 493.
- O'Neill, Owen Roe, 480.
- O'Neill, Hugh Boy, slain in 1283, 332.
- O'Neill, Donnell, 198,
- Ormonde, the Duke of. 483
-
- Orpheus, first writer who mention Ireland, 71.
- Orr, Mr., his trial and death, 620.
- O'Toole, St. Laurence, Archbishop of Dublin, 234
-
- his genealogy, 235
- Abbot of St. Kevin's monastery, at Glendalough, 235
- his patriotism, 267
- his journey to France, 290
- sent as ambassador to Henry II., 281
- his death, 290.
- Oirdnidhe, Hugh, the legislator, 179.
P.
- Palatines, the, 580.
- Palladius, St., mission of, 109.
- Palliums, 231.
- Partholan, landing of, 58.
- Partholyan, English traditions of, 71.
- Patrick, St., his birthplace, 112
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- visits Tara, 120
- his successful preaching, 123
- relic of his hand, 134
- his copy of the Gospels, 134
- his burial-place, 133
- devotion of his servant, 125
- his death, 126
- his vision, 113
- his prayer for Ireland, 135
- destruction of the idols, 121
- his Hymn, 120
- his captivity, 113.
- Peep-o'-Day Boys and Defenders, 613.
- Pelasgian remains, 158.
- Pembroke, Earl of, plots against, 311.
- Penal Laws, enactment of, 576.
- Perrot, Sir John, 417.
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