CONTENTS.

I. INTRODUCTION [1]

II. THE RULE OF THE O'NEILLS [29]

III. SHANE O'NEILL, SOVEREIGN OF ULSTER [33]

IV. EXTERMINATING WARS [71]

V. AN IRISH CRUSADE [88]

VI. THE LAST OF THE IRISH PRINCES [97]

VII. GOVERNMENT APPEALS TO THE PEOPLE [114]

VIII. THE CASE OF THE FUGITIVE EARLS [120]

IX. THE CONFISCATION OF ULSTER [138]

X. THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER [152]

XI. THE REBELLION OF 1641 [185]

XII. THE PURITAN PLANTATION [215]

XIII. THE PENAL CODE. A NEW SYSTEM OF LAND WAR [234]

XIV. ULSTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY [248]

XV. POVERTY AND COERCION [271]

XVI. THE FAMINE [289]

XVII. TENANT-RIGHT IN ULSTER [303]

XVIII. TENANT-RIGHT IN DOWN [313]

XIX. TENANT-RIGHT IN ANTRIM [328]

XX. TENANT-RIGHT IN ARMAGH [346]

XXI. FARNEY—MR. TRENCH'S 'REALITIES' [356]

XXII. BELFAST AND PERPETUITY [381]

XXIII. LEASE-BREAKING—GEASHILL [387]

XXIV. THE LAND SYSTEM AND THE WORKING CLASSES [401]

XXV. CONCLUSION—AN APPEAL TO ENGLISHMEN [424]

THE

LAND-WAR IN IRELAND.