The Viceroys of Ireland

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN - - - - - - - - [Frontispiece]
THE VICEREGAL LODGE, DUBLIN - - - - - - - [30]
THE THRONE ROOM, DUBLIN CASTLE - - - - - - [42]
ST. PATRICK'S HALL, DUBLIN CASTLE - - - - - [54]
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX - - - - - - [68]
CHARLES BLOUNT, LORD MOUNTJOY - - - - - - [78]
THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD - - - - - [84]
JAMES BUTLER, FIRST DUKE OF ORMONDE - - - - - [86]
OLIVER CROMWELL - - - - - - - - - - [90]
ARTHUR, EARL OF ESSEX - - - - - - - - [100]
LORD WHARTON - - - - - - - - - - - [130]
JOHN, LORD CARTERET - - - - - - - - - [140]
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD - - - - - - - - - [150]
EARL OF HARRINGTON - - - - - - - - - [152]
MARQUIS TOWNSHEND - - - - - - - - - [176]
INSTALLATION BANQUET OF KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK - - [188]
DUKE OF RUTLAND - - - - - - - - - - [192]
EARL OF WESTMORELAND - - - - - - - - - [194]
EARL FITZWILLIAM - - - - - - - - - - [200]
MARQUIS CAMDEN - - - - - - - - - - [204]
MARQUIS CORNWALLIS - - - - - - - - - [210]
DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX - - - - - - - [214]
EARL TALBOT - - - - - - - - - - - [218]
MARQUIS WELLESLEY - - - - - - - - - [226]
LORD MULGRAVE - - - - - - - - - - [240]

EARL OF CLARENDON - - - - - - - - - [248]
EARL OF EGLINTON AND WINTON - - - - - - - [256]
EARL SPENCER - - - - - - - - - - - [280]
LORD CREWE - - - - - - - - - - - [306]
EARL CADOGAN - - - - - - - - - - - [310]
LORD DUDLEY - - - - - - - - - - - [318]
KING EDWARD CONVERSING WITH LORD ABERDEEN - - - [334]
COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN - - - - - - - - [338]

CHAPTER I

The conquest of Ireland by Henry II. is one of the myths of history which Time has endeavoured to crystallize into fact. Rome gave Ireland to the superstitious, cowardly King of England, but the Pope could not make Henry a conqueror, and so the invader, coming to claim that which did not belong to the Pope or to himself, discovered that the native Irish could defend themselves. Ireland was a land of saints according to the chroniclers of the time; Henry discovered that it was also a land of fighters, and the armour and superior weapons of his army were outmatched by the sturdy patriotism of the Irish, whose weapons and methods were, doubtless, crude, but whose courage and determination were inspired by a love of country and intensified by a passion for independence.