An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

by Mary Francis Cusack

• Gall, St., [177].
• Galls, description of, [187]n.
• Gallic Church, labours of the Irish in [177].
• Gaul, the Celts of, [73].
• • Irish saints venerated in, [183].
• Géisill, battle of, [78]n.
• Genealogies, differences between, and pedigrees, [80]-[82].
• • 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]
• • 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]
• • 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]
• • 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, [221]n.
• Henry II. lands in Ireland, [270]
• • 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]
• • his death, [294].
• Henry V., [369].
• Henry VI., Wars of the Roses, [371].
• Henry VII., [379].
• Henry VIII., [387]
• • 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, [298]n.
• Hua Alta, race of, [125].
• Hy-Figeinte (Munster), [125].
• Hy-Kinsallagh (co. Carlow), [125].
• Hymn of St. Fiacc, [117].
• • of St. Patrick, [120].
• Hy-Nials, contention between the, [223]
• • 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]
• • massacre at Cashel by, [496].
• Innocent I., [100].
• Innocent X., [490].
• Insult to the Irish peeresses, [608].
• Insurrection in Wexford, [626].
• • in Ulster, [629].
• Ireland, climate of, [80],
• • 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].
• • 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]
  • • second invasion, [224].
  • 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].
• • 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, [43]n.
  • 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, [89]n.
  • 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].

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