KD 31674

941.57 +45.

126657

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851

BY CYRUS W. FIELD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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MAKYARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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PREFACE, -

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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A Glance at Irish History.-Aborigines of the Island.-Phoenician Colonies.-Traces of

an Asiatic Origin.-St. Patrick introduces Christianity.-Invasion of the Danes.-

Henry II. undertakes to subdue Ireland to the Pope,

CHAPTER II.

Why the Irish hate the English.-Ireland a conquered Country.-No Fusion of Races.-

Intermarriages prohibited.-Attempt of Elizabeth_to_exterminate the Natives by

Famine.-Duplicity of the Stuarts.-Cromwell in Ireland.-Massacre of Drogheda,

and Estates confiscated.-English Plantations.-Policy of Charles II. to depress Ire-

land.-Revolution of 1688.-The Irish forced to emigrate.-Scene at the Surrender

of Limerick.-Irish Brigade formed in the European Armies,

CHAPTER III.

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Difference of Religion.-Why the Reformation did not spread in Ireland as it did in

Scotland.-Henry VIII. introduces it as a Matter of Policy.-Sends over Preachers

ignorant and immoral. The Catholics persecuted.-Penal Laws against them.-

Priest-hunting, as among the Scotch Covenanters,

CHAPTER IV.

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The Struggle for Irish Independence begins.-The American War.-Danger of a French

Invasion.-The Irish Volunteers organized.-Demand for Free-trade and an Indepen-

dent Parliament.-Revolution of 1782.-Rejoicings of the People.-Political Abuses

still exist.-Demand for further Reform.-Grattan.-The French Revolution breaks

out,

CHAPTER V.

Curran.-His Boyhood passed among the Peasantry.-Attends their Weddings and

Funerals.-College Life.-Destined for the Church.-Chooses the Law.-Studies to

make himself an Orator-Powers of Conversation.-Playful Fancy.-Wit, Humor,

and Pathos.-Extreme Sensibility.-Sudden Transitions of Feeling.-Constitutional

Melancholy.-Character of his Eloquence.—He defends a Catholic Priest.-The State

Trials.-His Love of Ireland,

CHAPTER VI.

Theobald Wolfe Tone.-Early Life.-Marriage.-Studies Law.-Project of a Military

Expedition to the South Seas.-Settles in Dublin.-Friendship with Emmet and

Russell,

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Excitement caused by the French Revolution.-Tone enters into Politics.-Division of

Parties in Ireland. He endeavors to unite the Dissenters and Catholics.-Founds the

Society of United Irishmen.-Is appointed Secretary to the Catholic Committee.-

His Efforts to obtain Catholic Emancipation.-Opposed by the Protestant Ascend-

ency.-Convention in Dublin.-Petition to George III.,

CHAPTER VIII.

The Irish Volunteers disbanded.-Earl Fitzwilliam Lord Lieutenant.-The United

Irishmen changed to a Secret Society.-Rev. William Jackson arrives as an Emis-

sary from France.-Is arrested.-Anecdote of his Imprisonment.-Trial for Treason,

and Death.-Hamilton Rowan makes his Escape from Newgate.-Fidelity of Irish

Sailors.-Tone flces to America.-Meets old Comrades.-Sails for France,

CHAPTER IX.

Tone in France.-Shiel's Speech.-Acquaintance with James Monroe.-Audience of

Carnot.-Life in Paris.-Plans for invading Ireland.-General Hoche.-Tone's first

Interview.-Council of War with Hoche and Carrot,

CHAPTER X.

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Tone in Hocho's Staff.-Accompanies him to the Army.-Armament preparing at

Brest.-Ruse with a Spy.-Tone enlists Irish Prisoners.-An Emissary sent to Dub-

lin.-The Troops embark.-The Expedition sails.-Reaches Bantry Bay.-Driven off

the Coast by a Gale of Wind, -

CHAPTER XI.

Tone goes with Hoche to the Rhine.-Battle of Neuwied.-Plan of a second Expedition

from Holland.-Dutch Fleet in the Texel.-Admiral Dewinter.-Mutiny at the

Nore.-Battle of Camperdown.-Death of Hoche.-Formation of the Army of Eng-

land.-Napoleon sails for Egypt,

CHAPTER XII.

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The United Irish Society completes its Organization.-Numbers and Wealth involved

in it.-Oaths of Secrecy.-Organized into an Army.-Attempt to suppress it by

Force.-The Triumvirate, Clare, Castlereagh, and Carhampton.-Reign of Terror in

Ireland.-Men tortured to force Confessions.-The State Trials.-The Struggle ap-

proaching.-Military Preparations.-The North impatient to rise.-Fatal Reliance on

France,

CHAPTER XIII.

Lord Edward Fitzgerald.-High Birth.-Serves in the American War under Lord

Rawdon.-Wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.-Travels in Spain.-Rejoins his

Regiment in Canada.-Tour to the Falls of Niagara, the Great Lakes, and the Missis-

sippi.-Returns to England.-Meets Fox and Sheridan in the Society of London.—

Visits Paris during the French Revolution.-Marries a Daughter of Madame de Gen-

lis. Enters Parliament.-Joins the United Irishmen.-Is appointed Commander-in-

Chief.-Talents for War.-Military Tactics,

CHAPTER XIV.

Thomas Addis Emmet.-The Three Brothers.-His Education.-Studies Medicine at

Edinburgh.-Travels on the Continent.-Adopts the Profession of Law.-Commences

Practice in Dublin.-State Trials. He takes the Oath of the United Irishmen in open

Court.-Intimacy with Tone.-Joins the Society.-Is chosen one of the Directors.

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