HISTORY

OF

IRELAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF TIME,

To the Invasion of the English under King Henry II.
Being a Series of the principal transactions in that king-
dom, for upwards of 3000 years.

ALSO,

An Account of the Most Eminent Men
Who flourished in the Irish Church, in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th,
10th, 11th, and 12th Centuries; and of those famous Irish who
converted to the Christian Faith, the kingdoms of the Picts, Nor-
thumbrians, Mercians, East-Anglians and East Saxons, in Great
Britain, Switzerland, Franconia, part of Flanders, and part of
Germany. Likewise, of those famous Irish who founded the
UNIVERSITIES of Oxford, Paris and Pavia, and others of less note.

WITH A DISSERTATION

ON THE LAWS, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS
Of the Antient Irish, and the Genealogies of their Principal Families.

BY T. COMERFORD, ESQ.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

Discovery of the True Cause, why Ireland was never entirely
subdued and brought under obedience of the Crown of England,
until the beginning of the reign of King James the First.--Or-
ginally published in 1612, by Sir JOHN DAVIES.-Also, Remarks
by the American Publishers.

Baltimore:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES SCANLAN & B, EDES,
From the 3d Dublin Edition.

B. EDES, PRINTER.