A critical examination of Irish history being a replacement of the false by the true from the Elizabethan conquest to the legislative union of 1800 1

CHAPTER I. PAGE 1 CHAPTER II. THE ELIZABETHAN CONQUEST 15 • CHAPTER III. A RETROSPECT CHAPTER IV. HOSTILITY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS, CLERGY AND LAWYERS TO PROTESTANT KINGS DURING THE REIGNS OF ELIZABETH, JAMES I. AND CHARLES I. CHAPTER V. CONSPIRACIES DURING THE REIGNS OF JAMES I. AND CHARLES I. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS - THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PROPOSED PLANTATION OF CONNAUGHT CHAPTER VI . THE IRISH PARLIAMENTS IN THE REIGNS OF JAMES I. AND CHARLES I. . CHAPTER VII. THE REBELLION OF 1641 · 31 49 66 . 81 104 vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER VIII. THE ACTS OF SETTLEMENT. FIRST PERIOD OF THE REIGN OF JAMES II. PAGE 131 CHAPTER IX. JAMES II. IN IRELAND 160 CHAPTER X. PENAL LAWS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND . CHAPTER XI. CONDITION OF IRELAND FOR MANY YEARS AFTER THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION- POYNINGS' LAW- THE REVENUE OF IRELAND CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST TWO PARLIAMENTS AFTER THE REVOLUTION. THE ALLEGED SUPPRESSION OF THE IRISH WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE . CHAPTER XIII . THE APPELLATE JURISDICTION CLAIMED BY THE IRISH LORDS. THE SACRIFICE OF TILLAGE TO PASTURE . CHAPTER XIV. FROM 1753 TO 1773- THE INTENTIONAL WASTE BY THE IRISH COMMONS OF THE RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY - UNIVERSAL JOBBERY . CHAPTER XV. FROM 1773 TO THE SETTLEMENT OF 1782 . CHAPTER XVI . THE SETTLEMENT OF 1782 - SIMPLE REPEAL- REVOLT OF THE VOLUNTEERS AGAINST THE PARLIAMENT THEIR CONVENTION -CONDITION OF IRELAND IN 1783 AND 1784-DEMAND FOR A COMMERCIAL UNION .