Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Legislative Independence The last chapter brought us down towards the end of 1785. Distress and discontent prevailed all over the country: for which there were various sufficient causes. For the Catholics there were the penal laws. The farmers were impoverished by the extortion of ” middlemen,” already spoken of, who leased tracts of land [...]

Above: King Henry On the 18th October, 1171, king Henry landed at Crook a little below Waterford,with many of his nobles, and an army of 4,400 knights and men at arms. Counting attendants lie probably had 10,000 altogether At Waterford he was met by Dennot Mac Carthy king of Desmond, who was the first Irish [...]