Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Sir Henry Sydney The Fitzgeralds and the Butlers were at perpetual war. The earl of Desmond, the head of the southern Geraldines, was a Catholic, and took the Irisli side; the earl of Ormond, the leader of the Butlers, had conformed to the Protestant faith, and had taken the side of the English all [...]

The preceding hundred years I have designated a century of turmoil; but it was peace itself compared with the three and a half years of Bruce’s expedition to Ireland. Tlie Irish people, especially those of the north, viewed with great interest and sympathy the struggles of their kindred in Scotland for independence; and Robert Bruce’s [...]