Above : Picture Of Hugh O'Neill The news of the death of Elizabeth was welcomed with satisfaction by the Catholics of the Irish towns, and by those of the rural districts in and round the Pale. The clansmen elsewhere had not yet come to consider themselves as subjects of the Crown. Although, during the O'Neill wars, the exercise of the Catholic religion had, from motives of policy, been little interfered with, yet none of the persecuting laws had been repealed, and ... Read More

Above: View In Cork The second largest Collection District is that of Cork, which contains four independent breweries, where 596,223 bushels of malt were brewed in the year ended 30th September, 1901. The City of Cork has always been a great home of the brewing industry, and now contains two large breweries. A stranger landing in Cork, and driving through the city, is met on all sides by the names Murphy, and Beamish and ... Read More