Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

A sympathetic and kindly treatment of the Irish people, who had adhered so strongly to the Catholic faith, might well have been expected of the Catholic Queen. No trace of this appears, however, in her policy. The distinction between the Celtic and the Anglo-Irish Churches was to be maintained. Priests were “to be well chosen [...]

While the clans were thus fighting ver the claims of opposing chiefs, or over the jealousies of rival families, the Norman lords were just as busily occupied in warfare with each other. On all sides there was turmoil. But the fighting was different from what had gone before or was to come later, for these [...]