The next danger that menaced the English power in the land came from a new quarter, and it was by far the most formidable that it had ever encountered since Strongbow and his Norman adventurers crossed St. George's Channel. For the first time, a National Irish champion endeavoured to organise a National Irish resistance to the power of the stranger. Above: Portrait of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.—When Brian, the eldest son of Matthew O'Neill, was slain in 1562 ... Read More

Above : Painting Of Prime Minister Pitt It had already been mentioned that, for several years previous to the1798 Insurrection, the project of a legislative union between England and Ireland had been present to the mind of Pitt, and that this was well known to the authorities at Dublin Castle, though carefully concealed from the country at large. It appears to have been generally believed, in the earlier part of the eighteenth century, that the Irish Parliament would regard a scheme for the ... Read More