Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

The new Deputy found Irish affairs in what appeared to him to be a dangerous condition. Several of the chiefs, and notably the new Earl of Tyrone and Manus O’Donnell, were looking abroad for help against the Irish Government, of which their fear rather than their affection or esteem had increased. Scotland was now governed [...]

Conciliation Resolved On.— When Lord Leonard Grey left Ireland, in 1540, the strength of the Geraldine League was, to a considerable extent, broken, but yet of the end of the war there was no sign. It had lasted already over six years; there seemed no reason why it should not last six more, or even [...]