Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Browne made an attempt to evangelise the more distant parts of his archdiocese, and even places outside it. He accompanied some of the Council on a sort of legal circuit through part of Leinster and Munster. The Archbishop, we are told (1539), preached to crowded congregations at the various towns, ” setting forth the word [...]

The English Government had already become hopeless of ever conquering Ireland. They now went further and abandoned the duty of governing most of the land that had been conquered. That duty they surrendered to the three earls who were given ” Palatine ” powers* over their respective territories. The Palatine Earls were for all purposes [...]