Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Picture Of Henry II On the 18th October, 1171, Henry’s fleet of 400 ships arrived in Waterford Harbour, and the King landed at Crook with a fully equipped army of nearly 10,000 men. From the first he professed to come not as a conqueror, but to curb his lawless subjects and to protect [...]

Above : Another Picture Of Henry II It will be seen, therefore, that so far as the submissions made to Henry II by the Irish chiefs were concerned, there was not so much difference between the Irish and feudal conceptions of their meaning. In Ireland, from time immemorial, the chiefs of a tribe or an [...]