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Deaths of Mac Murrough and O’Connor and The “English Pale

  Above: Picture of Sir John Talbot   The  last years  of MacMurrough and O’Connor were spent in comparative peace, little disturbed even by the arrival of the able and vigorous Sir John Talbot as Lord Deputy.   In 1417, Art Mac Murrough died (it is suspecte from poison), and four years later his ally of Uf [...]

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Success of the Insurrection: Kilkenny Draws Up a Scheme of Government

Above : Picture Of Owen Roe O’Neill The period of Irish History on which we are now entering is one extremely difficult to treat within narrow limits. It is, as has been well said by Carlyle, both confused and confusing. ” There ara Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and [...]

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