An Illustrated History of Ireland - Contents (2)

Margaret Anne Cusack (Sister Mary Frances Clare)

An Illustrated History of Ireland

1868 (2nd Edition)

Contents: Chapters 7 to 12

Conn "of the Hundred Battles"

The Five Great Roads of Ancient Erinn

The Three Cairbrés

Cormac Mac Airt

His Wise Decision

His Personal Appearance

The Saltair of Tara written in Cormac's Reign

Finn Mac Cumhaill

His Courtship with the Princess Ailbhé

The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Grainné

Nial "of the Nine Hostages"

How Ireland was first Christianized

Pagan Rome used providentially to promote the Faith

The Mission of St. Palladius

Innocent I. claims authority to found Churches and condemn Heresy

Disputes concerning St. Patrick's Birthplace

Ireland receives the Faith generously

St. Patrick's Vision

His Roman Mission clearly proved

Subterfuges of those who deny it

Ancient Lives of the Saint

St. Patrick's Canons

His Devotion and Submission to the Holy See.

Pestilence of the Blefed

The Cursing of Tara by St. Rodanus

Extent and Importance of Ancient Tara

The First Mill in Ireland

The Rath of the Synods

The Banqueting Hall

Chariots and Swords

St. Brendan and his Voyages

Pre-Columbian Discovery of America

The Plague again

St. Columba and St. Columbanus

Irish Saints and Irish Schools

Aengus the Culdee.

Christianity improves the Social State of Ireland

A Saxon Invasion of Ireland

The English come to Ireland for Instruction

A Famine and Tempests

The First Danish Invasion

Cruelty of the Danes

The Black and White Gentiles

King Cormac Mac Cullinan

Amlaff the Dane

Plunder of the Towns

Arrival of Sitric

Death of Nial Glundubh

The Circuit of Ireland

Malachy the Second

Entries in the Annals.

(Chapters XIII. to XVIII.) »

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