Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14754-h.htm or 14754-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/5/14754/14754-h/14754-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/7/5/14754/14754-h.zip) AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF IRELAND FROM AD 400 TO 1800 by MARY FRANCES CUSACK 'The Nun of Kenmare' Illustrations by Henry Doyle 1868 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE JUDGE O'HAGAN, AND TO HIS SISTER MARY, FOUNDRESS AND ABBESS OF SAINT CLARE'S CONVENT, KENMARE, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED By The Author. List of Full-Page Illustrations ETC. THE EMIGRANTS' FAREWELL SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT IRISH MANUSCRIPTS ST. PATRICK GOING TO TARA KING BRIAN BOROIMHE KILLED BY THE VIKING MARRIAGE OF EVA AND STRONGBOW INTERVIEW BETWEEN MACMURROUGH AND THE OFFICERS OF RICHARD II. INTERVIEW BETWEEN ESSEX AND O'NEILL MASSACRE AT DROGHEDA IRETON CONDEMNING THE BISHOP OF LIMERICK GRATTAN'S DEMAND FOR IRISH INDEPENDENCE O'CONNELL REFUSING TO TAKE THE OATH IRELAND AND AMERICA PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. A demand for a Second Edition of the "Illustrated History of Ireland," within three months from the date of the publication of the First, consisting of 2,000 copies, is a matter of no little gratification to the writer, both personally and relatively. It is a triumphant proof that Irishmen are not indifferent to Irish history--a fault of which they have been too frequently accused; and as many of the clergy have been most earnest and generous in their efforts to promote the circulation of the work, it is gratifying to be able to adduce this fact also in reply to the imputations, even lately cast upon the ecclesiastics of Ireland, of deficiency in cultivated tastes, and of utter neglect of literature. Nor, as a Catholic and a religious, can I fail to express my respectful gratitude and thankfulness for the warm approbation which the work has received from so many distinguished prelates. A few of these approbations will be found at the commencement of the volume--it was impossible to find space for all. It may be, however, well to observe, that several of the English Catholic bishops have not been less kind and earnest in their commendations, though I have not asked their permission to publish their communications. Some extracts are given from the reviews, which also are necessarily condensed and limited; and, as the Most Rev. Dr. Derry has observed, the press has been most favorable in its criticisms. Even those who differed from the present writer _toto coelo_, both in religion and politics, have not been less commendatory, and, in some instances, have shown the writer more than ordinary courtesy.