HOLY ISLAND, LOUGH DERG. MAP OF IRELAND IN REIGN OF HENRY VII. CROSS IN CEMETERY OF TEMPUL BRECCAN. WEST CROSS, MONASTERBOICE. DOORWAY OF MAGHERA CHURCH. KILBANNON TOWER. KELLS ROUND TOWER. BASE OF TUAM CROSS. DOORWAY OF KILLESHIN CHURCH. INTERIOR OF CORMAC'S CHAPEL (CASHEL). WEST FRONT OF ST. CRONAN'S CHURCH. WEST DOORWAY OF FRESHFORD CHURCH. SIR HENRY SIDNEY (PORTRAIT OF). ASKEATON CASTLE. CATHERINE, THE "OLD" COUNTESS OF DESMOND. SIR JOHN PERROT (PORTRAIT OF). CAHIR CASTLE (IN 1599). CAPTURE OF THE EARL OF ORMOND BY THE O'MORES. IRELAND IN THE REIGN OF JAMES I. THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD, 1641. ARCHBISHOP USSHER (PORTRAIT OF). JAMES, DUKE OF ORMOND (PORTRAIT OF). HENRY CROMWELL (PORTRAIT OF). "TIGER" ROCHE. DEAN SWIFT (PORTRAIT OF). PHILIP, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (PORTRAIT OF). RIGHT HON. HENRY FLOOD (PORTRAIT OF). RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN, M.P. (PORTRAIT OF). JAMES CAULFIELD, EARL OF CHARLEMONT (PORTRAIT OF). RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE (PORTRAIT OF). THE EARL OF MOIRA ("A MAN OF IMPORTANCE"). RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE (SKETCH FROM LIFE). THEOBALD WOLFE TONE (PORTRAIT OF). LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD (PORTRAIT OF). THE FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN. MARQUIS CORNWALLIS (PORTRAIT OF). ROBERT EMMETT (PORTRAIT OF). DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P. (SKETCH OF). LESSER ILLUSTRATIONS (AT ENDS OF CHAPTERS). CROMLECH ON HOWTH. MOUTH OF SEPULCHRAL CHAMBER AT DOWTH. ST. KEVIN'S CHURCH. CORMAC'S CHAPEL AND ROUND TOWER. ROUND TOWER AT DEVENISH. SOUTH WINDOW OF ST. CAEMIN'S CHURCH. FIGURES ON KILCARN FONT. TRIM CASTLE. FIGURES ON KILCARN FONT. INITIAL LETTER (FROM THE BOOK OF KELLS). ST. PATRICK'S BELL. INITIAL LETTER (FROM THE BOOK OF KELLS). CINERARY URN. TARA BROOCH. DOORWAY OF ST. CAEMIN'S CHURCH. SHRINE OF ST. PATRICK'S BELL. ST. COLUMBA'S ORATORY. INITIAL LETTER (FROM THE BOOK OF KELLS). CRYPT OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL. THE STORY OF IRELAND. I. PRIMEVAL IRELAND. "It seems to be certain," says the Abbé McGeoghehan, "that Ireland continued uninhabited from the Creation to the Deluge." With this assurance to help us on our onward way I may venture to supplement it by saying that little is known about the first, or even about the second, third, and fourth succession of settlers in Ireland. At what precise period what is known as the Scoto-Celtic branch of the great Aryan stock broke away from its parent tree, by what route its migrants travelled, in what degree of consanguinity it stood to the equally Celtic race or races of Britain, what sort of people inhabited Ireland previous to the first Aryan invasion--all this is in the last degree uncertain, though that it was inhabited by some race or races outside the limits of that greatest of human groups seems from ethnological evidence to be perfectly clear.