The History of Ireland

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THOMAS BOYSE,

OF BANNOW,

THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED,

HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,

THOMAS MOORE.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

München

BY THE PUBLISHERS.

In presenting to the Public the last volume of this work, the Publishers avail themselves of the opportunity of a few prefatory words to explain the circumstances under which it was undertaken. When the Cabinet Cyclopædia was commenced, it was intended that the series of works it was meant to contain should begin with the History of England, in three volumes, by Sir James Mackintosh; to be followed by a History of Scotland, in two volumes, by Sir Walter Scott; and then by a brief account of Ireland, in one volume, by Mr. Thomas Moore.

The work of Sir Walter was despatched at once; Sir James Mackintosh had published three volumes of his England when he was snatched away by death; and the four volumes of the History of

Ireland completes the whole Series of the Cabinet

Cyclopædia.

On considering the nature of the work they had undertaken, the Publishers were not long in adopting the conviction that a History of modern Ireland was but little wanted; that already, in all the popular Histories of England, ample summaries of Irish affairs are to be found; and that, by writers such as Hume, Lingard, and Hallam, no event of any importance in Ireland's modern History has been left uncommemorated. A "History of Ireland," therefore, "from the earliest kings of that realm down to its last chief," occupying, as it does, ground hitherto untrodden, will, it is hoped, fill up a vacuum long felt to exist, and be found not the least interesting work in the Historical Series of the Cabinet Cyclopædia.

Paternoster Row, June, 1846.

ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL

TABLE

OF THE

HISTORY OF IRELAND.

VOL. IV.

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