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his power--Despondency and death.
CHAPTER LVI.
"YOUNG IRELAND"
"The Nation"--Sir C. Gavan Duffy--Thomas Davis--Smith O'Brien--Effect of O'Connell's death on the "Young Ireland" party--James Lalor--His influence on Mitchell--The "United Irishmen" newspaper started--Arrest and transportation of Mitchell--The end of the "Young Ireland" movement.
CHAPTER LVII.
THE FAMINE
First symptoms of the potato disease--The fatal night--Beginning of Famine--Rapid mortality--Mr. Forster's reports--Relief works--Soup kitchens--Failure of preventive measures--Famine followed by ruin--Clearances and Emigration--Emigrant ships--Permanent effects of the Famine on Ireland.
CHAPTER LVIII.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT
Encumbered Estates Act--Tenant League of North and South--The "Brass Band"--A lull--The Phoenix organization--The Fenian "scare"--Rescue of Fenian prisoners at Manchester--The Clerkenwell explosion--The Irish Church Act--The Irish Land Act of 1870--Failure of Irish Education Act, and retirement of the Liberals--Mr. Butt and Mr. Parnell--The Land League established--Return of the Liberals to power--The Irish Land Act of 1881--Arrest and release of Land League Leaders--Murders in the Phoenix Park--James Carey--- His death--The agrarian struggle--Home Rule--Its eventual destiny--The untravelled Future.
CHAPTER LIX.
CONCLUSION
Irish heroes--Causes of their want of popularity--Irish versus Scotch heroes--"Prince Posterity".
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[Nearly all the archaeological illustrations in this volume are from "The Early Christian Architecture of Ireland," by Miss M. Stokes, who has kindly allowed them to be reproduced. The portraits are chiefly from engravings, &c., kept in the Prints Room of the British Museum.]
HOLY ISLAND, LOUGH DERG
MAP OF IRELAND IN REIGN OF HENRY VII
CROSS IN CEMETERY OF TEMPUL BRECCAN
INTERIOR OF CORMAC'S CHAPEL (CASHEL)
WEST FRONT OF ST. CRONAN'S CHURCH
WEST DOORWAY OF FRESHFORD CHURCH
SIR HENRY SIDNEY (PORTRAIT OF)
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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).
MOUTH OF SEPULCHRAL CHAMBER AT DOWTH
CORMAC'S CHAPEL AND ROUND TOWER