Chapter D

Danaans, tribe of, 8 Danes, 53 Danes, Dublin, 67 Danes of Limerick, 58-61 Dangen, ancient name of Phillipstown, 162 Dashda, or Druid chieftain, 53 Davis, John, Sir, 95-117; he is elected Speaker, 227; quarrel which followed, 227, 228 Davis, Thomas (poet), 290 Davitt, Michael, Mr., 409 Declaration of Rights by Grattan, 320 Declaratory, Act of George I., 322 "Defenders," Association of, 345 Delvin, Lord, 191 Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster, 83 Derry, town of, 171 Desmond, Earl of, taken to London, 176; vacillates about rebelling, 185; his death, 192 Desmond-Sugane or Straw, Earl of, 200 Dillon, Mr., 391 Donald, Chief of Ossory, 90 Donegal, chapels in, 43 Donore, hill of, 280 Douchad, son of O'Brien, 74. Dowdal, Archbishop of Armagh, 159 Downpatrick, town of, 99 Drapier Papers by Swift, 317 Drogheda, Parliament of, 138 Drogheda, taken by Cromwell, 261 Dublin Castle, 240; plot to seize it, 241; frustrated, 242 Dublin, Philosophical Association of, 311 Dublin, Society of, 311 Duffy, Sir Charles Gavin, 390 Dundalk, battle of, 110 Dungannon, Matthew, Baron of, 165 Dunsany, Lord, 247

E

Edgecombe, Sir Edward, 135
Edward, I., 107
Edward II., 108;
Battle of Bannockburn, 108
Edward III., 113;
he summons landowners, 114;
appoints Lionel, Duke of Clarence, viceroy, 114;
Statute of Kilkenny is passed, 115
Elizabeth, Queen, 165;
entertains Shane O'Neill at Court, 68;
account of his visit, 168;
Ireland during her reign, 171-172
Emmett, Robert, 376
Emmett, Thomas Addis, 354
Encumbered Estate Court, 400
Enniskillen, town of, 247
Eochaidh king, tale of, 35
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 206;
take the command in Ireland, 208;
proceeds against Tyrone, 208;
his disasters, 208;
takes Cahir Castle, 208;
meets Lugane Earl, 208;
meets Tyrone at Lagan, 209;
returns to England, 210
Eva, daughter of Dermot, 86
Everard, Sir John, 227, 228

F

Falkland, Lord, 231 Famine, the first symptoms of, 96; great distress, 397; Mr. Forster reports, 397; Relief Act passed, 399; the ruin which followed it, 400; after effects, 403 Fedlim O'Connor, king of Connaught, 108 Fenian prisoners, rescue of, at Manchester, 405 Fenian rising, 401 Fenni or Fenians, II Fercal, tribes of, 161 Ferns, town of, 83 Finn, McCumal, 14 Finn or Fingal, father of Ossian, 11 Finvarragh, king of the fairies, 21 Firbolgs, race of, 6 Fitton, Sir Edward, 176 Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 354-359 Fitzgerald, Maurice, 83 Fitzgerald, Mr., member for Clare, 380 Fitzgerald, Raymond (le Gros), 85 Fitzgerald, Sir James, 191 Fitzgerald, Sir John, 191 FitzHenry, Robert and Meiler, sons of Nesta, 76 Fitzmaurice, Lady, 188 Fitzmaurice of Lexnaw, 111 Fitzmaurice, Sir James, 178; breaks into rebellion, 178; relations between him and Sir James Perrot, 179; burns Kilmallock 179; marches into Ulster, 179; burns Athlone, 179; joins the Mac-an-Earlas, 180; lays Galway waste, 180; crosses the Shannon, 180; surrenders and takes the required oaths at Kilmallock, 180; sails to France, 180; returns, 184; his death, 187 Fitzsimons, Walter, Archbishop of Dublin, 137 FitzStephen, Robert, 83 FitzUrse of Louth, 111 Fitzwilliam, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant, 349-350 Fitzwilliam, Sir William, Lord-deputy, 199 Flood, Rt. Hon. Henry, 323 Foltlebar and Feradach, Legends, 16 Formorians, race of, 5 Forster, Mr. W.E., 397 Forty-shilling Freeholders, Bill of, 349 "Four Masters," the annals of the, 9 Foyle, Lough, 165 _Freeman's Journal_, 322 Fuidhar, or "broken man," 28

G

Gall (Saint), 36
Galway, bay and town of, 104
Galway, Jury of, 247
George, Duke of Clarence, 129
Gerald de Barri, Gerald of Wales, or Giraldus Cambrensis, 78;
grandson of Nesta, 78;
priest and chronicler, 78;
his character as a writer, 78
Gerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, son of Geroit Mor, 130
Gerald of Windsor, husband to Nesta, 76
Geraldines, 101;
Giraldus' opinion of them, 101;
ancestors of Earls Kildare and Desmond, 102;
important position, 102;
their keep at Maynooth, 102;
power in Ireland, 102;
Geroit Mor, or Gerald the Great, 7th Earl of Kildare, 130
Gilbert, Sir Humphry, 179
Gilla Dacker and his horse, legend of, 14
Ginkel, Dutch general of William III., 291
Gladstone, Mr. W.E., 406;
disestablished the Irish Church, 406;
introduced Irish Land Act of 1870, 407;
of 1881, 409;
imprisoned members of Land League, 411;
proposed measure of Home Rule of 1886, 414
Glenmama near Dunlaven, 68
Godred, King of Man, 87
Gormanstown, Lord, 249
Granard, Lord Justice, 280
Grattan, Henry, 328;
his loyalty and patriotism, 328;
he enters Parliament, 330;
his eloquence, 330;
Declaration of Rights, 330;
retires into private life, 332;
protests against the Union, 332;
member of English Parliament, 332;
his death and burial, 333
"Great Darcy of Platten," 132
Gregory, Pope, 44
Grey, de Wilton, Lord-deputy, 189
Grey, Leonard, Lord, Deputy, 151, 152
Griffiths, Sir Richard, Irish geologist, 312

H

Habeas Corpus Act, 351 Hadrian IV., Pope, 81 Hamilton, Sir Richard, 282 Harcourt, Lord, 325 Hardi, French General, 365 Harvey, Bagenal, United Irishman and general of the rebels, 363 Hasculph, Danish Governor, 86-87 Hatton, Sir Christopher, "an Undertaker," 194 Heber and Heremon, sons of Milesius, 10 Hoadly, Archbishop of Armagh, 320 Hoche, General, 355 _Hoche_, vessel called the, 365 Home Rule, the question of, 44 Howth, Earl of, 134, 136 Humbert, French general, 364 Hy-Nial, or royal house of O'Neil, 42, 52