Volume 1

The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie.

  • Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1825-1826
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Credit: The beauties of Ireland. Being original delineations, topographical, historical, and biographical, of each county / By J.N. Brewer. Illustrated with engravings, by J. & H.S. Storer, after original drawings, chiefly by Mr. Petrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his intention was ascertained. His subsequent intemperate con- duct, and death on the scaffold, are well known. Lord Mountjoy was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1600. His efforts were ably seconded by Sir George Carew, President of Munster; and, by a severe but skilful course of warfare, he eventually triumphed over that opposition with which Sir John Norris and the Earl of Essex had temporized. The success of these generals was, however, delayed by the landing of a Spanish force, commanded by Don Juan d’Aquila, in aid of O‘Nial. The Spaniards debarked in the south of Ireland, but at too late a period of the war to be serviceable to their friends. Their conduct displayed much bravery and a high sense of military honour; but, after several unavailing exertions, they abandoned the cause, and evacuated the country on stipulation. The remainder of the war consisted in a gradual pursuit of the enemy towards his strong hold in the north. In the prosecution ef this dreadful task, forts were reduced, and slaughter was — spread far and wide. Enclosed ‘by conquering troops in every direction, the wretched insurgents perished in great numbers, more dying through famine than by the sword. We hasten to the close of scenes so appalling.—O*Nial threw himself on the mercy of the queen, and his submission was accepted. He relinquished his princely name, with all its assumed authority 3 and it has been emphatically said that, shortly after his submission, ‘‘ no insurgent remained in the kingdom, who had not obtained or solicited mercy.” Thus terminated those contests between the natives* and the . * It may be necessary to observe that by the term “ Natives,’’ as connected with the internal wars of Ireland after the thirteenth century, we are not to understand the original Irish, exclusively. The English settlers, being chiefly private adventurers, when dispersed in parts of the country remote from the seat of government, found it to the advantage of _ their tranquillity to adopt the manners of the Irish, rather than to en- courage an imitation of their own. To the credit of the original Irish, whose warmth of hospitable kindness, in all stages of society, has never been called in question, they readily entered into friendly association with those who had obtained a settlement and accorded with their manners.