* Abbreviations: It is only the less obvious Abbreviations employed in this Work, and which might not be intelligible to the general reader, that are here given. ᎾᎡ, THE ORIGIN AND STEM OF THE IRISH NATION. BY JOHN O'HART, ASSOCIATE IN ARTS, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY IN IRELAND; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL OF THE HARLEIAN SOCIETY, LONDON; AUTHOR OF "" IRISH LANDED GENTRY WHEN CROMWELL CAME TO "Where are the heroes of the ages past? Where the brave chieftains, where the mighty ones All to the grave gone down." -HENRY KIRKE WHITE. EMERSON. "Man is but the sum of his Ancestors." Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Richard Oulahan, of FIFTH EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. IL JAMES DUBLIN: DUFFY AND CO., LIMITED, LONDON BURNS & OATES (LTD.), 28 ORCHARD STREET, W. NEW YORK: BENZIGER BROTHERS, 36 & 38 BARCLAY STREET. 1892. All Rights Reserved. Cs 483 036 1892 v. 2 ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL. DUBLIN PRINTED BY EDMUND BURKE AND Co., 61 & 62 GREAT STRAND STREET. To GEORGE WILLIAM CHILDS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, AMERICA, The UNOSTENTATIOUS FRIEND OF THE SICK AND SUFFERING; OF THOSE BOWED DOWN WITH BUSINESS DISTRESS; OF THE STRICKEN AUTHOR; OF THE STRUGGLING ARTIST; OF THE POOR CLERGYMAN; OF THE INDIGENT STUDENT STRIVING FOR AN EDUCATION; OF HER WHO IS BEREAVED OF HER ALL; OF THOSE WHO FOR THE FIRST TIME HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FACE TO FACE WITH POVERTY AND CALAMITY, AND WHO, NURTURED IN THE LAP OF WEALTH, HAVE BEEN SUDDENLY FORCED TO ENCOUNTER LIFE IN A FORM SO APPALLING AS TO BE BUT FAINTLY REALIZED BY THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MORE OR LESS USED TO ADVERSITY: |