The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People (55 page)

Irish Sea

Irish Tenant League

Irish Times
(newspaper)

Irish Trades’ Union Congress

Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU)

Irish Transvaal Committee

Irish unity

Irish Volunteers

see also
Cumann na mBan; National Volunteers

Irish wolf

Islandmagee

Italian troops

Jackson, Andrew

Jacobites

James I

James II

Jameson Raid

Jamestown, North Virginia

Jarrow monastery

Jesuits

Jesus

jewellery, bronze age

Jews

Johannesburg

John, King of England

John XXII, Pope

John XXIII, Pope

Johnston, Denis

Joyce, James

Kavanagh, Patrick

Keane, Eamonn

Keating, Séan

Kells, Book of

Kelly, Jerome

Kelly, Ned x

Kelly, Tom

Kennedy, John F.

Kildare monastery

Kilkenny

Statutes of

Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin

Easter Rising executions

Kilmichael ambush

Kilwarden, Lord

King, Martin Luther

Kinsale

battle of

Knights of the Red Branch

Knowth passage tombs

Kruger, President

Labour government (British)

labour movement

British

Irish

Labour Party (Irish)

Labourers, Statute of 1351

Ladysmith

Laigin

Lancaster, House of

Land Acts

land annuities

land nationalization

land reform

Land War

landlords

Laoghaire (Lóegaire)

Larkin, James

Latin

Laudabiliter

law

Law, Andrew Bonar

lawlessness

Lawrence, Sir Thomas

Lawyers’ Artillery Corps

Leabhar Gabhaile (Book of Invasions)

Leader
(publication)

Lebor Gabála Érenn
(‘Book of the Taking of Ireland’)

Leinster

Lemass, Séan

Letter to the People of Ireland
(O’Connell)

Libau
(German vessel)

Liberal government

Liberal Party

life expectancy

Liffey river

Limerick

Limerick, Treaty of

Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne monastery

linen

Lismore

literature

Liverpool

Lloyd George, David

lock-outs

London

direct rule of Northern Ireland

Fenian Bombings of

guilds

IRA bombings

society

strikes

and the Troubles

Londonderry

Londonderry, Lord

Londonderry cathedral

Longford

Longley, Michael xxi

Loughgall

Louis VII of France

loyalists

Luftwaffe

Luxeuil monastery

M62 coach bombing

MacBride, John

MacBride, Séan

MacDonagh, Thomas

MacDonnell clan

Macha

Maclise, Daniel

MacManus, Terence

MacNeice, Louis

MacNeill, Eoin

Máel Seachnaill

Maelmordha MacMurchada

Magdalen laundries

Magee, John

Magersfontein

Magna Carta

Major, John

Malachy, St

Mallow

Manchester Martyrs

Mansion House, Dublin

Manx mercenaries

maritime trade ix–x

Markiewicz, Constance

marriage

‘marriage bar’

Martyn, Edward

Marx, Karl

Mary I

Mary II

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary of Modena

Masonic lodges

mass political movements

Mathgamain

Matilda

Maxwell, Sir John

Mayflower
(ship)

Maynooth

Maynooth seminary

Maze prison

McGuinness, Martin

McQuaid, Archbishop John Charles

Meath

Medb of Connacht

Medieval Warm Period

megaliths

Melodies
(Moore)

Melville, Herman

mercenaries

mesolithic peoples

Milesians of Iberia

militia bill

Milton, John

missionaries

Mitchel, John

Moira, Lord

Monaghan

monasteries

Irish

stripped of power

Tudor grip on

Viking attacks on

warfare between

writings

Irish export model

monks

Monster Meetings

Montgomery, Hugh

Moore, Thomas

Mór

Moran, D.P.

Mozambique

Muirchú

Mullingar

Municipal Corporations Act 1840

Munster

and the 1641 rebellion

and the Rockite uprising

survey and Plantation of

Munster uprising

First 1569–73

Second 1579–83

Third

Murchad

Murphy, William Martin

Museum of Science and Art

music

myth

of the Battle of the Boyne

Christian

of Gaelic Ireland

of Hugh O’Neill

of origin

Nantes

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleonic Wars

Natal

Nation
(Young Ireland newspaper)

national anthems

National Brotherhood of St Patrick

National Council

national cultural institutions

National Gallery, Dublin

National Land League

National Library, Dublin

National Museum

National Volunteers

Nazi atrocities

New Ireland Forum

New Model Army

New Ross

New York

New York Times

New Zealand

Newfoundland

Newgrange passage tombs ix

News Letter
(newspaper)

Niagara

Ninian, St

Noah

non-white population

Normandy

Normandy landings

Normans

see also
Anglo Normans

Norse Thing, Dublin

North America

see also
United States

North Cork militia

Northern Ireland

and the post-war Atlee government

and the Anglo–Irish Agreement

and the Belfast Agreement

British support of

and the civil war

contemporary

economy

education

housing shortages

under James Craig

law and order

and the Second World War

and the Troubles

Northern Ireland government

Northern Ireland Labour Party

Northern Ireland parliament

Northern Star
(Society of United Irishmen publication)

Norway

oat crop

O’Brien, Edna

O’Brien, Flann (Brian O’Nolan)

O’Brien, Kate

O’Casey, Seán

O’Connell, Daniel

Sackville Street monument

O’Connell, Morgan

O’Connor, Frank

O’Connor clan

O’Donnell, Peadar

O’Donnell clan

O’Duffy, Eoin

O’Faoláin, Sean

O’Farrell, Elizabeth

Offences Against the State Act 1939

O’Grady, Standish James

O’Higgins, Kevin

Olaf, King of Dublin

Old English community

Old Testament

Omagh

O’More clan

O’Neill, Hugh, Second Earl of Tyrone

O’Neill, Owen Roe

O’Neill, Terence

O’Neill clan

O’Neills of Clandeboye

oral tradition

Orange Free State

Orange Order

and Catholic emancipation

formation

and Gladstone

and the Land League

‘ordained by God’

ordnance survey of Ireland 1824

Ormond, earls of

O’Shea, Katharine

O’Shea, Captain William

Oxmantown

Pacific War

pagans

Paisley, Ian

Pale

Palladius, First Bishop of Ireland

papacy

papism

see also
anti-papism

Paris

Parliament House, Dublin

Parnell, Charles Stewart

partition

Patrick, Saint

pax britannica

Pearl Harbour

Pearse, Patrick

peasant tenant farmers

become owner-occupiers

security of tenure

Peel, Sir Robert

Peel administration

Peep O’Day Boys

Pelagian heresy

penal laws

penance

Peninsular War

pensions

People’s Democracy (PD)

peregrinari

Peter’s Pence (tithe)

Philadelphia

Philip II of Spain

Philip III of Spain

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Picts

Pike Theatre, Dublin

‘pitch-capping’

Pitt, William

Plantation of the counties

Plunkett, Joseph

poet class (
filid
)

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Poor Law

popular protest

see also
mass political movements

population explosion

Portadown

Portugal

potato blight (
Phytophthora infestans
)

potato crop

failure 1822

Potato Famine 1844-48

aftermath

aid

blamed on the British

death toll

and the Fenian movement

and migration

poverty

Poynings, Sir Edward

Poynings’ Law 1494

Presbyterians

see also
Dissenters

Price, Elizabeth

Prosper of Aquitaine, St

Protestant Church of Ireland

Protestant colonists

Protestantism

Protestants

see also
Irish Protestants

provinces

Provisional IRA

Prussia

Ptolemy

public morality

Public Records Office, Dublin

public works programmes

Pugin, Edward Welby

Puritans

Pythias of Massilia

Quakers

Quebec

Queen’s Colleges

Queen’s University (formerly College), Belfast

racism

Raj

Raleigh, Walter

Ranelagh

Rathlin Island

Rathlin monastery

Rathmullan

Reagan administration

Real IRA

Redmond, John

Reform Bill 1832

Reformation

relics

Remonstrance of the Princes

resistance, passive

Revolutionary War

Reynolds, Lillie

Ribbonmen

Richard de Clare, Second Earl of Pembroke (Strongbow)

Richard II

Rinuccini, Giovanni Battista

Robert Bruce

Robin Hood

Robinson, Mary

Robinson, Peter

Rockite uprising

Roman Empire

Romans

Rome

England’s breach with

Rory O’Connor of Connacht

Roscomoon

Rosebery, Lord

Roses, wars of the

Royal Dublin Society

Royal Irish Academy

Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)

Royal Navy

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)

Royalists

Russell, Lord

Russia

Ryan Report 2009

St Bartholomew’s Day massacre

St Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh

St Gallen monastery

St Leger, Sir Anthony

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

St Peter’s church massacre

St Stephen’s Green, Dublin

Salisbury, Lord

Samuel, Book of

Sandel, Mount

Sands, Bobby

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Scandinavia

Scattery Island monastery

science

Scotland

and the Book of Common Prayer

England–Scotland Union 1707

formation

invasion of Ireland 1315

Scots–Irish

Scott, Sir Walter

Scottish settlements in Ireland

Scullabogue

Second World War

Irish neutrality

secret ballot

sectarianism

segregation

self-sufficiency

seminarians

Senate

‘separation women’

serfs

‘servitors’

Seven Years’ War 1756-63

Shannon river

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheehy, Rev. J. S.

Siemens

Sigerdsson, Jon

Simnel, Lambert

Simpson, Alan

single mothers

Sinn Féin ix

and the Anglo–Irish Agreement

by-election victories 1917

foundation

and the Troubles

Sitric Silkbeard

Skellig Michael monastery

Skibbereen

slave trade

Smerwick

smuggling

Smuts, Jan

social class

Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)

socialism

Society of United Irishmen

Soloheadbeg ambush 1919

Somerville, Edith

Somme, battle of the

soup kitchens

South Africa

Union of

see also
Boer Wars

South African Confederation Bill

South Tyrone

Soyer, Alexis

Spain

Spanish Armada

Spanish civil war

Spectator
(newspaper)

Spenser, Edmund

‘Squad’

Stalingrad

Stephens, James

Stewart, Commodore Charles

Stoke Field, battle of

Stormberg

strikes

Stuart dynasty

suffrage

suffragettes

Sunningdale Agreement 1973

‘surrender and regrant’ policy

Swedish army

Swift, Carolyn

Swift, Jonathan