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The History of Ulster
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ramsay Colles (1919)

TO THE MEMORY OF
THREE IRISH HISTORIANS

WHOM IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO
'ENTER ON MY LIST OF FRIENDS'

WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY

PATRICK WESTON JOYCE

JOHN T. GILBERT

WISHING THAT WHAT I WRITE
MAY BE READ IN [THEIR] LIGHT'

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

No apology is required for producing a history of Ulster planned on a scale sufficiently liberal to allow of a thorough treatment of the subject. The Province's magnificent record and the greatness of her achievements in so many spheres of activity have long clamoured for such a work; and it is in answer to the call that the present History of Ulster is now published.

The work was begun and was far advanced towards completion before the war. After the outbreak of hostilities, the issue was necessarily postponed and preparation for it interrupted. Just as this long period of enforced delay was drawing to a close, the gifted author's death occurred. It is matter for deep regret that he should have been deprived of the legitimate satisfaction of seeing the publication of the work which he had undertaken with enthusiasm and to which he had devoted years of zealous labour. It has been left to another pen than his to record, as a fitting close to her story, the honourable part which, true to her traditions, Ulster has played in the momentous struggle for the liberty of, the world.

CONTENTS

Volume I

  1. The Early Irish

  2. Religion and Law in Early Ireland

  3. The Mission of St. Columba

  4. The Scandinavian Scourge

  5. Change and Decay

  6. The Betrayal of Ireland

  7. The Anglo-Norman Invasion

  8. King Henry in Ireland

  9. The Earldom of Ulster

  10. King John in Ulster

  11. Ulster and the Bruce Invasion

  12. Ulster Independent

  13. O'Neill, Prince of Ulster

  14. An Able Viceroy

  15. The New Legislation

  16. Progress of Ulster

  17. The Geraldine Revolt

  18. The Submission of Ulster

  19. The Policy of Conciliation

  20. The Religious Element

  21. Bad Money and Misery

  22. The Scots in Ulster

  23. Shane O'Neill and the Crown

  24. O'Neill the Great visits Elizabeth

  25. Shane again in Ulster

  26. Sussex v. Shane

  27. Sir Henry Sidney and Shane O'Neill

  28. Death of Shane O'Neill

  29. Attempted Plantation

  30. Essex in Ulster

  31. "Scotching" the Scot

  32. The New Earl of Tyrone

  33. State of Ulster: Civil and Military

Volume II

  1. Martial Law in Ulster

  2. "Coming Events——"

  3. Tyrone becomes "The O'Neill"

  4. Wars and Rumours of War

  5. Tyrone proclaimed Traitor

  6. Negotiations ad nauseam!

  7. Tyrone's Catholic Crusade

  8. "The Tide of Battle"

  9. Tyrone in the Ascendant

  10. After the Battle of the Yellow Ford

  11. "The Real King of Ireland"

  12. The Errors of Essex

  13. The Downfall of Essex

  14. Mountjoy's Methods

  15. The Turn of the Tide

  16. A Spanish Invasion

  17. The Siege of Kinsale

  18. Tyrone Submits: Death of Elizabeth

  19. King James and his Irish Subjects

  20. The Flight of the Earls

  21. Some Results of the Flight

  22. The O'Dogherty Insurrection

  23. The O'Dogherty Defeat

  24. The Plantation of Ulster

  25. The Progress of the Plantation

  26. A Precedent for Parliaments

  27. The Romanists Remonstrate

  28. Tyrone and Tirconnell Attainted

  29. Chichester Retires

  30. The Closing Years of James's Reign

  31. Charles I and the Three Graces

  32. "Like Master, like Man"

  33. The Wiles of Wentworth

  34. The Scottish Scare

Volume III

I. The Mutterings of the Approaching Storm
II. The Bursting of the Storm-cloud
III. The Horrors of Civil War
IV. The Fortunes of War
V. The Triumphs of Tichborne
VI. The Scots Army in Ulster
VII. King Charles and the Confederates
VIII. Castlehaven's Invasion of Ulster
IX. Glamorgan and the Great Seal
X. The Battle of Benburb
XI. O'Neill and his Ulstermen in Leinster
XII. Defeat of the Royalists
XIII. Oliver Cromwell, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
XIV. Cromwell's Campaign in Ulster
XV. The Last Efforts of Ulster
XVI. Charles II repudiates the Peace
XVII. Close of the Cromwellian Campaign
XVIII. A "Wild and Woeful Land"
XIX. The Cromwellian Settlement
XX. The Restoration
XXI. "New Presbyter" and "Old Priest"
XXII. The Arts of Peace in Ulster
XXIII. "The Old Order Changeth"
XXIV. Tyrconnell, Lord of Misrule
XXV. Londonderry and Enniskillen Revolt
XXVI. The Brave Inniskillings
XXVII. King James in Ulster
XXVIII. The Siege of Londonderry
XXIX. The Siege of Londonderry (Cont)
XXX. The Siege of Londonderry (Cont)

Volume IV

I. The Relief of Londonderry
II. The Inniskillings
III. Arrival of Schomberg
IV. Schomberg commences his Campaign
V. An Inactive Army
VI. King William in Ulster
VII. The Battle of the Boyne
VIII. After the Battle
IX. The New Life
X. Linen and Latitudinarianism
XI. Unhappiness and Halfpence
XII. French Attack on Carrickfergus
XIII. The Ulster Volunteers
XIV. The Volunteer Movement
XV. Defeat of the Volunteers
XVI. Coercion and Conciliation
XVII. The Rebellion of 1798
XVIII. The Insurrectionary Counties: Antrim and Down
XIX. Insurrectionary and Legitimate Fights for Independence
XX. After the Union
XXI. Catholic Emancipation
XXII. Reforms in State and Church
XXIII. Early Victorian Years
XXIV. "The Ulster Custom"
XXV. First Home Rule Bill
XXVI. The Second Home Rule Bill
XXVII. Sir Edward Carson and the Covenant
Ulster in the War

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