Excerpt from History of Ireland: From the Anglo-Norman Invasion Till the Union of the Country With Great Britain The prospects of the royalists at this time were very encouraging. The parliamentarians retained possession only of Derry and Dublin. With some ad jacent posts. Sir Charles Coote, the governor of Derry, was ready to engage With that party which had the fairest prospect of success and a great num ber of the officers and soldiers in Dublin were well disposed to join Ormond, their ancient leader. One brief but vigorous effort would have saved Ireland but those who wielded the destinies of the country were destitute of vigour or exertion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.