Excerpt from The History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing Also a Statistical and Geographical Account of That Kingdom; Forming Together a Complete View of Its Past and Present State, Under Its Political, Civil, Literary, and Commercial Relations IT must' surely have excited s'urprize in the minds of many readers, that while we have histories of Greece, Rome, and England, adapted to popular use, no attempt has been. 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.