Excerpt from The History of Ireland, Vol. 2: Containing the First Book of the History From Sect. XV to the End These volumes are issued at a time when the Irish text they contain will have a far larger circle of readers than they would have had at any time during the past hundred years. The work, too, is one of great and many-sided interest. It is of interest to the historian, the antiquarian, the ethnologist, the philologist, the litteratmr. In some Of the byways of Irish history, it is our only source of information. It is a store house Of excellent Irish prose, almost modern in style and language. The second book, which is contained in the second Of the volumes now issued, giving the History of Ireland from the coming of St. Patrick to the Norman Invasion, is as interesting as a fairy tale. 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.