Excerpt from The Romance of Irish Heroine The want of combination under one central head, or in one place, made it easy for the English to keep their foot hold in Ireland. But the English conquest of Ireland was a very slow business. It was no definite and dateable event, like the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The establishment of English rule was left to private adventurers, whose rewards were the spoils of the vanquished. T here was no wedding of a King of England with an Irish princess, like the marriage of the Conqueror's son, Henry I., with the heiress of the rights of the Saxon, Edgar Atheling. Eva macmurrough, who married Strongbow, had no rights according to Irish law, and Strongbow had none from the King of England. Indeed, Henry II. Discountenanced him, and came over himself to receive the submission of the Irish Kings, which was given only by some of them. English and Irish never amalgamated as did Saxon and Norman. 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.