Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Irish nationalist exile and later a father of Canadian Confederation, tells Ireland’s story from its first inhabitants and the coming of Christianity, the high kings and the schools of the saints, through the Norse and Norman invasions, the Tudor and Cromwellian conquests and the penal laws, to the emancipation of the Catholics.
A sweeping nineteenth-century national history written from an Irish Catholic point of view. Download the free EPUB.