An Essay On The

Ancient and Modern State

Of Ireland

With the Various Important Advantages

Thereunto Derived,

under the auspicious Reign of His most sacred Majesty

King GEORGE the Second.

Including a particular Account

of the great and glorious

St. Patrick

By

Henry Brooke

Dublin: Printed

London: Re-Printed

for R. Griffiths.

MDCCLX.

CONTENTS

Dedication. Essay. The Farmer's Case Of The Roman-Catholics Of _Ireland_. Footnotes

DEDICATION.

TO

MATTHEW MC. NAMARA,

Of _LIMERICK_, Esq;

COUNSELLOR at LAW.

Justly sensible, Sir, how sincerely You have the Character and Esteem of our Native Country at Heart, I take Leave to offer to Your Perusal, and commend to Your favourable Acceptance, the following Sheets.

What gave them Rise, was my happening, some Time since, to have fallen into Company with two or three sprightly young Gentlemen, then just returned from their Continental Rambles,--who--altho' little burthened with the Religion, Laws, Learning, Policy, Customs, Habits, Manners, or Languages of any, or the several Countries they had scampered thro', affected, nevertheless, an high Contempt for this,--their Native.

I listened with silent Indignation, and determined to contribute my Mite towards giving such unattentive, uninformed Youths, a more adequate Idea of this Kingdom, under its ancient and under its present happy Establishment.

The common Accidents of Time must lead them by better Authority to clearer Knowledge: In the mean while, I profess my Obligations to them, as they have given me this Opportunity of declaring my Regard to my Country in general, and the particular Attachments that ever bind me, in the strictest Sense of Fidelity and Esteem, to a Friend so worthy as You have been to,

Sir, Your very obliged, and Most obedient Servant.

ESSAY.

In a Nation, where almost every Gentleman is better acquainted, and more conversant, with the Nature and Circumstances of other Countries than those of his own, the Publication of such Hints as may somewhat contribute to remove so odd an Inattention, and induce those far better qualified to render a Subject so interesting some Justice, will not, I hope, be deemed an Impertinence; in one especially who, by this Essay, however feeble, hath nothing beside the Honour and Advantage of _Ireland_ in View, a Kingdom whereof he is, without Vanity, proud of being a Native.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Irelan
• 2: This antient Colony quietly settled here
• 3: The Historian and Annalist recorded the Institutions
• 4: Fiechry was Founder of the University in Paris
• 5: Upon which Palladius left the Kingdom
• 6: Making an Inroad into Aremorick Gaul
• 7: Called after him Inis Phadring
• 8: Which altho' eight Miles distant from Tarah
• 9: They were ordained by Lughaid
• 10: Hercules and Thesaeus waged War against those Heroines
• 11: By the Consent of King Tirdelvac
• 12: Namaras 2 Duke of Klan Cullane
• 13: Of the antient and hospitable Family
• 14: Represented by Edmund O Hogan
• 15: Consort of Charles the Sixth
• 16: To pave the Way to real Forfeitures
• 17: Whom their Ringleader Cromwell
• 18: For the Catholicks of Ireland
• 19: That dispossessing the Adherents of Oliver
• 20: Mac en Crow gives the following concise
• 21: Munificently rewarding their Countrymen
• 22: To the persuasive Charities of this tuneful Society
• 23: Our publick Entertainments of various Kinds are
• 24: And the famous Messieurs Dufresne
• 25: Our Bench is adorned with Honourable Personages
• 26: Into the temporal Futurity of those
• 27: In natural and experimental Philosophy
• 28: As is equal to that of two Bullocks
• 29: Charitable and hospitable Disposition of its Inhabitants
• 30: Had been enacted by our Ancestors
• 31: But I held a Popish People to be
• 32: You must change that Enmity into Friendship
• 33: In an uninterrupted Loyalty and Submission to Government
• 34: The Case of the Roman Catholics