A GENERAL HISTORY O F IRELAND, FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE CLOSE of the TWELFTH CENTURY. COLLECTED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC AUTHENTIC RECORDS. IN WHICH New and interesting Lights are thrown on the remote Hiftories of other BY Mr. O'HALLORAN, Author of an Introduction to the History and Antiquities of Ireland. Printed for the AUTHOR, by A. HAMILTON: And fold by G. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter-Row; J.MURRAY, N° 32, Fleet-street; J. ROBSON, MDCCLXXVIII. Laogaire elected emperor-fuccessfully invades Britain-attacks the Lagenians; is defeated and taken prisoner-released on conditions which he refuses to obferve-new fettlements of the Heberians in Leinster-of the religion of the Druids, and its effects on the morals of the people—the first introduction of Christianity into Ireland, not from Rome, but Afia or Africa-the flourishing ftate of the Irish church before the landing of Patrick. IM MMEDIATELY after the interment of Daithi, the estates were convened to elect a fucceffor; and Laogaire, fon to the renowned hero Niall, and governor of Tara in his father's reign, was unanimoufly called to the monarchy. Acting under the late emperor Daithi, the prefent prince, in conjunction with the Saxons and Armoricans, or maritime ftates of the continentto wit, the people of Flanders, Picardy, Normandy, and Brittany-had the honour of difplaying the banners of Ireland, and VOL. II. B pro A.C. 428 |