OF ULSTER A BRIEF RELATION OF THE EVENTS OF ONE OF THE MOST STIRRING AND MOMENTOUS ERAS IN THE ANNALS OF IRELAND BY RICHARD CUNINGHAME DUBLIN HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., LTD. PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., LTD. 1904 Social condition of Ireland at the close of the sixteenth PAGES I-20 Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, known among his clans- 21-26 Hugh Roe O'Donnel-Regarded as the hope of Ireland- Deemed to be the destined deliverer of Erin-Kid- O'Donnel again in bonds Tyrone drifting into rebellion-Virtually champion of the Church of Rome-Had not always been so devoted to the Church-A letter intercepted in which he and Hugh Roe O'Donnel tell the King of Spain, “Our Connaught largely favourable to the rebellion-Leinster disaffected to the Crown-Munster at heart revolu- |