The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691

sent the readers of Irish history with a portable volume, which, while removing the necessity of wading through many tomes,

to antecedent causes and intermediate events, the book, though it should be acceptable to some, would be quite unsatisfactory to othe

mits assigned, such selections were made, from historians of every shade of opinion, as would suffice, without distortin

eligious aspect, it was chosen to leave the ethological bearing to other mediums, and confine this principally to the leading military events of the time. Hence, no allusi

e of Limerick; and he does so as well from motive as necessity, for he thinks that event could be more appropriately connected with a history of "The Briga