The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern - Martin Haverty

Excerpt from The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern: Derived From Our Native Annals, From the Most Recent Researches of Eminent Irish Scholars and Antiquaries, From the State Papers, and From All the Resources of Irish History Now Available; With Copious Topographical and General Notes
HE work here brought to a close was undertaken with a View to supply an impartial History of Ireland, according to the present advanced state of knowledge on the subject. The labors of such eminent Irish scholars as Dr. O'donovan and Professor Curry have opened to us new sources of information, and the researches of these and other learned and indefatigable investigators have, of late years, shed a ood of light upon our history and antiquities but the knowledge thus developed was still unavailable for the general public; and it remained to collect, in a popular form, materials scattered through the publications of learned societies, and the voluminous pages of our native annals; buried in collections of state papers, and in the correspondence of statesmen; or concealed from the world in the government archives. We have been enabled to avail ourselves of a mass of important original documents derived from the last-mentioned source; but with what success the task of converting all these copious materials to the object of producing a popular History of Ireland has been performed in the present volume, the reader must judge: we can only say that no pains have been spared to accomplish it conscientiously.
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