HISTORY. For the early history Gf Ireland the most valuable sources have been published by the Irish Record Commis-ion (Lund on, - W.) The best books on the early period are: Joyce, 1 ,short History of Ireland to IGOS (5th ed., London. ISM;) s Zinintern. The Irish Elen(cnt in .11ediaTal Culture, trans. by Edmands (New York, 1891). Other material is in the Calendar of State I'apers fur Ireland, which at present extends to the end of the reign of Charles 1. Consult also Patent and Close Rolls of the Irish Chancery. Henry 1111. to Charles 1.. ed. by Alorrin (Dublin, 186l-ti3). Only a few of the Rolls of the Irish Parliament have been published in various edition. at Dub lin. The Irish Statutes at Large appeared at Dublin, 178ff-1804. .\mong the older Histories of Ireland, that of Leland ( 3 vol.-. London. 1773) is the hest. Consult Plowden. Historical Review of the State of Ireland (Philadelphia, 1805): Richey, Lectures on the History of Ire land (London, 1809-701; Histoeiro, Review of the Legislative Systems of Ireland. Henry 11. till ISO! (London. Among the many shorter histories. perhaps the hest is Nlorris, Ire land, in the "Cambridge Historical Series" (Lon don. 189(1). Other short aecounts are: Bryce (ed.). Two Centuries of Irish History, Iii91-1S71( (London. 18S) ; 11:1“encainp, History of Inland the Rif ormation till the Union. trans. I Lon don. ISSS)• The best account of Ireland from Elizabeth to the Union is in Lecky. History of
England in the 1:ighteentli Cu ntury (London, 187S). Fronde, Tht English in Ireland in the Eightt en Hi 'ent ury (New York, 1875), is based on much documentary research, but is vinlent part i.aa. For the seventeenth century. the chap ter. on Ireland in (-:a rdilter, History of the Nrcat Civil War (London, 1880-94 ) , and id.. History of the it h and Protectorate (London• 1S9-1-1901 1. are very valuable. as is also Carte's edition of the Ormond Papers (London, 1739). For the most recent history, consult McCarthy, Ireland Since the Union (London. I SS7 ) Other authorities are: Keating, General History of Ireland (London. 1823) : Lecky. The Leaders of Public ()pinion in Ireland, Swift, Hood, Grattan, and termini II London. Wilk, The _Notion, Its History and Its Biography (London, Is75, l\ alpole, short History of Inland (Lon don, lss2) ; (filbert. History of the Irish Confed i ration ( Dublin. 1Ss2-91 ) ; Richey, Short History of Do Irish op!. (Dublin. 1SS7 I ; La Faye.
au i:P• (Paris, ; Duffy.
loony /e, hind (London. 1S90) ; itchel, The History of Jr. land ((;)aizow. 189'4) ; Nlorris, (London. 1S9S); Ingram, Examination of Irish History (L00(100. luilli); llaverty. Si•cial Catalogue of Rare BOOkS lb latiny to lei land (New York, 1902).