Ebook Strongbow's Conquest of Ireland

This little book deals With an event of permanent interest to us It tells the story of the first contact between the newly organized feudalism of Anglo Norman England and the far older and more primitive civilization of the last independent Keltic states. The period embraced is from A D 1166 to 1186, and the accounts reproduced are taken from the best available original authorities on both sides, including some hitherto unpublished mss. To the general reader it will not be found wholly uninstructive to read the history of the earliest political connection of England with Ireland.