CONTENTS OF No. CII. I-1. All the Year Round. vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. London : 2. The Cornhill Magazine. London: vols. 1, 2, 3, 3. Macmillan's Magazine. Cambridge: vols. 1, 2, &c. 4. St. James' Magazine. London; vols. 1, 2, &c. III.-Annals of Ireland. Three Fragments, copied from ancient sources by Dubhaltach Mac Firbisigh; and edited with a translation and notes from a manuscript preserved in the Burgundian Library at Brussels, by John O'Donovan, LL.D., M.R.I.A IV. Collections on Irish Church History, from the Manu- scripts of the late Laurence F. Renehan, D.D. ART. PAGE dile, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals. 2. Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa, with Explo- 3. Mrs. Petherick's African Journal, in Blackwood's ... 428 VII.-Histoire de la Revolution de 1860 en Sicile; de ses causes et de ses effects dans la Révolution Générale de l'Italie par l'Abbé Paul Bottalla. Edition originale Française par M. J. Garand. Bruxelles : H. Goemaere, 1861, Notices of Books, ... ... ... 481 510 THE DUBLIN REVIEW. FEBRUARY, 1862. ART. I.-The Geraldines, Earls of Desmond, and the Persecution of the Irish Catholics. Translated from the Original Latin by the Rev. C. P. Meehan, Dublin: Duffy. 1849. THE HE letters hitherto laid before the reader have related solely to the preliminaries of Carewe's experiment. They have exhibited the opposition of the Queen, and the dislike of Cecyll, to the adventurer; but, to use the language of the English minister, "Now was the hour come when Carewe was to receive the person of this new made Earl of Desmond." In the company of Captain Price, who is described by the author of the Pacata Hibernia as a sober discreet gentleman, and an ancient commander in the wars, and by Elizabeth herself as a trusty and discreet person, of Mr. Crosbie, and the Lord Archibishop of Cashel, Miler M'Grath, not unknown to fame, James Fitzgerald sailed from Bristol for Cork. Violent sea sickness compelled him to land at Youghall: the reception that he there met with will be related in his own words: what the young Earl might think of his welcome, Cecyll would probably care little; but what opinion Carewe might form of it; what augury might fairly be deduced from it for the success of the adventure, must have been of deep interest both to him and to the Queen. Two pages is the space allotted by the Pacata Hibernia to the account of the landing, the welcome, the famous procession to Church on the first Sunday spent in his native land, to the hooting, the railing, the spitting at him which accompanied him from the Church to his lodgings, and to the utter abandon VOL. LI.-No CI. 1 ment of him from that hour for ever, by all the followers of his father, the great lords of Munster, and the whole people," who had received him as one whom God had sent to be the comfort and delight of their souls." There is probably no passage in the famous narrative of the Presidency of Sir George Carewe so well known as this description of Desmond's entry into Kilmallock. We shall therefore not venture to insert it amongst these State papers, although it would be read with advantage by the side of the experience of the earl himself. The youth seems scarcely to have been aware of the full extent of the interest excited by his presence; but what he failed to notice was eagerly chronicled by the men placed about him by both Cecyll and Carewe. In fact, the journey to Kilmallock had been purposely arranged by the President "to make trial of the disposition of the earl's followers and kindred,' and the result of this trial was watched by more observant eyes, and detailed by more searching pens than that of the earl. Master Boyle, Clerk of the Council, a person with whom the Lord President advised about his most secret and serious affairs of that government," made his report to his employer, whilst the Archbishop of Cashell, and Patrick Crosbie supplied for Cecyll all that might have escaped the pen of his principal correspondent. The result of this trial upon Carewe seems to have been that from that moment he ceased to write or trouble himself or others any more about him. Upon Cecyll it wrought otherwise; for it increased greatly both his fears and his desires for Carewe's adoption of the "curious cautions" prescribed before. "Earl of Desmond to Cecyll. My pen not daring to presume to approach the piercing and resplendent Maty of my souueraynes eyes, I have imboldued my self to commend my humblest service and affection by you, under her royall person my best frend, to whome Right Honorable I am not to fill paper wth those blandishments of ceremonies that I know is continually sounded in the eares of such, as yr Honor is, but onely beseech you to mooue her Maty to looke into her selfe and foortle of that to behold me, and then I doubt not, as she shall finde that she hath doon much, so gathering all circumstances, and examining all objections, I am tied not to performe a little ; and howsoeuer my performance of seruices maye be great in common opinion, yet for myne owne parte I shall hold them far short of that infinite obligation wch I owe, and therefore wth the still layinge of the ernest of my vowes and thankfulnesses, let me advertise you of my progress since my departure from you. Uppon Mondaye the 13th of October wee sett sayle from Shirehampton for Corke, where wee having so fair a passage as the honest gentleman this bearer can tell you, the master and saylers saied they neuer for this tyme of the yeare knew the lyke; We held our course for the place appointed by your honors instructions, but I, that was so sea-sicke as whilest I liue shall neuer loue that eliment, being two dayes and a night at sea, besought them to lande me any where; so being not able to reach Corke a Tuesdaye at night beeing the 14th of this month wee fell in at Yoghall, where, that yr honor may know the trueth of my proceedings, I had like, comming new of the sea, and therefore somewhat weake to be overthrowen with the kisses of old Calleaks, and was receiued with that ioy of the poore people as dyd well shewe they ioyed in the exceeding mercy hir Sacred Maty shewed towards me. From thence wee went to Mr. John FitzEdmonds house at Clone where wee had a great deale of cheere after the contrey fashion, and show of wellcome, from thence to Corke (where I humbly beseech your Honor to take notice of this I write for that Towne as Capen Price can wittnes.) Coming thether three or fouer houers before night, we could not gett lodging in a long tyme, neither place to send my cooke to provide supper for us, untyll I was fayne (except I would go supperless to bedd) to bidd my selfe to the mayors house, a lawer, one Meagh, who if he haue no better insight in Littleton then in other observatious of this place for his Maties seruice, maye be well called Lackelaw, for it was much a doe that we gott any thing for money, but that most of my people lay without lodging, and Capen Price had the hoggs for his neighbours. From that towne, wch hath so great a charter, and I fear me so littele honesty, I cam to my Lord President to Moyallo, where by some of my well willers I am put in very good hope that with My Lord President's fauour, and the help of her Maties forces I shall gett Castellmayne, wch if it so happen shal be the ioy of my next advertisement. The people came many unto me uppon my landing, as the Lord of the Decis, and many else of the best quality, whome I tooke hand ouer head, and preached to them hir Highnes' clemencie towards me, of wch there could be no truer exemple then my selfe-and besought them if they bare me any affection, to ioyne with me in shewing their thankfullnes wth myne to do her Highness service, wch they haue promised faythfully wth their mouths, and I pray God to be truely settled in their hearts; and my selfe harteles when I think the contrarie. Thus yr Honor hath heard the discourse of this my hitherto travayles, crauing, according to my deserving, the continuance of yr fauour wch hath brought me to the height of that wch now I am. My best frend, next Yr Honor and my Lord President, the Lord Archbishop of Cashell putteth me in very great hope, that we shall shortly performe our greatest taske, I meane the killing or taking of James M'Thomas, |