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OF

IRELAND,

FROM

THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS

TO THE

ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE UNION WITH
GREAT BRITAIN IN 1801.

BY THE REV. JAMES GORDON,

RECTOR OF KILLEGNY IN THE DIOCESE OF FERNS, AND OF CANNA-
WAY IN THE DIOCESE OF CORK.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

Nobis in arto & inglorius labor.

Non tamen fine usu fuerit introspicere illa primo aspectu levia,
ex quis magnarum fæpe rerum motus oriuntur.

TACITUS.

Dublin:

PRINTED BY JOHN JONES, 90, BRIDE-STREET.

104-
1805.

BIBL

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SA

HECA

RIGHT HONOURABLE

Richard Hely Hutchinson,

EARL OF DONOUGHMORE.

My LORD,

EDUCATED in a Univerfity in which your Father long prefided with active Attention to the Advancement of its Excellence, and which has been reprefented by yourself with Ability in Parliament, I take the Liberty of dedicating to your Lordship a HISTORY OF IRELAND, a Country for whose welfare the enlightened Patriotism of yourself, your Father, and Brothers, has been ftrenuously exerted. The Compilation of an impartial Narrative from a Chaos of discordant Materials is a Work of fome Labour, and, in this Age and Country, of fome Adventure. To gratify any Faction, or indulge any Prejudice, is no Part of my Plan; nor mean I offense to any; but to expect that none will be offended,

would

would argue extreme Ignorance. If in remote Ages, immerfed in Darkness, or fcarcely dif coverable by a lurid Light, I have been unable to trace that Luftre and Civilization which the ancient Irish are faid to have poffeffed, I think myself not on that Account inferior to any Man in Zeal for the folid Advantage of my Country, whofe numerous Inhabitants form a refpectable Nation rapidly advancing in the Arts of focial Life. Incorporated with the People of Great Britain by a Legislative Union, and preffed by an immense Weight of hoftile Power from Abroad, may we be firmly united among ourselves by a liberal Policy, which abolishes Diftinctions creative of Difcord and National Weakness, and adopts ufeful Merit wherever it can be found.

Jam moribus, artibus, ad finitatibus nostris, mixti, aurum & opes suas inferant, potius quam separati habeant.

I am,

My LORD,

With efteem and respect,

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TACITUS.

Your Lordship's obliged

And very humble Servant,

JAMES BENTLEY GORDON.

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