Answers to Questions on Irish History
1. Richard H. 2. George Edward Bruce, brother of
Robert Bruce (victor of Bannockburn). 4. Lambert Simnel (who was " crowned as Edward VI. by the Bishop of Meath, in presence of the deputy Kildare" (" the great Earl")—Child's History of Ireland, by P. W. Joyce, LL.D.).-5. Henry VIII. 6. Gerald Fitzgerald, Eighth Earl of Kildare, by Henry VII. (Joyce's Child's
History of Ireland, ch. 27, p. 193). 7. Sarsfield ; after the battle of the Boyne.-8. Londonderry ; because it successfully resisted the siege of James II.'s troops.-9. Limerick ; because the treaty signed by Ginkell was not faithfully kept by the English Parliament. —10. Earl of Essex, in Elizabeth's reign. 11. Philip II. of Spain (husband of Mary of England). King's Co. and Philipstown called after him.-12. The Irish gentry whose lands were confiscated to pay Cromwell's soldiers.-13. Edmund Spenser and Sir Walter Balogh. (Large tracts of land were assigned to persons who " undertook " to repopulate the desolated province with English farmers and labourers) ; vide Great English Poets, Julian Hill, sub Edmund Spenser ; also Joyce's Child's History of Ireland, ch. 33.
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