The history of Ireland; from the earliest period of the Irish anals, to the present time . ir horses before they could crossthe Shannon, and when they reached thebarony of Longford on the other side, theywere obliged to fight a desperate engagementwith the English and Irish of Connaught, inwhich the English commander, a son of cap-tain IMalby, was slain. From thence, ac-companied with OConnor Kerry and Wil-liam Burke, OSullivan at length reachedUlster in safety. The English now overran almost withoutopposition the districts of Beare and Ban-try, and, with the same cruel policy whichhad been ge
The history of Ireland; from the earliest period of the Irish anals, to the present time . ir horses before they could crossthe Shannon, and when they reached thebarony of Longford on the other side, theywere obliged to fight a desperate engagementwith the English and Irish of Connaught, inwhich the English commander, a son of cap-tain IMalby, was slain. From thence, ac-companied with OConnor Kerry and Wil-liam Burke, OSullivan at length reachedUlster in safety. The English now overran almost withoutopposition the districts of Beare and Ban-try, and, with the same cruel policy whichhad been generally followed in the sup-pression of these rebellions, they deliber-ately reduced the whole country to a de-sert. The last remnant of the rebels, led onby the popes vicar apostolic, Owen macEgan, with his sword drawn in one hand,and his portius and beads in the other, wasdefeated by captain Taafe on the banks ofthe Bandon, at the beginning of January,1603, when Mac Egan himself was amongthe slain. From this moment the rebellionin Desmond may be considered to have beenat an end. fiSO. CHAPTER XVII. RETREAT OF THE EARL OF TYRONE FROM KINSALE; THE LORD DEPUTYS CAMPAIGNIN ULSTER; SUBMISSION OF ONEILL; DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. his arrival at Dub-lin, tlioiigli sufleringfrom a severe attackot illness, lord Mount-joy had begun imme-diately to prepare foractive hostilities against the insurgents ofthe north ; and we may now take a retro-spective view of the war in Ulster, which,since the disaster of Kinsale, had beencarried on totally independent of the in-surrection in the south. When Red Hugh quitted Ireland afterthe 1 attle of Kinsale, he left the commandof his people to his brother Rory ODonnell,with directions to act in everything in con-cert with the earl of Tyrone. The nativeannalists tell us that ODonnells last adviceto the Irish chiefs was, that they should re-main together in the south, and wait till hereturned with reinforcements from Sjsain ;and that he warned them that
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