NOTES

ADDENDUM




"You desire my thoughts on the affairs of Ireland, a subject
little considered, and consequently not understood in
England."

--JOHN HELY HUTCHINSON, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin,
in a letter written in 1779 to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.




INTRODUCTION


A decree of Pope Adrian IV., the only Englishman who has sat in the
chair of St. Peter, in virtue of the professed jurisdiction of the
Papacy over all islands, by a strange irony, sanctioned the invasion of
Ireland by Strongbow in the reign of Henry II. Three years ago I stood
in the crypt of St. Peter's in Rome, and the Englishman who was with me
expatiated on the appropriate nature of the massive sarcophagus of red
granite, adorned only with a carved bull's head at each of the four
corners, which seemed to him to stand as a type of British might and