Excerpt from O'neill and Ormond: A Chapter in Irish HistoryThe position of Bishop Bedell proves that this warring of the creeds was not the real national struggle of Ireland. Though it may have in¿uenced many to take the Irish side who would not otherwise have done so, .it was a source of weakness rather than strength. It need only be remembered that Castlehaven gave Ormond the disastrous advice to hand Dublin over to Jones. Such allies to the Irish cause were hardly to be desired.Ireland, in fighting for existence, was, as usual, made the battle ground for contending forces wholly unconnected with her interests, but which were made to seem part of the Irish question. The King against the Parliament, the Catholic against the Protestant, were never vital Irish questions that they were made to seem so explains much of the tragic history of Ireland.These conclusions must, I think, be drawn by anyone who reads Irish history with an unprejudiced mind. In the body of this book I merely present the facts and leave the reader to draw the conclusion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.