Ireland

CHAPTER IV. BATTLE OF FAUGHARD AND DEATH OF KING EDWARD BRUCE - CONSEQUENCES OF HIS INVASION - EXTINCTION OF THE EARLDOM OF ULSTER - IRISH OPINION OF EDWARD BRUCE.

 

It is too commonly the fashion, as well with historians as with others, to glorify the successful and censure severely the unfortunate. No such feeling actuates us in speaking of the character of Edward Bruce, King of Ireland. That he was as gallant a knight as any in that age of gallantry, we know; that he could confront the gloomiest aspect of adversity with cheerfulness, we also know.

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