The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

Ireland before the Conquest. 55
beginning of a new and a better time, but in the same year
in which this result was attained Dermot Macmurrough
returned from England with the first detachment of his
Welsh and Norman allies, and a series of events commenced,
the result of which was that within five years the princes and
ecclesiastics of Ireland acknowledged the supremacy of
Henry II. of England, and the history of Ireland as a
separate and independent kingdom came to an end.
[to be continued.]