ABSTRACT
Macaulay devoted the latter part of the sixth chapter of his History to the government of James II in Ireland, and the whole of the twelfth and nearly all the sixteenth and seventeenth chapters to the history of its reconquest by William. The narrative was brought down to the siege and treaty of Limerick, but thenceforth there is no systematic account of Irish affairs and such episodes as are mentioned are dealt with from the point of view of English politics.
