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504 United Irish League, founded, 207; fear of, 277, 306

United Irishmen, Society of (1791), 103; seeks aid from France, 104

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, established, 112

United States, of America, emigration of Irishmen to, 87, 140; Irishmen in support the Fenians, 151; advantages from the geo- graphical position of, 170; separation and secession in, 236; enters the Great War, 427; opinion in concerning Ireland, Great Britain, and the War, 433; relations of with Great Britain, 439 ff.

Usnech, 326

Utrecht, Treaty of, 186

de Valera, Professor Eamonn, 407; proclaimed president of the Irish Republic, 467

Verietia, 344

Veuillot, Louis, on religious toleration, 297, 298

Viceroy, English, in Ireland, has little power during the Anglo- Norman period, 43

Victoria, 289

Vimy, 429

Virginia, 412, 413

Voltaire, Franois Marie Arouet, 172

Voluntary Service, in Great Britain, 420, 421; in Ireland, .428

Wales, conquered by Edward I, 107; incorporated with England under Henry VIII, 107

Walker, Rev. George, 297

"Walsh's Fort," 278

"The Wanderings of Oisin," 336

War-dogs, 325

Washington, George, 236

"The Well of the Saints," 339

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, favors Catholic eman- cipation, 125, 126

Wesley, John, on the kindliness of Irish Catholics, 280

Whigs, attitude of towards Ire- land, 128

Whitby, Synod of, 21

Whiteboys, 120

Wilde, Oscar, 322, 336

William of Normandy, 33

William, Prince of Orange and King of England, supporters of get lands in Ireland, 80; gift of to Irish Presbyterians, 186

Wilson, Woodrow, 462; how regarded in Ireland, 467

Woman's Suffrage, 460

Women, in England, training of for a part in the government, 241; in ancient Ireland, position of, 325

Wool, Irish, debarred from England, 92

Woolens, Irish, export of forbid- den by the English parliament, 92

Writing, introduction of into Ireland, 6

Wyndham Act, 208

Yeats, William Butler, on the story of Deidre, 326; poetical work of, 336; as a dramatist, 338

York, House of, supported by English colonists in Ireland, 59

Young, Arthur, on the power of the landlords in Ireland, 83; on the Irish parliament, 91

Young Ireland, Society of, founded, 132; influenced by the Revolution of 1848, 146; revival of Irish nationality attempted by, 335

Young Italy, 132

Ypres, 381, 429, 432

Zeuss, Kaspar, 6, 317